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Botany Test

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Have a nucleus - and a cell membrane






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






3. 'Alleles' are best described as...






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






5. What BEST describes plant hormones?






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






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






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






9. 3 part molecule with a sugar - phosphate group - and nitrogenous base - carries genes






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






11. Seedless - multicellular - and terrestrial - have a vascular system - reproduce by spreading spores that are found on the underside of mature leaves.






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






13. What BEST describes plant hormones?






14. 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?






15. How does DNA replication take place?






16. Three generations of gymnosperms






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






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






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






20. What is a final product of aerobic respiration?






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






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






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






24. What is a function of the epidermis?






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






26. What would be a way of keeping a short-day plant from blooming?






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






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






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

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






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






32. What type of RNA has a codon?






33. What is considered part of the protoplast?






34. What is a final product of glycolysis?






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






36. Vascular and seed bearing






37. Southern US - prop roots hold it in place as water moves out - it can breathe under water.






38. Epiphytes - valemine breaks down compost in roots






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






40. Which part of aerobic respiration generates the most ATP?






41. What process would be used by a plant to move potassium ions across a membrane AGAINST a concentration gradient?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. What causes diffusion of gases to occur?






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