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Botany Test

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which part of aerobic respiration results in the production of CO2?






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






3. What are the major groups of algae?






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






5. What are beneficial products made from bacteria?






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






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






8. How are the vascular bundles of a dicot arranged in the stem?






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






10. What is NOT a function of the vacuole?






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






12. Lives in desert - leaves have waxy cuticle - succulent - holds onto water






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






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






15. A plant that carries two different versions of a gene for a single trait is...






16. What is considered part of the protoplast?






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






24. What are the major groups of algae?






25. What is a function of the epidermis?






26. Have a cell wall - no membrane - and no nucleus






27. Bugs crawl into 'pitchers' - tiny hairs keep them from getting out - plant breaks down enzymes - and uses nitrogen. lives in places where nitrogen is limited.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. What pigment is responsible for plants sensing day length?






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






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






41. What are beneficial products made from bacteria?






42. 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?






43. 3 part molecule with a sugar - phosphate group - and nitrogenous base - carries genes






44. What is the role of endosperm?






45. Vascular and seed bearing






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






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






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






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






50. What are harmful effects of bacteria?