LQ-CAF-2-botany-midterm
LQ-CAF-2-botany-midterm
2. Is a living organisms that belongs to the kingdom plantae and grows in earth, water, or on
other plants?
3. These plants do not have a well develop system for transporting water and food.
4. They are small size and relatively dull appearance renders them of limited value in the
landscape.
5. Isa process in which plants make their own nutrients so they can develop and grow.
6. The points where leaves develop along the stem are called _____.
7. Area between the two nodes is called ______.
8. Support buds, flowers and leaves.
9. Transport water, minerals and sugars through the plant
10.Conducts water, nutrients, and minerals from the roots to upper areas of a plant and
generally forms the wood of woody plants.
11.Comprises much of the bark of woody plants and conducts sugars from leaves to growing
points, fruits and storage areas.
12.Is a meristem tissue; a site of cell division and active growth.
13.Protects the plant from infection and water loss.
14.Is the plant tissue that has the ability to divide actively throughout its life?
15.Most primary growth occurs at the apices, or tips, of stems and roots.
16.The increase in stem thickness that results from secondary growth is due to the activity of the
lateral meristems, which are lacking in herbaceous plants.
17.It is located in the stems and roots on the lateral side.
18.It is the outermost plant tissue and forms the epidermis.
19.It is the innermost tissue and gives rise to xylem and phloem.
20.It forms the cortex, pericycle and pith.
21.Produce seed, and die within a single growing season.
22.Is a young stem with leaves present?
23.Is a stem which is less than one-year-old and has no leaves, since it is in the winter dormant
stage.
24.Is a stem which is more than one-year-old, and typically has lateral stems.
25.Is a main stem of a woody plant? Trees typically have a single trunk, but shrubs often have
multiple trunks.
26.Produce long trailing stems that are sometimes able to support themselves by winding
around or attaching to another plant or structure
27.Are the primary organs to manufacture food for plants (like a factory).
28.Have vascular tissue arranged in rings as found in most trees.
29.Plants that live three or more years.
30.Primary location of photosynthesis in the plant that composed of 2 layers.
31.Cells contain many spaces between them for gas exchange and carbon dioxide absorption,
contain the plants veins
32.Tightly packed cells that contain chloroplasts (convert light energy in photosynthesis)
33.Covers the upper and lower surfaces of a leaf.
34.Openings in the lower epidermis for gas exchange.
35.The outer thick waxy covering of the plants and leaves.
36.Protection against water loss by way of transpiration, regulation of gas exchange, secretion of
metabolic compounds, and (in some species) absorption of water.
37.Contains pores called stomata which are surrounded by chloroplast-containing guard cell.
38.Guard cells contain chloroplasts, so they can manufacture food (for the plant) by
photosynthesis.
39.Is the bottom part of a leaf where it attaches to the stem or branch of the plant?
40.It is the flat and typically green part of a leaf where photosynthesis takes place.
41.A broad portion of a leaf.
42.leaf-like structures at the leaf base.
43.Refers to a leaf tip.
44.Leaf edge boundary area. Margins can be smooth, jagged (toothed), lobed, or parted.
45.Vascular tissue bundles that support the leaf and transport nutrients.
46.Central main vein arising from secondary veins.
47.Area of the leaf that connects the blade to the petiole.
48.The arrangement or disposition of veins and veinlets in the leaf lamina is called ______.
49.The veins run parallel to each other along the length of the leaf.
50.The veins form a network or mesh-like pattern on the surface of the leaf.
51.Many plants do not possess a petiole and are termed as _______leaves since they are directly
attached to the stem.
52.Some leaves have a leaf-like structure called _______at the end of the petiole is attached to
the stem.
53.Many monocot plants and also in some dicots, the leaf base surrounds the stem is called
______.
54.If a leaf has a single blade, then it is called as ___.
55.If the blade contains two or more leaflets, then it is called as _________.
56.Leaves heart shape like with the lobes at the base of the leaf.
57.Leaves generally egg-shaped with the broader portion towards the base.
58.Are positioned exactly across the stem from each other, with two leaves at each node.
59.Are arranged in steps or spiraled along the stem.
60.Is a thin, expanded, green structure.
61.The main function of _________ is to protect the bud and carry out photosynthesis.
62.The main function of ______is to raise the lamina to expose it to more light and air and help in
conduction.
63.Leaves that possess petiole are called _______.
64.Leaves without petiole are called ______leaves.
65.It plays a vital role in photosynthesis, gaseous exchange and transpiration.
66.The leaves having both similar surfaces are called ________.
67.They are concerned with the conduction of water, mineral salts and food from the structural
framework of the lamina.
68.In this type the leaflets are present laterally on a common axis called rachis, which represents
the midrib of the leaf.
69.All the leaflets of the palmately compound leaves are attached to a common point.
70.Is the arrangement of leaves on the stem and branches.
71.In this type, single leaf arises at each node.
72.In this type, two leaves arise from each node in opposite direction.
73.When one pair of leaf is placed at right angle to next or lower pair of leaf said to be__________.
74.In this type, all the pairs of leaves on the stem are arranged one above the other said to
be_______.
75.Whorled Phyllotaxy- in this type more than two leaves arise from each node and form a whorl
around it.
76.An elongated, thin, cylindrical, coiled, wiry, sensitive structure known as ________.
77.The terminal three leaflets get modified into three stiff curved and pointed hooks which look
like cat’s nail.
78.They cling to bark of tree for support and help the plant for climbing.
79.In some plants, petiole become flat, green and leaf like and performs photosynthesis. This is
known as _____.
80.Another term for Lamina- Epipodium.
81.Its primary function are to produce and support lateral appendages such as branches, leaves,
and fruits.
82.Prostate, dorsiventral thickened brownish stem which grows horizontally under the surface of
the soil.
83.Is a hard pointed usually straight structure produced by modification on axillary bud.
84.Is a short, stout, fleshy, upright and thickened underground stem.
85.Is a stem which gets transformed into leaf like structure.
86.When the fleshy scale leaves surround the apical bud in the form of concentric rings, it is
called ___.
87.When axillary bud becomes fleshy and rounded due to storage of food is called _____.
88.They spread in different directions and bear new crowns above and tufts of adventitious roots
below at certain intervals.
89.It is commonly called the runner of aquatic plants.
90.Grow at nodes and tips of the stem and underdeveloped shoot.
91.It is a condensed disc like underground stem which itself does not store food material.
92. Produce during winter with covered buds
93.May grow into lateral branches.
94.It grows horizontally below the soil for some distance and comes above the soil obliquely and
produces green leaves to form areal shoots.
95.It deals with the study of plants.
96. It grows upward like an ordinary branch and then bends down and touches the soil where its
terminal bud gives rise to a new shoot and adventitious roots.
97.These are green branches of limited growth which have taken up the function of
photosynthesis.
98.It provides protection against browsing animas.
99.Are actually the swollen ends or tips of special swollen underground branches due to the
storage of food?
100. In many herbaceous plants, stem develops below the soil and is called _____.
Directions: List down or enumerate what are being asked on each of the following items.
1. Leaf Venation (2)
2. Types of Leaves (2)
3. Types of leaf phyllotaxy (3)
4. Types of Opposite Phyllotaxy (2)
5. Modification of underground stem (4)
6. Modification of sub-aerial stem (4)
7. Modification of areal stem (5)
8. Pinnately Compound leaves (4)
9. Palmately Compound leaves (5)
10. . Difference between vascular and non-vascular plants (6)
Vascular Plants Non-Vascular Plants