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Botany Test

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






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






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






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






5. What type of RNA has a codon?






6. How do bacteria reproduce?






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






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






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






10. Individuals best adapted to their environment reproduce offspring. it requires variation - heritability - and selection.






11. Vascular and seed bearing






12. What type of RNA has a codon?






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






14. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






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






16. What are homologous chromosomes?






17. What is a final product of glycolysis?






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






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






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






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






22. What process involves the movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane?






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






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






25. How does DNA replication take place?






26. 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?






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






28. Which tissue system occurs throughout the plant - is made up of parenchyma - collenchyma - and sclerenchyma cells - and functions in storage - structural support - and metabolism?






29. What is a final product of glycolysis?






30. What causes diffusion of gases to occur?






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






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






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






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






35. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?






36. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






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






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






39. What are harmful effects of bacteria?






40. Info. carrying molecule - single stranded






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






42. What is a function of the epidermis?






43. What contains the most potential energy?






44. What plant tissue functions in conducting water from the roots to the leaves?






45. In double fertilization - one sperm cell fertilized an egg cell - What does the other sperm cell fertilize?






46. What BEST describes plant hormones?






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






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






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






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







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