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Botany Test

Subject : science
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Traits that are desirable can be selected and bred for. process of selectively mating and breeding plants with particular traits.






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






3. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






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






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






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






7. What is NOT a structure found on a typical flowering plant?






8. What is NOT a function of the vacuole?






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






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






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






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






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






14. What is the role of endosperm?






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






16. What contains the most potential energy?






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






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






19. What phenomena explains how a photon can strike any chlorophyll molecule in the antennal complex and still reach the reaction center?






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






21. The ocular lens of a microscope is 10x - and the objective lens is 4x. What is the total magnification of the microscope?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 3 part molecule with a sugar - phosphate group - and nitrogenous base - carries genes






30. 'Alleles' are best described as...






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






32. What are adenine - guanine - thymine - cytosine?






33. What are the major groups of algae?






34. 'Alleles' are best described as...






35. What type of RNA has a codon?






36. Three generations of gymnosperms






37. What is a reactant in the photochemical reactions of photosynthesis?






38. What are homologous chromosomes?






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






40. 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






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






42. How many sperm cells does each pollen grain typically carry?






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






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






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






46. You can determine the age of a woody branch by counting these






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






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






49. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






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