Applied Plant Science Exam 2 Review

Comprising of chapters 5-9

(T/F) Supplying a plant with only green light will eventually kill it.

(T/F) Plants produce oxygen during respiration and give off carbon dioxide during photosynthesis.

What are the wavelengths of light that a plant can use?

(T/F) Maple syrup is extracted from the xylem.

_____ is the tree’s pipeline for water moving up to the leaves. It is considered new wood. As it ages, it becomes heartwood.

This is responsible for the pyramidal shape characteristic of evergreen trees.

(T/F) Roots do not have xylem and phloem. It stops at the soil surface where cortex bundles and endodermis mucilage conducts water, nutrients, and hormones below ground.

The _______ protects the expanding growth of root tips through the soil.

If a tree is girdled…

Palisade cells are located where?

Trees getting taller exhibit…

What are the cells within a stalk between the conductive tissue?

The powerhouse of the cell is…

the mitochondria.

Plants have…

Which word pairs are most similar? 1) cytoplasm & cell membrane 2) spongy mesophyll & apical meristem 3) sclerenchyma & silt loam 4) chloroplast & apomixis

If you remove the middle lamella from everywhere within a plant, what will happen?

What word pairs are most alike? 1) receptacle & phosphorus 2) carpel & gynoecium 3) androecium & tepal 4) sepal & polar bodies

A male honeybee is called a…

(T/F) Male honeybees do not have stingers.

A bee’s lifecycle is ____ days long.

(T/F) A complete flower has the following parts present and ccounted for: calyx, corolla, androecium, and gynoecium.

(T/F) Cork cells are full of living parenchyma tissue.

When an entire plant has only male or only female flowers; means “two houses.”

What is the main motivation for pollinators to visit flowers?

If you cut through a living tree, what order will you sever the layers of the trunk?

Citrus fruits are considered…

Which of these would be an example of an aggregation of drupes? A) carrots B) raspberries C) apples D) cucumbers

Which state is #1 for production of apples and cherries?

(T/F) California and Washington grow the most grapes in the U.S.

You would find an achene on/in a…

Hawaii produces the most of this particular drupe of all the United States. What is it?

A pseudocarp is considered…

Botanically, tomatoes are considered…

Which terms are most closely related? 1) exocarp & fruit skin 2) endocarp & funiculus 3) dehiscent & mesocarp 4) satsuma & aggregation of drupes

How many seeds would you expect to find in a single drupe?

Blood oranges are somewhat unique amongst citrus fruits because of the presence of…

When you eat coconut meat, you are eating the…

Pomelo is probably the ancestor of what fruit?

(T/F) Cherries are classified as drupes.

Which of these are botanically classified as berries?

A fruit formed from a flower with one carpel or multiple carpels fused together so that it looks like just one carpel…

(T/F) An apple is an example of a species where the culinary fruit part we eat is actually hypanthium tissue rather than ovary wall tissue.

The strawberry is an ____ fruit formed from multiple ____ present in one flower.

An example of a dry pericarp that is dehiscent is…

The fruit from one carpel containing a single seed where the pericarp is fused to the seed. A corn kernel is an example…

What are the wavelengths of light plants CAN use?

Red and blue

(T/F) Sugars produced by photosynthesis move through the xylem.

False (it moves through the phloem).

_______ is the tree’s protection against careless mowers of grass.

Outer bark.

This is responsible for root elongation…

Root apical meristem

Only angiosperms in this family can fix atmospheric nitrogen…

Fabaceae

The _____ protect the leaves of certain plants from herbivory.

Trichomes

If a tree is “topped"…

It will grow more bush-like

A network of membranous tubules within the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell, continuous with the nuclear membrane. It usually has ribosomes attached and is involved in protein and lipid synthesis.

Endoplasmic reticulum

Where does pollination happen?

Above the peduncle

Trees getting bigger around exhibit…

Secondary growth

Plants have all of these except…

Tendons

Which word pairs are most alike? A) cytoplasm & indehiscence B) spony mesophyll & apical meristem C) sclerenchyma & silt loam d) chloroplast & green pigment

chloroplast & green pigment

If you remove the gymnospermatic saliva from everywhere within a plant, what will happen?

Nothing.

What word pairs are most alike? A) receptacle & phosphorus B) smooth ER & gynoecium C) androecium & gynoecium D) sepal & polar bodies

Androecium & gynoecium

Which is used to describe an attribute of a fruit?

Drupe.

(T/F) The queen bee is likely the oldest member of the colony.

True.

(T/F) A composite flower has the following parts present and accounted for: scarpel, corolla, adroecium, and gynoecium.

False.

What is the main motivation for bees to visit flowers?

They visit flowers for food, nectar.

Apples are considered…

Pomes.

Which of these would be an example of a pepo: carrots, kiwi, apples, or cucumbers?

Cucumbers

Which state is #1 for production of grapes?

California

Which of these pairs are drupes? A) strawberry or pineapple B) apple or grape C) blackberry or pomegranate D) coconut or plum

Coconut or plum

The family name for fruits referred to as hesperidium is…

Rutacae

Which terms are most closely related? A) hilum & fruit skin B) endocarp & funiculus C) dehiscent & mesocarp D) satsuma & pomelo

Satsuma & pomelo

How many seeds would you expect to find in an aggregation of drupes?

10 or more

Which of these are botanically classified as vegetables: bananas, cranberries, blueberries, or none of these?

None of these

An example of a pulse “fruit” is…

Peas

You can make biodiesel from this…

lipid acid & saturated fatty

The way a plant “looks” is called the…

Phenotype

This is a protective covering for the radicle…

Coleorhiza

Ripened ovary wall is made up of three parts: exocarp, ______, and endocarp.

Mesocarp

Digestion in mammal’s guy might accomplish this to enable a seed to germinate…

Scarification

(T/F) Plants derived from hybrid seeds are considered the F1 generation.

True

(T/F) The offspring from a plant capable of apomixis are identical to the parent plant.

True

What word pairs are most closely related? A) a person’s navel & hilum B) apomixis & microcotyledon C) cotyledon & phenotype D) F1 generation & exocarp

A person’s navel & hilum

What develops into the first true leaves?

Plumule

(T/F) In epigeous germination of seeds, you will not see the epicotyl above the soil surface.

False

Angiosperm plants are almost always…

Reproduced through the maturation of a zygote

Corn is a member of which family?

Poaceae

What element(s) comprise carbohydrates: amino acid, Mo, Zn, B, Mg, or none?

None

Plant oils tend to…

Be liquid at room temperature

Plants need this to carry out respiration…

Oxygen (O)

Dehiscent

Fruit splits open at maturity, releasing their seeds (ex. legumes like peas)

Indehiscent

Fruit does not open naturally to release seeds (ex. nuts, achene fruits, and drupes)