Exam 28: Plant Form and Function

From the outside of a tree to its center, which of the following is the correct order of appearance? 1. periderm 2) vascular cambium 3) sapwood 4) secondary phloem 5) cork cambium 6) heartwood

In older stems and roots, a complex dermal tissue called ____ replaces the epidermis.

Regions on a plant stem that can give rise to new shoots or roots are known as ____.

In an annual tree ring, the wood with large diameter, thin-walled xylem cells is ____.

According to the pressure flow explanation of phloem transport, the source region - is most often the ____.

What is another term for periderm and all other living dead tissues outside the cylinder of vascular cambium?

The tissue found in the center of a root is ____.

What tissues make up most of the soft internal parts of a plant?

The main photosynthetic area of a leaf is ____.

Which theory of water transport states that hydrogen bonding allows water molecules to maintain a continuous fluid column as water is pulled from roots to leaves?

If you were to penetrate through the epidermal layer of a root, you would next encounter the ____.

Most of the water moving into a leaf is lost through ____.

During secondary growth of a plant,   ____ gives rise to wood and ____ gives rise to periderm.

What are the modified stems of cacti called?

With more than ____ species, flowering plants dominate the plant kingdom.

What type of vascular tissue conducts water and dissolved minerals throughout the plant?

Which of the following plant cells has a companion cell?

Tissues on either sides of an apical meristem in a shoot develop into ____.

What is responsible for creating the large holes in the sieve plates of phloem cells?