Exam 15: Plants and Fungi

Wheat stem rust fungus is a(n) _____.

The Ug99 strain of wheat stem rust _____.

Which plants are among those that contributed to the formation of coal?

Which structures found in ferns are lacking in mosses?

How does the wheat stem rust fungus harm its host plant?

One reason angiosperms are more successful than gymnosperms is because gymnosperms lack _____.

The _____ dominate(s) in the life cycle of bryophytes.

The mature female gametophyte in an angiosperm ovule contains _____ cells.

On which human skin protein do fungal infections typically feed?

The only group of plants that produces flowers is the ____.

Nonvascular plants lack _____.

When the haploid hyphae of two different club fungus individuals fuse, which nuclear condition (known as ploidy) is produced?

Which is an example of a eudicot?

Relatives of modern ____ and horsetails were the dominant plants during the Carboniferous period.

Which mineral found in horsetails helps protect it from insects?

The result of double fertilization in an angiosperm is ____.

In all plants, gametes unite at fertilization to form a ____.

The seed plants became dominant during the late ___ when the climate became ___.

The United States devotes more acreage to _____ than to any other crop.

Most fungi provide an important ecological service by being ____.