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Botany Test

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1. What is a final product of glycolysis?






2. What are beneficial products made from bacteria?






3. What type of RNA has an anticodon?






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






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






6. Under what conditions would a plant utilize fermentation to obtain energy?






7. 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






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






9. What is a function of the epidermis?






10. What hormone stimulates cell division and may interfere with the function of auxin - leading to the development of 'witches-broom'?






11. What are homologous chromosomes?






12. 'Alleles' are best described as...






13. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






14. What cell undergoes meiosis?






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






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






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






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






19. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






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






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






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






23. What causes diffusion of gases to occur?






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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






29. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?






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






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






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






33. Cladifils- modified stems that look like leaves - all parts are photosynthetic

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






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






36. What are the major groups of algae?






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






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






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






40. Vascular and seed bearing






41. How does DNA replication take place?






42. During which phase of meiosis do daughter cells become haploid?






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






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






45. What is NOT a function of the vacuole?






46. Epiphytes - valemine breaks down compost in roots






47. What BEST describes plant hormones?






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






49. What organelle contains DNA?






50. What separates during meiosis-II