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Botany Test

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1. Vascular and seed bearing






2. What are the major groups of algae?






3. What are harmful effects of bacteria?






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






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






6. Info. carrying molecule - single stranded






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






8. What contains the most potential energy?






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






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






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






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






13. What BEST describes plant hormones?






14. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






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






16. What is a final product of glycolysis?






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






18. 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






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






20. What is considered part of the protoplast?






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. What are homologous chromosomes?






26. Transfer of DNA to RNA






27. Which part of the microscope would be adjusted to sharpen the image of a specimen at high magnification?






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






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






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






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 the main function of the roots of a corn plant?






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






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

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35. What cell undergoes meiosis?






36. 3 part molecule with a sugar - phosphate group - and nitrogenous base - carries genes






37. Transfer of DNA to RNA






38. 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.






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






40. What separates during meiosis-II






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






42. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






43. 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






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






45. What type of RNA has an anticodon?






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






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






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






49. Where in a dicot leaf does the majority of photosynthesis occur?






50. What organelle contains DNA?