Chapter 31 – Seed Plants
Chapter 31
Seed Plants
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Children in the Southeastern United States play with red maple fruits (Acer rubrum). The
fruits are tossed in the air and spin back to the ground, acting like small helicopters. Which
part of the fruit allows for this?
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What type of thinking is required?
• Apply level:
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question?
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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2. Are any of these vegetables actually fruit?
E. All of these are vegetables, none of them are fruit.
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Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the
process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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True / False Questions
3. Drupes have multiple seeds and fused carpels.
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4. Germination inhibitors that must be digested by acids in order to be removed help to
ensure the seed will be dispersed with some fertilizer.
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question?
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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Multiple Choice Questions
5. From what are fruits derived?
True / False Questions
6. As the endosperm matures it swells and eventually becomes the fruit.
Multiple Choice Questions
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7. Antipodals and synergids are
True / False Questions
8. Pollination and fertilization are essentially the same process. If pollination occurs,
fertilization will follow quickly.
Multiple Choice Questions
9. The mature male gametophyte is produced
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10. Double fertilization occurs when
11. Petals
True / False Questions
12. After fertilization the zygote continuously develops until an embryonic plant is formed
within the seed.
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Multiple Choice Questions
13. The breakdown of antipodals
14. A botanist examines two plants. Plant A has large colorful petals; plant B has extremely
tiny white flowers. Which one is most likely animal pollinated?
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related to the question?
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process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?
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15. Pollen comes from the
16. Double fertilization produces a ___________ embryo and a _________ endosperm.
17. Based on the outcome for plants, a monkey eating a banana is a
Chapter 31 – Seed Plants
Clarify Question
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
Gather Content
What do you already know about fruit? What other information is related to the question?
Choose Answer
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflect on Process
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the
process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a
more desirable result?