BIOLOGY 1002 TEST 2 2026 COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY SHEET NOTES EXPLANATION SET
◉ Increases in plant length (such as overall height or branch and
root length) result from cell division that occurs:
Answer: only in apical meristems at shoot and root tips.
◉ A plant that has only primary growth and no secondary growth
does NOT have any:
Answer: development of thick woody branches.
◉ What cell type permits the continued growth of a plant
throughout its life?
Answer: meristem cells
◉ How does carbon dioxide enter a leaf?
Answer: CO2 passes through openings called stomata on the leaf
surface.
◉ Secondary growth NEVER occurs in _____.
Answer: leaves
, ◉ _____ provides cells for secondary growth.
Answer: Vascular cambium
◉ Vascular cambium forms wood toward the stem's _____ and
secondary phloem toward the stem's _____.
Answer: center ... surface
◉ What is the function of cork?
Answer: insulation and waterproofing
◉ How is the supply of vascular cambium maintained?
Answer: by the division of its cells
◉ In a dicot stem, the ________ is between the vascular cambium and
the cork cambium.
Answer: phloem
◉ Which of these tissues is between the epidermis and the vascular
bundle in a young dicot stem?
Answer: cortex
◉ Xylem is indicated by the letter _____.
STUDY SHEET NOTES EXPLANATION SET
◉ Increases in plant length (such as overall height or branch and
root length) result from cell division that occurs:
Answer: only in apical meristems at shoot and root tips.
◉ A plant that has only primary growth and no secondary growth
does NOT have any:
Answer: development of thick woody branches.
◉ What cell type permits the continued growth of a plant
throughout its life?
Answer: meristem cells
◉ How does carbon dioxide enter a leaf?
Answer: CO2 passes through openings called stomata on the leaf
surface.
◉ Secondary growth NEVER occurs in _____.
Answer: leaves
, ◉ _____ provides cells for secondary growth.
Answer: Vascular cambium
◉ Vascular cambium forms wood toward the stem's _____ and
secondary phloem toward the stem's _____.
Answer: center ... surface
◉ What is the function of cork?
Answer: insulation and waterproofing
◉ How is the supply of vascular cambium maintained?
Answer: by the division of its cells
◉ In a dicot stem, the ________ is between the vascular cambium and
the cork cambium.
Answer: phloem
◉ Which of these tissues is between the epidermis and the vascular
bundle in a young dicot stem?
Answer: cortex
◉ Xylem is indicated by the letter _____.
