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Botany Test

Subject : science
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which part of aerobic respiration generates the most ATP?






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






3. A piece of potato tuber is placed in a concentrated sugar-water solution. what statement BEST describes why the piece of potato shrinks in size over time?






4. Where in a plant is the water potential lowest?






5. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?






6. Epiphytes - valemine breaks down compost in roots






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. NO vascular tissue - NO roots - have modified photosynthetic tissue to help it absorb carbon dioxide without losing too much water - can survive in variety of environments - seedless - and commonly seen as mosses - hornworts - and liverworts.






14. In double fertilization - one sperm cell fertilized an egg cell - What does the other sperm cell fertilize?






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






16. What type of RNA has an anticodon?






17. What are beneficial products made from bacteria?






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






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






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






21. During which phase of the cell cycle does DNA replication occur?






22. What causes diffusion of gases to occur?






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






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






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






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






27. What separates during meiosis-II






28. What hormone functions in stomatal closure and can be used to induce dormancy in cultivated plants?






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






30. What organelle was observable in the onion epidermis stained with iodine?






31. What best describes a dry fruit which opens at maturity?






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






33. What is NOT a function of the vacuole?






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






35. What cell undergoes meiosis?






36. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






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






38. 'Alleles' are best described as...






39. What is the role of endosperm?






40. Lives in desert - leaves have waxy cuticle - succulent - holds onto water






41. What organelle do guard cells contain that other epidermal cells lack?






42. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






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






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






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






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






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






48. Seedless - multicellular - and terrestrial - have a vascular system - reproduce by spreading spores that are found on the underside of mature leaves.






49. What is considered part of the protoplast?






50. Vascular and seed bearing