Download Plant Unit Test Study Guide Biology 112 What are 5 characteristics

Plant Unit Test Study Guide
Biology 112
 What are 5 characteristics an organism must have to be considered a Plant?
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 What 4 things do plants need to survive?
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 A plant’s life cycle is 2 phases called the
__________________________________________. The haploid phase is called the
___________________ generation and the chromosome number is ½. The diploid phase
is called the _____________________ generation and it has a full chromosome set.
 The first plants on our planet evolved from an organism similar to today’s
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 Botanists divide plants into the 4 groups based on 3 important factors:
1. Vascular tissue or no vascular tissue
2. Seeds or no seeds
3. Flowers or no flowers
 What are the names of the 4 groups of plants?
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 Read the description carefully and select which GROUP of plant is being described:
Moss and Relatives, Ferns and relatives, gymnosperms, angiosperms
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Bryophytes - __________________________
Seedless Vascular - ________________________
Evergreens - ______________________________
Divided into 2 classes (monocots and dicots) - _________________________________
Need water for reproduction - _________________________________________
Reproduce using spores - ______________________________________________
Seed vascular – __________________________________________________
Seeds are stored in cones - _________________________________________
9. Seeds are often encased in fruit - __________________________________
10. Leaves are called fronds - _________________________________________
11. Often found in peat bogs and can be used as a fossil fuel - ______________________
12. Flowering Plants - ______________________________
13. Generally less than 20 cm - __________________________________________
14. Largest # of plant species are in this group - _________________________________
15. Liverworts and hornworts - ____________________________________
16. Non-vascular – _____________________________________
17. Most are now extinct - ____________________________________
18. Shed their needles in 2-4 years - ________________________________
19. Have rhizoids - ________________________________________
20. Club moss/ground pine and horsetails - _____________________________
 What are 4 functions of roots?
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 What are the 2 types of roots? sketch:
 Explain the role of the “meristematic zone”:
 What advantage do root hairs give to the root system of a plant?
 The structure of a leaf is optimized for absorbing light and carrying out
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 Equation for photosynthesis is:
Carbon Dioxide + Water + Sunlight
________________ + oxygen
 What are the 3 functions of stems?
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 Explain the 2 factors that move water up through a plant: (Carnation activity)
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 Label the following parts on your diagram: cuticle, epidermis, spongy mesophyll,
palisade mesophyll, stoma, guard cells, vascular bundle, air spaces for gas exchange
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Can you label all the parts?
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This flower has both male and female parts so it is called a ________________________
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What are the male parts of a flower? ______________________
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Female parts? _______________________
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What is the difference between a woody and herbaceous plant?
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What is the difference between an annual, biennial and a perennial plant?
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Fill in the table below by describing how the given characteristic will appear in both the
monocot and dicot plant:
Characteristic
Stems (Vascular bundles)
Monocot
Dicot
Petals
Leaves
Roots
# of embryonic seed leaves
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