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  1. What plants are non-vascular?
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Mosses

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  1. What kind of plant is mistletoe?
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Heterotrophic partially parasitic plant

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  1. What plants are vascular, but do not produce seeds?
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ferns

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  1. Name the 2 sub-groups of vascular, seed-bearing plants.
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Gymnosperm, angiosperm

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  1. In the life cycle of a typical moss, where is the sperm is produced?
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Antheridia

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  1. Where are the fern spores located?
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Sporangia

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  1. What are the non-flowering plants that produce seeds which are not enclosed in an ovary called?
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Gymnosperms

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  1. What is the mature ovary of an angiosperm called?
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Fruit

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  1. What phylum of plants are divided on the basis of monocot and dicot?
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Angiosperms

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  1. Do herbaceous plants lack woody structures and usually live for only one year?
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Yes

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  1. What are examples of meristematic tissue?
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cork cambium

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  1. What are examples of vascular tissue?
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Xylem and phloem

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  1. What are examples of structural tissue?
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Collenchyma

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  1. What is the primary function of a leaf?
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Absorb light energy from the sun

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  1. Leaf epidermal cells often secrete a waxy substance called what?
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Cuticle

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  1. A typical leaf vein is made up of what tissues?
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Pholeom

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  1. What cells surround the stomata?
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Guard cells

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  1. Is the outermost tissue of the root, the epidermis, two cells thick in its early stage of development?
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No, it’s one cell thick

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  1. What plant phylum produces softwoods for industry?
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Gymnosperm

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  1. By studying the annual rings of a redwood tree, a scientist can determine what information?
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Its age and the weather and conditions it went through

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  1. What does a typical herbaceous plant lack?
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Woody cork cambium

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  1. What are the functions of roots?
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Anchor plant, absorb water and dissolved minerals and food storage

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  1. What are the functions of a stem?
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Manufacture and support and display leaves, and they conduct materials to and from leaves for photosynthesis

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  1. Which trees are representative of the families in the phylum Coniferophyta?
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Pine Cyprus redwood

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  1. The pine tree releases male reproductive gametes contained in the what structure?
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Pollen cones, males cones

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  1. What are the characteristics of the Anthophytes?
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Produce flowers

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  1. What are monocots and dicots?
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Flowering plants

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  1. What ia a mature ovary is called?
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Fruit

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  1. Leaves that have netted venation belong to which class of trees?
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Dicotalydonae

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  1. A plant that grows year after year is called what?
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Perennial

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  1. What is the region of active cell division in a plant?
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Meristematic region

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  1. Cells that are undergoing mitosis are usually found where?
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Meristematic region

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  1. What is found in the sap of phloem tubes?
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Sap, water, sugars

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  1. What do the vascular tissues do?
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Transports water upwards and nutrients throughout the plant

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  1. A leaf in which the blade is divided into more than one part is said to be what?
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Compound leaf

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  1. What are leaves called that lack petioles?
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Sessile

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  1. What is the stalk portion of a leaf called?
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Petiole

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  1. Which leaves have netted venation?
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Dicot, Pinnate and palmate

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  1. The “fuzziness” of certain leaf surface is do to the presence of what structure?
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Epidermal hairs

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  1. Why are stomata beneficial to the leaf?
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Permit exchange of gases between atmosphere and leaf

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  1. What is a fibrovascular bundle in a leaf called?
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Vein

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  1. What kind of tree loses its leaves in the fall?
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Deciduous

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  1. What are the storage tissues in roots?
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Cortex

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  1. What is a slender, horizontal, underground stem called?
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Stolon

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  1. What is a collection of underground storage leaves branching from small discs of stems called?
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Bulbs

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  1. A palm tree has what type of branching pattern?
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Columnar

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  1. To survive through the winter months, what must a woody stem form in the fall?
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Dormant buds

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  1. Hard, dark, inactive wood is called what?
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Heartwood

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  1. The age of a tree and the change of weather conditions it went through as it grew can be determined by studying what?
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Spring wood compared to summerwood

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  1. How does girdling kill a plant?
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Starves roots

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  1. What happens when a plant is over fertilized?
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It burns

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  1. What determines the amount of water that soil can contain?
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Depends on the ground texture

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  1. What composes topsoil?
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Humus, loames, living organisms

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  1. Is oxygen essential for roots to carry on cellular respiration?
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Yes

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  1. Which kind of soil water is most readily available to plants?
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Capliarity

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  1. What is the property of water molecules that causes them to stick together?
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Cohesion

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  1. What is turgor?
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Stiffness

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  1. Do plants eat food?
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No, they absorb minerals

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  1. What is the main energy source for food manufactured in plants?
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Sun

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  1. What is germination?
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The beginning of the growth of an embryonic plant within a seed

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  1. Besides manganese, boron, and chlorine, what minor essential elements are needed for plant health?
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Copper, molybdenum, zinc

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  1. What do the numbers 10-20-10 on a fertilizer bag mean?
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Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium

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  1. What are plant auxins called?
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Hormones

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  1. What is an etiolated plant?
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Without light

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  1. What is the name of the period in which severe conditions cause a plant to stop growing?
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Dormancy

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  1. Why do farmers use vegetative reproduction for plants that can reproduce sexually?
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Ensure same genetic characteristics

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  1. How do tulips and daffodils reproduce?
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Bulbs

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  1. What is(are) the primary goal(s) of sexual reproduction in plants?
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Produce new plants and recombine genes into different groupings for genetic variability, variety

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  1. What is the sweet fluid that lures animals to flowers in order to help in pollination?
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Nectar

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  1. What is the process called in which a stem is cut off of one plant and placed into contact with the stem of a rooted plant?
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Grafting

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  1. What makes up a mature seed?
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Endosperm, epicatale, radical

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  1. What is the stalk that supports the flower?
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Pedicel

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  1. What is the enlarged end of the pedicel which bears the remainder of the flower parts?
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Receptacle

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  1. What is the outermost ring of the flower which serves to protect the floral parts as they form in the bud?
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Sepals

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  1. What are large, brightly colored floral parts called?
A

Petals

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  1. What is the male reproductive structure of a flower?
A

Stamen

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  1. What is the female reproductive structure of a flower?
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pistil

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  1. List the three proper conditions that must exist before a plant will germinate.
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Moisture, temp, oxygen

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  1. List the four main ways plants use water
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Photosynthesis, turgor, hydrolysis, translocation

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  1. Name six major nutrient elements needed by plants.
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Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, iron

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