Exam 14: Plants and Fungi

The cuticle of a plant functions primarily for ____.

Peat bogs primarily consist of _____.

Which is an example of a monocot?

If fertilization occurs in seed plants, a seed will develop from the ____.

In flowering plants, pollen grains form in the flower's male parts called ____.

How is the Ug99 strain of wheat stem rust fungus spreading around the world?

Which is the closest living nonvascular relative to vascular plants?

Before the invention of modern abrasive cleansers, which feature of horsetails was used by humans to scrub pots and polish metals?

What is the sticky female region of a flower that is specialized for receiving pollen?

Most fungi provide an important ecological service by being ____.

Fungal cell walls consist primarily of ____.

The female part of a flower is known as the ____.

Mosses have threadlike structures, called ____, that hold the gametophyte in place.

On which human skin protein do fungal infections typically feed?

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