This is the membrane bound organelle that contains water and pushes against the cell wall.
What is the vacuole?
100
This is the meaning of the acronym "SAM".
What is Shoot Apical Meristem?
100
These are the three general shapes of bacteria that exist in nature (you must name all three to get credit).
What are cocci, bacilli, and spirilli?
100
This is the group to which belong the mosses and liverworts.
What is the Bryophyta?
100
In Gymnosperms, this is the dominant generation in the alternation of generations.
What is the sporophyte?
200
These are the two types of light microscopes used in BOT 101 lab (you must state both).
What are the compound and dissecting microscopes.
200
In this stem type, the vascular bundles are arranged in a ring of vascular tissue just inside the stem cortex and outside of the pith .
What is a dicot stem?
200
Prokaryotes are primitive cells that do not have two important components that eukaryotic cells have (must name both to get credit).
What are the nucleus and additional membrane bound organelles?
200
In the Bryophytes, this is the dominant generation (in the alternation of generations).
What is the gametophyte?
200
This is the environmental region in which most Gymnosperms inhabit.
What is the temperate zone/region?
300
This describes the movement of cytoplasm and its contents around the inside of a cell. This was observed in Elodea.
What is cytoplasmic streaming?
300
All plant organs are composed of these three tissue types.
What are dermal tissue, ground tissue, and vascular tissue.
300
These organisms are responsible for generating much of the primitive oxygen-rich atmosphere. They are also found in symbiosis with the Azolla fern.
What are Cyanobacteria or blue-green algae?
300
This is the division of seedless vascular plants known specifically for development of the stem.
What is the Psilophyta?
300
This term is used to describe many flowers occurring together on pedicels.
What is an inflorescence?
400
These are the three major root systems (you must name all three to get credit).
What are tap roots, fibrous roots, and adventitious roots?
400
These are hairs found on the surface of a leaf that helps to reduce evaporation through reflecting light.
What are trichomes?
400
These are the three groups of Fungi (you must name all three to receive credit).
What are the Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota?
400
This is the name of germinating spores in mosses.
What is a protonema?
400
This is the indehiscent fruit type that describes sunflower "seeds".
What is achene?
500
In the root systems of plants, branch roots grow from this meristem located just inside the endodermis.
What is the pericycle?
500
In the cross section of a dicot leaf, this is the type of mesophyll found closest to the upper surface of the leaf.
What is palisade mesophyll?
500
This is the material that composes the cell walls of diatoms.
What is silicon dioxide or glass?
500
This is the structure often found covering the sori in ferns. This protects the sori from drying and falling off of the fern until conditions are right.
What is an indusium?
500
In this process, the initial sperm and egg nucleus fuses to form an embryo, while the second sperm nucleus fuses with the polar nuclei within the embryo sac to produce the endosperm.