Bio unit 1 - Plants and Fungi

• the most recent common ancestor of all land plants was most similar to which group?

  1. Cyanbacteria
  2. Red algae
  3. Charophycea
  4. Brown algae
  5. Golden algae

  Answer: 3. Charophycea
• Which of the following is characteristsic of alternation of generations in land plants?

  1. Haploid sporophytes make haploid spores
  2. Gametophytes produce spores that develop into gametes
  3. Sporophytes and gametophytes are typically similar in apearance
  4. Meiosis is sporophytes produces haploid spores
  5. Either the gametophyte or the sporophytes is unicellular

  Answer: 4. Meiosis is sporophytes produces haploid spores
• Plant sporesgive rise directly to

  1. Sporophytes
  2. Gametes
  3. Gametophytes
  4. Sporophylls
  5. Seeds

  Answer: 3. Gametophytes
• The following are al true except:

  1. External water is required for fertilization
  2. Flagellated sperm are produced
  3. Antheridia and Archegonia are poduced by gametophytes
  4. Gametes are directly produced by meiosis
  5. Gametophytes germinate from spores

  Answer: 4. Gametes are directly produced by meiosis
• If a fern gametophyte is hermaphrodite (it has both male and female gametengia) then it…

  1. Belongs to a species that is homosporous
  2. Must be a diploid
  3. Has lost the need fro a sporophyte generation
  4. has antheridia and archegonia combined into a single sex organ
  5. Is a mutant, because fern gametophytes are always either male or female

  Answer: 1. Belongs to a species that is homosporous
• Which of these characteristsics is shared by algae and seed plants

  1. Embryo development within gametangia
  2. Roots and shoots
  3. Vascular tissue
  4. Pollen
  5. Chloroplasts
• Which of the following is not common to all phyla of vascular plants?

  1. The development of seeds
  2. Alteration of generations
  3. Dominance of the diploid generation
  4. Xylem and phloem
  5. The addition of lignin to cell walls

  Answer: 1. The development of seeds
• whichc of the following is a land plant that produces flagellated sperm and has a sporophyte dominant life cycle?

  1. Fern
  2. Moss
  3. Lerwart
  4. Charophycean
  5. Hornwort

  Answer: 1. Fern
• The products of meiosis are always which of the following:

  1. Spores
  2. Eggs
  3. Sperm
  4. Seeds
  5. Both B and C

  Answer: 1. Spores
• Which of the following is not true concerning the sporophyte or gametophyte generations of flowering plants?

  1. The flower is composed of gametophyte tissue only
  2. The sporophyte generation is dominate
  3. the sporophyte generation is what we see when looking ata large plant
  4. The gametophyte generation is not photosynthetic
  5. the gametophyte generation. consists of relitivly few cells within the flower

  Answer: 1. The flower is composed of gametophyte tissue only
• Which number represents the mature gametophyte

  1. 1
  2. 3
  3. 5
  4. 7
  5. 11

  Answer 4. 7

  
• withing the gymnosperm megasprangium, what is the correct sequence in which the following should appear during development, assuming that ferilization occurs? A) Sporophyte embryo, B)Female gametophyte, C)Egg cell, D)Megaspore

  1. D, C, B, A
  2. D, B, C, A
  3. D, A, B, C
  4. A, D, C, B
  5. A, D, B, C

  Answer: 2. D, B, C, A
• Which structure is common to both gymnosperms and angiosperms?

  1. Male strobilus
  2. Carpel
  3. Ovule
  4. Ovary
  5. Anthers

  Answer: 3. Ovule
• All of the following are sporophyte structure except…

  1. Immature ovules
  2. Pollen tubes
  3. Ovaries
  4. STamens
  5. Sepals

  Answer: 2. Pollen tubes
• How have fruits contributed to the success of angiosperms?

  1. By nourishing the plants that make them
  2. By facilitating dispersal of seeds
  3. By attracting insects to the pollen inside
  4. By producing sperm and eggs inside a protective coat
  5. By producing triploid cells via double fertilization

  Answer: 2. By facilitating dispersal of seeds
• In Onions (alluimum), cells of the sporophytes have 16 chromosomes within each nucleus. Match the number of chromosomes present in each of the onion tissues listed below

  1. 4
  2. 8
  3. 16
  4. 24
  5. 32

  How many chromosomesshould be in an endosperm nucleus?

  Answer: 4. 24
• Which of the following flower parts develops into a fruit?

  1. Stigma
  2. Style
  3. Ovule
  4. Ovary
  5. Receptacle

  Answer: 4. Ovary
• In flowering plants the integuments of the ovule develop into a(n)

  1. Endosperm
  2. Cotyledon
  3. Fruit
  4. Sporophyte
  5. Seed coat

  Answer: 5. Seed coat
• Gymnosperms and angiosperms have the following i common except…

  1. Seeds
  2. Pollen
  3. Vascular tissue
  4. Ovaries
  5. Ovules

  Answer: 4. Ovaries
• Label 7

  1. Flowers
  2. Embryos
  3. Seeds
  4. Vascular tissues

  Anwser: 2. Embryos

  
• All of the following are features of the angiosperms except…

  1. A triploid endosperm
  2. An ovary that becomes a fruit
  3. Animal pollination
  4. A small (reduced) sporophyte
  5. Double fertilization

  Answer: 4. A small (reduced) sporophyte
• all of the folllowing are primary functions of flowers except…

  1. Pollen production
  2. Photosynthesis
  3. Meiosis
  4. Egg production
  5. Sexual reproduction

  Answer: 2. Photosynthesis
• in flowering plants, pollen is released from the

  1. Anther
  2. Stigma
  3. Carpel
  4. Filament
  5. Pollen tube

  Answer: 1. Anther
• Which of the following occurs in an angiosperm ovule?

  1. An antheridium forms from the megasporophyte
  2. A megaspore mother undergoes meiosis
  3. The egg nucleus is isually diploid
  4. A polen tube emerges to accept pollen after pollination
  5. The endosperm surrounds the megaspore mother cell

  Answer: 2. A megaspore mother undergoes meiosis
• In flowering plants, a mature male gametophyte contains…

  1. Two haploid gametes and diploid pollen grain
  2. A generative cell and a tube cell
  3. Two sperm nuclei and one tube cell nucleus
  4. Two haploid microspores
  5. A haploid nucleus and a diploid pollen wall

  Answer: Two sperm nuclei and one tube cell nucleus
• A fruit includes…

  1. One or more seeds
  2. The ovary wall
  3. Fleshy cells rich in sugars
  4. Brightly colored pigments to attract animal disperesers
  5. Both 1 and 2

  Answer: 5. Both 1 and 2
• Fruits develope from…

  1. Microsporangia
  2. Receptacles
  3. Fertilized eggs
  4. Ovaries
  5. Ovules

  Answer: 4. Ovaries
• What is endosperm?

  1. The male portion of a flowering plant
  2. A food-storage tissue of the seed
  3. The leaves that are part of the embryo
  4. The female portion of a flowering plant
  5. Tissue that develops into a protective seed coat surrounding the embryo

  Answer: 2. A food-storage tissue of the seed
• A plant that has small, green petals is most likely to be…

  1. Bee-pollinated
  2. Bird-pollinated
  3. Bat-pollinated
  4. Wind-pollinated

  Answer: 4. Wind-pollinated
• Which part of the plant absorbs most of the water and minerals taken up from the soil?

  1. Taproots
  2. Root hairs
  3. The thick aprts of the roots near the base of the stem
  4. STorage roots
  5. Sections of the root that have secondary xylem

  Answer: 2. Root hairs
• Land plants are composed of all the following tissue types except…

  1. Mesodermal
  2. Epidermal
  3. Meristematic
  4. Vascular
  5. Ground tissue

  Answer: 1. Mesodermal
• The fiber cells of plat are a type of

  1. Parenchyma
  2. Sclerenchyma
  3. Collenchyma
  4. Meristematic cell
  5. Phloem

  Answer: 2. Sclerenchyma
• Which of the following is true about secondary growth in plants?

  1. Flowers may have secondary growth
  2. Secondary growth is a common feature of eudicot leaves
  3. Secondary growth is produced by both vascular cambium and the cork cambium
  4. Primary growth and secondary growth alternate in the life cycle of a plant
  5. Plants with secondary growth are typically the smallest ones in an ecosystem

  Answer: 3. Secondary growth is produced by both vascular cambium and the cork cambium
• Which of the following rooot tissues gives rise to lateral roots?

  1. Endodermis
  2. Phloem
  3. Cortex
  4. Epidermis
  5. Pericycle

  Answer: E. Pericycle
• Pores on the leaf surface that function in gas exchanges are called…

  1. Hairs
  2. Xylem cells
  3. Phloem cells
  4. Stomata
  5. Sclereids

  Answer: 4. Stomata
• What tissue makes up most of the wood of a tree?

  1. Primary xylem
  2. Sceondray xylem
  3. Secondary phloem
  4. Mesophyll
  5. Vascular cambium

  Answer: 2. Secondary xylem
• The vascular system of a three-year-old eudicot stem consists of…

  1. 3 rings of xyelm and 3 of phloem
  2. 2 rings of xylem and 2 of phloem
  3. 2 rings of xylem and 1 of phloem
  4. 2 rings of xylem and 3 of phloem
  5. 3 rings of xylem and 1 of phloem

  Answer: 5. 3 rings of xylem and 1 of phloem
• What provides cells for primary growth?

  1. Lateral meristems
  2. Apical meristems
  3. Vascular cambium
  4. Cork cambium
  5. Xylem

  Answer: 2. Apical meristems
• Wood consists of which of the following?

  1. Bark
  2. 2. Periderm
  3. Secondary xylem
  4. Secondary phloem
  5. Cork

  Answer: 3. Secondary xylem
• Fill in the blanks

  "BLANK" is to xylem as "BLANK" is to phloem

  1. Sclerenchyma cell; parenchyma cell
  2. Apical meristem; vascular cambium
  3. Vesssel element; sieve-tube member
  4. Cortex; pith
  5. Vascular cambium; cork cambium

  Answer: 3. Vesssel element; sieve-tube member