Quiz Questions

Question 1

Most common type of cell in plants? they are living, generally spherical to soccer- ball shaped and only have primary walls

Answer 1

Parenchyma

Question 2

which cell type is often dead, has secondary cell walls, is lignified, and comes in a variety of shapes ( long - narrow- star shaped)?

Answer 2

Schlerenchyma

Question 3

What is the term used to describe loss of water from a plant, principally from its stomata

Answer 3

Transpiration

Question 4

What is the darker interior part of the wood where normally plants deposit their secondary compounds?

Answer 4

heartwood

Question 5

another name for a mass of fungal filaments (hyphae)

Answer 5

mycelium

Question 6

Fungal Hyphae that lack septae (internal cell walls)

Answer 6

aseptate

Question 7

the dark black and spiny zygospore of Rhizopus (Zygomycota) represents which phase of the funal life cycle: haploid, diploid, or dikaryotic?

Answer 7

diploid

Question 8

Name the three kingdoms that make up a lichen

Answer 8

fungi, algae, cyanobacteria

Question 9

How is basidium different from ascus

Answer 9

Basidium- external and have 4 something.

Ascus- internal and have 8 something.

Question 10

What is the principal storage sugar in plants?

Answer 10

starch

Question 11

name a plance in a plant where you find sclerenchyma

Answer 11

vascular bundles within

Question 12

the hormone that promotes stem elongation

Answer 12

gibberellin

Question 13

a fruit is a ripened/mature

Answer 13

ovary

Question 14

a “fruit” that is actually a cluster of many individual fruits from a single flower

Answer 14

aggregate

Question 15

what are the actual (botanical) fruits of a strawberry like?

Answer 15

achenes (small nuts) actual fruit. strawberry is accessory fruit

Question 16

a fleshy, indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary is called

Answer 16

berry

Question 17

how can peat mosses (Sphagnum) hold so much water

Answer 17

amount of dead cells.

Question 18

which of the bryophytes has a single large chloroplast in each cell?

Answer 18

hornwort anthocerotopsida

Question 19

an amorphous plant body( lacking clear roots, stems, and leaves) is a

Answer 19

thallus

Question 20

peat mosses belong to genus

Answer 20

chlorophyta

Question 21

in the mosses, the _____________ is the dominant phase of the lifecycle in that it is the most commonly seen, it is photosynthetic, and it takes up water from the enironment

Answer 21

gametophyte

Question 22

what would you expect to find inside an archegonium

Answer 22

eggs

Question 23

another name for a fungal filament

Answer 23

hyphae

Question 24

which term describes “shrubby” or branched lichens: crustose, fruticose, or foliose

Answer 24

fruticose

Question 25

What is the term for asexual spores of fungi, often produced on special stalks or at the ends of specialized filaments

Answer 25

conidia

Question 26

name a unicellular fungus

Answer 26

yeast