Plant: Green Factories Quizzes

genes are made of this substance

DNA

A plant makes its own proteins but an animal synthesizes the proteins it consumes as food.

False.

A seed consists solely of a protected package of elements, nutrients and plant food requiring only water and solar energy.

False.

A simple cell is a good description since most cells are so small and influence so little in life.

False.

An annual plant bears fruit or flowers every year.

False.

Between five and ten different types of cells are in the human body.

False.

Cell activities are controlled by chemical messengers from the ribosomes.

False.

Current populations experiencing famine are primarily the result of lack of land to grow more plants.

False.

Photosynthesis and respiration processes show plant cells to be very simple in design.

False.

Problems of world hunger are due to the green plant's inefficiency in food production.

False.

Proteins are made directly from carbohydrates, the first products of photosynthesis.

False.

The bodies that break down food molecules to form RNA are the ribosomes.

False.

The facts of why onion cells produce an onion and not a walnut are well known to scientists.

False.

The main difference among plants is size--trees, shrubs, herbs.

False.

The meristematic cells of a carrot could produce a tree or an elephant just as easily.

False.

The root cap cells elongate and differentiate forming phloem and xylem.

False.

Trees get wider when the vascular cambium adds new phloem to the rings of wood inside.

False.

The first chemist to begin quantifying the process of photosynthesis was:

Nicholas de Saussure

Tiny chambers were first observed and described from microscope observations by a man named

Robert Hooke.

A seed may be described as a pre-packaged miniature plant.

True.

Intelligent design is shown in the intricate detail and complexity of microscopic organisms.

True.

It is likely that man had a knowledge of agriculture since his creation.

True.

Meristematic cells of different kinds of plants may look alike, but the DNA messages are different.

True.

One definition of life in a plant is an uninterrupted succession of cells.

True.

Plant cells are miniature factories that make thousands of chemical compounds for themselves and the whole world.

True.

Plant cells convert solar energy into chemical energy.

True.

The basic functions of a multi-cellular plant such as a rose are also conducted by a unicellular alga.

True.

The cell communication system for chemical messages and materials is thought to be the membrane system known as endoplasmic reticulum.

True.

The full use of the green plant's built-in design and potential has not yet been reached.

True.

The vascular cambium is one example of cells that are meristematic, that is, staying young or continuing to divide.

True.

The science which develops and studies plant varieties and production is called

agronomy

The building blocks of proteins are

amino acids

Processes or reactions accomplished without oxygen are

anaerobic

Old phloem cells become:

bark

The statement "All tissue is made up of tiny units" is known as the

cell theory of life.

layers of cellulose outside the cell

cell wall

The material which provides rigidity to cell walls is

cellulose.

Cells are analogous to a _______ factory. They utilize _______ to ________ and _________ organic substances.

chemical, energy, synthesize, decompose

Chloroplasts contain a green substance called

chlorophyll.

food-making body

chloroplast

The green machines within a plant are the

chloroplasts.

The orange color of carrot roots and of marigold flowers comes from cell bodies known as

chromoplasts.

The threadlike objects in the nucleus are the ________ and carry the _______ of the inheritance.

chromosomes, genes

The threadlike objects in the nucleus are the ________ and carry the ________ of inheritance.

chromosomes, genes

Each tissue culture is a ________ of its preceding ancestors.

copy

The term used to describe the condition whereby cells begin to specialize is

differentiation

The food for the embryo plant in the seed may come from either the ________ or the ________.

endosperm, cotyledon

In order for a plant to grow it must overcome the basic universal law of

entropy.

The universal inevitable process causing decomposition, simplification and loss of useful energy is

entropy.

The protoplast consists of:

everything inside the cell membrane

Each protein molecule is made of at least _______ amino acid units.

fifty

Where do plants obtain the oxygen necessary to utilize foods?

from the atmosphere

Inherited physical traits are directly related to:

genes

The first stage in the decomposition of glucose is called

glycolysis

The first part of photosynthesis within the chloroplast occurs in the ______ and the second in the ________ of the chloroplast.

grana, stroma

Wheat appears to have originated from a wild species of

grass

Anatomy means _______ structure.

inside

The number of chromosomes within each species of plant or animal:

is constant

The chemical energy stored in ATP during photosynthesis is used to:

produce a carbohydrate from CO2

The basic food of a plant is:

produced by chloroplasts

The function of ribosomes is _________ synthesis.

protein

A part of the plant cell that may contain crystals or poisons harmful to living protoplasm is the

vacuole.

The width of a tree increases through direct growth of the:

vascular cambium

Four stages in growth are (in order):

- Birth - Growth - Maturation - Death

Four stages in growth are (in order):

- Germination - Growth - Maturation - Death

What conditions and/or raw materials are necessary for photosynthesis to occur?

- chlorophyll - CO2 - H2O - light

Four main zones of a root tip are:

- differentiation - root cap - meristem - elongation

What are three ways plant cells differ from animal and human cells?

- large vacuole - chloroplasts - cell wall

Jan Baptista's experiments showed:

- loss of soil mass < gain of plant mass - gain of plant mass related to water

Four substances which could be found in the cell vacuoles are:

- mineral - sugar - protein - waste

A dicot may be expected to have:

- netted veins - vascular rings

Priestly's experiments explained:

- plants are associated with O2 - animals require O2

ATP is a:

- product of decomposition of starch - chemical associated with mitochondria - a form of chemical energy

Four parts of a seed are:

- seed coat - cotyledon - endosperm - embryo

Four parts of a seed are:

- seed coat - cotyledon shoot tip - endosperm root tip - embryo

What is the function(s) of ATP?

- stores the initial energy released by respiration - provides the energy for all cytoplasmic chemical synthesis

What are the three basic processes which use the energy of respiration?

- synthesis - maintenance - repair

What do glucose, starch and cellulose have in common?

- they are various forms of sugars - they are all carbohydrates - they are all related to photosynthesis

1. oxygen present 2. green pigmented chemical 3. ADP + 1 high-energy phosphate 4. building blocks of proteins 5. leaf opening 6. no oxygen 7. gas produced in photosynthesis

1. aerobic 2. chlorophyll 3. ATP 4. amino acids 5. stomate 6. fermentation 7. oxygen

1. running down 2. youthful tissue (keeps growing) 3. food supply, part of the embryo seed plant 4. maturates, develops specialized function 5. food supply, not part of the embryo seed plant 6. grass 7. xylem 8. plant that grows and dies in a year 9. organic catalyst, helps to cause other reactions 10. bean

1. entropy 2. meristem 3. cotyledon 4. differentiate 5. endosperm 6. monocot 7. wood 8. annual 9. enzyme 10. dicot

1. absorption 2. support of leaves 3. food-making 4. seed production 5. seed dispersal

1. root 2. stem 3. leaf 4. flower 5. fruit

Two main parts of photosynthesis are known as _________ and ________.

light, dark

The sugar beet was developed from a plant root called

mangel.

body that releases energy from foods

mitochondria

The study of growth characteristics of a plant is called developmental

morphology.

The _________ is a dot or smaller dark body containing RNA in the nucleus.

nucleolus

cell headquarters

nucleus

Cells are divided into two major parts, the ________ and the ________

nucleus, cytoplasm

Morphology means _______ form and characteristics.

outside

The process whereby green plants utilize solar energy is called _______ and energy is released through a process called ________.

photosynthesis, respiration

Plant respiration occurs:

primarily at night

Match the associations with the "light" and "dark" phases of photosynthesis:

solar energy - light CO2 intake - dark release of energy - dark storage of energy - light release of O2 - light release of water - dark ATP - light forms carbohydrates - dark

Green plants are the energy link between _______ energy and the energy needs of ________.

solar, animals

The oxygen which is released into the air by a plant originates from:

splitting of water molecules

Potato tuber cells have leucoplasts which help

storage.

Why do animals and humans need proteins in their diet?

they break down protein into amino acids needed for their particular protein synthesis

The function of ribosomes is

to build protein.