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Botany Test

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






2. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. What is the primary function of collenchyma cells?






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






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






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






21. What organelle was observable in the onion epidermis stained with iodine?






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






23. Vascular and seed bearing






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






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






26. What organelle contains DNA?






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






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






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






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






31. Info. carrying molecule - single stranded






32. What is a function of the epidermis?






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






34. 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.






35. What is a final product of glycolysis?






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






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






38. How do bacteria reproduce?






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






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






41. How does DNA replication take place?






42. What cell undergoes meiosis?






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






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






45. 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.






46. Transferring of the information from the DNA into the language of the mRNA.






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






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






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






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