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1. What is NOT a structure found on a typical flowering plant?
xylem
abscistic acid
cone
bocarnia
2. 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.
lumen
effects of rising carbon dioxide
bryophytes
welwichsia
3. Lives in dry - hot/cold - windy places - has fuzzy hairs to distance wind from the leaves
-organelles -cytosol -nucleus
pitcher plant
anaphase
fuzzy plant
4. What cellular processes generate short carbon chains or skeletons which plants use to assemble amino acids and lipids?
iris diaphragm
anther
storage
krebs cycle -glycolysis
5. Three generations of gymnosperms
ghost plant
nucleus
pasteurization
maternal sporophyte - gametophyte - daughter sporophyte
6. What is NOT a structure found on a typical flowering plant?
artificial selection
cone
krebs cycle
lumen
7. Where in a dicot leaf does the majority of photosynthesis occur?
bud scale scars
-regulate water loss -regulate gas exchange -allow light to enter the leaf
absorption of water
palisade mesophyll
8. Epiphytes - valemine breaks down compost in roots
ground tissue
-water vapor -oxygen -carbon dioxide
orchids
cyanobacteria - green algae - red algae
9. What structure is MOST important in generating root pressure?
orchids
endodermis
ferns
cone
10. If an ovule is fertilized - what will it develop into?
2 strands separate - 2 new strands are produced - each new DNA molecule contains 1 old strand
pairs of chromosomes that each carry an allele for a given trait
seed
biome
11. Which part of aerobic respiration generates the most ATP?
eukaryotes
electron transport chain
nucleus
lumen
12. What best describes a dry fruit which opens at maturity?
pasteurization
pathogens
a changing/heterogeneous environment
dehiscent
13. During which phase of meiosis do daughter cells become haploid?
fungi
telophase-I
heartwood
pasteurization
14. What is the main function of the roots of a corn plant?
absorption of water
starch
natural selection
2 strands separate - 2 new strands are produced - each new DNA molecule contains 1 old strand
15. Composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner - can be used as a natural fertilizer
endodermis
lichens
tRNA
bryophytes
16. What type of RNA has a codon?
palisade mesophyll
dehiscent
2
mRNA
17. What process involves the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane?
osmosis
protein
pathogens
absorption of water
18. What separates during meiosis-II
S-phase
translation
sister chromatids
bryophytes
19. What is NOT a product of the krebs cycle?
osmosis
ADP
vascular cambium
multiple
20. Traits that are desirable can be selected and bred for. process of selectively mating and breeding plants with particular traits.
artificial selection
accessory
bocarnia
synthesis of proteins
21. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?
palisade mesophyll
polar nuclei
structural support
pitcher plant
22. What are homologous chromosomes?
cyanobacteria - green algae - red algae
chloroplasts
ghost plant
pairs of chromosomes that each carry an allele for a given trait
23. What is a final product of glycolysis?
pyruvate
prokaryotes
multiple
endodermis
24. Lives in california - it is a lily - waxy - thin - sharp leaves to stop water loss - holds water for up to 2 years.
synthesis of proteins
artificial selection
storage
bocarnia
25. How are the vascular bundles of a dicot arranged in the stem?
radial arrangement
sister chromatids
transcription
nitrogenous base
26. What are adenine - guanine - thymine - cytosine?
S-phase
endodermis
nitrogenous base
phytochrome
27. What is considered part of the protoplast?
-organelles -cytosol -nucleus
seed
eukaryotes
mRNA
28. Differences in type and location of human-managed ecosystems - quantity and quality of available drinking water and air may also be affected by rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide
pasteurization
fungi
anther
effects of rising carbon dioxide
29. Where in a plant is the water potential lowest?
seed
bocarnia
cytokinnin
leaf
30. What are harmful effects of bacteria?
palisade mesophyll
lack of available oxygen
pathogens
seed
31. Under what conditions would a plant utilize fermentation to obtain energy?
RNA
lack of available oxygen
electron transport chain
starch
32. 3 part molecule with a sugar - phosphate group - and nitrogenous base - carries genes
DNA
ADP
RNA
hormones are produced in a part of a plant and act in another part.
33. What pigment absorbs energy and can emit an electron in photosynthesis?
phytochrome
chlorophyll-A
-organelles -cytosol -nucleus
welwichsia
34. Cladifils- modified stems that look like leaves - all parts are photosynthetic
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35. A tissue in Which mitosis takes place - giving rise to the secondary xylem.
palisade mesophyll
versions of a gene
water
vascular cambium
36. During which phase of meiosis do daughter cells become haploid?
lipids
protein
pitcher plant
telophase-I
37. Southern US - prop roots hold it in place as water moves out - it can breathe under water.
andom particle movement results in a net movement from high to low concentration
a changing/heterogeneous environment
both gymnosperms and angiosperms
mangrove
38. What is the role of endosperm?
electron transport chain
osmosis
butcher's broom
provide nutrients for a developing embryo
39. What is a function of the epidermis?
both gymnosperms and angiosperms
-regulate water loss -regulate gas exchange -allow light to enter the leaf
accessory
maternal sporophyte - gametophyte - daughter sporophyte
40. What hormone functions in stomatal closure and can be used to induce dormancy in cultivated plants?
potato
accessory
active transport
abscistic acid
41. In double fertilization - one sperm cell fertilized an egg cell - What does the other sperm cell fertilize?
RNA
dehiscent
nucleus
polar nuclei
42. What phenomena explains how a photon can strike any chlorophyll molecule in the antennal complex and still reach the reaction center?
lack of available oxygen
resonance
mobility by cilia or flagella - do not have roots - and are not adapted to dry land
orchids
43. Where in a dicot leaf does the majority of photosynthesis occur?
palisade mesophyll
prophase
welwichsia
ghost plant
44. What are harmful effects of bacteria?
resonance
nitrogenous base
pathogens
chloroplasts
45. During which phase of mitosis do the sister chromatids separate?
zone of maturation
telophase-I
anaphase
evolution
46. The ocular lens of a microscope is 10x - and the objective lens is 4x. What is the total magnification of the microscope?
endodermis
40x
translation
cheese - yogurt - pharmaceuticals
47. What causes diffusion of gases to occur?
andom particle movement results in a net movement from high to low concentration
pairs of chromosomes that each carry an allele for a given trait
mobility by cilia or flagella - do not have roots - and are not adapted to dry land
seed
48. An ecosystem with similar climatic conditions on earth - such as communities of plants - animals - and soil organisms
active transport
orchids
artificial selection
biome
49. What is NOT a product of the krebs cycle?
ADP
provide nutrients for a developing embryo
pasteurization
potato
50. Which substances pass through the open stomata of a leaf?
-water vapor -oxygen -carbon dioxide
pairs of chromosomes that each carry an allele for a given trait
ethylene
bionary fission and asexually