Exam 16: The Evolution of Plants and Fungi

Corn smut is a fungus that grows in the ears of corn and changes corn kernels into black,powdery balls of fungus tissue.What would you hypothesize is the significance of the relationship between corn smut and corn?

Why are bryophytes considered incompletely liberated from their ancestral aquatic habitat?

In angiosperms,what structures house female gametophytes?

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Nutritionally,all fungi are ________.

Which of the following is the lineage of green algae believed to most resemble early plant ancestors?

Would you expect desert plants to have a thin or thick cuticle?

Mutualistic associations of plant roots and fungi are called ________.

The function of a mushroom is to ________.

Gametophytes are ________; sporophytes are ________.

What is this organism?

Seeds develop from ________.

Biocontrol,short for biological control,is a means to control pest populations (e.g.,insects,plants)by intentionally introducing natural enemies of those pests.Biocontrol methods have benefits of typically being less expensive and less environmentally damaging than chemical pesticides.Which of the following should NOT be considered an example of biocontrol?

Which of the following correctly illustrates the sequence of the origin of modern groups of plants?

This diagram shows what process?

Suppose that,while on a forest hike,you notice a blue fungus and a pink plant growing along the hiking trail.As you continue walking,you observe that if a blue fungus and a pink plant are growing side by side,they are both much larger than if the fungus and the plant are farther apart.What can you hypothesize about the relationship between the fungus and the plant?

Why is the symbiotic relationship of truffle mushrooms and tree roots considered to be crucial to the colonization of land?

From the point of view of an angiosperm,what is the function of fruit?

Which aspect of truffle mushrooms drives their commercial importance?

The photo below shows ________.