UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Xylem - CORRECT ANSWER - Known as the sapwood - most of the conduction of water
and dissolved minerals occur here.
xylem - CORRECT ANSWER - the rings on the inside of a stem are ________ that no
longer conduct water and minerals.
phloem - CORRECT ANSWER - Carbohydrates and other nutrients produced in the
leaves are transporter throughout the plant via the ________ tissue.
dicots and gymnosperms - CORRECT ANSWER - xylem is formed inside a ring of
cambium tissue and phloem is formed on the outside of the cambium in both ____________ and
_________________
monocots - CORRECT ANSWER - in ___________________ the three tissues of the
stem, xylem, cambium and phloem are formed in bundles scattered discontinuously throughout
the stem.
epidermis, cuticle - CORRECT ANSWER - ____________ is the outer protective layer of
cells on a leaf which is covered by a waxy layer called the ________________
Meristem - CORRECT ANSWER - a small group of cells that retain the capacity for rapid
cell division
apical meristem - CORRECT ANSWER - a group of actively dividing cells located at the
tip of the stem of woody plants and some herbaceous plants is called the _____________
,vascular cambium - CORRECT ANSWER - new cells produced on the inside of the
________________ become secondary xylem and new cells produced on the outside of the
______________ become secondary phloem.
vascular cambium - CORRECT ANSWER - tissues on the outside of the
____________________ are called bark.
cork cambium - CORRECT ANSWER - found outside of the secondary phloem is the
____________ forming suberized cells, corky cells that provides protection for the stem.
node - CORRECT ANSWER - the point of attachment of a leaf to a stem is called a
_____________.
stomata - CORRECT ANSWER - small pores in the epidermal cells of plants called the
________________ are sites for exchange of gases and water vapor.
mesophyll - CORRECT ANSWER - the area between the upper and lower epidermis is
called the __________________ where veins in the leaf are.
simple leaf - CORRECT ANSWER - ______________ leaf is composed of a single unit
compound leaf - CORRECT ANSWER - _______________ leaf has two or more leaflets
pinnately compound - CORRECT ANSWER - __________________ leaves have leaflets
arising from along both sides along the rachis
palmately compound - CORRECT ANSWER - ___________________ leaves have
leaflets that radiate from the end of the rachis
rachis - CORRECT ANSWER - ______________________ the stalk that the individual
leaflets of a leaf are attached to in a compound leaf.
,petiole - CORRECT ANSWER - The stalk of a leaf, which joins the leaf to a node of the
stem.
adventitious - CORRECT ANSWER - __________________ roots will produce roots
from stems or cuttings if injury occurs.
adventitious plants - CORRECT ANSWER - dandylions, crabapple, cherry, plum, quince
and hawthorne are all examples of ___________________.
flowers - CORRECT ANSWER - _______________ are the reproductive organs of
angiosperms
Angiosperms - CORRECT ANSWER - A flowering plant which forms seeds inside a
protective chamber called an ovary is called a ________________.
Gymosperms - CORRECT ANSWER - plants that produce their seeds in cones are called
_____________.
Monocious plants - CORRECT ANSWER - ______________________ have both male
and female flowers on the same plant
Dioecious plants - CORRECT ANSWER - species such as holly, bittersweet, and willow
that have male and female flowers on separate plants and thus require plants to be in close
proximity to each other for pollination to occur.
fruits - CORRECT ANSWER - _________ are the mature ripened ovary of a plant.
seed - CORRECT ANSWER - __________________ is a miniature plant in an arrested
state of development
, cotyledon - CORRECT ANSWER - ______________ are the food storage structures
found in seeds
scarification - CORRECT ANSWER - ___________________ refers to when seed
dormancy is broken through use of acid or mechanical means.
stratification - CORRECT ANSWER - __________________ referst to when seed
dormancy is broken naturaly through cold temperatures and moisture.
Hardwood cuttings - CORRECT ANSWER - ________________________ cuttings have
to survive on stored reserves in the stems until new leaves are formed and new roots are initiated.
Softwood cuttings - CORRECT ANSWER - _______________ cuttings can survive
during root initiation because leaves are present.
chloroplast - CORRECT ANSWER - photosynthesie takes place within the organelle
called the _____________.
Chlorophyll, carotenes and carotenoids - CORRECT ANSWER - the chloroplast contains
these pigments: __________, _________ and ____________.
Type A Chlorophyll - CORRECT ANSWER - only ____________ chlorophylls are
directly involved in photosynthesis.
Type B Chlorophyll - CORRECT ANSWER - __________ chlorophyll only capture
sunlight and don't participate directly in the light conversion process.
carotenes - CORRECT ANSWER - ____________ serve as antennae pigments and help
prevent the destruction of chlorophyll by high intensity light.