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Agp 103 - 1
Plant science test one
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the process known as where you use living organisms to remove harmful contaminants from the environment? | Bioremediation |
| Foods that have a medicinal effect on human health, especially fruits and vegetables are called what? | Nutraceuticals |
| The greatest number of plant species on the plant can be found in what area and climate? | Near the equatorial regions in the tropic climates |
| What is agronomy? | Intensive - focus more on mass production such as with grain and corn |
| What is horticulture? | Extensive - focuses more on plants that require more care such as berries, trees, flowers, etc. |
| What roles to plants play in the environment besides providing food? List... | Erosion, produce oxygen, medicinal purposes, clean the environment |
| True or False ... The vascular cambium produces phloem toward the inside of the stem and xylem toward the outside of the stem. | False |
| True or False... Cells in a leaf that usually contain most of the chloroplasts are called palisade mesophyll. | True |
| The vascular tissue that conducts sugars or carbohydrates from leaves to growing points is called... | Phloem |
| This is the 'energy factory' in plant cells where respiration takes place. | Mitochondrion |
| Leaves with a main vein, called a midrib, from which leaflets attach is classified as... | Compound |
| This attaches the leaf blade to the shoot | Petiole |
| This is a modified stem that usually grows horizontally underground. | Rhizome |
| Where are guard cells found on leaf? | On the epidermis, usually on the underside of the leaf |
| The living contents of a plant cell is known as... | Protoplasm |
| What does the species name include? | Genesis and species |
| Monocots have characteristics including ... | embryo has a single cotyledon, major leaf veins are parallel, flower parts in multiples of 3 |
| Dicots have characteristics including... | Embryo with two cotyledons, Major leaf veins reticulated,Flower parts in multiples of four or five |
| The person who invented the binomial nomenclature system of naming plants was ... | Carl Linneaus |
| If a plant's botanical name includes the word marcophylla, you can conclude that the plant ... | large leaves |
| A growing point that arises from a cell that did not contain preformed root or shoot initials in called... | Adventitious |
| If a plant's botanical name includes the word reptans, you can conclude that the plant... | Creeps along the ground |
| When a species produces all male flowers on some plants and all female flowers on other plants, it is called... | Dioecious |
| What type of incloresencs has pedicels of different lengths attached tat different locations on the rachis to create a flat-topped inflorescence? | Corymb |
| This part of an embryonic stem is located in between the radical and the cotyledon(s)... | Hypocotyl |
| The global seed industry is valued at around $42B. What country is the largest market fro seeds in the world? | United States |
| The type of simple dry, indehiscent fruit that grain crops produce is called... | Caryopsis |
| The seed coat of dicots is called... | Testa |
| True/False... Botanically tomatoes are a fruit not a vegetable. | True |
| True/ False... A raceme inflorescence is similar to a spike except each of the flowers have pedicels. | True |
| True/False... Some grasses have umbel shaped inflorescencs. | False ... to make it true.... spike, raceme or panicle |
| A hilum on dicot seeds is the slight ridge along the edge of the seed. | False... to make it true...Scar where the seed was attached to the ovary wall |
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