Plants Chapter

Question 1

What type of tissue is present in tall plants?

Answer 1

Vascular

Question 2

What is the purpose of the xylem?

Answer 2

A tube that brings minerals and water up

Question 3

What is it called when pollen fertilizes both an egg and a polar body?

Answer 3

Double fertilization

Question 4

What chemical serves to maintain a plant’s rigid structure?

Answer 4

phloem

Question 5

What classification does the pine cone belong to?

Answer 5

Gymnosperm

Question 6

What medication does foxglove plant produce?

Answer 6

Digoxin

Question 7

Why are bryophytes so small?

Answer 7

Because they have no vascular tissue

Question 8

What type of tissue is in the cuticle?

Answer 8

Dermal tissue

Question 9

What is alternation of generations?

Answer 9

Thought life cycle of plants when they produce sexually or asexually

Question 10

What percentage of plants are angiosperms?

Answer 10

80%

Question 11

Do all plants need to contain all four tissues to survive?

Answer 11

No because of nonvascular plants don’t have a xylem or phloem

Question 12

What is the function of the cuticle?

Answer 12

To protect the top of the leaf from heat insects and the amount of water evaporation

Question 13

What is cross pollination?

Answer 13

When pollen from another plant fertilizes a different plant

Question 14

What is the vascular tissue made of?

Answer 14

Cellulose

Question 15

Leaves are categorized according to what?

Answer 15

Their complexity and shape of stems

Question 16

What tissue is in all 12 plants?

Answer 16

Vascular tissue

Question 17

What medication is used to treat opioid addiction?

Answer 17

Naltrexone

Question 18

What are eggs in angiosperms?

Answer 18

Ovules

Question 19

What is the difference between the xylem and phloem?

Answer 19

The xylem transports only up and the phloem has food and form of glucose around the plant

Question 20

What is pollen?

Answer 20

Plant sperm

Question 21

What is double fertilization?

Answer 21

When pollen fertilizes the polar body and egg

Question 22

What plant parts function in transportation?

Answer 22

Xylem and phloem

Question 23

What is the function of Rhizoids?

Answer 23

To support the plant but does not collect minerals

Question 24

What is the name of baby ferns?

Answer 24

Fiddleheads

Question 25

What is the function of guard cells?

Answer 25

Muscular cells along the stomata for vascular Exchange

Question 26

What do angiosperms use to attract pollinators?

Answer 26

Color and smell

Question 27

What are the characteristics of monocots?

Answer 27

In groups of three, parallel veins, fiborous roots, bundles spread in stems, one seed

Question 28

What is the tissue on top of a root?

Answer 28

Meristematic

Question 29

Describes fertilization of a sporophyte?

Answer 29

Spores fall on the ground, produce gametophytes which make eggs and sperm which joins together to make zygots which make sporophytes

Question 30

What is the male portion of an angiosperm called?

Answer 30

Stamen

Question 31

What is the Palisade mesophyll?

Answer 31

Holds the chloroplast needed for photosynthesis

Question 32

What plant tissue functions in transportation?

Answer 32

Vascular tissue

Question 33

What is the function of the stomata?

Answer 33

Cells that open and close to the oxygen in and out

Question 34

What process ensures a baby embryo will have food?

Answer 34

Double fertilization

Question 35

What are the characteristics of dicots?

Answer 35

In multiples of four or five, net veined, tap roots, bundles on the edges in stems, 2 in a seed