BIO 101 EXAM 6 TEST 2026 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PASS GUIDE
◉ What is the function of the root system? The shoot system?
Answer: Root system: Anchor and absorb. Shoot system: Undergo
photosynthesis.
◉ What are vascular bundles?
Answer: A system of tubes used for internal transport.
◉ What two types of cells make up the vascular bundles in the
plant?
Answer: Xylem and phloem.
◉ What do the xylem cells carry? The phloem cells?
Answer: Xylem - nutrients and water from the soil. Phloem -
products of photosynthesis.
◉ What are meristems?
Answer: Growth zones.
,◉ What are the two types of meristems and where are they in the
plant?
Answer: Apical meristems: Tips of roots and shoots. Lateral
meristems: In the vascular and cork cambium.
◉ What are the four structures within a leaf and How can each be
described?
Answer: Cuticle: Waxy covering of protection. Epidermis: Outer cell
layer. Mesophylls: Photosynthetic cells. Stomata: Openings of gas
exchange.
◉ What are the two kinds of mesophyll layers?
Answer: Spongy and palisade.
◉ What are the three root structures we talked about?
Answer: Epidermis, Root hairs, Growth zones.
◉ What are the functions/descriptions given of each (root
structures)?
Answer: Epidermis: Outer layer of cells. Root hairs: Projections that
increase surface area. Growth zones: Areas where growth of root
occurs.
◉ What are the first two categories of plants?
, Answer: Vascular and Non-vascular.
◉ What is a vascular system?
Answer: A system of tubes used for internal transport.
◉ What plant is classified as non-vascular? How do materials move
in a non-vascular plant?
Answer: Moss; movement of materials via osmosis and
diffusion/slow process.
◉ Into what two categories are vascular plants classified?
Answer: Seedless and Seed bearing.
◉ Which plant is classified as seedless?
Answer: Ferns.
◉ Into what two categories are seed bearing plants classified?
Answer: Angiosperm and Gymnosperm.
◉ What does angiosperm mean? What does gymnosperm mean?
Answer: Angiosperm - flowering plants. Gymnosperm - naked seed
plants.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PASS GUIDE
◉ What is the function of the root system? The shoot system?
Answer: Root system: Anchor and absorb. Shoot system: Undergo
photosynthesis.
◉ What are vascular bundles?
Answer: A system of tubes used for internal transport.
◉ What two types of cells make up the vascular bundles in the
plant?
Answer: Xylem and phloem.
◉ What do the xylem cells carry? The phloem cells?
Answer: Xylem - nutrients and water from the soil. Phloem -
products of photosynthesis.
◉ What are meristems?
Answer: Growth zones.
,◉ What are the two types of meristems and where are they in the
plant?
Answer: Apical meristems: Tips of roots and shoots. Lateral
meristems: In the vascular and cork cambium.
◉ What are the four structures within a leaf and How can each be
described?
Answer: Cuticle: Waxy covering of protection. Epidermis: Outer cell
layer. Mesophylls: Photosynthetic cells. Stomata: Openings of gas
exchange.
◉ What are the two kinds of mesophyll layers?
Answer: Spongy and palisade.
◉ What are the three root structures we talked about?
Answer: Epidermis, Root hairs, Growth zones.
◉ What are the functions/descriptions given of each (root
structures)?
Answer: Epidermis: Outer layer of cells. Root hairs: Projections that
increase surface area. Growth zones: Areas where growth of root
occurs.
◉ What are the first two categories of plants?
, Answer: Vascular and Non-vascular.
◉ What is a vascular system?
Answer: A system of tubes used for internal transport.
◉ What plant is classified as non-vascular? How do materials move
in a non-vascular plant?
Answer: Moss; movement of materials via osmosis and
diffusion/slow process.
◉ Into what two categories are vascular plants classified?
Answer: Seedless and Seed bearing.
◉ Which plant is classified as seedless?
Answer: Ferns.
◉ Into what two categories are seed bearing plants classified?
Answer: Angiosperm and Gymnosperm.
◉ What does angiosperm mean? What does gymnosperm mean?
Answer: Angiosperm - flowering plants. Gymnosperm - naked seed
plants.
