Exam 36: Resource Acquisition and Transport in Vascular Plants

Ignoring all other factors, what kind of day would result in the fastest delivery of water and minerals to the leaves of a tree?

Loss of water from the aerial parts of plants is called ________.

A water molecule could move all the way through a plant from soil to root to leaf to air and pass through a living cell only once. This living cell would be a part of which structure?

The apoplast in plant tissues consists of ________.

Active transport of amino acids in plants at the cellular level requires ________.

The symplastic route can transport ________.

In plant roots, the Casparian strip ________.

Some botanists argue that the entire plant should be considered as a single unit rather than a composite of many individual cells. Which of the following cellular structures best supports this view?

What is the main force by which most of the water within xylem vessels moves toward the top of a tree?

In xerophytes, ________ are referred to as crypts.

Which one of the following does not correctly match the form with its function?

Solute potential in a cell is also called ________.

When an animal cell is placed in a hypotonic solution and water enters the cell via osmosis, the volume of the cell increases until it bursts. This does not happen to plant cells, because ________.

In the transmembrane route for transport within plant tissue, ________.

Plants adapted to arid environments are referred to as ________.

Given that early land plants most likely share a common ancestor with green algae, the earliest land plants were most likely ________.

Compared with a cell with few aquaporin proteins in its membrane, a cell containing many aquaporin proteins will

Which structure or compartment is separate from the apoplastic route?

What would enhance water uptake by a plant cell?

The movement of water across biological membranes can best be predicted by ________.