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Botany Test

Subject : science
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The part of an apple most often eaten by people is receptacle tissue - not ovary - making this what type of fruit?






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






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






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






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






6. Traits that are desirable can be selected and bred for. process of selectively mating and breeding plants with particular traits.






7. What are beneficial products made from bacteria?






8. In what portion of a root might you find 'root hairs'?






9. 'Alleles' are best described as...






10. What contains the most potential energy?






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






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






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






14. What is NOT a product of the krebs cycle?






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






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






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






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






19. What structure is MOST important in generating root pressure?






20. During which phase of mitosis does the nuclear envelope disappear?






21. 3 part molecule with a sugar - phosphate group - and nitrogenous base - carries genes






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






23. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






24. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?






25. Change in gene frequency in a gene population over time.






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






27. 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






28. What is a final product of glycolysis?






29. What are harmful effects of bacteria?






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






31. 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






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






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






34. How does DNA replication take place?






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






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






37. In what portion of a root might you find 'root hairs'?






38. 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






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






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






41. What tissue can be found in a root but not in a stem?






42. 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.






43. 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






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






45. 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?






46. What cell undergoes meiosis?






47. What is a final product of glycolysis?






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






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






50. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?