Exam 36: Reproduction and Development in Flowering Plants

Unique to flowering plants, the making of an embryo-nourishing ____ is an outcome of double fertilization.

Studies have shown that in the flowering plant Arabidopsis the development of parts of a flower is governed by ____.

The process of asexual reproduction where a diploid embryo develops from an unfertilized egg or from diploid cells in ovule tissue is called ____.

How is pollen tube elongation facilitated?

In flowering plants, how many sperm cells are typically produced from each microspore mother cell?

Why do most plants produce large numbers of seeds?

The fruit wall, or pericarp, develops from the ____.

When pollen from one species lands on the stigma of a flower from another species, the pollen tube typically ____.

A plant species where each plant makes some flowers that are male and some that are female is called a ____ species and always has ____ flowers.

The embryonic root, which is where the pollen tube enters the ovule prior to fertilization, is called the ____.

The parts of a flower most likely to have distinctive colors, patterning, and shapes for attracting pollinators are the ____.

Which of the following is an unusual event that occurs as trichomes differentiate?

The end of floral shoot where a flower develops is called the ____.

Chemical cues that help guide a developing pollen tube toward an ovule are released by the ____.

Strawberries are accessory fruits.

The growth of a new plant on the margin of a leaf that eventually falls to the ground and grows independently is an example of ____.

Cells removed from callus that can grow into plantlets illustrates that differentiated cells can be returned to a totipotent state.

The female gametophyte in flowering plants forms in a _____.

The female gametophyte in flowering plants is the ____.