Chapter 36 – Plant Form
Chapter 36
Plant Form
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Plant cells that give rise to two cells, one of which is free to differentiate into various kinds
of cells that contribute to the plant body, are called
2. Cell division in the apical meristems at the tips of a plant that results in increases in height
or length is called
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3. A growing root comes into contact with a chemical that inhibits the golgi bodies. Which of
the following would be a probable effect of this contact?
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4. You propose an experiment where root hairs of a particular plant species are continuously
treated with an antibiotic while nutrient levels in the plant tissue are monitored. Based on
your knowledge of root hairs, you hypothesize the plant will experience a deficiency in what
nutrient?
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in a
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5. Why does trimming the top of a plant make the plant bushier?
6. An increase in plant diameter results from cell division in which type of meristem?
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Section 36.1 discusses the roles of apical and lateral meristems in plant growth.
7. Parenchyma, collenchyma, and sclerenchyma are all types of cells derived from
8. Which leaf tissue would be most directly affected by a non-functional rubisco enzyme?
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9. If the WER gene were expressed in every root epidermal cell, the plant would
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10. A stem that cannot increase in diameter is lacking what type of tissue?
11. The slender stalk that connects the flattened leaf blade to the stem in most dicots is the
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12. You are given a sample of plant tissue and asked to identify the type of tissue and its
location in the plant. Using your microscope, you notice two distinct layers of cells. One layer
contains cells that are tightly compacted together while the other layer has loosely arranged
cells. The cells in both layers contain many chloroplasts. Based on this information, you
determine the tissue is
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13. You are asked to determine if a tissue sample taken from a plant stem comes from a
monocot or eudicot. How will you accomplish this?
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14. Xylem tissue may contain each of these cell types, except which?
15. Which of the following cell types does not move materials through the body of the
plant?
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16. A plant that has the mutant form of the WEREWOLF gene (wer) would be identifiable
by
17. Primary growth at the apical meristems can produce cells that differentiate into each of
these cell types, except which?
18. Primary growth in plants originates in
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19. Which of the following is not true about meristems?
20. You have been assigned the task of identifying the cells in a plant tissue sample. Using
your microscope you determine the cells are living and their cell walls vary in thickness.
Upon further observation you note that the cells are arranged in strands just below the
epidermal surface. What cell type do you determine the cells to be?
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21. All of the following describe characteristics of sclerenchyma cells, except which?
22. Which of the following cell types conducts water most rapidly through a plant?