Biology test 2

Question 1

What is the primary function of a flower?

Answer 1

Reproduction

Question 2

What part of a flower creates pollen

Answer 2

stamen

Question 3

What is the swollen base of the flower

Answer 3

Ovary

Question 4

What is a flower that has all four basic parts

Answer 4

complete flower

Question 5

What is on top of the stamen

Answer 5

Anther

Question 6

female, flowers lack stamens and bear only pistils

Answer 6

pistillate

Question 7

Flowers that lack pistils and bear only stamens or male flowers are called

Answer 7

staminate

Question 8

plants produce staminate and pistillate flowers, but the two types of flowers are borne by separate plants

Answer 8

Diceous

Question 9

any plant on which both staminate and pistillate flowers are produced in the same plant

Answer 9

monecious

Question 10

what is the main factor affecting a flower

Answer 10

length of daylight and night

Question 11

what are two other things that effect a plants flowering time

Answer 11

temperature and soil fertility

Question 12

what is a fully ripened ovary

Answer 12

fruit

Question 13

what is the transfer of pollen called

Answer 13

pollination

Question 14

what is the sweet tasting watery liquid a plant creates

Answer 14

nectar

Question 15

what is the process of which the sperm cell unites with the egg cell

Answer 15

fertilization

Question 16

what are the reproductive cells called?

Answer 16

Gametes

Question 17

what is the reproduction system called when gametes are involved?

Answer 17

sexual reproduction

Question 18

what is it called when the ovary is in the process if becoming a fully ripened fruit

Answer 18

ripening

Question 19

fruits that form from one flower that has only one pistil.

Answer 19

simple fruits

Question 20

a fruit that forms from one flower that has several PISTILS

Answer 20

aggregate

Question 21

fruits that form from several flowers

Answer 21

multiple fruits

Question 22

Simple fruits with an outer fleshy layer and
an inner papery core

Answer 22

pomes

Question 23

simple fruits that consist of a
pod enclosing several seeds

Answer 23

legumes

Question 24

consist of
fleshy layers of ovary
small dry seeds with one or more wing-like structures attached to them

Answer 24

samara

Question 25

list a multiple fruit

Answer 25

pineapple

Question 26

outer fleshy layer and an inner woody layer,

Answer 26

drupe

Question 27

simple fruits consisting of a seed and a shell

Answer 27

achens

Question 28

provides a protective covering for the seed

Answer 28

seed coat

Question 29

will develop into the root system of the plant

Answer 29

radicle

Question 30

tiny shoot that will develop into the stem and leaves of the plant

Answer 30

plumel

Question 31

one of the many raised pores in the stem of a woody plant

Answer 31

lenticels

Question 32

what is the growth in length

Answer 32

primary growth

Question 33

example of a stolon plant

Answer 33

strawberry

Question 34

what is wood made out of

Answer 34

xylem

Question 35

what is the layer between xylem and phloem

Answer 35

vascular cambium

Question 36

the stem grows older, the epidermis is replaced by a stronger protective tissue whose most noticeable part is the

Answer 36

cork

Question 37

long, narrow, rod-shaped cells that often have tapered ends

Answer 37

tracheids

Question 38

cone bearing trees

Answer 38

conifers

Question 39

short, wide, often barrel-shaped cells joined end to end like concrete pipes

Answer 39

vestles

Question 40

what is the center of a young branch

Answer 40

pith

Question 41

old xylem tubes gradually become clogged with debris and waste products from the tree’s living cells. When xylem tubes become clogged, they are sealed off and no longer conduct sap from the roots to the leaves. This older, inner wood, known as:

Answer 41

heartwood

Question 42

younger xylem (that farthest from the center of the tree) conducts water and minerals from the roots to the leaves. This younger, functioning xylem tissue is called

Answer 42

sapwood

Question 43

what are the rings in a tree called

Answer 43

annual growth rings

Question 44

The outer covering of a monocot stem is called

Answer 44

rind

Question 45

what is the material inside the rind that makes it sturdy

Answer 45

silica

Question 46

reproduction without the union of sex cells, requir-ing only mitotic cell divisions

Answer 46

asexual reproduction

Question 47

(possible essay) List all the kinds of vegetative propagation

Answer 47

cutting layering tissue culturing budding and grafting

Question 48

frequent method of ________ involves fastening a container of soil around the nodes of a stem to induce the stem to develop roots

Answer 48

layering

Question 49

a piece of a stem or root that can grow into a new plant

Answer 49

cutting

Question 50

what is a kind vegetative propagation is in which the obiscion is a bud.

Answer 50

budding

Question 51

what is the process of transplanting living tissue from one plant to another. This method of propagation allows growing two kinds of apples or other fruit on the same tree or growing a more desirable fruit on a tree that is already growing

Answer 51

grafting

Question 52

what is the growth response of a plant

Answer 52

trophism

Question 53

growing towards light

Answer 53

phototropism

Question 54

growing towards touch

Answer 54

thigmotropism

Question 55

plants responding to gravity

Answer 55

geotropism

Question 56

what are any chemical messengers in a plant

Answer 56

hormones

Question 57

what causes the stem or shoot of the plant to grow faster on one side than the other, making the shoot as a whole slowly bend

Answer 57

Auxins

Question 58

what is the hormone that causes the dormancy of a plant

Answer 58

ABA/abscisic acid

Question 59

The hormone that signals leaf abscission when a tree prepares for winter

Answer 59

Ethylene

Question 60

the is the special stem of an onion?

Answer 60

bulb

Question 61

Thick stems that grow horizontally under the ground providing food storage and a means of vegetative reproduction

Answer 61

Rhyzomes

Question 62

the aboveground special stem the runs horizontally across the dirt

Answer 62

stolon

Question 63

what is the potato plant thing called

Answer 63

tuber

Question 64

that is the special stem that is used as a defence mechanism against outside forces

Answer 64

thorns

Question 65

a root with tiny fingerlike projections off the base of it

Answer 65

taproot

Question 66

have no main section but spread out with very thin roots, forming a tangled mass in shallow soil

Answer 66

fibrous roots

Question 67

what are the finger-like projections on a root

Answer 67

root-hairs

Question 68

The region closest to the end is called the | in the taproot

Answer 68

meristematic region

Question 69

What is at the tip of the root, providing a covering, which consists of several layers of tough cells protecting the tender root tip as it pushes its way through the soil?

Answer 69

root cap

Question 70

The process of mixing molecules of one substance through another by random molecular motion

Answer 70

defusion

Question 71

The one-way diffusion through a semipermeable membrane

Answer 71

osmosis

Question 72

what is the upward flow of water and minerals through xylem tubes called

Answer 72

sap streams

Question 73

list all of the parts to a flower

Answer 73

pedical, receptacle, sepal, ovary, ovules, petal, pistil, stamen, anther, filliament, stigma, and style.

Question 74

name all the parts to a dormant woody branch

Answer 74

terminal bud, bud scales, bud scale scars, lateral bud, internode, node, lenticels, leaf scar, and bundle scars