Plants Overview

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• What are some examples of plants?
• Why do leaves change color in the fall?
• How are leaves the excretory organs of plants?
• How do root hair cells helps a plant?
• What are stems?
• What are buds?
• How many vacuoles are in a plant cell?
• How does cellulose differ from glycogen?
• How do vacuoles help maintain homeostasis?
• How do cell walls differ from cell membranes?
• How can herbivores digest cellulose?
• How are apical meristems protected in shoots?
• What are cell walls?
• What are some examples of apical meristems?
• What is an apical meristem?
• What are some examples of primary growth?
• What is cork cambium?
• What is the zone of cell elongation?
• Why are plants green?
• What is the difference between a meristem culture and a callus culture?
• What is the difference between tissue culture and micropropagation?
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• What is a tree?
• What is 'Pulvinus' in leaves? In which plants is it found? What are the functions?
• In which plants are "adventitious buds" found? Someone told me that adventitious buds are found in jackfruit. Is it true?
• In which plants are "adventitious buds" found? Someone told me that adventitious buds are found in jackfruit. Is it true?
• What is the difference between stipules and bracts in leaves?
• What is the difference between a stamen and a male flower? What are some of the distinguishing characters?
• What is botany?
• What are small cell structures within green plant cells that contain chlorophyll?
• What are the steps in the nitrogen cycle?
• Why do plants need sunlight?
• What things do seeds need in order to sprout?
• In seedless vascular plants, the archegonia and antheridla develop on what?
• How do plants absorb different wavelengths of light?
• What are some examples of plants adaptation to different climatic conditions?
• Do plant cells contain mitochondria?
• What is embryogenesis in plants?
• In plants, what is the stroma?
• What are heterotrophic plants?
• What are lichens?
• What are some native plants and animals of South Africa?
• What is the difference between an autotroph and a heterotroph?
• What are the best example of plant evolution?
• Why can't life on Earth survive without bees?
• What are the advantage and disadvantage of CAM metabolism for plants?
• What are the steps involved in photosynthesis?
• What is the process of fertilization in plants?
• Can a plant survive without oxygen?
• What is energy transfer involved in respiration in plants?
• How do plants affect the water cycle?
• How do plants affect the environment?
• How do plants affect soil?
• How do plants affect humans?
• What are hydrophytes?
• What is the relationship between reactants and products of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
• Is algae a producer or a decomposer?
• What is the greatest threat to plant diversity?
• When the seed of a tree first starts to grow, what would happen if the cells did not differentiate?
• When a house's drainpipes are backed up from tree roots, homeowners can blame which plant characteristic?
• When are trees considered to be in the adult stage of their lifecycle?
• Are trees producers?
• Is an oak tree a producer?
• What is dichotomous branching?
• How does a tree grow or gain weight during the photosynthesis process?
• What is the scientific name of a pine tree?
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• While walking through the forest, you come across a plant that bears flowers with 3 petals leaves and has parallel veins. What kind of plant is this most likely?
• What are common characteristics to both to bryophytes and to seedless vascular plants?
• What are adaptations that enable plants to reduce water loss from their leaves?
• How can sunlight damage your eyes?
• What do C4 plants do?
• What are 5 examples of C3 plants?
• What does the enzyme PEP carboxylase do?
• Can light reactions occur in the dark?
• Why do plants need a lot of water?
• How do plants store carbon dioxide?
• What type of environment are most CAM plants found?
• What is the process of CAM photosynthesis using native plants as examples of the process in action?
• Would CAM plants have a lot of stomata? Why or why not?
• What is the characteristic of C3 Plants versus C4 Plants?
• What is spongy mesophyll and palisade mesophyll?
• What are examples of C3 and C4 plants?
• What is the difference between C3, C4 and CAM photosynthesis?
• Why do plants need mesophyll cell? What is its purpose and pathology?
• What happens during photorespiration and why is it considered bad for plants?
• What are the major differences between C3 and C4 synthesis?
• What are some examples of C4 plants?
• What types of plants use a C4 pathway, where would you find these plants?
• What are 3 structural adaptations of leaves to reduce water loss by transpiration?
• What is a vacuole and its function?
• How do nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium effect plant growth?
• What is another name for a leaf stem?
• What is the function of sodium in plants?
• Do plants need oxygen? Why or why not?
• What is cellular respiration in plants?
• How do plants make ATP?
• Do plants undergo respiration?
• Hows does respiration occur in plants?
• Do plants undergo cellular respiration?
• What is the difference between photosynthesis versus cellular respiration?
• Why do plants use cellular respiration?
• Do plants carry out cellular respiration?
• Do both animals and plants use cellular respiration?
• Does cellular respiration happen in humans or just in plants?
• Why do plants need photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
• How is respiration in plants different from that in animals?
• What part of the plant does respiration take place in?
• What do animals and plants produce in cellular respiration?
• Do plants undergo both photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
• What is cellular respiration in plant cells?
• What affects cellular respiration in plants?
• Is cellular respiration in plants or animals?
• Is cellular respiration in plants?
• How would you explain cellular respiration in plants?
• Does cellular respiration in plants occur only at night?
• How does cellular respiration differ in plants and animals?
• How does cellular respiration relate to plants?
• How does cellular respiration take place in plants?
• How does light affect cellular respiration in plants?
• How does temperature affect cellular respiration in plants?
• Which molecule is split apart in photosystem ll?
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• What process do plants use to turn sunlight into food energy?
• What happens when chlorophyll is struck by sunlight?
• What is the role of #NADP^+# in photosynthesis?
• A newly discovered tree species has cone-like structures that are covered with exposed seed. Which plant group does it most likely belong to?
• How is chlorophyll arranged?
• Where are green algae or other photosynthetic organisms likely to thrive in the ocean?
• What is contained in the xylem tissues that travel from the roots to the leaves?
• Where do trees obtain carbon from?
• What does plants convert electromagnetic energy to?
• Why are green plants called producers?
• What is an example of a pteridophyte?
• How does the release of carbon dioxide by microorganisms benefit plant life?
• What are examples of colonial green algae?
• How many categories are plants separated into?
• Plants absorb carbon dioxide during which process?
• What did trees evolve from?
• Where does pepper come from?
• Suppose you work in a greenhouse. There has been a huge demand of tomato seedlings, and you need to produce some very quickly. What might you do and why?
• What are the stomata and why does plants need them?
• What do plants and animals have in common?
• If all animals on Earth went extinct, what would happen to plants?
• What plant yields a rich blue dye?
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• What function do chloroplasts perform?
• What is plant cloning?
• Among the red,green,brown algae that inhabit the sea , which is likely to be found in the deepest waters?
• Your friend thinks that plants are not alive because they do not move. How would you respond to your friend?
• What did the German botanist Matthias Schleiden conclude?
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• What is the purpose of flowers?
• If storage of food is a function of root then why there is root modification called storage roots?
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• What are 3 organelles that plant cells have that animal cell does not?
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• What is the name of the male reproductive organ on a flower?
• What is a follicle?
• Are there a stomates on other parts of the plant ?
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• What makes up the cell walls of algae?
• Among cellulose, chitin and lignin-- which one is most resistant to decay?
• What happens to the unfertilised ovules in plants?
• What are three plant organs?
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• Where might you find spirogyra?
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• What are black peppercorns?
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• What are examples of vestigial structures in plants?
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• What is the difference between zoospores and aplanospores?
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• How does a tulip move?
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• Why aren't plants black?
• How would you describe the positive and negative impact that algae have have on humans?
• What is the purpose of producing transgenic plants?
• How do algae differ in terms of size?
• A flower has 12 parts. Is it a dicot or a monocot?
• Why is growth rate slower in sterilized soil?
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• Why wouldn't all plant cells look the same?
• What is chlorophyll?
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• What are evergreen plants?
• What are lead primordia?
• What are some examples of plants that use cross pollination?
• What is the main function of chloroplasts in a plant cell?
• How does asexual and sexual reproduction compare in vascular and non-vascular plants?
• What part of the flower is often scented to attract insects and animals?
• What plant cell structures capture sunlight to produce sugars?
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• When a cutting from a plant sprouts roots and yields a new, independent plant, what process has occurred?
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• What pigments are found in leaves and what colors do they reflect?
• What is the function of the cuticle on the epidermis?
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• How do you identify vacuole from a microscopic image of plant cells?
• When and where does photosynthesis occur?
• What help to support the plant cell and help it to maintain its shape?
• Can vascular tissue be found in all plants?
• What is stomata?
• What are polyploid plants?
• Why causes water to leave plants on dry summer days?
• What is the alteration of generations in plants?
• Why do animals respond faster than plants?
• Night blooming flowers are generally? a)brightly colored b)stunted c)light in weight d)white in color bloom in cluster
• What is the difference between a bulb and a tuber?