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Question 1

Plants need to build amino acids?

Answer 1

ammonia(NH3)

Question 2

plants able to convert gaseous nitrogen to ammonium, nitrates and nitrates themselves?

Answer 2

nope the have to find other ways

Question 3

how do you carnivores plants obtain nitrogen?

Answer 3

directly from other organisms

Question 4

how do parasitic plants obtain nitrogen?

Answer 4

they tap into vascular tissue of host plant for nutrients

Question 5

what is an example of plant defense poison and invader?

Answer 5

sara longwing butterfly example

Question 6

phytoestrogens

Answer 6

produce estrogen

Question 7

taxol

Answer 7

help with breast cancer

Question 8

quinine

Answer 8

produce chemical that would lower effect of malaria

Question 9

what are secondary metabolites?

Answer 9

have tremendous pharmaceuticals potential for humans

Question 10

What are some plants that are covered with “bodyguards”?

Answer 10

acacia tress, parasitoid wasps, caterpillars and leaves

Question 11

wound response (caterpillars)!?

Answer 11

the wasp would come and attack the caterpillar because the leaf would release a signal letting them know that the caterpillar was there

Question 12

what is a wound response?

Answer 12

wound triggers the release of systemin Travels throughout the plant

Question 13

what is phototropism?

Answer 13

response involves bending of growing stems towards light sources

Question 14

what is gravitropism?

Answer 14

The response of a plant to the earths gravitational field

Question 15

what main hormone is involved in phototropism?

Answer 15

auxin
- the auxin does to top of stem

Question 16

are the three other types of tropism‘s?

Answer 16

thigmotropism- contacts with an object
chemotropism- chemicals
traumatropism- wounding

Question 17

Does it mean when a stem turns against the force of gravity?

Answer 17

Negative Gravitropism

Question 18

what does it mean when the root ultimately grow downwards?

Answer 18

positive Gravitropism

Question 19

what is dormancy

Answer 19

ability to cease growth and enter into a dormant state provides a survival advantage

Question 20

Where does auxin promote activity?

Answer 20

vascular cambium and vascular tissue

Question 21

what is ethylene?

Answer 21

Is produced when auxin is transferred down from the apical meristem of the stem

Question 22

what production increases rapidly when a plant is exposed to toxic chemicals or temperature extremes

Answer 22

ethylene