Foundations of Botany Trivia Questions
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This green pigment inside plant cells captures sunlight and powers the process that creates food from carbon dioxide and water.
Difficulty: Easy- Xanthophyll
- Carotene
- Anthocyanin
- Chlorophyll
The tiny openings on leaf surfaces that open and close to allow gases in and out during food production and breathing.
Difficulty: Medium- Cuticles
- Chloroplasts
- Vacuoles
- Stomata
In Brassicaceae, the diploid parent's genotype determines if SCR/SP11 pollen coat proteins are recognized by SRK receptors, causing rejection before germination.
Difficulty: Hard- Late-acting self-incompatibility
- Cryptic self-incompatibility
- Sporophytic self-incompatibility
- Gametophytic self-incompatibility
The flat, typically green organ where most of a plant's food-making process occurs through gas exchange with the atmosphere.
Difficulty: Easy- Petal
- Leaf
- Sepal
- Bract
A horizontal underground stem that grows sideways and sends up new shoots, allowing plants like ginger and iris to spread.
Difficulty: Medium- Rhizome
- Taproot
- Stolon
- Tuber
S-RNases degrade growing tubes when the grain's own S-allele matches the pistil, a rejection system used by Solanaceae, Rosaceae, and Plantaginaceae.
Difficulty: Hard- Late-acting self-incompatibility
- Ovarian self-incompatibility
- Sporophytic self-incompatibility
- Gametophytic self-incompatibility
The sticky powder produced by flowers that must reach the female part of a plant for seeds to develop.
Difficulty: Easy- Sap
- Spores
- Pollen
- Nectar
The condition where a single plant produces both male and female flowers separately, as seen in corn and squash plants.
Difficulty: Medium- Polygamous
- Dioecious
- Hermaphroditic
- Monoecious
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