Exam 27: An Introduction to Flowering Plant Form and Function

A plant that you are studying has sluggish wound healing abilities as well as an inability to store significant food reserves.You would like to enhance these properties.If you could enhance the growth of a tissue to improve these properties,which tissue would you enhance?

Flowers develop as a result of determinate shoot growth.

What is the closest parallel in animal structural levels of complexity to the branches,buds,flowers,seeds,and fruits of flowering plants?

What is true of eudicots but not monocots?

In the alternation of generations of flowering plant life cycles,the gametophyte stage is most similar to what stage of termite development?

Where in the eudicot plant root would you expect to find vascular tissue?

You and your lab partners are studying a plant and find a way to inactivate the SAM.If the plant is to continue living,it will have to find an alternate way to accomplish what essential plant function?

Cell extension involves

What do you predict would happen if flower growth became indeterminate?

Which would be least affected by the loss of guard cell function that closes stomata?

Corn seeds have one cotyledon.

Predict what would occur if you removed the shoot apical meristem of a plant embryo.

Imagine an insect that is making its way from the outside of a tree to the inside of the tree. Put the layers that it would it encounter in order, starting with the outermost later.

Root hairs are specialized

You are a botanist who is immersed in your attempt to increase a certain property in your plant of study.To that end,you induce a mutation that doubles the amount of vascular cambium (a type of meristem)in your plant.Assuming this brings the desired effect,what exactly was the property that you sought to increase?

Where would one find the leaf axillary bud?

The root zone of maturation is immediately above the root apical meristem (RAM).

A vascular bundle

The apprentice in your horticulture lab accidentally trims all of the axillary buds from a particularly prized specimen.After realizing his mistake,he rather glumly asks you,as lead horticulturalist,about the effects on the plant.You predict that