CH 8, 36, 38 Review Questions
Hydrogen bonding between water molecules results
cohesion
Guttation is most likely to be observed on
cool summer night
The colors of light that are most effective for photosynthesis are
red, blue, violet
In vascular plants, one difference between root and shoot systems is that
root systems undergo secondary growth but do not form bark.
Palisade and spongy parenchyma are typically found in the mesophyll of
eudicots.
The overall flow of electrons in the light reactions is from
H2O to NADPH
What will happen if a cell with a solute potential of -0.4 MPa and a pressure potential of 0.2 MPa is placed in a chamber filled with pure water that is pressurized with 0.5 MPa?
Water will flow into the cell.
Which of the following statements is inaccurate?
Xylem transports materials up the plant while phloem transports materials down the plant
Which of the following plant cell type is mismatched to its function
Collenchyma--performs photosynthesis
Root hairs and lateral roots are similar in each respect except
Both are generally long-lived; both are multicellular
Which cells lack living protoplasts at maturity?
Sclerenchyma
Plant organs form by
cell division in meristematic tissue
The light dependent reactions of photosynthesis are responsible for the production of
ATP and NADPH
Many vegetables are grown today through hydroponics, in which the plant roots exist primarily in an aqueous solution. Which of the following root structures is no longer beneficial in hydroponics?
Bark
The formation of an air bubble is the xylem is called
Cavitation
When you peel your potatoes for dinner, you are removing the majority of their
Dermal tissue; vascular tissue
Where in a chloroplast would you find the highest concentration of protons
In the lumen of the thylakoid
If the thylakoid membrane became leaky to ions, what would you predict to be the result on the light reactions
It would stop ATP production
A plant that produces two axillary buds at a node is said to have what type of leaf arrangement?
Opposite
Which is the correct sequence of cell types encountered in an oak tree, moving from the center of the tree out?
Pith, primary xylem, secondary xylem, vascular cambium, secondary phloem, primary phloem, cork cambium, cork
Which of the following statements is not true of the stems of vascular plants
Primary growth only occurs at the shoot apical meristem.
Which of the following is an active transport mechanism?
Proton Pump
If you could override the control mechanisms that open stomata and force them to remain closed, what would you expect to happen to the plant?
Sugar synthesis would likely slow down; water transport would likely slow down.
How does the reaction center of photosystem I regain an electron during noncyclic photosynthesis
The electron is donated from photosystem II
If you were able to remove the aquaporins from cell membranes, which of the following would be the likely consequence?
The potassium symport would no longer function.
How is a reaction center pigment in a photosystem different from a pigment in the antenna complex.
The reaction center pigment loses an electron when it absorbs light energy.
In order to kill a bunch of trees most effectively, a porcupine should completely remove
The vascular cambium
What would be the consequence of removing the Casparian strip?
There would be less selectivity as to what passsed into the xylem.
Which of the following are similarities between the structure and function of mitochondria and chloroplasts?
They both create internal proton gradients by electron transport; They both have an outer membrane and an inner membrane system.
Which region of a chloroplast is associated with the capture of light energy
Thylakoid membrane
The function of guard cells is to
allow carbon dioxide uptake
Carbon fixation by the C4 pathway produces
an organic acid, but a 4-carbon one not 3 carbon
Water movement through cell walls is
apoplastic
The ATP and NADPH from the light reactions are used
during the reactions of the Calvin cycle to produce glucose.
Casparian strips are found in the root
endodermis
If the Calvin cycle runs through six turns
enough arbon will be fixed to make one glucose, but they will not all be in the same molecule.
C4 plants initially fix carbon by
incorporating CO2 into oxaloacetate which is converted to malate.
The carbon fixation reaction converts
inorganic carbon into an organic acid.
If you were to relocate the pericycle of a plant root to the epidermal layer, how would it affect root growth?
lateral roots would grow from the outer region of the root and fail to connect with the vascular tissue
Which of the following is not an adaptation to a high saline environment.
lowering of root water potential
Root hairs form in the zone of
maturation
A unique feature of plants is indeterminate growth. Indeterminate growth is possible beause
meristematic cells continually replace themselves
Roots differ from stems because roots lack
nodes
Unlike eudicot stems, monocot stems lack
pith.
During noncyclic photosynthesis, photosystem I functions to ___ and phtosystem II functions to ___
reduce NADP+; oxidize H2O
The overall process of photosynthesis
results in the reduction of CO2 and the oxidation of H2O.
You can determine the age of an oak tree by counting the annual rings of ______ formed by the ______.
secondary xylem/vascular cambium
The food-conducting cells in an oak tree
sieve-tube members
The water potential of a plant cell is the
sum of the pressure potential and solute potential
Stomata open when guard cells
take up potassium
Fifteen years ago, your parents hung a swing from the lower branch of a large tree growing in your yard. Why is the swing not higher off the ground as the tree has grown
the tree trunk shows secondary growth
A plant must expend energy to drive
translocation