Test 1 Flashcards
T or F: Vascular plants are non-flowering
F
Flowering plants are divided into:
Monocots and Dicots
Non-Flowering plants include which of the following:
- Angiosperms
- Mosses
- Fungi
- Roses
2 and 3
T or F: Algae is responsible for about 40% of all photosynthesis
F. 50%
Fungi are second to what economically?
Angiosperms (flowers)
T or F: Deductive reasoning is If-Then
T
T or F: Phototropism is the response of plants to the sun.
F. Heliotropism
T or F: Diffusable plant hormone responsible for phototropism is called auxiliary.
F. Auxin
Chemotaxis is _________ Heliotropism.
- A Subclass of
- A Synonym of
- A Superclass of
- Not related to
- Chemotaxis is the movement of an organism towards something it needs (some solute). Heliotropism is movement of plants toward the sun for photosynthesis.
C3 metabolism is the standard plant metabolism. The alternative 2 are ____________.
C4 and CAM
Mimicry (Biology)
What an organism physically changes to better suit itself to its surroundings (aka an Australian stick bug looks like the trees in Australia and not the trees in the US)
T or F: Plants were critical to early human survival, as shown by Björn the Iceman.
F. Ötzi the Iceman
T or F: Cell theory as we know it was created by Robert Hooke.
F. Hooke was the first observer of cells in 1665 but the cell theory was not developed until the mid 1800s.
Which of these Cell Theory ideas is false?
- All cells come from preexisting cells
- All organisms are composed of cells
- All cells are created with a specific purpose
3
T or F: The organelles’ origin is explained by Lynn Margulis’ ectosymbiont theory.
F. Endosymbiont theory
