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Botany Test

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






2. Which part of aerobic respiration generates the most ATP?






3. What separates during meiosis-II






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. What is a function of the epidermis?






12. What is a final product of glycolysis?






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






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






15. What are harmful effects of bacteria?






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






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






18. What causes diffusion of gases to occur?






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






20. What cell undergoes meiosis?






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






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






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






24. Epiphytes - valemine breaks down compost in roots






25. 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






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






27. How do bacteria reproduce?






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






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






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






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






32. What is considered part of the protoplast?






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






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

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35. Vascular and seed bearing






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






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






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






39. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






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






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






42. What type of RNA has an anticodon?






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






44. Enzymes are an example of what type of molecule?






45. What contains the most potential energy?






46. Transfer of DNA to RNA






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






48. Transfer of DNA to RNA






49. What type of RNA has an anticodon?






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