SparkNotes: Review of Plants: Review Test

1. What purpose do the gemmae of liverworts serve?

(A) Photosynthesis

(B) Nutrient intake

(C) Asexual reproduction

(D) Internal transport

2. Which is NOT an essential part of a seed?

(A) Seed coat

(B) Ovary

(C) Food source

(D) Embryo

3. By which process is a spore formed from a sporophyte?

(A) Meiosis

(B) Heterospory

(C) Fertilization

(D) Mitosis

4. Which of the following features is NOT characteristic of bryophytes?

(A) Damp environment

(B) Flagellated sperm

(C) Dominant gametophyte stage

(D) Vascular tissue

5. Which of the following is a product of photosynthesis?

(A) Sugar

(B) Carbon dioxide

(C) Minerals

(D) Xylem

6. Where might you find jacket cells on a plant?

(A) Leaf surface

(B) Root hairs

(C) Reproductive organs

(D) Vascular tissue

7. In the plant life cycle, what does a zygote become?

(A) Spore

(B) Sporophyte

(C) Gametophyte

(D) Gamete

8. What do the guard cells of stomata prevent?

(A) Gas exchange

(B) Fluid transport

(C) Self-fertilization

(D) Water loss

9. Which of the following is NOT a part of the pistil?

(A) Style

(B) Anther

(C) Stigma

(D) Ovary

10. With what phenomenon is phytochrome associated?

(A) Photosynthesis

(B) Fertilization

(C) Photoperiodism

(D) Tissue growth

11. Which feature is characteristic of monocots?

(A) Petals in multiples of three

(B) Taproot

(C) Netlike leaf veins

(D) Two cotyledons

12. Where is most of the plant's water supply taken in?

(A) Stomata

(B) Root hairs

(C) Phloem

(D) Tubers

13. Which is NOT a structure specialized for vegetative propagation?

(A) Tuber

(B) Bulb

(C) Runner

(D) Fruit

14. Which of these materials is transported by xylem?

(A) Sugar

(B) Oxygen

(C) Water

(D) Hormones

15. Which flower structure arises from the corolla?

(A) Petal

(B) Pistil

(C) Stamen

(D) Sepal

16. What hormone is involved in phototropism?

(A) Gibberellin

(B) Cytokinin

(C) Auxin

(D) Ehtylene

17. Which of these terms describes the reaction of a plant to touch?

(A) Vegetative Propagation

(B) Photoperiodism

(C) Acid growth hypothesis

(D) Thigmotropism

18. In grafting, what is the twig or bud called that is grafted on to a plant with roots?

(A) Runner

(B) Scion

(C) Sporophyte

(D) Stock

19. Which of the following structures do gymnosperms and angiosperms have in common?

(A) Ovaries

(B) Pollen grains

(C) Stigmas

(D) Petals

20. The epicotyl and hypocotyl comprise which structure?

(A) Embryonic axis

(B) Cotyledon

(C) Seed leaf

(D) Stamen

21. From which structures are plant ovaries derived?

(A) Petals

(B) Stamens

(C) Sepals

(D) Carpels

22. Plants produce their own organic nutrients through photosynthesis. Which of the following terms describes this characteristic?

(A) Gravitotropism

(B) Alternation of generations

(C) Autotrophism

(D) Herbivory

23. What tissue comprises the middle layers of the leaf?

(A) Mesophyll

(B) Epidermis

(C) Stomata

(D) Phloem

24. Which part of the plant can be thought of as a sink?

(A) Leaf

(B) Growing Tissue

(C) Root hair

(D) Xylem

25. Which term have scientists given to the hypothetical flowering hormone?

(A) Cytokinin

(B) Abscisic Acid

(C) Florigen

(D) Mutagen

26. Which of the following is found in phloem tissue?

(A) Vessel elements

(B) Stomata

(C) Companion cells

(D) Tracheids

27. What is the force exerted on the cell wall by the cell's contents?

(A) Water potential

(B) Osmotic potential

(C) TATC

(D) Turgor pressure

28. Which structure might contribute to the asexual reproduction of a plant?

(A) Seed

(B) Bulb

(C) Gametophyte

(D) Pollen grain

29. What strategy does a plant use to move in response to stimuli?

(A) Differential cell elongation

(B) Muscle fiber activation

(C) Myofibril extension

(D) Vascularization

30. Which structure is NOT part of the androecium?

(A) Anther

(B) Stamen

(C) Filament

(D) Style

31. In which tissue are cells dead at maturity?

(A) Endosperm

(B) Xylem

(C) Mesophyll

(D) Phloem

32. Where might you find scale leaves?

(A) Stems

(B) Ovaries

(C) Flowers

(D) Tubers

33. What is it called when a severed plant part grows into a complete new plant?

(A) Fragmentation

(B) Thigmotropism

(C) Acid growth hypothesis

(D) Apical dominance

34. Which of the following is NOT a function of the roots?

(A) Cling to substrate

(B) Store nutrients

(C) Take in organic nutrients

(D) Take in water

35. Which of the following is part of the diploid generation in the plant life cycle?

(A) Gamete

(B) Spore

(C) Pollen

(D) Zygote

36. What purpose does endosperm serve?

(A) Male gametophyte

(B) Embryonic food source

(C) Vascular tissue

(D) Response to stimuli

37. What is the perianth?

(A) Nonreproductive portion of a flower

(B) Flower part above the filament

(C) Whorl from which the male sex organs arise

(D) Precursor of the seed coat

38. Which word means "vascular plant"?

(A) Gymnosperm

(B) Autotroph

(C) Tracheophyte

(D) Sporophyte

39. What mechanism best explains how fluids are brought upward in the xylem?

(A) Turgor Pressure

(B) TATC

(C) Capillarity

(D) Sugar transport

40. How are the vascular tissues arranged in the stems of woody dicots?

(A) Discrete bundles

(B) Scattered throughout the pith

(C) Rings

(D) In pockets just inside the epidermis

41. In photoperiodic plants, which factor determines flowering?

(A) Duration of night

(B) Angle of light source

(C) Duration of day

(D) Temperature

42. Where does vascular cambium lie?

(A) In root hairs

(B) Along the apoplast pathway

(C) Within a seed

(D) Between xylem and phloem

43. At sources, how are sugars transported into the phloem?

(A) Passive diffusion

(B) Down a water potential gradient

(C) Active transport

(D) Through the xylem

44. Microspores give rise to which structures?

(A) Sporophytes

(B) Ovaries

(C) Male gametophytes

(D) Tubers

45. Fertilization produces which of the following entities?

(A) Spore

(B) Zygote

(C) Ovary

(D) Pollen grain

46. Where are egg cells produced?

(A) Archegonium

(B) Antheridium

(C) Perianth

(D) Epidermis

47. Which of the following processes produces clones?

(A) Vegetative propagation

(B) Gravitotropism

(C) Fertilization

(D) Heterospory

48. Which feature of a bryophyte demonstrates its dependence on environmental moisture?

(A) Vascular system

(B) Heterospory

(C) Flagellated sperm

(D) Gemmae

49. Which kind of plant movement is quickly reversible?

(A) Gravitotropism

(B) Turgor movement

(C) Thigmotropism

(D) Root pressure

50. Which of the following does NOT pass in or out of the stomata?

(A) Carbon dioxide

(B) Oxygen

(C) Light

(D) Water vapor

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