plant diversity 3

Question 1

primary growth starts where

Answer 1

root apical meristem and shoot apical meristem

Question 2

primary growth is the increase in what

Answer 2

increase in length

Question 3

secondary growth is the increase in what

Answer 3

girth

Question 4

what kind of plant experiences secondary growth

Answer 4

woody plants

Question 5

vascular cambium produces

Answer 5

secondary vascular tissue

Question 6

cork cambium produces

Answer 6

secondary dermal tissue

Question 7

periderm is produced by what

Answer 7

the cork cambium

Question 8

epiderm is replaced by what in secondary growth of plants

Answer 8

periderm

Question 9

what is the job of the epidermis and periderm

Answer 9

prevent water loss

Question 10

what is the waxy substance secreted by the epidermis to prevent water loss

Answer 10

cuticle

Question 11

water loss occurs where

Answer 11

stomata via transpiration

Question 12

what is the waxy material produced by the cork cells to prevent water loss

Answer 12

suberin

Question 13

where does gas exchange occur

Answer 13

Stomata

Question 14

where are lenticels found

Answer 14

periderm

Question 15

According to the competitive exclusion principle

Answer 15

Two species can not continue to occupy the same niche

Question 16

What affects water potential

Answer 16

Pressure and solute concentration

Question 17

What is turgor pressure

Answer 17

Pressure exerted by the plasma membrane to the cell wall and cell wall against the protoplast

Question 18

What is the protoplast

Answer 18

The living part of a cell, that includes the plasma membrane

Question 19

What are aquaporins

Answer 19

Water channels found in vacuole and cell membranes that speed up osmosis without changing the direction of water

Question 20

What are the transport routes that exist before entering the plants xylem

Answer 20

Apoplast route
Symplast route
Transmembrane route

Question 21

What does the apoplast route consist of

Answer 21

Everything external to the plasma membrane

Question 22

What are the paths the apoplast route takes

Answer 22

Cell walls, extra cellular spaces and interior of vessel elements

Question 23

The symplast consists of

Answer 23

Cytosol and plasmodesmata

Question 24

What is the route of transmembrane

Answer 24

Out of one cell, across another and into another cell

Question 25

What is the route of transmembrane

Answer 25

Out of one cell, across another and into another cell

Question 26

Resource partitioning is

Answer 26

Species sharing resources

Question 27

What is obligate mutualism

Answer 27

Where one species can not survive without the other

Question 28

What is facultative mutualism

Answer 28

Where species can survive alone

Question 29

What type of mutualism is between plants and fungi

Answer 29

Trophic mutualism

Question 30

Parasitism

Answer 30

Relationship between two organisms when one(parasite) benefits at the expense of the (host)

Question 31

Commensalism

Answer 31

One specie benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped

Question 32

What is the key factor driving the extinction vortex

Answer 32

Loss of genetic variation

Question 33

Small popular approach focuses on

Answer 33

Small populations

Question 34

Declining population approach focuses on

Answer 34

Endangered populations

Question 35

Function of the casparian strip

Answer 35

Ensures all water and dissolved substances must pass through a cell membrane before entering the stele

Question 36

what is etiolation

Answer 36

the morphological adaptation for growing in darkness

Question 37

pytochrome is located where

Answer 37

cytoplasm

Question 38

what type of second messengers of are involved de-etoilation

Answer 38

ca2+ and cGMP