Chapter 35 Plant Structure, Growth and Development

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Self-Quiz Questions

____ 1. Which structure is incorrectly paired with its tissue system?

a. root hair-dermal tissue
b. palisade parenchyma-ground tissue
c. guard cell-dermal tissue
d. companion cell-ground tissue
e. tracheid-vascular tissue
____ 2. A vessel element would likely lose its protoplast in which zone of growth in a root?
a. zone of cell division
b. zone of elongation
c. zone of maturation
d. root cap
e. apical meristem
____ 3. Wood consists of
a. bark.
b. periderm.
c. secondary xylem.
d. secondary phloem.
e. cork.
____ 4. Which of the following is not part of an older tree's bark?
a. cork
b. cork cambium
c. lenticels
d. secondary xylem
e. secondary phloem
____ 5. The phase change of an apical meristem from the juvenile to mature vegetative phase is often
signaled by
a. a change in the morphology of the leaves that are produced.
b. the initiation of secondary growth.
c. the formation of lateral roots.
d. a change in the orientation of the preprophase bands and cytoplasmic microtubules in
lateral meristems.
e. the activation of floral meristem identity genes.
____ 6. Which of the following arise from meristematic activity?
a. secondary xylem
b. leaves
c. trichomes
d. tubers
e. all of the above
____ 7. "Pinching off" the tops of snapdragons causes the plants to make many more flowers than they
would if left alone. Why does removal of the snapdragon's top cause more flowers to form?
a. Removal of an apical meristem causes a phase transition from vegetative to floral
 development.
b. Removal of an apical meristem causes cell division to become disorganized, much like in
the fass mutant of Arabidopsis.
c. Removal of an apical meristem allows more nutrients to be delivered to floral meristems.
d. Removal of an apical meristem causes outgrowth of lateral buds that produce extra
branches, which ultimately produce flowers.
e. Removal of an apical meristem allows the periderm to produce new lateral branches.
____ 8. ____ is to xylem as ____ is to phloem.
a. Sclerenchyma cell; parenchyma cell
b. Apical meristem; vascular cambium
c. Vessel element; sieve-tube member
d. Cortex; pith
e. Vascular cambium; cork cambium
____ 9. The type of mature cell that a particular embryonic plant cell will become appears to be
determined mainly by
a. the selective loss of genes.
b. the cell's final position in a developing organ.
c. the cell's pattern of migration.
d. the cell's age.
e. the cell's particular meristematic lineage.
____ 10. Based on the hypothesis presented in Figure 35.31 in your textbook, predict floral morphology of
a mutant lacking activity of B genes.
a. carpel-petal-petal-carpel
b. petal-petal-petal-petal
c. sepal-sepal-carpel-carpel
d. sepal-carpel-carpel-sepal
e. carpel-carpel-carpel-carpel
Chapter 35 Plant Structure, Growth and Development
Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: D
2. ANS: C
3. ANS: C
4. ANS: D
5. ANS: A
6. ANS: E
7. ANS: D
8. ANS: C
9. ANS: B
10. ANS: C