BIO 334 Plant Tax Test 3 Practice Questions With
Complete Solutions
Standard name for Graminae - ANSWER Poaceae
Standard name for Labiatae - ANSWER Lamiaceae
Standard name for Palmae - ANSWER Arecaceae
What are pollinia?
a) Non-insect plant pollinators
b) Fungal spores
c) Clusters of pollen
d) Individual pollen grains - ANSWER c) Clusters of pollen
Why is "The disintegration of the Scrophulariaceae" an apt title for a manuscript that
presents lots of molecular phylogenies?
a) Because some genera have gone extinct
b) because you have to grind up plant material in order to get DNA
c) Because the family has been split up into many smaller families
d) Because the family has been eliminated entirely from botanical literature - ANSWER
c) Because the family has been split up into many smaller families
Ironically, one of the results of the above mentioned phylogenies is that
___________________ is no longer in the Scrophulariaceae
a) Lettuce
b) Snapdragon
c) mint
, d) fennel - ANSWER b. Snapdragon
Which of these was formerly its own family (and was the aquatic family with the smallest
flowering plants), but now is included in Araceae.
A) Leguminaceae
B) Lemnaceae
C) Graminaceae
D) Smithaceae - ANSWER B. Lemnaceae
Which two families (out of the following pairs) have been split into multiple families and
have been rearranged multiple times?
a) Scrophulariaceae and Liliaceae
b) Asteraceae and Rubiaceae
c) Polemoniaceae and Solanaceae
d) Arecaceae and Aquifoliaceae - ANSWER a) Scrophulariaceae and Liliaceae
Mostly herbaceous plants with alternate and/or basal leaves. Flowers in racemes; 4
sepals and petals, 6 stamens (didynamous) and 2 carpels. Fruit a silicle or silique. -
ANSWER Brassicaceae
Woody plant family with alternate, compound leaves and milky (sometimes poisonous)
sap. Flowers small and 5-merous. Fruit type a drupe, often in panicles. - ANSWER
Anacardiacea
In the strict sense of the family, they are herbs all with only basal leaves that appear to
have parallel venation. Inflorescence a spike. Flowers small, green or brown
(4-merous). Fruit a circumscissile capsule. This family now includes former members of
the snapdragon family (iincluding snapdragon). - ANSWER Plantaginaceae
Herbaceous plants often with both opposite and alternate leaves on the same individual.
Sepals and petals in 4's or 5's (in broad sense of the family), stamens 2 or 4, 2 carpels
Complete Solutions
Standard name for Graminae - ANSWER Poaceae
Standard name for Labiatae - ANSWER Lamiaceae
Standard name for Palmae - ANSWER Arecaceae
What are pollinia?
a) Non-insect plant pollinators
b) Fungal spores
c) Clusters of pollen
d) Individual pollen grains - ANSWER c) Clusters of pollen
Why is "The disintegration of the Scrophulariaceae" an apt title for a manuscript that
presents lots of molecular phylogenies?
a) Because some genera have gone extinct
b) because you have to grind up plant material in order to get DNA
c) Because the family has been split up into many smaller families
d) Because the family has been eliminated entirely from botanical literature - ANSWER
c) Because the family has been split up into many smaller families
Ironically, one of the results of the above mentioned phylogenies is that
___________________ is no longer in the Scrophulariaceae
a) Lettuce
b) Snapdragon
c) mint
, d) fennel - ANSWER b. Snapdragon
Which of these was formerly its own family (and was the aquatic family with the smallest
flowering plants), but now is included in Araceae.
A) Leguminaceae
B) Lemnaceae
C) Graminaceae
D) Smithaceae - ANSWER B. Lemnaceae
Which two families (out of the following pairs) have been split into multiple families and
have been rearranged multiple times?
a) Scrophulariaceae and Liliaceae
b) Asteraceae and Rubiaceae
c) Polemoniaceae and Solanaceae
d) Arecaceae and Aquifoliaceae - ANSWER a) Scrophulariaceae and Liliaceae
Mostly herbaceous plants with alternate and/or basal leaves. Flowers in racemes; 4
sepals and petals, 6 stamens (didynamous) and 2 carpels. Fruit a silicle or silique. -
ANSWER Brassicaceae
Woody plant family with alternate, compound leaves and milky (sometimes poisonous)
sap. Flowers small and 5-merous. Fruit type a drupe, often in panicles. - ANSWER
Anacardiacea
In the strict sense of the family, they are herbs all with only basal leaves that appear to
have parallel venation. Inflorescence a spike. Flowers small, green or brown
(4-merous). Fruit a circumscissile capsule. This family now includes former members of
the snapdragon family (iincluding snapdragon). - ANSWER Plantaginaceae
Herbaceous plants often with both opposite and alternate leaves on the same individual.
Sepals and petals in 4's or 5's (in broad sense of the family), stamens 2 or 4, 2 carpels
