Exam 37: Plant Signals and Responses to the Environment

Choose the type of plant chemical or its action most closely associated with the consequence listed below. Each chemical or action may be used more than once. -stabilizing cell proteins under freezing conditions

What is the exposure of plants to low temperatures (in order to stimulate flowering) called?

What are sunflowers well known for?

Choose the type of plant chemical or its action most closely associated with the consequence listed below. Each chemical or action may be used more than once. -synthesizing protease inhibitors

What did Darwin's experiments on phototropism illustrate?

Which type of plant hormone is generally responsible for long-term inhibition of plant growth such as in buds and seeds?

What does P_r primarily absorb during daylight hours?

Which plant hormone is primarily responsible for inhibiting leaf abscission?

Light of which wavelengths is the main stimulus for phototropism?

How might a plant communicate to another plant that it has been attacked by a herbivore?

Charles Darwin was the first person to discover the hormone auxin.

Which plant hormones are structurally similar to adenine?

Which synthesis is triggered when cells bind systemin?

What are secondary metabolites that function to protect plants from viral, fungal, and bacterial pathogens?

Choose the type of plant chemical or its action most closely associated with the consequence listed below. Each chemical or action may be used more than once. -inducing the synthesis of pathogenesis-related proteins

Which of the following was the first peptide hormone discovered in plants that functions in wound response in the tomato?

You observe a sunflower that moves its leaves so that it tracks the sun across the sky throughout the day, and a sensitive plant that reversibly folds up its leaflets when you touch it. What are both of these examples of?

Which of the following correctly describes the patterns of flowering in bearded irises and chrysanthemums?

What is required in tobacco tissue culture to get both roots and shoots to develop?

Choose the type of plant chemical or its action most closely associated with the consequence listed below. Each chemical or action may be used more than once. -acting as an enzyme