Final- Test 3

Front 1

A seed develops from

a) a spore

b) a fertilized ovule

c) a microsporangium covered by integuments

d) endosperm

e) none of the above

Back 1

b) a fertilized ovule

Front 2

Fern euphylls, also known as megaphylls, probably evolved from

a) the leaves of mosses

b) lycophylls

c) branched stem systems

d) modified roots

e) none of the above

Back 2

c) branched stem systems

Front 3

Which phylum among the plants listed is likely to have the largest leaves?

a) liverworts

b) hornworts

c) mosses

d) lycophytes

e) pteridophytes

Back 3

e) pteridophytes

Front 4

Plant photosynthesis transformed a very large amount of carbon dioxide into decay-resistant organic compounds, thereby causing a dramatic decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels during the geological period known as the

a) Cambrian

b) Ordovician

c) Carboniferous

d) Permian

e) Pleistocene

Back 4

c) Carboniferous

Front 5

A waxy cuticle is an adaptation that

a) helps to prevent water loss from tracheophytes

b) helps to prevent water loss from streptophyte algae

c) helps to prevent water loss from bryophytes

d) aids in water transport within the bodies of vascular plants

e) does all the above

Back 5

a) helps to prevent water loss from tracheophytes

Front 6

The seed plants are also known as

a) bryophytes

b) spermatophytes

c) pteridophytes

d) lycophytes

e) none of these

Back 6

b) spermatophytes

Front 7

Plants possess a life cycle that involved the alternation of two multicellular generations: the gametophyte and the

a) lycophyte

b) bryophyte

c) pteridophyte

d) lignophyte

e) sporophyte

Back 7

e) sporophyte

Front 8

A phylum whose members are also known as bryophytes is commonly known as

a) liverworts

b) hornworts

c) mosses

d) all of these

e) none of these

Back 8

d) all of these

Front 9

An important feature of land plants that originated during the diversification of streptophyte algae is

a) the sporophyte

b) spores, which are dispersed in air and coated with sporopollenin

c) tracheids

d) plasmodesmata

e) fruits

Back 9

d) plasmodesmata

Front 10

The simplest and most ancient phylum of modern plants is probably

a) the pteridophytes

b) the cycads

c) the liverworts

d) the angiosperms

e) none of these

Back 10

c) the liverworts

Front 11

What feature of domesticated grain crops might differ from those of wild ancestors?

a) the degree to which ears shatter, allowing for seed dispersal

b) grain size

c) number of grains per ear

d) softness and edibility of grains

e) all the above

Back 11

e) all the above

Front 12

Which type of plant secondary metabolite is best known for the antioxidant properties of human foods such as blueberries, tea, and grape juice?

a) alkaloids

b) cannabinoids

c) carotenoids

d) phenolics

e) terpenoids

Back 12

d) phenolics

Front 13

Flowers of the genus Fuchsia produce deep pink to red flowers that dangle from plants, produce nectar in floral tubes, and have no scent. Based on these features, which animal is most likely to be a coevolved pollinator?

a) bee

b) bat

c) hummingbird

d) butterfly

e) moth

Back 13

c) hummingbird

Front 14

What is a way in which flowers have diversified?

a) color

b) number of flower parts

c) fusion of organs

d) aggregation of inflorescence

e) all the above

Back 14

e) all the above

Front 15

The primary function of a fruit is to

a) provide food for the developing seed

b) provide food for the developing seedling

c) foster pollen dispersal

d) foster seed dispersal

e) none of these

Back 15

d) foster seed dispersal

Front 16

Which part of the flower receives pollen from the wind or a pollinating animal?

a) perianth

b) stigma

c) filament

d) pedicel

e) ovary

Back 16

b) stigma

Front 17

What similar features do gymnosperms and angiosperms possess that differ from modern vascular plants?

a) gymnosperms and angiosperms both produce flagellate sperm

b) gymnosperms and angiosperms both produce flowers

c) gymnosperms and angiosperms both produce tracheids, but not vessels, in their vascular tissue

d) gymnosperms and angiosperms both produce fruits

e) none of these

Back 17

e) none of these

Front 18

How long have modern and ancient groups of gymnosperms been important members of plant communities?

a) 300,000 years

b) 10,000 years

c) 65 million years

d) 100,000 years

e) 300 million years, since the Coal Age

Back 18

e) 300 million years, since the Coal Age

Front 19

Which sequence of critical adaptations reflects the order of their appearance in time?

a) embryos, vascular tissue, wood, seeds, flowers

b) vascular tissue, embryos, wood, flowers, seeds

c) vascular tissue, wood, seeds, embryo, flowers

d) seeds, vascular tissue, wood, embryos, flowers

e) wood, seeds, embryos, flowers, vascular tissue

Back 19

a) embryos, vascular tissue, wood, seeds, flowers

Front 20

What feature must be present for a plant to produce wood?

a) a type of vascular tissue in which vascular bundles occur in a ring around pith

b) a eustele

c) a vascular cambium

d) all the above

e) none of the above

Back 20

d) all the above

Front 21

Which of these are NOT the simples of land plants?

a) mosses

b) hornworts

c) liverworts

d) ferns

e) none of the above

Back 21

d) ferns

Front 22

In the Bryophytes, the flask shaped gametangia that each enclose a single egg are known as what?

a) archegonia

b) antheridia

c) sporangia

d) sporopollenin

e) tracheid

Back 22

a) archegonia

Front 23

Spherical or elongate gametangia that produce many sperm are known as what?

a) archegonia

b) antheridia

c) sporangia

d) sporopollenin

e) tracheid

Back 23

b) antheridia

Front 24

Bryophytes lack tissues that both provide structural support and serve in conduction of water and nutrients that are known as vascular tissues

a) true

b) false

Back 24

a) true

(they are nonvascular)

Front 25

Lycophytes and Pteridophytes are vascular plants

a) true

b) fals

Back 25

a) true

(they are seedless, vascular)

Front 26

Name the structure the arrow is pointing to

Back 26

sporangia

Front 27

What is the name of this plant?

Back 27

lycopodium

Front 28

Name this plant's scientific name

Back 28

psilum nudum

Front 29

What are the structures the arrows are pointing to called?

Back 29

sporangia

Front 30

What are the water conducting tissues called in vascular plants?

Back 30

xylem

Front 31

Most vascular plants produce organs that are specialized for uptake of water and minerals from the soil. What are they called?

a) tracheids

b) phloem

c) lignin

d) roots

e) stems

Back 31

d) roots

Front 32

The surface tissue of vascular plant stems and leaves contain many small openings that open and close to take in carbon dioxide and release water and oxygen. These openings are called

a) stroma

b) stomata

c) xylem

d) phloem

e) lignin

Back 32

b) stomata

Front 33

Collectively, all of the living and fossil seed plant phyla are formal known as what?

a) spermatophytes

b) gametophytes

c) angiosperms

d) gymnosperms

e) xerophytes

Back 33

a) spermatophytes

Front 34

What is the name of the nutritive seed tissue that increases the efficiency with which food is stored in the seeds of flowering plants?

a) microspores

b) endosperm

c) megaspores

d) euphyll

e) integument

Back 34

b) endosperm

Front 35

Large leaves of ferns evolved from what?

a) branched-stem systems

b) euphylls

c) microspores

d) megaspores

e) phloem

Back 35

a) branched-stem systems

Front 36

What plant group produce the simplest and most ancient types of leaves?

a) mosses

b) liverworts

c) lycophytes

d) ferns

e) gymnosperms

Back 36

c) lycophytes

Front 37

A

Back 37

integument

Front 38

B

Back 38

endosperm

Front 39

C

Back 39

embryo

Front 40

The vascular tissue of pro gymnosperms was arranged in a ring around a central pith of nonvascular tissue. The ring of vascular tissue is called

a) vessel

b) ovule

c) eustele

d) pit

e) pedicel

Back 40

c) eustele

Front 41

The greatest diversity of gymnosperms occurred during the ____________ era

a) Mesozoic

b) Cenozoic

c) Precambrian

d) Paleozoic

Back 41

a) Mesozoic

Front 42

Gymnosperms were thought to be a major source of food for plant-eating ______ during most of their history

a) insects

b) mammals

c) dinosaurs

d) birds

e) mastadons

Back 42

c) dinosaurs

Front 43

Which of these is NOT a cycad?

a) Ginkgo biloba

b) Zamia

c) Encephalartos laurentianus

d) Flase king sago palm

e) Pinus ponderosa

Back 43

e) Pinus ponderosa

Front 44

Coralloid roots are aboveground branching roots that resemble corals. What plants produce these roots?

a) Pine trees

b) Ginkgos

c) cycads

d) angiosperms

e) mosses

Back 44

c) cycads

Front 45

Which one of these is NOT a conifer seed?

Back 45

D

(it's a legume fruit)

Front 46

Which of these is NOT an example of a deciduous conifer?

a) bald cypress

b) tamarack

c) dawn redwood

d) pine

Back 46

d) pine

(deciduous means sheds all its leaves at once in autumn)

Front 47

Ephedra is a type of conifer belonging to the order _______.

Back 47

Gnetales

Front 48

The term angiosperm comes from the Greek words meaning ________ ________.

Back 48

closed seed

Front 49

________ and ________ are two of the defining features of angiosperms

Back 49

flowers and fruits

(endosperm too, but it isn't visible so it's not one of the answers)

Front 50

50

Back 50

pistil

Front 51

51

Back 51

stigma

Front 52

52

Back 52

style

Front 53

53

Back 53

ovary

Front 54

54

Back 54

stamen

Front 55

55

Back 55

anther

Front 56

56

Back 56

filament

Front 57

57

Back 57

petal

Front 58

58

Back 58

ovule

Front 59

59

Back 59

perianth

Front 60

60

Back 60

sepal

Front 61

61

Back 61

pedicel

Front 62

Flowers that contain all four types of flower organs are known as

a) incomplete flowers

b) complete flowers

c) perfect flowers

d) imperfect flowers

Back 62

b) complete flowers

Front 63

Flowers lacking one or more organ types are known as

a) incomplete flowers

b) complete flowers

c) perfect flowers

d) imperfect flowers

Back 63

a) incomplete flowers

Front 64

Flowers that contain both stamens and carpels are described as

a) incomplete flowers

b) complete flowers

c) perfect flowers

d) imperfect flowers

Back 64

c) perfect flowers

Front 65

Flowers lacking either stamens or carpels are known as

a) incomplete flowers

b) complete flowers

c) perfect flowers

d) imperfect flowers

Back 65

d) imperfect flowers

Front 66

Monocots and eudictos are named for differences in the number of embryonic leaves called _______.

Back 66

cotyledons

Front 67

Both stamen and carpels evolved from what?

Back 67

leaf-like structures

Front 68

A monocot flower will have petals and sepals in multiples of ______.

Back 68

three

Front 69

What animal would pollinate a white musky smelling flowering plant that bloomed only at night?

Back 69

bat

Front 70

Flowers such as zinnias, with their showy petals and a central disk of narrow tubular flowers that produce nectar are probably pollinated by what animal?

Back 70

butterfly

Front 71

Grasses are typically pollinated by what means?

Back 71

wind

Front 72

A strawberry is what type of fruit?

Back 72

aggregate fruit

Front 73

A pineapple is what type of fruit?

Back 73

multiple fruit

Front 74

An apple is what type of fruit?

Back 74

pome

Front 75

A pea or bean is what type of fruit?

Back 75

legume

Front 76

A maple tree produces what type of fruit?

Back 76

dry winged

Front 77

Capsaicin extracted from capsicum pepper is an example of what type of compound?

Back 77

phenolic

Front 78

Caffeine produced by Coffea arabica is an example of a(n) ________.

Back 78

alkalois

Front 79

Natural rubber is produced by the Hevea brasiliensis tree and is an example of a complex _________.

Back 79

terpenoid or terpene

Front 80

Is the plant on the left a monocot or eudicot?

Back 80

monocot

Front 81

Is the plant on the right a monocot or eudicot?

Back 81

eudicot

Front 82

Plants have influenced animal evolution in a diversity-generating process known as ___________.

Back 82

coevolution

Front 83

Bats- colorblind, goos sense of smell, active at night

Back 83

a

Front 84

Birds- color vision, requires a perch, poor sense of smell

Back 84

c

Front 85

Moths- active at night, good sense of smell, feed with long thin tongue

Back 85

e

Front 86

Butterflies- good color vision, senses odors with feet, needs landing platform, long feeding tongue

Back 86

B

Front 87

Bees- Color vision plus UV vision, good sense of smell, requires nectar and pollen

Back 87

D

Front 88

Many of the plants of temperate forest produces fruits that are attractive to resident ______ by producing juicy sweeter fruits with small seeds that pass through the puts

Back 88

birds

Front 89

What plant is considered one of the earliest cultivated food crops?

Back 89

wheat

Front 90

About 9,000 years ago, people living in what is now Mexico domesticated a native grass known as teosinte. This plant is now called ________.

Back 90

maize

Front 91

Domesticated __________ originated from ancestral wild species of grasses (Oryza nivara and Oryza rifipoon)

Back 91

rice

Front 92

Many gymnosperms produce wood by means of a special tissue called _________ _________

Back 92

vascular cambium

Front 93

Conifers that live in cold climates display numerous adaptations for such an environment. Conifer leaves are usually ____________ or __________ shaped.

Back 93

needle-like or scale

Front 94

Branches of conifers are _______ to allow the shedding of snow

Back 94

flexible

Front 95

Conifers produce a waxy _______ to prevent water loss

Back 95

cuticle

Front 96

Some conifers produce a __________ that deters insects and fungus

Back 96

(sticky) resin

Front 97

What structure does this image show?

Back 97

tracheid

Front 98

What is this arrow pointing to?

Back 98

pollen tube

Front 99

Name this plant

Back 99

Equisetum

Front 100

A compression and decay resistant waterproofing material found in vascular plants and is found in the cell walls of tracheids and some other types of plant cells is called __________.

Back 100

lignin