Plant Exam

Question 0

example of fungi in this group are penicillium and aspergillus

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Deuteromycetes

Question 1

This organism grows on a wide variety of hosts, and is responsible for mildew, yeast infections, dutch elm disease

Answer 1

Ascomycetes

Question 2

produces a large egg cell, swims after fertilization, and is responsible for the potato blight of 1845-1847 in ireland

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Oomycetes

Question 3

produces large basido spores

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Basidomycetes

Question 4

grows in sheets of filaments and is used to produce agar and carrageen

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Red Algae

Question 5

The Ancestor to green plants

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Green algae

Question 6

simple moss which grow low to the ground and require water for reproduction

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Brophyte

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ferns, horsetails

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Lower vascular plants

Question 8

Plants which flower and produce seeds

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Angiosperms

Question 9

naked seed plants such as pines

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Gymnosperms

Question 10

a group of plants with separate male and female plants which produce fan shaped leaves.

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Gingko

Question 11

an ancient plant which resembles a palm tree. There plants were around with the dinosaurs

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Cycads

Question 12

Produces one cotyledon upon sprouting. Leaf veins are parallel and flower parts are in multiples of 3

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Monocot

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produces two cotyledons upon sprouting . Leaf veins are in a net pattern and flower parts are in multiples of 4 or 5

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Dicot

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many year life cycle

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Perennial

Question 15

woody plants which drop their leaves in the fall, or dryer season.

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deciduous

Question 16

a carrot or dandelion produce this type of root, which stores a large amount of starch.

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Taproot

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a highly branched root, which stores less starch

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Fibrous root

Question 18

a root found in an unusual place

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Adventitious Root

Question 19

where water and minerals are absorbed into the root

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Root hairs

Question 20

growing tip of a shoot or root

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Apical Meristem

Question 21

Point of leaf attachment

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Node

Question 22

a bundle of tissue which is usually dormant but can develop into branch shoots. they are seen in the angle between the stem and leaf.

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Axillary Bud

Question 23

runners which send down roots and produce new plants

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Stolons

Question 24

the underground stem of a potato plant

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Tubers

Question 25

a waxy layer on the leaf surface which prevents the leaf from dying out

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Cuticle

Question 26

Where most of the photosynthesis in a leaf occurs

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Palisade Mesophy 2

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regulate gas exchange and are composed of 2 guard cells which swell and shrink in relation to water availability in the plant

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Stomata

Question 28

A gas or hormone, which causes fruit to ripen

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Ethylene

Question 29

a hormone produced in the upper 4 inches of the shoot, and causes growth by cell elongation.

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Auxin

Question 30

hormone that initates and maintains dormancy

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Abscisic acid

Question 31

directional growth in a plant due to contact with an object

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Thigmotropism

Question 32

the length of daylight and darkness, which effect the growth of a plant the flowering of a plant

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Photoperiodism

Question 33

vascular tissue which moves water and mineral up in the plant

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Xylem

Question 34

Vascular tissue which moves sugar down in a plant

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Phloem

Question 35

a plant movement due to external stimuli

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Nastic Response

Question 36

The movement of water molecules through a plant. The chain advances one molecule as water molecule evaporates from a leaf.

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Transpiration

Question 37

The sticky top of the carpel

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Stigma

Question 38

The slender stalk of the carpel

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Style

Question 39

a modified portion of the stem to which flowers are attached

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Receptacle

Question 40

the male reproductive portion of a flower

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Stamen

Question 41

a saclike structure, which produces pollen on a stamen

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Anther

Question 42

green leaf like parts, which protect the bud as the flower, develops within

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Sepal

Question 43

a mature ovary which contains seeds. the fleshy material helps other animals eat it and disperse the seeds

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Fruit

Question 44

the starchy, nutritive material in a speed which nourishes the plant embryo

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Endosperm

Question 45

the fertilization of polar nuclei, which will become endosperm and the formation of the plant ebryo

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Double Fertilization

Question 46

the embryonic stem which support the plant

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Hypocotyl 1

Question 47

the portion of the embryo which bears young leaves or the plumules

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Epicotyl 1

Question 48

concertric rings of xylem

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wood

Question 49

an impermeable layer of lignin and suberin which forces water and minerals to move through root cells, not between root cells

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Casparian Strip

Question 50

a component of the bark of a woody plant

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Cork

Question 51

are a symbiotic association of fungi and algae

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Lichens

Question 52

the male gametophyte of an angiosperm

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Pollen

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Ie mushrooms and club fungi

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Basidomycetes

Question 54

Kelp is the largest form of the algae

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Brown algae

Question 55

the space on the stem between the nodes

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Internode

Question 56

the force that causes a root a grow down and a shoot to grow up

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Gravitotropism

Question 57

a large vertical root, which stores starch

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Taproot

Question 58

branched , stores less starch

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Fibrous

Question 59

the site of water and mineral absorption

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Root hairs

Question 60

Root growing in unusual places

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Adventitious Roots

Question 61

Vegetative shoots with leaves, floral shoots and flowers

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Shoot system

Question 62

point of leaf attachment

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Node

Question 63

stem segment with out leaves

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Internodes

Question 64

found in the ankle between the leaf and stem usually dormant embryonic side shoots

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Axillary Bud

Question 65

Tip of the shoot - an apical meristem

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apex

Question 66

developing leaves compact area of nodes and internodes

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Terminal Bud

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evolutionary adaptation that leads to taller growth and increase exposure to light

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Apical Dominance

Question 68

horizontal stems which grow on the ground surface

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Stolon

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Horizontal stems which grow under ground

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Rhizomes

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Ie . tulip or onion

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bulbs

Question 71

main photosynthetic organ

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leaves