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Botany Unit Review - Answer all questions on a separate sheet of paper
Chapter 4
1. Describe the 4 characteristics that all plants share.
2. What does it mean for a plant to be autotrophic (a producer)?
3. Write the balanced chemical equation for a photosynthesis reaction and identify the Reactants and Products.
What is the source of energy (activation energy) needed for this reaction to occur?
4. What is a vascular plant? What 3 categories can vascular plants are classified into? Provide some examples.
5. What is a nonvascular plant? Provide some examples.
6. Are algae a plant? Explain why or why not.
7. What are rhizoids? Why are they important to nonvascular plants?
8. Why are nonvascular plants important?
9. What is a rhizome? Why are they important to seedless vascular plants?
10. Be familiar with the life cycle of Moss and Ferns and the associated terminology.
11. What reproductive cells form inside pollen? How can this pollen be transported?
12. What is a gymnosperm? What is an angiosperm? What is the major difference between these 2 vascular
plants?
13. Be familiar with the life cycle of Gymnosperms and Angiosperms and the associated terminology.
14. Why are flowers considered to be an evolutionary advancement in plant reproduction?
15. Describe the two groups (monocot/dicot) that angiosperms are divided into.
16. What does xylem do for vascular plants?
17. What does phloem do for vascular plants?
18. What functions do plant leaves serve?
19. Know the purpose/function of the following parts of a flower: sepals, petals, stamen (anther & filament),
pistil (stigma, style, and ovary) and ovule.
Chapter 5
20. What is tropism? Phototropism? Gravitropism?
21. Explain the difference in leaf loss between evergreen trees and deciduous trees.
22. What is cellular respiration? How is cellular respiration related to photosynthesis?
Botany Unit Review - Answer all questions on a separate sheet of paper
Chapter 4
1. Describe the 4 characteristics that all plants share.
2. What does it mean for a plant to be autotrophic (a producer)?
3. Write the balanced chemical equation for a photosynthesis reaction and identify the Reactants and Products.
What is the source of energy (activation energy) needed for this reaction to occur?
4. What is a vascular plant? What 3 categories can vascular plants are classified into? Provide some examples.
5. What is a nonvascular plant? Provide some examples.
6. Are algae a plant? Explain why or why not.
7. What are rhizoids? Why are they important to nonvascular plants?
8. Why are nonvascular plants important?
9. What is a rhizome? Why are they important to seedless vascular plants?
10. Be familiar with the life cycle of Moss and Ferns and the associated terminology.
11. What reproductive cells form inside pollen? How can this pollen be transported?
12. What is a gymnosperm? What is an angiosperm? What is the major difference between these 2 vascular
plants?
13. Be familiar with the life cycle of Gymnosperms and Angiosperms and the associated terminology.
14. Why are flowers considered to be an evolutionary advancement in plant reproduction?
15. Describe the two groups (monocot/dicot) that angiosperms are divided into.
16. What does xylem do for vascular plants?
17. What does phloem do for vascular plants?
18. What functions do plant leaves serve?
19. Know the purpose/function of the following parts of a flower: sepals, petals, stamen (anther & filament),
pistil (stigma, style, and ovary) and ovule.
Chapter 5
20. What is tropism? Phototropism? Gravitropism?
21. Explain the difference in leaf loss between evergreen trees and deciduous trees.
22. What is cellular respiration? How is cellular respiration related to photosynthesis?