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23. You have been given a plant sample and asked to identify a specific tissue. Upon
investigation, you find the cells are all long in length and some of them have small pores.
They all contain fluid. You test the fluid using various biochemical tests and discover the
fluid contains an abundance of disaccharides. What type of tissue are you looking at?
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24. In plants with only primary growth, the epidermis is not
25. Horozontal rows of parenchymal cells that tranport materials horizontally are called?
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26. Root hairs grow actively in which area of the developing roots?
27. Which of the following statements correctly describes the vascular cambium?
28. In certain plants, some of the roots may be modified to carry out unusual functions.
Which of these is not an example of one of these special functions?
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29. The water in a damaged root is seeping between cells and not moving into the vascular
tissue. What part of the root has been damaged?
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30. Annual rings in a tree trunk result from
31. Compound leaves
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32. Which of the following is not a modified stem?
33. Axillary buds
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34. The most distinctive characteristic of leaf mesophyll cells is that they are filled with
35. Various modifications in leaves can make plants better adapted to their habitats. Which of
the following is not an evolutionary modification of leaves?
36. A birdhouse is nailed into a tree 6 feet up from the ground. If the tree grows about 2 feet
taller each year, where will the birdhouse be 25 years later?
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37. Which statement about secondary growth in plants is not correct?
38. You are doing research on rodent populations in a cornfield at night and are hearing
popping noises. Your research assistant is getting scared. Having taken biology, you can
explain to your assistant that the popping sound is due to
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39. If you examined a cross section of a woody stem under the microscope and located the
vascular cambium, the tissues on the inside of the vascular cambium ring (towards the center
of the stem) would be
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40. Of the following structures, which one is not a specialized cell of the epidermis?
41. Which statement concerning root hairs is not correct?
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42. You come across a recipe for rhubarb pie. Never having heard of rhubarb, you do a little
research. You find out that the part of a rhubarb plant that people eat is the petiole of a large
leaf. You purchase some rhubarb for your pie and notice that it contains many long stringy
fibers. Based on your knowledge of plant tissues, you know that the stringy fibers are
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