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Botany Test
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
chlorophyll-A
effects of rising carbon dioxide
provide nutrients for a developing embryo
orchids
2. Iodine can be used to test for what molecule - resulting in a blue-black color?
starch
water
accessory
fuzzy plant
3. How is algae different from 'true' plants?
cheese - yogurt - pharmaceuticals
nucleus
prophase
mobility by cilia or flagella - do not have roots - and are not adapted to dry land
4. Where in the chloroplast do protons accumulate - resulting in an electrochemical gradient which drives ATP-synthase?
bocarnia
cone
lumen
ADP
5. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?
bud scale scars
carbon dioxide
active transport
chlorophyll-A
6. Transfer of DNA to RNA
transcription
gymnosperms
ground tissue
versions of a gene
7. How does DNA replication take place?
starch
2 strands separate - 2 new strands are produced - each new DNA molecule contains 1 old strand
cyanobacteria - green algae - red algae
pasteurization
8. Southern US - prop roots hold it in place as water moves out - it can breathe under water.
orchids
bryophytes
effects of rising carbon dioxide
mangrove
9. What cell undergoes meiosis?
lumen
40x
NOT a sperm - microspore - or egg cell
water
10. What process involves the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane?
starch
chlorophyll-A
osmosis
welwichsia
11. Individuals best adapted to their environment reproduce offspring. it requires variation - heritability - and selection.
natural selection
cheese - yogurt - pharmaceuticals
fungi
osmosis
12. Iodine can be used to test for what molecule - resulting in a blue-black color?
starch
fungi
evolution
lichens
13. What best describes a dry fruit which opens at maturity?
natural selection
leaf
40x
dehiscent
14. During which phase of meiosis do daughter cells become haploid?
hormones are produced in a part of a plant and act in another part.
telophase-I
cyanobacteria - green algae - red algae
osmosis
15. What type of RNA has a codon?
a changing/heterogeneous environment
mRNA
active transport
40x
16. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?
bionary fission and asexually
starch
pericycle
structural support
17. You can determine the age of a woody branch by counting these
telophase-I
iris diaphragm
bud scale scars
NOT a sperm - microspore - or egg cell
18. What is a final product of glycolysis?
abscistic acid
pyruvate
cheese - yogurt - pharmaceuticals
resonance
19. Vascular and seed bearing
bionary fission and asexually
resonance
both gymnosperms and angiosperms
natural selection
20. What are the major groups of algae?
cyanobacteria - green algae - red algae
maternal sporophyte - gametophyte - daughter sporophyte
krebs cycle -glycolysis
radial arrangement
21. What tissue can be found in a root but not in a stem?
pericycle
water
nucleus
ghost plant
22. What type of RNA has an anticodon?
lumen
ground tissue
starch
tRNA
23. In what part of a flower is pollen produced?
bionary fission and asexually
provide nutrients for a developing embryo
xylem
anther
24. During which phase of meiosis do daughter cells become haploid?
telophase-I
nucleus
prokaryotes
interrupt the dark period with several minutes of light
25. Where in the chloroplast do protons accumulate - resulting in an electrochemical gradient which drives ATP-synthase?
interrupt the dark period with several minutes of light
radial arrangement
lumen
iris diaphragm
26. What would be a way of keeping a short-day plant from blooming?
translation
storage
interrupt the dark period with several minutes of light
heterozygous
27. Which commonly eaten food is an example of a stem?
potato
krebs cycle -glycolysis
transcription
starch
28. What separates during meiosis-II
orchids
sister chromatids
ghost plant
anther
29. The part of an apple most often eaten by people is receptacle tissue - not ovary - making this what type of fruit?
a changing/heterogeneous environment
accessory
potato
maternal sporophyte - gametophyte - daughter sporophyte
30. Transferring of the information from the DNA into the language of the mRNA.
pairs of chromosomes that each carry an allele for a given trait
translation
storage
pasteurization
31. What is a final product of glycolysis?
gymnosperms
xylem
potato
pyruvate
32. What pigment absorbs energy and can emit an electron in photosynthesis?
heartwood
ADP
andom particle movement results in a net movement from high to low concentration
chlorophyll-A
33. 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.
effects of rising carbon dioxide
artificial selection
DNA
bryophytes
34. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?
pasteurization
lumen
endodermis
structural support
35. What is a function of the epidermis?
-regulate water loss -regulate gas exchange -allow light to enter the leaf
krebs cycle
fungi
mangrove
36. During which phase of mitosis does the nuclear envelope disappear?
krebs cycle
osmosis
fungi
prophase
37. Which class of organic macromolecule stores the greatest amount of potential energy?
mobility by cilia or flagella - do not have roots - and are not adapted to dry land
natural selection
lipids
resonance
38. What tissue can be found in a root but not in a stem?
gymnosperms
polar nuclei
pericycle
ethylene
39. What is NOT a function of the vacuole?
protein
synthesis of proteins
iris diaphragm
orchids
40. What is considered part of the protoplast?
both gymnosperms and angiosperms
cone
-organelles -cytosol -nucleus
starch
41. Lives in california - it is a lily - waxy - thin - sharp leaves to stop water loss - holds water for up to 2 years.
chlorophyll-A
both gymnosperms and angiosperms
bocarnia
tRNA
42. What structure is MOST important in generating root pressure?
heterozygous
synthesis of proteins
structural support
endodermis
43. What pigment absorbs energy and can emit an electron in photosynthesis?
chlorophyll-A
artificial selection
both gymnosperms and angiosperms
phytochrome
44. Where in a dicot leaf does the majority of photosynthesis occur?
lichens
butcher's broom
phytochrome
palisade mesophyll
45. Where in a plant is the water potential lowest?
DNA
lack of available oxygen
leaf
eukaryotes
46. What organelle do guard cells contain that other epidermal cells lack?
leaf
chloroplasts
DNA
natural selection
47. What pigment is responsible for plants sensing day length?
electron transport chain
prokaryotes
phytochrome
anther
48. Change in gene frequency in a gene population over time.
evolution
starch
polar nuclei
heterozygous
49. How many sperm cells does each pollen grain typically carry?
prophase
telophase-I
2
cyanobacteria - green algae - red algae
50. What BEST describes plant hormones?
chlorophyll-A
hormones are produced in a part of a plant and act in another part.
starch
active transport