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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Under what conditions would a plant utilize fermentation to obtain energy?
carbon dioxide
orchids
pyruvate
lack of available oxygen
2. Traits that are desirable can be selected and bred for. process of selectively mating and breeding plants with particular traits.
artificial selection
synthesis of proteins
ADP
pairs of chromosomes that each carry an allele for a given trait
3. Seedless - multicellular - and terrestrial - have a vascular system - reproduce by spreading spores that are found on the underside of mature leaves.
-regulate water loss -regulate gas exchange -allow light to enter the leaf
ferns
endodermis
fungi
4. What plant tissue functions in conducting water from the roots to the leaves?
iris diaphragm
water
ethylene
xylem
5. What type of RNA has an anticodon?
heartwood
vascular cambium
krebs cycle -glycolysis
tRNA
6. What is NOT a structure found on a typical flowering plant?
-organelles -cytosol -nucleus
cheese - yogurt - pharmaceuticals
S-phase
cone
7. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?
carbon dioxide
lumen
orchids
ground tissue
8. A tissue in Which mitosis takes place - giving rise to the secondary xylem.
vascular cambium
ferns
nucleus
anaphase
9. If an ovule is fertilized - what will it develop into?
welwichsia
-water vapor -oxygen -carbon dioxide
seed
hormones are produced in a part of a plant and act in another part.
10. What is a function of the epidermis?
pairs of chromosomes that each carry an allele for a given trait
cheese - yogurt - pharmaceuticals
-regulate water loss -regulate gas exchange -allow light to enter the leaf
chloroplasts
11. Which commonly eaten food is an example of a stem?
prophase
artificial selection
a changing/heterogeneous environment
potato
12. What phenomena explains how a photon can strike any chlorophyll molecule in the antennal complex and still reach the reaction center?
ethylene
-regulate water loss -regulate gas exchange -allow light to enter the leaf
anther
resonance
13. What are adenine - guanine - thymine - cytosine?
palisade mesophyll
nitrogenous base
osmosis
a changing/heterogeneous environment
14. Cladifils- modified stems that look like leaves - all parts are photosynthetic
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15. How does DNA replication take place?
2 strands separate - 2 new strands are produced - each new DNA molecule contains 1 old strand
heterozygous
andom particle movement results in a net movement from high to low concentration
accessory
16. 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.
water
welwichsia
effects of rising carbon dioxide
the water potential is higher in the potato than the sugar solution
17. What is a product of the biochemical reactions of photosynthesis?
pitcher plant
biome
mRNA
starch
18. What tissue can be found in a root but not in a stem?
pericycle
water
seed
eukaryotes
19. What separates during meiosis-II
eukaryotes
welwichsia
accessory
sister chromatids
20. During which phase of mitosis do the sister chromatids separate?
heterozygous
tRNA
anaphase
tRNA
21. How do bacteria reproduce?
pyruvate
bionary fission and asexually
nitrogenous base
cone
22. What process involves the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane?
anther
bocarnia
anaphase
osmosis
23. What cellular processes generate short carbon chains or skeletons which plants use to assemble amino acids and lipids?
pathogens
lumen
krebs cycle -glycolysis
bionary fission and asexually
24. 'Alleles' are best described as...
versions of a gene
pitcher plant
vascular cambium
polar nuclei
25. The ocular lens of a microscope is 10x - and the objective lens is 4x. What is the total magnification of the microscope?
krebs cycle -glycolysis
40x
orchids
ground tissue
26. What organelle contains DNA?
carbon dioxide
nucleus
lichens
pasteurization
27. A plant that carries two different versions of a gene for a single trait is...
phytochrome
heterozygous
resonance
electron transport chain
28. What is a reactant in the photochemical reactions of photosynthesis?
translation
fungi
water
provide nutrients for a developing embryo
29. The ocular lens of a microscope is 10x - and the objective lens is 4x. What is the total magnification of the microscope?
2
40x
radial arrangement
krebs cycle
30. Where in the chloroplast do protons accumulate - resulting in an electrochemical gradient which drives ATP-synthase?
welwichsia
hormones are produced in a part of a plant and act in another part.
lumen
gymnosperms
31. What BEST describes plant hormones?
anaphase
heartwood
versions of a gene
hormones are produced in a part of a plant and act in another part.
32. A plant that carries two different versions of a gene for a single trait is...
eukaryotes
eukaryotes
S-phase
heterozygous
33. You can determine the age of a woody branch by counting these
bocarnia
bud scale scars
mobility by cilia or flagella - do not have roots - and are not adapted to dry land
nitrogenous base
34. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?
welwichsia
maternal sporophyte - gametophyte - daughter sporophyte
RNA
structural support
35. What contains the most potential energy?
lichens
xylem
starch
xylem
36. Which class of organic macromolecule stores the greatest amount of potential energy?
lipids
the water potential is higher in the potato than the sugar solution
iris diaphragm
provide nutrients for a developing embryo
37. Which tissue system occurs throughout the plant - is made up of parenchyma - collenchyma - and sclerenchyma cells - and functions in storage - structural support - and metabolism?
lipids
ground tissue
bocarnia
radial arrangement
38. Heating up bacteria until it is harmless and cannot function.
40x
effects of rising carbon dioxide
accessory
pasteurization
39. What best describes a dry fruit which opens at maturity?
prokaryotes
pairs of chromosomes that each carry an allele for a given trait
dehiscent
pathogens
40. What structure is MOST important in generating root pressure?
starch
endodermis
starch
chloroplasts
41. What are harmful effects of bacteria?
pathogens
effects of rising carbon dioxide
phytochrome
eukaryotes
42. In double fertilization - one sperm cell fertilized an egg cell - What does the other sperm cell fertilize?
chloroplasts
sister chromatids
polar nuclei
palisade mesophyll
43. Which part of aerobic respiration generates the most ATP?
NOT a sperm - microspore - or egg cell
accessory
lumen
electron transport chain
44. Have a cell wall - no membrane - and no nucleus
carbon dioxide
ghost plant
40x
prokaryotes
45. What are the major groups of algae?
seed
cyanobacteria - green algae - red algae
water
prophase
46. Transfer of DNA to RNA
transcription
structural support
nucleus
prophase
47. What cell undergoes meiosis?
lipids
protein
NOT a sperm - microspore - or egg cell
welwichsia
48. What best describes a dry fruit which opens at maturity?
dehiscent
osmosis
pathogens
cytokinnin
49. Don't have roots or leaves - and are not producers - do not photosynthesize - and have cell walls made out of chitlin.
pitcher plant
fungi
mRNA
gymnosperms
50. Which tissue system occurs throughout the plant - is made up of parenchyma - collenchyma - and sclerenchyma cells - and functions in storage - structural support - and metabolism?
ground tissue
mobility by cilia or flagella - do not have roots - and are not adapted to dry land
iris diaphragm
palisade mesophyll