Plants

Question 1

In which layer does most photosynthesis take place?

Answer 1

palisade layer

Question 2

Which layer of cells is important for gas exchange?

Answer 2

spongy cells

Question 3

What is the layer right below the cuticle?

Answer 3

epidermis

Question 4

What are stroma, thylakoids, and grana?

Answer 4

stroma = inner fluid, thylakoids are the pancakes where photosynthesis takes place, and grana are stacks of thylakoids

Question 5

Thylakoids are filled with which pigment?

Answer 5

chlorophyll

Question 6

What is the purpose of the light-dependent reactions?

Answer 6

to convert solar energy into usable energy (ATP and NADPH)

Question 7

What are the two types of xylem and what do they transport?

Answer 7

tracheids and vessel elements, transport water

Question 8

What are the two types of phloem and what do they transport?

Answer 8

sieve cells and companion cells, transport photosynthetic products

Question 9

What is the male component of the flower?

Answer 9

stamen

Question 10

What does the stamen consist of?

Answer 10

filament, anther

Question 11

What is the female component of the flower?

Answer 11

pistil

Question 12

What does the pistil consist of?

Answer 12

stigma, style, ovule, ovary

Question 13

Where does the pollen fall?

Answer 13

sticky stigma

Question 14

How does plant fertilization work?

Answer 14

one sperm fertilizes egg, the other fertilizes polar bodies

Question 15

What does the fertilized egg become?

Answer 15

plant embryo

Question 16

What do the polar bodies become?

Answer 16

endosperm

Question 17

What does the ovule become?

Answer 17

seed

Question 18

What does the ovary become?

Answer 18

fruit