Plant Biology

Question 1

First record of flower 125 million years ago

Answer 1

Archaefructus

Question 2

Dominant type of plant

Answer 2

Flowering plants

Question 3

Polyploidy

Answer 3

Chromosomes can double or triple during reproduction

Question 4

One descendant and all of the offspring

Answer 4

Monophyletic group

Question 5

Latin Binomial

Answer 5

X

Question 6

All the flowering plants have an outer ring of X parts and an inner ring of X parts

Answer 6

Male, female

Question 7

Male parts of the flower

Answer 7

Whole part is called a stamen. Bud is called anther and is coated with pollen, with filament being the stalk

Question 8

Female parts of the flower

Answer 8

Top part is called the stigma (where pollen lands), then becomes the style, then connects to the ovary. Ovary is where ovule is. Entire part is called carpal.

Question 9

Term for stigma, ovary, and style

Answer 9

Carpel (pistil)

Question 10

Perfect flowers

Answer 10

Male and female parts (typical flower)

Question 11

All male part flowers

Answer 11

Staminate flowers

Question 12

Pistolet or carpalet flowers

Answer 12

All female part flowers

Question 13

Sepal

Answer 13

Leaf at the base

Question 14

Perianth

Answer 14

Petals and the sepal (optional)

Question 16

Name for when petals and sepals can’t be distinguished (magnolias)

Answer 16

Tepals

Question 17

Flowering plants phylum

Answer 17

Angiosperms (Anthophyta)

Question 18

Flowers- Angiosperms, Cones- X

Answer 18

Gymnosperms

Question 19

Ovary becomes what in angiosperms

Answer 19

The fruit (ovary encloses seed and swells)

Question 20

Angiosperms are separated into which two classes?

Answer 20

Monocot and dicot (eudicot is now accepted term)

Question 21

Cotyledon

Answer 21

First leaf that emerges in the developing plant

Question 22

In dicots there are two X, in monocots there are 1 x

Answer 22

Cotyledons

Question 23

Monocots have flower parts in groups of X

Answer 23

Threes (3,6, or 9 stamans and 3,6 carpals)

Question 24

Monocots will also have three X and three X

Answer 24

Petals, sepals

Question 25

Dicots have flower parts in X

Answer 25

Fours or fives

Question 26

Monocots leaf veins are Z

Answer 26

A