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Unit 1 – Plant Cells and Tissues
1. What are the steps of the Scientific Process?
2. List the 4 biomolecules discussed in class.
3. What are the cellular function(s) of proteins?
4. What are the cellular function(s) of lipids?
5. What are the cellular function(s) of nucleic acids?
6. What are the cellular function(s) of carbohydrates?
7. What organelle is responsible for photosynthesis?
8. What organelle is responsible for cellular respiration?
9. What are the 3 features that differentiate plant cells from animal cells?
10. What are meristems?
11. What are the three primary meristematic tissues?
12. Where are primary apical meristems located?
13. What does the procambium give rise to?
14. What does the protoderm give rise to?
15. What does the ground meristem give rise to?
16. Name two types of simple tissues.
17. Name two types of complex tissues.
18. What are secondary tissues? (i.e. how are they distinct from primary tissues?)
FOR THE WIN: Describe 3 ways you depend on plants and 3 ways you can mitigate the effects
of your dependence on plants.
Unit 2 – Plant Diversity
1. List 2 key features of the plant kingdom.
2. What are some examples of bryophytes?
3. What are some examples of seedless vascular plants?
4. What are some examples of gymnosperms?
5. What are some examples of angiosperms?
6. What are the key features of bryophytes?
7. What are the key features of seedless vascular plants?
8. What are the key features of gymnosperms?
9. What are the key features of angiosperms?
10. What are the two main groups of angiosperms?
11. How do you distinguish monocots from dicots?
12. What is the phrase for plant sexual reproduction where both haploid and diploid phases
are multicellular?
13. Which structure in plants produces gametes (by mitosis)?
14. What is the term for the mature adult diploid organism?
FOR THE WIN: What are the advantages of flowering plants?
Unit 3 – Shoots, Roots, and Soils
1. What is the arrangement of vascular bundles in the stems of dicots?
2. Identify two functions that stems serve for plants.
3. Identify two types of modified leaves.
4. Identify two types of specialized stems.
5. What is the function of the xylem?
6. What is the function of the phloem?
7. Which theory describes how phloem moves in the vascular tissue?
8. Which theory describes how water moves in the vascular tissue?
9. Which is more central to a stem, heartwood or sapwood?
10. What distinguishes one year’s growth in woody stems?
11. Name at least two human uses for stems.
12. What is the arrangement of vascular bundles in the roots of dicots?
13. Name the symbiotic relationship that helps plants attain nitrogen.
14. Name at least two human uses for roots.
15. Name at least two functions of roots for plants.
16. Describe the two main types of root systems.
17. What are four regions of a mature root from bottom to top?
18. Define diffusion and osmosis.
FOR THE WIN: Describe the pressure-flow hypothesis of phloem movement in stems.
OR Describe the process of transpiration in plants. OR Describe how stomata open and close.
Unit 4 – Leaves and Light
1. How are veins arranged in monocots?
2. Name two different arrangements for veins in dicot leaves.
3. Identify the type of leaf margins in this picture (Slide #1-3).
4. Identify the veination pattern in this picture (Slide #4-5).
5. Identify if the following leaf is simple or compound (Slide #7-8).
6. Identify the compound leaf arrangement in the following picture (Slide #8-9).
7. Identify the phyllotaxy in the following picture (Slides #10-12).
8. What is the name for the theory of how water moves through a plant during transpiration?
9. Name one function aside from photosynthesis that leaves serve for plants.
10. Which tissue type of leaves is often devoid of chloroplasts?
11. Identify the two types if mesophyll cells in dicot leaves.
12. Explain one adaptation that xerophytic plants use to reduce water loss.
13. Name at least two human uses for leaves.
14. What is the equation for photosynthesis?
15. What is the main overall purpose of photosynthesis (& products)?
16. What is the main overall purpose of cellular respiration (& products)?
17. What is the equation for cellular respiration?
18. Explain the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
FOR THE WIN: Explain how stomata open and close. OR Describe how you would go about
identifying a newly encountered plant.
Unit 5 – From Seeds to Fruit (Growth)
1. What is the regulated process by which tissues die?
2. What is the difference between annuals and perennials?
3. What are hormones and their purpose in plants?
4. Give some examples of plant hormones.
5. What are the regions of the mature fruit?
6. Identify the response of plants growing toward the light.
7. What tropism causes roots to grow down and shoots to grow up?
8. Which tropism is the response of plants to touch?
9. Which tropism is responsible for tendrils coiling around a support structure?
10. What is phytochrome?
11. What is the male plant reproductive organ? Parts thereof?
12. What is the female plant reproductive organ? Parts thereof?
FOR THE WIN: What are the three stages of plant response to external stimulus (tropism)?
Unit 6 – Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics
1. What is the result of mitosis?
2. What is the result of meiosis?
3. Give one example of asexual reproduction in plants.
4. What does haploid mean?
5. What does diploid mean?
6. What are Mendel’s two laws?
7. Describe the importance of genetic diversity.
8. How does genetic variation increase in a sexually reproducing population?
9. What is the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology?
10. What is transcription?
11. What is translation?
12. What is a genotype?
13. What is a phenotype?
14. What is dominant/recessive?
15. What is the difference between a monohybrid and a dihybrid cross?
FOR THE WIN: What are the steps of gene splicing to create a transgenic organism?