BIO113

Question 1

Plant microbiomes can be vertically transmitted (inherited) from one plant generation to another. True or False?

Answer 1

True

Question 2

___plants have interlaced branches at wide angles that serve as constitutive defense against herbivory.

Answer 2

Divericating

Question 3

The rhizosphere is defined as the microbes present in bulk soil. True or false

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Plants actively recruit microorganisms from the surrounding environment. True or false

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What was the difference between the CAM plant and the C3 plant

Answer 5

Leaves of the CAM plant had lower pH in the dark than in the light.

Question 6

How could we improve our experiment to find the CAM plant?

Answer 6

Keep the plants in dry and warm conditions (similar to a desert) before the experiment

Question 7

Which of the following processes would be most directly affected if a thylakoid membrane is punctured so that the interior of the thylakoid is no longer separated from the stroma?

Answer 7

synthesis of ATP

Question 8

Photosynthesis occurs in mesophyll cells. True or False

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Which of the following describes the function of the pigment molecules in a light- harvesting complex in the thylakoid membranes?

Answer 9

They absorb and transfer light energy to the reaction- center chlorophyll

Question 10

The traps of carnivorous plants are made up of

Answer 10

modified leaves

Question 11

When pathogenic fungi are found growing on the roots of grape vines, grape farmers sometimes respond by covering the ground around their vines with plastic sheeting and pumping a gaseous fungicide into the soil. The most important concern is:

Answer 11

Fungicide might kill mycorrhizae

Question 12

Heterokaryosis:

Answer 12

Includes the binucleate state (n + n); It is the state cell having 2 or more different nuclei, may occur through plasmogamy without karyogamy. (all of the above)

Question 13

Certain microbes can make plants more resilient against…?

Answer 13

All the other responses are correct (heat stress, salinity, plant disease)

Question 14

Plants actively recruit microorganisms from the surrounding environment, True or false.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

The ascomycetes get their name from which aspect of their life cycle?

Answer 15

sexual structures

Question 16

Which of the following has the least affiliation with all of the others?

Answer 16

Lichens

Question 17

When a mycelium infiltrates an unexploited source of dead organic matter, what are most likely to appear within the food source soon thereafter?

Answer 17

Fungal enzymes

Question 18

You are given an organism to identify. It has a fruiting body that contains many structures with eight haploid spores lined up in a row. What kind of a fungus is this?

Answer 18

ascomycete

Question 19

What are the sporangia of the black bread mold of Rhizopus, a member of the Mucoromycota?

Answer 19

Asexual structures that produce haploid spores.

Question 20

Which description does not apply equally well to both sexual and asexual spores?

Answer 20

are produced by spores

Question 21

Plant cells can trigger a hypersensitive response as a defense mechanism. A hypersensitive response is when cells:

Answer 21

Kill themselves to limit the spread of the pathogen to other cells