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Botany Test

Subject : science
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What hormone is most important in the ripening of fruits?






2. What is a function of the epidermis?






3. What are harmful effects of bacteria?






4. 'Alleles' are best described as...






5. What would be a way of keeping a short-day plant from blooming?






6. Info. carrying molecule - single stranded






7. How are the vascular bundles of a dicot arranged in the stem?






8. What structure is MOST important in generating root pressure?






9. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?






10. What contains the most potential energy?






11. What type of fruit develops from a cluster of many simple flowers?






12. What are harmful effects of bacteria?






13. What cell undergoes meiosis?






14. Where in a dicot leaf does the majority of photosynthesis occur?






15. Vascular and seed bearing






16. How are the vascular bundles of a dicot arranged in the stem?






17. Heating up bacteria until it is harmless and cannot function.






18. What is NOT a function of the vacuole?






19. Transferring of the information from the DNA into the language of the mRNA.






20. What is NOT a product of the krebs cycle?






21. Seeds are not protected by fruit and they do not have flowers - do not have shell around seeds - reproduce by releasing pollen into the air to make available to the ovule in the megaspores - causing fertilization






22. In what portion of a root might you find 'root hairs'?






23. Three generations of gymnosperms






24. What type of fruit develops from a cluster of many simple flowers?






25. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






26. What part of a stem can a tree live without?






27. The part of an apple most often eaten by people is receptacle tissue - not ovary - making this what type of fruit?






28. Under what circumstance would sexual reproduction be more successful than asexual reproduction?






29. What hormone is most important in the ripening of fruits?






30. What is a product of the biochemical reactions of photosynthesis?






31. What cell undergoes meiosis?






32. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






33. 3 part molecule with a sugar - phosphate group - and nitrogenous base - carries genes






34. How do bacteria reproduce?






35. Iodine can be used to test for what molecule - resulting in a blue-black color?






36. In what part of a flower is pollen produced?






37. What cellular processes generate short carbon chains or skeletons which plants use to assemble amino acids and lipids?






38. Which part of the microscope would be adjusted to sharpen the image of a specimen at high magnification?






39. A gymnosperm - lives in the desert for up to 3000 years - only grows 2 leaves - 5 feet across - they receive 1 inch of lower of rainfall per year - roots can grow under the soil at least a mile.






40. What process would be used by a plant to move potassium ions across a membrane AGAINST a concentration gradient?






41. Iodine can be used to test for what molecule - resulting in a blue-black color?






42. What is the main function of the roots of a corn plant?






43. Which commonly eaten food is an example of a stem?






44. What type of RNA has a codon?






45. Where in the chloroplast do protons accumulate - resulting in an electrochemical gradient which drives ATP-synthase?






46. Lives in california - it is a lily - waxy - thin - sharp leaves to stop water loss - holds water for up to 2 years.






47. Which part of aerobic respiration results in the production of CO2?






48. How do bacteria reproduce?






49. Transfer of DNA to RNA






50. Where in a dicot leaf does the majority of photosynthesis occur?