plants

Question 1

A plant that completes its life cycle within a year’s time

Answer 1

annual

Question 2

A seed leaf

Answer 2

cotyledon

Question 3

A flowering plant with seeds having two seed leaves

Answer 3

dicotyledon

Question 4

A food storage tissue

Answer 4

endosperm

Question 5

A running down

Answer 5

entropy

Question 6

The beginning of the development of a plant from a seed is called

Answer 6

germination

Question 7

A flowering plant with seeds having one seed leaf

Answer 7

monocotyledon

Question 8

The study of growth characteristics of a plant is called

Answer 8

developmental morphology

Question 9

Which of the following does the plant need in order for it to germinate and develop?

Answer 9

matter
genetic information
energy

Question 10

What is based on the supposition that energy plus matter plus natural chemical combinations are sufficient to ultimately produce functioning interrelated complex systems.

Answer 10

Evolution theory

Question 11

Flowering plants are classified as:

Answer 11

angiosperms

Question 12

A plant that germinates, grows, produces flowers and seeds, and dies in a year is termed a(n)

Answer 12

annual

Question 13

A plant that continues to live for many years is termed a(n) .

Answer 13

perennial

Question 14

Two ancient ___________ plants cited in the text are the bristlecone pine and the giant sequoias.

Answer 14

perennial

Question 15

The food for the embryo plant comes from the cotyledon or

Answer 15

the endosperm

Question 16

A plant that completes its life cycle from seed germination through fruit and seed production within a year’s time.

Answer 16

annual

Question 17

That part of a woody stem, or tree, that is outside the vascular cambium

Answer 17

bark

Question 18

The maturation of a cell produced by a plant meristem

Answer 18

differentiation

Question 19

The first step after production by a meristem

Answer 19

elongation

Question 20

The youthful, undifferentiated cells of root and shoot tips

Answer 20

meristem

Question 21

A plant that continues to grow year after year from the same plant body

Answer 21

perennial

Question 22

The meristematic cells which produce new cells increasing plant body girth

Answer 22

meristem

Question 23

That part of a tree that is interior to the vascular cambium

Answer 23

wood

Question 24

Cells that multiply and produce growth at various parts of a plant are:

Answer 24

meristematic

Question 25

The vascular cambium cells differentiate into:

Answer 25

phloem
xylem

Question 26

Old phloem cells become:

Answer 26

bark

Question 27

The width of a tree increases through direct growth of the:

Answer 27

vascular cambium

Question 28

Differentiated cells which take on the function of food storage are

Answer 28

parenchyma

Question 29

A crosswise elongation of cells within the stem will produce

Answer 29

leaf or branch

Question 30

A meristematic cell will differentiate due to its

Answer 30

DNA

Question 31

The chemicals first activated in the seed that help cause other chemicals to react are called

Answer 31

enzymes

Question 32

During cell division, energy is needed. The first chemicals to be broken down to use as energy in cell division are called

Answer 32

starches

Question 33

One of the tissues making up bark is

Answer 33

phloem

Question 34

The merismatic cells under the bark forming a ring around the tree are the

Answer 34

vascular cambium