Botany: Chapter 8 Assessment questions with
verified answers
Cocklebur is a dry fruit that has small hooks on its surface. This suggests
that cocklebur is dispersed by Ans✓✓✓hooking in the fur, feathers, or
clothing and being brushed off at another location
Dicots are now classified in the class _________________. The
common name refers to the production of ___ seed leaves.
Ans✓✓✓Magnoliopsida; two
In a young seedling the part of the stem below the cotyledons is called
the Ans✓✓✓hypocotyl
In your botany study group, you are reviewing the anatomy of fruits and
vegetables. One of your classmates states that a melon is a fruit because
it has a sweet taste. How should you respond? Ans✓✓✓Agreed, but a
melon is a fruit because it develops from an ovary.
Modifications of fruits or seeds that do NOT adapt them for dispersal by
either wind or water include:
A. an inflated sac around the seed.
B. a mechanism that squirts seeds from one end of a melonlike fruit.
C. pockets of air beneath the surface of the seed coat.
D. parachutelike plumes.
E. tiny seeds that are light in weight. Ans✓✓✓B. a mechanism that
squirts seeds from one end of a melonlike fruit
verified answers
Cocklebur is a dry fruit that has small hooks on its surface. This suggests
that cocklebur is dispersed by Ans✓✓✓hooking in the fur, feathers, or
clothing and being brushed off at another location
Dicots are now classified in the class _________________. The
common name refers to the production of ___ seed leaves.
Ans✓✓✓Magnoliopsida; two
In a young seedling the part of the stem below the cotyledons is called
the Ans✓✓✓hypocotyl
In your botany study group, you are reviewing the anatomy of fruits and
vegetables. One of your classmates states that a melon is a fruit because
it has a sweet taste. How should you respond? Ans✓✓✓Agreed, but a
melon is a fruit because it develops from an ovary.
Modifications of fruits or seeds that do NOT adapt them for dispersal by
either wind or water include:
A. an inflated sac around the seed.
B. a mechanism that squirts seeds from one end of a melonlike fruit.
C. pockets of air beneath the surface of the seed coat.
D. parachutelike plumes.
E. tiny seeds that are light in weight. Ans✓✓✓B. a mechanism that
squirts seeds from one end of a melonlike fruit
