Corn, Plant Growth and Tissues

Question 1

What is an example of an annual monoecious monocot that is grown in square mile fields in the midwest?

Answer 1

Corn

Question 2

What are the male reproductive organs of corn known as?

Answer 2

Tassals

Question 3

What are the female reproductive organs known as?

Answer 3

Husk, silk, the ova and supporting husk

Question 4

If not all strand of silk are fertilized, what will occur?

Answer 4

Imperfect ears missing kernals

Question 5

What is a plant that grows, reproduces, then dies all in one year?

Answer 5

Annual-corn is an example

Question 6

What is a plant that lives for many years called?

Answer 6

A Perennial

Question 7

What are the 3 types of plant tissue (General) and what are they for?

Answer 7

Epidermal-protection
Ground-Storage and support
Vascular-Transport

Question 8

What are considered the epidermal tissues?

Answer 8

Roots, Stems, Leaves

Question 9

What kind of cells do the root epidermal tissue contain?

Answer 9

Acid Cells

Question 10

What are the three types of Ground tissue?

Answer 10

Parenchyma, Collenchyma, Sclerenchyma

Question 11

What does Parenchyma do?

Answer 11

Juice and Starch support

Question 12

What does Collenchyma do?

Answer 12

for flexible support

Question 13

What does sclerenchyma?

Answer 13

for firm support

Question 14

What does xylem do?

Answer 14

Water transport

Question 15

What does Phloem do?

Answer 15

Sugar transport

Question 16

Where is primary plant growth taking place?

Answer 16

Lengthwise, occuring at tips of roots and stems

Question 17

Where is secondary plant growth taking place?

Answer 17

Diameter wide growth

Question 18

What is responsible for primary growth?

Answer 18

Apical and Root meristems

Question 19

What is responsible for secondary growth?

Answer 19

Cambium Tissue

Question 20

What are the three parts to external leaf structure?

Answer 20

blade, Veins, and Petiole

Question 21

What is the petiole?

Answer 21

Attaches the blade to the stem

Question 22

What does the epidermis of the leaf contain on the underside for gas exchange?

Answer 22

Stomas

Question 23

What are palisade cells and where are they located?

Answer 23

Palisade cells are tightly packed cells on the top of the leaf

Question 24

What are spongy cells and where are they located?

Answer 24

Looser packed cells on the bottom of the leaf

Question 25

What is a pith?

Answer 25

Starch storing ground tissue in Monocots and Annual Eudicots

Question 26

In Annual Eudicots, how is the vascular tissue arranged?

Answer 26

in a circle around outside of stem

Question 27

What is the epidermis of Perennial Eudicots?

Answer 27

Bark or cork

Question 28

What produces new bark or cortex cells?

Answer 28

Cork Cambium

Question 29

What are the photosynthesising cells under bark?

Answer 29

Cortex

Question 30

What produces new xylem and phloem each year?

Answer 30

Vascular Cambium

Question 31

What absorbs about 95% of plants water and nutrients?

Answer 31

Root hairs

Question 32

What are the 3 macro nutrients of plant body?

Answer 32

Carbon, Oxygen and Hydrogen

Question 33

What is transpiration?

Answer 33

Water transport

Question 34

What are the 3 steps of the cohesive-tension theory?

Answer 34

Osmosis-Water moves into roots
Capillary Action-water moves through xylem
Evaporation-Move water out of leaves stoma

Question 35

What is translocation?

Answer 35

Sugar transport

Question 36

If a bullet was shot through a tree root, what would be the track of the bullet?

Answer 36

Epidermis->Cortex->endodermis->Pericyle->Phloem->Xylem

Question 37

What is the source of lateral roots in the ground tissue?

Answer 37

Pericycle