Botany Chapters 1-5 questions with verified
answers
______________ is the scientific investigation of the biology of plants.
Ans✓✓✓Botany
A botanist is conducting a comparative study on the different shapes of
members of a genus of rainforest plants. Under which discipline does
this work fall? Ans✓✓✓Plant morphology
A change in plant distribution will not affect animal populations.
Ans✓✓✓false
A member of your study group is complaining about having to study
plants. His interest is in human biology and he wonders why it is
necessary for him to study plants. What should you tell him about the
importance of plants to humans? Ans✓✓✓All of the choices are
correct.Correct
An early English botanist who described the structure of wood more
precisely than any of his predecessors was Ans✓✓✓Nehemiah Grew.
As a botanist, you seek to test the hypothesis that the basis of insect
resistance in a species of interest is due to the action of a gene that you
have named bug. Which is the appropriate control group for this
experiment? Ans✓✓✓Plants that have the bug gene inactivated.
, As part of a lab assignment, your lab group has been assigned the job of
constructing a cladogram that shows the relatedness of different plant
species. One of classmates arrives late and unprepared for lab. She asks
which topic is being addressed. Based on the assignment, you tell her the
subject is Ans✓✓✓taxonomy.
Botany, or the study of plants, is divided into a number of disciplines. In
the exercise below, match each of the major disciplines with the aspect
of botany it examines. Ans✓✓✓Plant Ecology: Study of how plants
interact with each other and their environment.
Plant Anatomy: Study of plants' internal structure.
Plant Geography: Study of how and why plants are distributed where
they are.
Plant Systematics: Development of methods for the grouping of plants.
Plant Morphology: Study of plant form and structure.
Ethnobotany: Field examining the practical uses of plants and their
products.
Cell Biology: Study of cell structure and function.
Plant Genetics: Study of plant heredity.
Plant Physiology: Discipline that pertains to metabolism and other plant
processes.
Plant Taxonomy: Field of describing, naming, and classifying plants.
Common reed (Phragmites australis) is an exotic grass that aggressively
invades wetlands. A scientist who examines common reed's impact on
native wetland plants works in which field of study? Ans✓✓✓Plant
ecology
answers
______________ is the scientific investigation of the biology of plants.
Ans✓✓✓Botany
A botanist is conducting a comparative study on the different shapes of
members of a genus of rainforest plants. Under which discipline does
this work fall? Ans✓✓✓Plant morphology
A change in plant distribution will not affect animal populations.
Ans✓✓✓false
A member of your study group is complaining about having to study
plants. His interest is in human biology and he wonders why it is
necessary for him to study plants. What should you tell him about the
importance of plants to humans? Ans✓✓✓All of the choices are
correct.Correct
An early English botanist who described the structure of wood more
precisely than any of his predecessors was Ans✓✓✓Nehemiah Grew.
As a botanist, you seek to test the hypothesis that the basis of insect
resistance in a species of interest is due to the action of a gene that you
have named bug. Which is the appropriate control group for this
experiment? Ans✓✓✓Plants that have the bug gene inactivated.
, As part of a lab assignment, your lab group has been assigned the job of
constructing a cladogram that shows the relatedness of different plant
species. One of classmates arrives late and unprepared for lab. She asks
which topic is being addressed. Based on the assignment, you tell her the
subject is Ans✓✓✓taxonomy.
Botany, or the study of plants, is divided into a number of disciplines. In
the exercise below, match each of the major disciplines with the aspect
of botany it examines. Ans✓✓✓Plant Ecology: Study of how plants
interact with each other and their environment.
Plant Anatomy: Study of plants' internal structure.
Plant Geography: Study of how and why plants are distributed where
they are.
Plant Systematics: Development of methods for the grouping of plants.
Plant Morphology: Study of plant form and structure.
Ethnobotany: Field examining the practical uses of plants and their
products.
Cell Biology: Study of cell structure and function.
Plant Genetics: Study of plant heredity.
Plant Physiology: Discipline that pertains to metabolism and other plant
processes.
Plant Taxonomy: Field of describing, naming, and classifying plants.
Common reed (Phragmites australis) is an exotic grass that aggressively
invades wetlands. A scientist who examines common reed's impact on
native wetland plants works in which field of study? Ans✓✓✓Plant
ecology
