Exam 35: Vascular Plant Structure, Growth, and Development

A plant that grows one year, dies back, and then grows again the following year, produces flowers, and then dies would be considered ________.

Heartwood and sapwood consist of ________.

Which of the following cell types retains the ability to undergo cell division?

Prop roots are the modified aerial adventitious roots of corn that ________.

Which of the following cells or tissues arise from lateral meristem activity?

Which of the following root tissues gives rise to lateral roots?

When you eat Brussels sprouts, you are eating ________.

A student examining leaf cross sections under a microscope finds many loosely packed cells with relatively thin cell walls. The cells have numerous chloroplasts. What type of cells are they?

The polarity of a plant is established when ________.

A plant has the following characteristics: a taproot system, several growth rings evident in a cross section of the stem, and a layer of bark around the outside. Which of the following best describes the plant?

Monocot vascular bundles do not have a vascular cambium between the xylem and phloem. This means that monocots ________.

The veins of leaves are ________. I composed of xylem and phloem II continuous, with vascular bundles in the stem and roots III finely branched to be in close contact with photosynthesizing cells

In a meristematic region, the cell plate during mitosis is perpendicular to the side of the stem. In what direction will the stem grow?

Which of the following is correctly paired with its structure and function?

Which of the following arise(s), directly or indirectly, from meristematic activity?

The following diagram is of a cross section of a plant leaf. Use the diagram to answer the question. The main function associated with structure X is ________.

The driving force that pushes the root tip through the soil is primarily ________.

Where is primary growth occurring in an old tree?

The innermost layer of the root cortex is the

Strawberries have modified horizontal shoots growing along the surface, which are referred to as ________.