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Botany Test

Subject : science
Instructions:
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1. How does DNA replication take place?






2. 'Alleles' are best described as...






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






4. How is algae different from 'true' plants?






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






6. What is a final product of glycolysis?






7. How does DNA replication take place?






8. What process involves the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane?






9. What is NOT a function of the vacuole?






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






11. What are harmful effects of bacteria?






12. What organelle contains DNA?






13. Lives in dry - hot/cold - windy places - has fuzzy hairs to distance wind from the leaves






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






15. Which class of organic macromolecule stores the greatest amount of potential energy?






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






17. Composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner - can be used as a natural fertilizer






18. Have a cell wall - no membrane - and no nucleus






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






20. What is the function of the cortex in a root?






21. What plant tissue functions in conducting water from the roots to the leaves?






22. Which substances pass through the open stomata of a leaf?






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






24. If an ovule is fertilized - what will it develop into?






25. During which phase of mitosis do the sister chromatids separate?






26. What BEST describes plant hormones?






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






28. What is the role of endosperm?






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






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






31. What type of RNA has an anticodon?






32. What pigment is responsible for plants sensing day length?






33. What pigment absorbs energy and can emit an electron in photosynthesis?






34. Which part of aerobic respiration generates the most ATP?






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






36. What are beneficial products made from bacteria?






37. Epiphytes - valemine breaks down compost in roots






38. If an ovule is fertilized - what will it develop into?






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 is the role of endosperm?






41. What pigment absorbs energy and can emit an electron in photosynthesis?






42. Southern US - prop roots hold it in place as water moves out - it can breathe under water.






43. Don't have roots or leaves - and are not producers - do not photosynthesize - and have cell walls made out of chitlin.






44. Have a cell wall - no membrane - and no nucleus






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






46. A tissue in Which mitosis takes place - giving rise to the secondary xylem.






47. Transfer of DNA to RNA






48. What is the function of the cortex in a root?






49. An ecosystem with similar climatic conditions on earth - such as communities of plants - animals - and soil organisms






50. What separates during meiosis-II