Biology Plant 111, Spring, 2003 Study Guide for Final Exam
The final exam will be given on Thursday, June 12 at 10:10 a.m. Please be on time to give yourself plenty of time to finish the exam. The exam will be over all of the material covered this quarter. Questions will be drawn from material discussed in lecture, material covered in the laboratories, and from text book material listed as readings for the lectures. Emphasis will be placed on material not covered in the first two exams. Consult the first two exams and the study guides for the first two exams for material covered in the first 2/3 of the course. The information that follows focuses on the last third of the quarter. The exam will include a mixture of objective, fill-in-the-blank, and short-answer questions. Terminology will be stressed in evaluating your understanding of life cycles and of the features of each of the groups that we have covered. There will be some questions that require more than simple recall of information. Specifically, you should have a thorough understanding of the following subjects:
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the diagnostic features of monocots and dicots the definitions of simple, aggregate and multiple fruits whether each type of fruit is fleshy or dry, and whether it is dehiscent or indehiscent the structure and names of the parts of dicot and monocot embryos the main cell, tissue and organ types of a flowering plant, and the definitions of each. the structure of an apical meristem, and of the immature of tissues the primary body of roots and stems the definitions, names and positions of primary and secondary meristems the internal structure of the root, stem and leaf how secondary growth occurs in the vascular tissues and in the ground tissues the variety of leaves in flowering plants the differences in structure between monocot and dicot leaves how leaves are shed from the plant modifications of stems and leaves
Terms that you should know double fertilization, nutrative endosperm, vessel, sieve tube, monocotyledonous, dicotyledonous, simple fruit, accessory fruit, aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, fleshy fruit, dry fruit, dehiscent fruit, indehiscent fruit, proembryo, suspensor, coleoptile, coleorhiza, scutellum, pericarp, endocarp, mesocarp, exocarp, embryonic growth, primary growth, secondary growth, unipolar growth, bipolar growth, procambium, ground meristem, protoderm, region of cell ...