Biology 1404 Final Exam TTU
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Allelopathy -
correct answer ✅The idea that plants can chemically influence
each other
Thomas Chamberlin -
correct answer ✅Danger of love, makes it easy to ignore
competing facts if too attached to one idea
Frits Wents & James Bonner -
correct answer ✅Cal tech scientists came up with allelopathy
Cornelius Muller -
correct answer ✅Agreed with allelopathy. Hid results that
disagreed with allelopathy, never published data on rabits
Bruce Bartholomew -
correct answer ✅Sets up a paper about cows causing zones of no
growth and believed allelopathy wasn't true
Jon Keeley -
correct answer ✅Found positive and negative results with some
,Biology 1404 Final Exam TTU
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
germination and no germination. Found that fire could trigger
germination
Plant cells have -
correct answer ✅Vacuoles
Mitochondria
Chloroplasts
Cell Wall
Apical Meristem -
correct answer ✅Top of plant where growth occurs
Node -
correct answer ✅In which the branch and axillary bud meet
Internode -
correct answer ✅Space between two nodes on the stem
Axillary bud -
correct answer ✅Small leaf connected to stem and leaf. Totipotent
and modular
,Biology 1404 Final Exam TTU
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Petiole -
correct answer ✅"branch" of a leaf
Blade -
correct answer ✅Large surface area of leaf in which light is
captured
Lateral roots -
correct answer ✅Spread wide across plant to gain nutrients
Taproot -
correct answer ✅Anchors plant and searches for water
Phytomere -
correct answer ✅Repeating structure of a node, axillary bud, and
leaf. Indeterminant growth
4 key resources for a plant -
correct answer ✅Light
Water
, Biology 1404 Final Exam TTU
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Carbon Dioxide
Nutrients (nitrogen)
Thick structures -
correct answer ✅Used for storage with lowest Surface Area. Ex.
potatoes
Long Structures -
correct answer ✅Used for absorption and searching. Intermediate
Surface Area
Ex. Roots
Wide Structures -
correct answer ✅Used to capture sunlight with a 2D structure to
maximize Surface Area.
Ex. Leaf
Plants make up what percentage of terrestrial biomass -
correct answer ✅90%
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Allelopathy -
correct answer ✅The idea that plants can chemically influence
each other
Thomas Chamberlin -
correct answer ✅Danger of love, makes it easy to ignore
competing facts if too attached to one idea
Frits Wents & James Bonner -
correct answer ✅Cal tech scientists came up with allelopathy
Cornelius Muller -
correct answer ✅Agreed with allelopathy. Hid results that
disagreed with allelopathy, never published data on rabits
Bruce Bartholomew -
correct answer ✅Sets up a paper about cows causing zones of no
growth and believed allelopathy wasn't true
Jon Keeley -
correct answer ✅Found positive and negative results with some
,Biology 1404 Final Exam TTU
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
germination and no germination. Found that fire could trigger
germination
Plant cells have -
correct answer ✅Vacuoles
Mitochondria
Chloroplasts
Cell Wall
Apical Meristem -
correct answer ✅Top of plant where growth occurs
Node -
correct answer ✅In which the branch and axillary bud meet
Internode -
correct answer ✅Space between two nodes on the stem
Axillary bud -
correct answer ✅Small leaf connected to stem and leaf. Totipotent
and modular
,Biology 1404 Final Exam TTU
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Petiole -
correct answer ✅"branch" of a leaf
Blade -
correct answer ✅Large surface area of leaf in which light is
captured
Lateral roots -
correct answer ✅Spread wide across plant to gain nutrients
Taproot -
correct answer ✅Anchors plant and searches for water
Phytomere -
correct answer ✅Repeating structure of a node, axillary bud, and
leaf. Indeterminant growth
4 key resources for a plant -
correct answer ✅Light
Water
, Biology 1404 Final Exam TTU
Questions & Answers (Grade A+)
Carbon Dioxide
Nutrients (nitrogen)
Thick structures -
correct answer ✅Used for storage with lowest Surface Area. Ex.
potatoes
Long Structures -
correct answer ✅Used for absorption and searching. Intermediate
Surface Area
Ex. Roots
Wide Structures -
correct answer ✅Used to capture sunlight with a 2D structure to
maximize Surface Area.
Ex. Leaf
Plants make up what percentage of terrestrial biomass -
correct answer ✅90%
