Plant Structure
What waxy layer reduces water loss from leaves?
Cuticle
What tissue transports water in a plant?
Xylem
What type of cell division produces identical cells?
Mitosis
What shape is the structure of DNA?
Double helix
What fasting period comes before Easter?
Lent
What type of vascular arrangement is found in dicot stems?
Ring
What process causes water loss from leaves?
Transpiration
In which phase do chromosomes line up at the equator?
Metaphase
What base does cytosine pair with?
Guanine
What is the name of the Friday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus?
Good
What cells control the opening and closing of stomata?
Guard
The continuous flow of water from the roots to the leaves.
Transpiration stream.
What process divides the cytoplasm?
Cytokinesis
What sugar is found in DNA?
Deoxyribose
What country popularised the Easter Bunny tradition?
Germany
Plants that produce flowers during their life cycle.
Angiosperms
Water molecules being attracted to each other is known as...
Cohesion
What structure attaches chromosomes to spindle fibres?
Centromeres
Building block in a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA)
Nucleotide
What is the name given to the Sunday before Easter?
Palm
Part of leaf that contains air spaces and some photosynthetic cells.
Spongy layer
The two Irish scientists who came up with the cohesion tension model.
Dixon and Joly
Two chromosomes of similar size with the same sequence of genes.
Homologous pair
The group of bases that have a single ringed structure
Pyrimidines
Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after what lunar event following the spring equinox?
Full moon