Botany: Chapter 5 Assessment questions with verified
answers
A building in an urban region has been removed, and that has been
suggested for garden plots. Unfortunately, routine soil testing has shown
significant contamination. As a botanist, you know the location of the
contamination matters. Which soil horizon is most important in
agriculture? Ans✓✓✓A horizon
A unique feature of the pericycle is Ans✓✓✓Both its retention of
meristematic potential and the production of lateral roots are correct.
As a you are dissecting a plant in your botany lab, you and your lab
partner are identifying each tissue type as you go. As you cut into the
root, you note tissue that is adjacent to the endodermis and toward the
center of a root. Your lab partner is unsure of this new tissue. Can you
identify the tissue? Ans✓✓✓Pericycle
As you are observing plant growth in your botany lab, you notice a plant
that has roots that are developing from an organ, and not from an
existing root. The type of roots that are you are observing must be
__________, Ans✓✓✓adventitious roots
Buds that develop on roots are referred to as Ans✓✓✓adventitious
Cells of the root cap ease the growth of young roots through the soil by
__________. Ans✓✓✓producing a mucilaginous lubricant
answers
A building in an urban region has been removed, and that has been
suggested for garden plots. Unfortunately, routine soil testing has shown
significant contamination. As a botanist, you know the location of the
contamination matters. Which soil horizon is most important in
agriculture? Ans✓✓✓A horizon
A unique feature of the pericycle is Ans✓✓✓Both its retention of
meristematic potential and the production of lateral roots are correct.
As a you are dissecting a plant in your botany lab, you and your lab
partner are identifying each tissue type as you go. As you cut into the
root, you note tissue that is adjacent to the endodermis and toward the
center of a root. Your lab partner is unsure of this new tissue. Can you
identify the tissue? Ans✓✓✓Pericycle
As you are observing plant growth in your botany lab, you notice a plant
that has roots that are developing from an organ, and not from an
existing root. The type of roots that are you are observing must be
__________, Ans✓✓✓adventitious roots
Buds that develop on roots are referred to as Ans✓✓✓adventitious
Cells of the root cap ease the growth of young roots through the soil by
__________. Ans✓✓✓producing a mucilaginous lubricant
