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Contents
1 BOTANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1 Cytology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Epigenetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.3 Paleobotany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1.4 Palynology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.5 Phytochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
1.6 Plant anatomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.7 Plant ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
1.8 Plant genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
1.9 Plant morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
1.10 Plant physiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
1.11 Plant reproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
1.12 Plant systematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
1.13 Plant taxonomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
1.14 Seed Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
1.15 Agronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
1.16 Biotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
1.17 Dendrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
1.18 Economic botany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
1.19 Ethnobotany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
1.20 Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
1.21 Horticulture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
1.22 Micropropagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
1.23 Plant breeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
1.24 Plant pathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
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1.25 Plant diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

1.26 Plant propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

1. BOTANY
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1.1 Cytology
1. Who looked at cork and named the cell? C. 2+ layers and Column shape
A. Robert Hooke D. 1 layer and cube shaped
B. Van Leeuwenhoek
5. Cells with a nucleus and membrane-bound
C. Robert Brown organelles are called
D. Francesco Redi
A. prokaryotes
2. What is the name of the “powerhouse” of B. eukaryotes
the cell where energy for the cell is made?
C. bacteria
A. Golgi Bodies
D. protists
B. Lysosomes
C. Ribosomes 6. A cell spends most of its life in what
D. Mitochondria stage?
A. Interphase
3. What is photosynthesis?
A. The process in which humans eat their B. Anaphase
food C. Telophase
B. When a photographer takes a photo. D. Metaphase
C. To get your pictures from the photo
lab. 7. The movement of molecules from higher
concentration to lower concentration is
D. The process in which plants make their
food. A. diffusion
4. A tissue that is stratified cuboidal means? B. cell divisionactive transport

A. 2+layers and cube shape C. active transport
B. 1 layer and flattened shape D. tonicity
1. A 2. D 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. C
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8. People with cystic fibrosis develop thick 14. Plant cells are able to produce their own
mucus. This is the result of a faulty pump food. This process happens in which struc-
for what? ture?

A. sodium A. vacuole
B. potassium B. mitochondrion
C. chlorine
C. chloroplast
D. calcium
D. cell wall
9. Cells of the nervous system are called
15. What process best explains how a nerve
A. Erythrocites
cell and a muscle cell can both develop from
B. Osteocytes the same fertilized egg?
C. Neurons A. differentiation
D. Osteoblasts
B. natural selection
10. Which organelle uses energy from light to C. selective breeding
produce sugars?
D. genetic engineering
A. Chloroplast
B. Mitochondria 16. Organelles that contain powerful digestive
C. Lysosomes enzymes that break down substances in-
side a cell are called:
D. Ribosomes
A. Mitochondria
11. Peptidoglycan composes the cell wall of
which cell? B. Lysosomes
A. plant C. Ribosomes
B. fungal D. Centrioles
C. bacterial
17. Cell Description:a cell wall, multiply nuclei
D. animal and no chloroplasts. What type of cell is
12. A solution that has a higher concentration being described?
of solute than the cell is: A. animal
A. hydrotonic B. plant
B. hypertonic C. fungal
C. hypotonic
D. bacterial
D. isotonic
18. Discovers air is a mixture of gases; deter-
13. This molecule helps add a phosphate do a
mined that plants make and absorb gases
depleted energy molecule.
A. Aristotle
A. PS 2
B. PS 1 B. Joseph Priestly
C. Electron Transport Chain C. Theophrastus
D. ATP Synthase D. Jan Ingenhouz
9. C 10. A 11. C 12. B 13. D 14. C 15. A 16. B 17. C 18. B 19. C
1.1 Cytology 4
19. Which of the following organelles is an ex- 25. An animal cell placed in a hypertonic (salty)
tension of the nuclear membrane? solution will
A. many golgi A. Shrink
B. vacuole B. Swell
C. endoplasmic reticulum C. Stay the same
D. lysosomes D. none of above
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20. Which is the smallest of the following or- 26. Osmosis is the movement of
ganisms? A. Water
A. bacteria B. Solutes
B. virus C. Large molecules
C. erythrocytes D. ATP
D. lymphocytes 27. Which protein helps move substances into
21. The structure that contains the genetic and out of the cell in facilitated diffusion?
material and controls cell functions-the A. cell identity marker
“brain” of the cell. B. channel
A. cell membrane C. receptor
B. cytoplasm D. transporter
C. nucleus
28. A substance that is known to cause cancer
D. none of these is called a
22. The mitochondria A. carcinogen
A. produces energy B. retrovirus
B. causes cell division C. pathogen
C. is not an organelle D. paramecium
D. is found in a prokaryote 29. When cells take in food particles through
active transport, what is it called?
23. auto-
A. Pinocytosis
A. others
B. Phagocytosis
B. vehicle
C. Exocytosis
C. self
D. Osmosis
D. eat
30. Which statement is a part of the cell the-
24. cell organelles that only plant cells have ory?
A. RE A. all cells come from preexisting cells
B. lysosomes B. bacteria are prokaryotic cells
C. micro body C. eukaryotic cells are complex
D. plastids D. humans are multicellular
20. B 21. C 22. A 23. C 24. D 25. A 26. A 27. D 28. A 29. B 30. A 31. B
1.1 Cytology 5
31. Which organelle is directly attached to the C. viruses are unicellular

nuclear membrane/envelope?
D. viruses are generally larger than cells

A. cilia
B. endoplasmic reticulum 37. A human cell with .9%NaCl is placed in a
hypotonic that has 0%NaCl, 100% H2O,
C. golgi complex
the cell will:
D. mitochondria
A. shrink
32. The organelle that is most like our diges- B. swell
tive system is the?
C. stay same
A. Endoplasmic Reticulum
B. Lysosomes D. regain salt
C. Nucleus 38. Which type of cell has ribosomes?

D. Cytoplasm A. Prokaryotic
33. The organelle that is similar to our lungs is B. Eukaryotic
the?
C. Both
A. Nucleus
D. none of above
B. Cytolplasm
C. Ribosomes 39. Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum lacks
D. Mitochondria attached.
A. Mitochondria
34. I am found in plant cells. I am rigid, strong
& stiff. I give support to the plant cell. I B. Particles
give the cell it’s box shape
C. Ribosomes
A. cell membrane
D. Lysosomes
B. cell wall
C. chlorophyll 40. Cellular Respiration occurs within me and
D. mitochondria I am in BOTH plant and animal cells. I am
a
35. Which organelle produces ATP energy for A. Cell membrane
the cell?
B. Mitochondria
A. Mitochondria
B. Lysosomes C. Golgi body
C. Chloroplasts D. Cytoskeleton
D. Golgi apparatus
41. macro organic elements that cells need are
36. Which statement regarding viruses is A. C, H, O, S
true?
B. Mg, Ca, Fe, Na
A. a virus can only reproduce inside of a
living cell C. Cu, Zn, Mn
B. viruses do not contain DNA D. Fe, Mg, C, H
32. B 33. D 34. B 35. A 36. A 37. B 38. C 39. C 40. B 41. A 42. A
1.1 Cytology 6
42. Which of the following is not Extracellular 48. In a cell, all organelles work together to
fluid(ECF)? carry out
A. cytosol A. diffusion
B. interstitial B. active transport
C. lymph C. information storage
D. plasma D. metabolic processes
43. What determines the function of a special-
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49. Which organelles supply energy to the
ized cell? cell?
A. the active genes in the cell A. ribosomes
B. the number of chromosomes in the cell B. centrosomes
C. the number of ribosomes in the cell C. mitochondria
D. the type of RNA in the cell D. vacuoles
44. One chromosome is made up of two 50. The organelle involved in the process of
A. Chromas photosynthesis is the
B. Centromeres A. chromoplast
C. Chromatids B. olive oil
D. Centrioles C. aleuroplas
45. Which of the following are fingerlike pro- D. chloroplast
jections that help move substances across
51. If a cell containing 5% salt is placed into a
the surface of some cells?
glass of water with 20% salt, the water
A. flagella is compared to the cell.
B. microtubules A. hypertonic-
C. pseudopodia B. hypotonic
D. cilia C. isotonic
46. The organelle responsible for modifying, D. none of above
packaging, and sending finished proteins
to different parts of the cell is the 52. Which of the following is the smallest?
A. Golgi Apparatus A. Virus
B. Nucleus B. Prokaryote
C. Central Vacuole C. Eukaryote
D. Cell Wall D. Bacteria
47. hydrophilic part of the membrane 53. What is the study of cells called?
A. glycolipids A. Biology
B. protein perifer B. Cellology
C. phospholipids C. Cytology
D. cholesterol D. Ecology
43. A 44. C 45. D 46. A 47. B 48. D 49. C 50. D 51. A 52. A 53. C 54. B
1.1 Cytology 7
54. Chromsomes line up in the middle of the C. osmosis

cell during: D. active transport

A. Anaphase
60. What are the products of photosynthe-
B. Metaphase sis?
C. Prophase A. water and carbon dioxide
D. Telophase B. oxygen and glucose
55. What does carbon combine with to form C. oxygen and carbon dioxide
glucose? D. oxygen and water
A. NADPH
61. A cell uses passive transport to
B. ATP
A. reach equillibrium
C. RuBP
B. move against a gradient
D. G3P
C. to move large molecules
56. Which type of cell transport requires en- D. to move molecules in bulk
ergy?
62. What is cytology?
A. Active transport
A. Study of cells
B. Osmosis
B. Study of bacteria
C. Diffusion
C. Study of biomolecules
D. Facilitated diffusion
D. Study of organic chemistry
57. Additional layer around the outside of
plant cells made from cellulose that protect 63. Which gas is removed from the atmo-
and give shape sphere during photosynthesis?
A. Cell Wall A. hydrogen

B. oxygen
B. Chloroplast
C. nitrogen
C. Cell Membrane
D. carbon dioxide
D. Golgi Complex
64. In a solution, salt is considered the
58. What is the scale of an onion?
A. solvent
A. an scale that only measures the mass
of an onion B. solute
B. a diced onion C. solution
C. one layer of an onion D. none of above
D. the root of an onion 65. Found that in the datk, plants give off car-
bon dioxide
59. When energy is required for particles to
move AGAINST a concentration gradient, A. Antoine Lavoisier
this is called B. Jan Ingenouz
A. simple diffusion C. Jean Baptiste van Helmont
B. facilitated diffusion D. Nicholas of Cusa
55. C 56. A 57. A 58. C 59. D 60. B 61. A 62. A 63. D 64. B 65. B
1.1 Cytology 8
66. Ribosomes are structures that adhere 72. Which organelle is responsible for sorting,
(stick to) which organelle? modifying and delivering proteins into the
A. smooth endoplasmic reticulum cytoplasm?
B. golgi apparatus A. Endoplasmic Reticulum

B. Vacuole
C. rough endoplasmic reticulum
C. Golgi Appartus
D. nucleus
D. Lysosome
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67. Which type of cell(s) have nucleus?
73. Which organelle is responsible for packag-
A. animal cells ing and modifying molecules to be secreted
B. plant cells out of a cell?
C. both animal and plant cells A. Ribosome
D. none of above B. Golgi apparatus
C. Endoplasmic reticulum
68. What is the function of the cell nucleus
found in both plant and animal cells? D. Lysosome
A. to produce energy 74. Which organelle stores extra nutrients and
B. to control cell activity water?
C. to remove waste products A. Vacuoles
D. to allow molecules to enter the cell B. Golgi apparatus
C. Chloroplasts
69. What is one basic function of the vac-
uoles? D. Endoplasmic reticulum
A. circulating oxygen 75. A rigid structure that supports and pro-

tects plant cells-forms the outer layer of
B. producing food
the plant cell.
C. controlling cell processes
A. cell membrane
D. storing water
B. cytoskeleton
70. Which organelle provides structure to C. chloroplast
plant, fungus, and bacterial cells? D. none of these
A. Cell membrane
76. Products of Cellular Respiration Include..
B. Cell wall
A. O2, ATP, glucose
C. Lysosomes
B. C02, H20, ATP
D. Mitochondria
C. C02, ATP, 02
71. Cancer is D. 02, C02, H20
A. Uncontrolled cell growth
77. Over three hundred years ago, who dis-
B. Normal cell growth covered what was termed “cells”?
C. A protein A. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
D. A cell cycle regulator B. Matthais Schleiden
66. C 67. C 68. B 69. D 70. B 71. A 72. C 73. B 74. A 75. D 76. B 77. C 78. A
1.1 Cytology 9
C. Robert Hooke 84. Organelles are found in

D. Robert Brown A. prokaryotic cells.

78. The nucleus is where B. eukaryotic cells.
A. DNA is stored and protected C. both
B. cells are created. D. none of above
C. proteins are made. 85. Cellulose composes the cell wall of which
D. food is turned into energy. cell?
A. plant
79. Ideally, your cells should be in a(n) so-
lution B. fungal
A. Hypertonic C. bacterial
B. Hypotonic D. animal
C. Isotonic 86. Which organelle is responsible for BREAK-
D. Cola ING DOWN molecules in the cytoplasm?
80. What organelle is NOT found in animal A. ribosome
cells? B. lysosome
A. chloroplast C. hydrolysis
B. cell membrane D. mitochondria
C. nucleus
87. Cells are often compared to factories that
D. mitochondria are making what?
81. pro- A. Carbon dioxide
A. before B. Oxygen
B. after C. Water
C. with D. Protein
D. against 88. Active transport is when molecules move
82. What is a disadvantage of fermentation as the concentration gradient.
a process? A. Up
A. It produces too much ATP B. down
B. It only produces 2 ATP C. Against
C. It occurs in the absence of oxygen D. With
D. It is only for quick bursts of energy
89. Which organelle is responsible for the pro-
83. What will be used to stain the onion? cess of photosynthesis in plants?
A. monosaccharide blue A. Mitochondria
B. methylene red B. Golgi Apparatus
C. methylene blue C. Chloroplast
D. monosaccharide red D. Nucleus
79. C 80. A 81. A 82. B 83. C 84. B 85. A 86. B 87. D 88. C 89. C 90. C
1.1 Cytology 10
90. What makes the endoplasmic reticulum 96. Which types of cell(s) has a large water
rough? vacuole that takes up most of the space in
A. Vessicles the cell(s)?
B. Vacuoles A. animal cells

B. plant cells
C. Ribosomes
C. both animal and plant cells
D. Chromosomes
D. none of above
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91. When animals exercise with a lack of oxy-
gen their muscles can form 97. Which term is defined as ALL the chemical
reactions that are required to sustain life?
A. lactic acid
A. metabolism
B. alcohol
B. regulation
C. minions
C. synthesis
D. oxygen
D. nutrition
92. Pinocytosis is refers to:
98. What is the function of ATP in living
A. Cell eating things?
B. Cell producing A. provides energy for cells
C. Cell drinking B. stores genetic information
D. Phagocytosis C. provides structure in the nucleus
93. Prokaryotes are the of all the cells. D. none of above
A. most complext 99. When a protein is required for particles

to diffuse across a semi-permeable mem-
B. raddest
brane, this is called
C. prettiest
A. simple diffusion
D. simplest
B. facilitated diffusion
94. Protein synthesis occurs in the: C. osmosis
A. lysosomes D. fluid mosaic model
B. peroxisomes 100. What is ATP?
C. ribosomes A. takes energy away from cells
D. nucleolus B. is a molecule that carries energy
within cells
95. I am very present in muscles in order to
provide massive amounts of ATP for move- C. a part of the cellsthat makes food
ment and exercise. Who am I? D. none of above
A. Nucleus
101. In what organelle is the genetic material
B. ER found inside?
C. Mitochondria A. Endoplasmic Reticulum
D. Ribosomes B. Golgi Complex
91. A 92. C 93. D 94. C 95. C 96. B 97. A 98. A 99. B 100. B 101. D 102. A
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C. Nucleolus 107. Provides structure and support for plant

cells.
D. Nucleus

A. Cell membrane
102. A type of passive transport that occurs B. Chloroplast
when water crosses a cell membrane; like
water entering raisin cells C. Ribosomes
D. Cell Wall
A. Osmosis
B. Diffusion 108. What do both prokaryotic and eukaryotic
cells contain?
C. Active Transport
A. membrane-bound organelles
D. Endocytosis
B. linear chromosomes
103. What is the process in which particles C. cytoplasm
move from where there are many (more D. a nucleus
concentrated) to where there are few (less
concentrated)? 109. How are prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
similar?
A. diffusion
A. Both contain a nucleus.
B. photosynthesis
B. Both contain ribosomes.
C. protein synthesis
C. Both contain membrane-bound or-
D. cellular respiration ganelles.
D. Both contain cell walls.
104. Cytokinesis is completed during:
A. Metaphase 110. How are nerve cells formed?
A. A. fusiform shape
B. Telophase
B. b. columnar shape
C. Anaphase
C. c. star-shaped (stellate shape)
D. Prophase
D. D. Cylindrical shape
105. Skeletal muscle is also referred to as 111. What is the second stage of the Calvin
muscle Cycle called?
A. smooth A. carbon dioxide fixation
B. straited B. carbon dioxide reduction
C. cardiac C. carbon dioxide RuBP
D. non-smooth D. regeneration of RuBP
112. The cell membrane is comprised mainly of
106. Which of the following is the largest?
which macromolecule?
A. Virus A. Carbohydrates
B. Prokaryote B. Lipids
C. Eukaryote C. Proteins
D. Bacteria D. Nucleic Acid
103. A 104. B 105. B 106. C 107. D 108. C 109. B 110. C 111. B 112. B 113. A
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113. Which of the following types of cells HAS C. elastic

a nucleus?
D. none of above
A. Eukaryote
B. Prokaryote 119. What is it called when particles are
evenly spaced on both sides of the mem-
C. Bacteria
brane?
D. None of these
A. selectively-permeable
114. Osmosis is the movement of across a
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B. equilibrium
membrane.
C. concentrated
A. food
B. energy D. none of above
C. oxygen 120. Reasons that viruses are considered to be

D. water nonliving is because
115. What organelle produces ATP? [Animals] A. They are not cellular
A. Mitochondria B. They cannot reproduce on their own
B. Nucleus C. They cannot make proteins
C. Cytoplasm D. all of the above
D. Golgi Body
121. Which of these organelles is present
116. Which among the following bacteria was ONLY in plants?
a big contributor to the making of the
A. Mitochondria
ozone layer, resulting to optimal condi-
tions for life on earth? B. Golgi Apparatus
A. Escherichia coli C. Nucleus
B. Aquificae D. Chloroplast
C. Cyanobacteria
D. Acidobacteria 122. When placed in a hypotonic solution, a
blood cell will
117. Which of the following proteins allow A. Swell
body cells to identify another cell as self
or foreign? B. Shrink
A. cell identity marker C. Stay the same
B. channel D. None of these
C. receptor
123. -pod
D. transporter
A. move
118. If you look at the ends of long bones,
you’ll find a layer of cartilage. B. foot
A. hyaline C. nucleus
B. fibrocartilage D. other
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124. Where is epithelial tissue found? C. Nucleus

A. glands D. Vacuoles

B. covering body surfaces 130. What are the products of mitosis?
C. lines organs A. 2 identical somatic cells
D. all of the above B. 2 different somatic cells
125. The breaking down of food into usable C. 2 identical sex cells
nutrients for our body is essential to life. D. 2 different sex cells
What characteristic of life is this an exam-
ple of? 131. Which of the following is not a Kingdom
in the Eukarya domain?
A. Homeostasis
A. Protists
B. Metabolism
B. Animals
C. Heredity
C. Bacteria
D. Cellular Organization
D. Fungi
126. Storage spaces in the cell for water, food
and waste products are called 132. Which of the following organelles are
NOT found in ALL cells?
A. Golgi bodies
A. Cell wall
B. Lysosome
B. Cell membrane
C. Ribosomes
C. Cytoplasm
D. None of these
D. Cytoskeleton
127. The original cell before it divides is called
133. What is one goal of cellular differentia-
the
tion/specialization?
A. Father Cell A. To create specialized cells to help or-
B. Mother Cell ganism maintain homeostasis.
C. Parent Cell B. To many cells.
D. none of above C. To make stem cells
D. to make single celled organisms
128. Which of the following functions repre-
sents ribosomes? 134. Which organelle helps build proteins?
A. Makes Proteins A. Mitochondria
B. Produces energy B. Ribosomes
C. Contains DNA C. Chloroplasts
D. Transport DNA throughout cell D. Lysosomes
129. Which organelle regulates what enters & 135. What organelle determines what comes
exits the cell? into and out of the cell?
A. Cell membrane A. Nucleus
B. Cell wall B. Mitochondria

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C. Lysosomes 141. A type of active transport that brings par-

ticles into a cell when the cell membrane
D. Cell membrane
encloses a particle to make a vesicle
136. What is the green pigment that “traps” A. Exocytosis
sunlight? B. Diffusion
A. Chlorophyll C. Endocytosis
B. Chloroplasts D. Active Transport
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C. Photosynthesis
142. In which organelle can we find our genetic
D. ATP material?
A. Lysosome
137. What are the two main types of cells?
B. Golgi Body
A. Prokaryote & eukaryote
C. Mitochondria
B. Plant and animal
D. Nucleus
C. Single and multi
143. A type of active transport that releases
D. Protist & bacteria particles that were enclosed from a cell
when the membrane of the vesicle fuses
138. Movement of particles from high to low
with that of the cell membrane
concentration.
A. Exocytosis
A. Infusion
B. Osmosis
B. Diffusion
C. Mitosis
C. Active Transport
D. Endocytosis
D. Perfusion
144. In which eukaryotic organelles does pho-
139. Which of the following are prokaryotes tosynthesis occur?
that are able to withstand extreme tem- A. mitochondria
peratures, pH and salt levels?
B. stomata
A. bacteriaphage
C. xylem
B. protists D. chloroplast
C. fungi
145. Active transport requires
D. archaea
A. energy
140. Which type of cell is surrounded by a cell B. the nucleus
membrane? C. chloroplasts
A. Prokaryotic D. lysosomes
B. Eukaryotic
146. During osmosis
C. Both
A. water moves from high to low concen-
D. none of above tration

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B. large or oddly shaped molecules move 152. What happens when enzymes are heated
across a cell membrane to a high temperature?
A. The enzymes die.

C. water moves when energy is used
D. proteins are built B. The shapes of the enzyme are altered
denature
147. Which types of cells have cell mem- C. The enzymes’ amino acid sequence
branes? changes.
A. animal cells D. The enzymes remain the same
B. plant cells 153. Which process occurs inside the chloro-
C. both plant and animal cells plasts?
D. none of above A. detoxification
B. ribosome assembly
148. Which of the following would be consid-
ered bulk transport? C. photosynthesis
D. protein synthesis
A. Simple Diffusion
B. Endocytosis 154. This term refers to the production of ATP
without oxygen being present.
C. Facilitated Diffusion
A. anaerobic
D. Osmosis
B. prokaryotic
149. Which is a primary function of a vacuole C. biogenic
in a cell? D. organic
A. enzyme production 155. What type of transport uses transport
B. protein synthesis (channel) proteins to help molecules move
C. storage from higher to lower concentrations?
A. Protein Pumps
D. reproduction
B. Diffusion
150. What are the products of aerobic respira- C. Facilitated Diffusion
tion?
D. Osmosis
A. Glucose and oxygen
156. Discovered the nucleus of a cell
B. Carbon dioxide and water
A. Hooke
C. Lactic acid
B. Schleiden
D. Carbon monoxide C. Virchow
151. What materials GO INTO cellular respira- D. Brown
tion?
157. Which types of cells have cell(s) walls?
A. 02, Glucose A. animal cells
B. ATP, Glucose B. plant cells
C. H20, Glucose C. both plant and animal cells
D. 02, H20 D. none of above

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158. What form of Ca-oxalate crystals will be C. Eukaryotic

observed in the cross-sectional chloralhy- D. Animal & Plant
drate preparation of Citrus sp leaves?
164. Where do the light-dependent reactions
A. Prisma
occur?
B. The rose
A. thylakoid membrane
C. Needle B. stroma
D. Cube C. mesophyll
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159. Which of the following is true about mi- D. mitochondria
tochondria? 165. Which cell structure acts as a
A. It is a double membrane organelle brain/control center for the cell?
B. the cristae are the folds of the inner A. Mitochondria
membrane B. Nucleus
C. it is the location of cellular respiration C. Golgi Body
D. all of these are true D. Endoplasmic Reticulum
160. The two cells that result after division 166. I am way bigger in plant cells than I am
are called the in animal cells. What am I?
A. Brother Cell A. Golgi Apparatus
B. Sister Cell B. Nucleus
C. Son Cells C. Vacuole
D. Daughter Cells D. Ribosomes
167. The cell theory is not applicable to:
161. Which of the following functions repre-
sents the nucleus? A. Bacteria
A. Makes Proteins B. Algae
B. Produces energy C. Virus

D. Fungi
C. Contains DNA
D. Transport DNA throughout cell 168. Which of the following is NOT a reason a
cell may do mitosis?
162. Chitin composes the cell wall of which A. Make sex cells
cell?
B. Repair & heal tissue
A. plant
C. Growth
B. fungal
D. Make somatic cells
C. bacterial
169. Fermentation occurs in the cell’s
D. animal
A. cytoplasm
163. What are the two types of cells? B. nucleus
A. Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic C. cell membrane
B. Bacteria & Eukaryotic D. cristae

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170. pseudo- 176. What part of the cell is described as jelly-

A. foot like and holds all other cell parts save for
cell membrane?

B. false
A. Lysosome
C. true
D. none of above B. Nucleus
171. Which of the following is considered to C. Cytoplasm

be the toughest of cartilage? D. Golgi Body
A. hyaline
B. fibrocartilage 177. Where does the energy for ATP come
from?
C. elastic
A. Nucleic Acid
D. none of above
B. Protein
172. The transportation of substances into the
cell using a vesicle is called C. Lipid
A. exocytosis D. Carbohydrate
B. endocytosis
178. Which of the following is not part of the
C. facilitated diffusion
cell theory?
D. active transport
A. cells must contain DNA
173. To make large amounts of energy, an eu-
karyotic cell must use oxygen and B. all living things are made from cells
A. glucose C. cells can only come from other cells
B. water D. cells are the basic unit of life
C. carbon dioxide
179. ALL cells have ALL of the following or-
D. light
ganelles EXCEPT:
174. Muscle fatigue occurs when
A. Ribosomes
A. ATP production can’t keep up with use
B. Cytoplasm
B. Lactic acid is being removed from the
body C. Cell membrane
C. Presence of ionic balance in the body D. Nucleus
D. none of above
180. What organelle is associated with the
175. Which type of solution has the same so- production of proteins during protein syn-
lute concentration inside of and outside of thesis?
the cell?
A. Nuclues
A. Isotonic
B. Ribosome
B. Hypertonic
C. Hypotonic C. Mitochondria
D. none of above D. Cell Membrane

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181. Which of the following theories claims a 187. Where does the Calvin Cycle occur?
“seed” of life where life on earth origi- A. thylakoid
nated?
B. stroma
A. Extraterrestrial Origins
C. lumen
B. Divine Creation
D. mitochondria
C. Panspermia
D. Origin of Non-Living Matter 188. Which of the following describes the
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movement of solutes without energy?
182. The nucleus contains:
A. Diffusion
A. ribosomes
B. Osmosis
B. vesicles
C. Endocytosis
C. DNA (genetic material )
D. Phospholipids D. Exocytosis
183. The cell membrane is made of a 189. Which of the following functions repre-
sents the mitochondria?
A. phospholipid monolayer
A. Makes Proteins
B. phospholipid bilayer
B. Produces energy
C. phospholipid trilayer
C. Contains DNA
D. lipophosphorous binucleosome
D. Transport DNA throughout cell
184. What gas is released by plants during
photosynthesis? 190. Passive transport requires no
A. sulfur A. concentration gradients
B. carbon dioxide B. osmosis
C. oxygen C. motion
D. hydrogen D. energy
185. What happens when unhealthy cells are 191. Which organelle is made mostly of wa-
allowed to divide ter and suspends the organelles within the
A. Cancer cell?
B. Freckles A. Cell membrane
C. Stem cells B. Mitochondria
D. iPCs C. Cytoskeleton
186. I am the structure that holds all the or- D. Cytoplasm
ganelles in place within the cell. Who am
I? 192. Mitosis is the process by which
A. Cell membrane A. Cells get bigger
B. Cell wall B. Cells get smaller
C. Cytoplasm C. Body cells divide into two
D. Centriole D. Cells die

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193. Which answer best describes eukaryotic 199. The clear, jelly-like material in a cell that
cells? supports and protects the cell’s organelles.

A. A cell that does photosynthesis. A. Cytoplasm
B. A cell that is no longer alive. B. Cell Membrane
C. A cell with a true nucleus and or-
C. Nucleus
ganelles
D. A cell that has a cell wall. D. Mitochondria
194. Chromosomes contain what? 200. What type of cells are mucous epithelial
A. DNA cells?
B. RNA A. skin cells
C. ATP B. spit cells
D. CNA C. cheek cells
195. Compared to bacteria, viruses are much D. hair cells
A. smaller. 201. Stomach cells produce a large amount of

enzymes to digest food. What organelle
B. larger.
do stomach cells have to perform their
C. the same. job?
D. none of above A. ER
196. These cellular organelle help covert hy- B. nucleus
drogen peroxide into water and oxygen
C. golgi apparatus
A. lysosome
D. ribosome
B. centrosome
C. peroxisome 202. The movement of molecules against a con-
D. proteasome centration gradient
197. hetero- A. simple diffusion

A. same B. facilitated diffusion
B. self C. active transport
C. different D. osmosis
D. male
203. Cell membranes are selectively perme-
198. Which type of cell(s) have structures that able to the following substances
allow them to do photosynthesis?
A. air
A. animal cells
B. plant cells B. O2
C. both animal and plant cells C. amino acids

D. none of above D. Ill

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204. Which cell structure is found in plant and D. none of above

animals cells and controls what can come
into or leave a cell? 207. Which of the following organelles will
you NOT find in an animal cell?
A. cell membrane
A. Cell membrane
B. cytoplasm
B. Cell wall
C. nucleus
D. vacuole C. Golgi Apparatus
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D. Vacuole
205. Which organelle is the storehouse for
most of a cell’s genetic information 208. Permeable means
(DNA)?
A. things can pass through
A. mitochondrion
B. the concentration levels are different
B. chloroplast
C. it is permanent
C. centriole
D. things are stuck
D. nucleus
209. How many cells are created at the end of
206. After the onion has been stained, how
Mitosis?
long do you wait to observe the speci-
men? A. 1
A. 0 minutes B. 2
B. 1 minute C. 3
C. 3-5 minutes D. 4
1.2 Epigenetics
1. An allele that is hidden whenever the dom- A. DNA Polymerase
inant allele is present
B. RNA Primase
A. recessive allele
C. RNA Polymerase
B. cell differentiation
D. Topoisomerase
C. gene expression
D. epigenetics 4. How does the GFP mRNA relate to Green
Florescent Protein production
2. The process by which a cell becomes spe-
A. Inversely
cialized for a specific structure or function.
B. Exponentially
A. cell multiplication
B. cell division C. Proportionally
C. mitosis D. none of above

D. cell differentiation 5. A nucleosome is
3. What enzyme is responsible for adding nu- A. eukaryotic DNA wrapped around
cleotides to the growing RNA strand? prokaryotic DNA

1.2 Epigenetics 21
B. a segment of DNA wrapped around a 11. What kinds of bonds hold amino acids to-
histone protein gether

C. methylated DNA A. Hydrogen bonds
D. acetylated histones B. Phosphodiester bonds
C. Peptide bonds
6. Cells differentiate when different proteins
are produced as a result of expressing dif- D. ionic bonds
ferent sections of
12. Literally means “above the genome”
A. Proteins
A. Epigenetics
B. Amino Acids B. Genetics
C. DNA C. Gene Modifications
D. Ribosomes D. DNA
7. The process to go from DNA to mRNA is 13. Which of the following can serve as an
“off” switch in eukaryotic organisms?
A. translation A. Histone acetylation
B. transcription B. DNA methylation
C. replication C. Operator
D. none of above D. Repressor
8. What are some uses for CRISPR? 14. Possessing two different alleles for a
gene, one inherited from each parent
A. Making designer babies
A. Heterozygous
B. Increasing Agricultural productivity
B. Homozygous
C. Preventing and curing diseases
C. Hybrid
D. All of the above
D. recessive
9. What is the difference between alleles of
15. A protein that binds to the operator and
a gene?
blocks the RNA polymerase
A. their locus on the chromosome
A. regulator
B. their amino acid sequence
B. repressor
C. the type of sugar on the nucleotides C. activator
D. the sequence of the bases D. corepressor
10. A mutation in which only one nucleotide is 16. These chemical tags inactivate or turn off
altered is called a: a gene.
A. Frameshift Mutation A. acetyl groups
B. Deletion Mutation B. methyl groups
C. Point Mutation C. histones
D. Insertion Mutation D. genes

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17. Which of the following is a heterozygous 23. what is an operon?

trait? A. a part of a ribosome
A. GG
B. a part of a Rna
B. gg
C. a unit made up of linked genes that
C. Gg code for proteins needed to do a specific
D. none of above task
18. Who is Charles Darwin D. needed for dna replication
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A. starbucks owner 24. an observable trait or characteristic
B. a bird A. phenotype
C. contestant on American Idol B. autosomal
D. a naturalist
C. recessive allele
19. Dizygotic twins D. cell differentiation
A. have identical DNA
25. What does evolution mean?
B. appear to be identical.
A. To change something
C. grow in separate zygotes
D. rarely resemble each other. B. To change and adapt over time
C. To lose some original features
20. Which is the mRNA molecule that would
be transcribed from this DNA tem- D. To improve ssomething over time
plate:TGGCAAGTACGT
26. Natural selection can also be referred to
A. ACCGTTCATGCA as:
B. UGGCAAGUACGU A. Survival of the weakest
C. UCCGUUCUUGCU
B. Survival
D. ACCGUUCAUGCA
C. Survival of the fittest
21. Lamarck’s theory D. Artificial selection
A. describes natural selection
27. what does a promoter do?
B. describes evolution in terms of “use
and disuse” and therefore true A. it allows a gene to be transcribed
C. has been proven true B. it creates a DNA segment
D. is a great idea but proven false C. it is another word for ribosomes
22. A method of turning off transcription and D. it is another word for RNA
therefore the gene in eukaryotes is DNA
28. External factors include
A. Acetylation A. Gender, temperature, metabolism

B. Transcription B. Metabolism, gender, hormones
C. Translation C. Temperature, light, drugs
D. Methylation D. Light, metabolism, hormones

1.2 Epigenetics 23
29. Which factor can affect the epigenome? 35. Choose the best answer:Histones are
A. nutrition A. proteins

B. exercise B. proteins with DNA wrapped around
C. stress C. eight proteins with DNA wrapped
D. all of these factors can affect the around
epigenome D. DNA with eight proteins wrapped
around
30. Cell Differentiation is:
36. What percentage of cells have DNA in com-
A. The process of cell division
mon with one another?
B. The process of creating gametes (sex
A. 25%
cells)
B. 50%
C. The process of specializing cells from
stem cells C. 75%
D. none of these. D. 100%
31. What molecule contains the anti-codon? 37. Addition of acetyl groups turn a gene
on/off and therefore transcription and
A. mRNA translation does/does not occur
B. DNA A. on; does occur
C. rRNA B. on; does not occur
D. tRNA C. off; does occur
32. A cross between individuals that have dif- D. off; does not occur
ferent alleles for the same gene
38. Gene methylation leads to the activation
A. dihybrid cross of a gene
B. dominant allele A. True
C. haploid B. False
D. homozygous C. Depends
33. Protein molecules around which DNA is D. none of above
tightly coiled in chromatin 39. Increases gene transcription
A. Histones A. methylation
B. Whey B. transcriptase
C. Casein C. helicase
D. Hemoglobin D. DNA acetylation
34. A characteristic that is passed from parent 40. A section on a DNA strand that codes for
to offspring. a protein (trait)
A. nonherited trait A. gene
B. environmental trait B. protein
C. inherited trait C. nucleus
D. none of above D. chromosome

1.2 Epigenetics 24
41. Which concept is NOT included in the mod- C. No, due to Epigenetics
ern theory of evolution? D. None of the above
A. descent with modification
47. A gene is
B. competition among the members of a
population A. A section of DNA that codes for a pro-
C. transmission of acquired characteris- tein
tics B. The entire set of DNA
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D. natural selection C. A large structure made of DNA and pro-
teins
42. A chemical modification of DNA that does
not affect the nucleotide sequence of a D. none of these
gene but makes that gene less likely to be
expressed. 48. What is the three base sequence of mRNA
that codes for a single amino acid?
A. methylation
A. Anticodon
B. acetylation
B. Codon
C. transcription
C. Protein
D. translation
D. none of above
43. which of the following changes the nitro-
gen base sequence of the DNA? 49. How is the information in a DNA molecule
A. Mutations expressed in an organism?
B. Methyl tags A. through plasmids
C. Acetyl Tags B. through RNA polymerase
D. all of the above C. through recombinant DNA
44. Which is not a histone modification? D. through proteins
A. Phosphorylation 50. A theory is
B. Nucleation A. a fact
C. Methylation B. a law
D. Acetylation
C. an opinion that explains natural phe-
45. WHAT CAN NOT AFFECT EPIGENETICS? nomena
A. Environment D. a testable explanation
B. Diet 51. As scientists move forward with genetic
C. Aging engineering there are many questions re-
D. None of the above garding that need to be answered.
A. Ethics
46. Does a skin cell looks different from a
brain cell or a muscle cell? B. Regulations
A. Yes, because of the function C. Limitations
B. Yes, due to Epigenetics D. All of the above

1.2 Epigenetics 25
52. Which of these molecules gets trans- 58. The protein DNA wraps around to form a
lated? nucleosome.

A. DNA A. Gene
B. mRNA B. Chromosome
C. tRNA C. Nucleus
D. amino acids D. Histone
53. External epigenetic factors include 59. Which of the following is a result of con-
A. Gender, temperature, metabolism trolled modifications in the gene expres-
sion process?
B. Metabolism, gender, hormones
A. cell differentiation
C. Temperature, light, drugs
B. epigentics
D. Light, metabolism, hormones
C. environmental factors
54. Acetylation access to the DNA, while D. diploid cells
methylation access to the DNA.
A. allows, blocks 60. Does the DNA loosen or tighten with acety-
lation?
B. blocks, allows
A. tighten
C. does not change, inactivates
B. loosen
D. inactivates, does not change
C. does nothing
55. Which option most closely relates to how D. none of above
CRISPR works?
A. “shake and bake” 61. Each of our consists of tightly coiled
DNA.
B. “cut and paste”
A. nucleotides
C. “hide and seek”
B. amino acids
D. “live and love”
C. proteins
56. What was the name of the ship Charles D. chromosomes
Darwin sailed on?
A. Boaty McBoaty Face 62. Which of the following would be an inter-
nal environmental factor?
B. HMS Beagle
A. hormones
C. HMS Bagle
B. temperature
D. HMS Bulldog
C. light
57. Unspecialized cells that retain the ability D. radiation
to become a wide variety of specialized
cells 63. What does a nucleosome consist of?
A. stem cell A. DNA and histones
B. neuron B. DNA and chromatid
C. brain cells C. Chromatid and nucleotides
D. dendrite D. Chromatid and histones

1.2 Epigenetics 26
64. second filial generation 70. The “on/off” switch for an operon is
A. P generation called the
B. F1 generation A. promoter
C. F2 generation B. repressor
D. none of above C. operator

D. gene
65. Protein molecules that DNA tightly winds
71. Acetylation access to the DNA, while
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around
A. Histones methylation of lysine 9 & 27 access to
the DNA.
B. Whey
A. allows, blocks
C. Casein
B. blocks, allows
D. Hemoglobin
C. does not change, inactivates
66. The fusion of your father’s sperm and your D. inactivates, does not change
mother’s egg is referred to as
72. Methylation involves chemical tags cover-
A. epigenetics
ing DNA, contributing to the
B. gene expression
A. epigenome
C. fertilization
B. epifactor
D. spermatization
C. epiforecast
67. These chemical tags inactivate or silence a D. epidermis
gene.
73. Which of the following is a Homozygous
A. acetyl groups
dominant trait?
B. methyl groups
A. GG
C. histones
B. Gg
D. genes
C. gg
68. What mutation has occurred here? T-G-A- D. Ggg
C-C-AT-G-A-G-C-A
74. An organism that has two different alleles
A. Substitution
for a trait
B. Deletion A. heterozygous
C. Insertion B. haploid
D. Frameshift C. dominant allele
69. Epigenetics include the following molecular D. recessive allele
machinery
75. (genetics) an organism or cell having two
A. DNA methylation sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid
B. Histone modification number
C. micro-RNA A. diploid
D. All of the above B. haploid

1.2 Epigenetics 27
C. monohybrid corss 81. What is a histone

D. autosomal A. a tRNA that helps complete gene ex-

pression
76. the study of factors that affect gene ex-
B. a lipid that binds to DNA to be read
pression that are not directly linked to nu-
cleotide sequence in genetic material C. a protein that packages DNA to be
read in a nucleosome
A. epigenetics
D. a protein that causes DNA to be inac-
B. gene
cessible
C. heterozygous
82. Even though your body changes and you
D. punnett square develop new physical and behavioral char-
acteristics, your never changes.
77. Which of the following can be accom-
plished with CRISPR? A. archetype
A. figure out the role of a protein B. phenotype
B. understand genetic diseases C. appearance
C. disable genes D. genotype
D. all three options 83. there are 3 types of RNA:rRNA, and
78. A small molecule that binds to the repres-

sor and makes it inactive is A. gRNA and fRNA
A. corepressor B. tRNA and sRNA
B. inducer C. tRNA and mRNA
C. promoter D. mRNA and gRNA
D. operator 84. Two traits caused by two separate genes

on the same or different autosomal chro-
79. DNA Methylation mosome.
A. inhibits transcription A. dihybrid cross
B. inhibits translation B. monohybrid cross
C. promotes transcription C. recessive allele
D. promotes translation D. none of above
80. The DNA is tightly wrapped around the hi- 85. This is the protein that can grab a protein
stone proteins and the gene is methylated. and degrade it to silence a gene.
A. The gene is off. A. Spliceosome
B. The gene is expressed. B. Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase
C. It is impossible to tell. C. Proteosome
D. The gene is on and off at various times. D. Ribozyme

1.2 Epigenetics 28
86. The study of changes in organisms caused 91. The complete instructions for making an or-
by modification of gene expression rather ganism, consisting of all the genetic mate-
than alteration of the genetic code itself rial in that organism’s chromosomes.
A. hypogenomics A. genome
B. epigenetics B. epigenome
C. genetic markers
C. microgenomics
D. RNA codon
D. none of these
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92. How many different amino acids are
87. allele combination for a trait there?
A. genotype A. 7
B. phenotype B. 15
C. diploid C. 20
D. meiosis D. 85
93. Activation or deactivation of genes by en-
88. The term that best describes “the better vironmental experiences throughout devel-
adapted organisms survive to pass traits opment
along to their offspring”.
A. turn on genes
A. Evolution
B. gene expression
B. Natural Selection C. environmental factors
C. Extinction D. gene markers
D. Artifical Selection 94. The process by which a cell directs a gene
to make a certain protein is called
89. In which ways can genetic engineering can
improve crops? A. DNA Extraxtion
A. Make them pest or drought resistant B. genetic modification
C. gene expression
B. Make them more nutritious
D. chromosome assembly
C. Make them larger
95. Gene methylation occurs in
D. All answers are correct
A. histone tails
90. The following sequence is a known GENE B. CpG regions
MUTATION that geneticists would like to
remove. What would be the guide RNA C. promoter
they need to build into a CRISPR-Cas9 en- D. none of above
zyme? TTA CCG
96. Internal factors include
A. AAU GGC
A. Drugs, Hormones, and Temperature
B. AAT GGC B. Temperature, Light, and Radiation
C. TTA CCG C. Chemicals, Metabolism, and light
D. GCC ATT D. Hormones, Metabolism, and Gender

1.2 Epigenetics 29
97. First filial generation 103. Molecular biologists are discovering fac-
A. p generation tors that influence your DNA other than
what you have inherited from mom and

B. F1 generation dad. Scientists call this
C. F2 generation
A. nature versus nurture
D. none of above
B. magic
98. When a gene is expressed, what is made?
C. epigenetics
A. a biologically active product like a pro-
tein D. lamarckism
B. a protein that is biologically active of 104. The epigenome refers to while the
shut down until some point in future genome refers to
C. mRNA A. DNA; methyl and acetyl tags
D. miRNA
B. DNA; DNA
99. What is the location in the cell for tran- C. Methyl tags; Acetyl tags
scription?
D. Methyl and acetyl tags; DNA
A. nucleus
B. cytoplasm 105. Parental generation
C. ribosome A. P generation
D. mitochondria B. F1 generation
100. DNA holds the code for C. F2 generation
A. lipids D. none of above
B. carbohydrates
106. This term refers to the chemical tags that
C. protein
affect gene function and may be passed on
D. sugar through generations.
101. What is Epigenetics? A. genome
A. The study of genetics. B. methylation
B. The study of the center of cells. C. epigenome
C. The study of mutations.
D. autosomes
D. The study of when certain genes are
expressed. 107. If genetics are described as the entire set
of genes, which of the following describes
102. DNA controls a stem cells potential to
what genes are expressed and shown in
change in structure and function. The pro-
genotype and phenotype?
cess which controls the future of a cell is-
A. epigenetics
A. Cell Differentiation
B. RNA Translation B. haploid
C. DNA Transcription C. diploid
D. Cell Transformation D. meiosos

1.2 Epigenetics 30
108. Which of the following would result in a D. None of these

frameshift mutation?
A. Insertions only 114. DNA wrapped around a set of 8 histone
proteins is called a
B. Substitution only
C. Deletion only A. Chromatin
D. Insertions and Deletions B. Nucleosome
109. An organism that has two identical alle- C. DNA Packing
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les for a trait D. Chromosome
A. homozygous
B. heterozygous 115. Which of the following is NOT relevant
to an organism’s epigenetics?
C. haploid
A. its intracellular environment
D. diploid
B. its extracellular environment
110. Which of the following is passed down
from one cell to the next during mitosis? C. its lifestyle
A. epigenetic characteristics D. its descendants
B. genotype
116. The process to go from mRNA to a pro-
C. phenotype
tein is called
D. none of above
A. transcription
111. Epigenetics refers to changes in:
B. rRNA
A. DNA sequence
C. replication
B. Gene structure
C. Gene expression D. translation
D. DNA frequency 117. What does the cas9 protein do?

112. How many amino acids are coded for by A. Prevents viruses from entering bacte-
this sequence of nucleotides:ATG GGA ACT ria
CCA
B. Cut RNA
A. 4
B. 2 C. Cut DNA
C. 6 D. Binds to RNA
D. 12
118. What type of athletes have the ACTN3
113. A specialized cell is gene
A. A base cell that can become any cell A. marathon runner
B. A cell that has differentiated from a B. golfer
stem cell due to gene expression
C. world-class sprinter
C. A cell that has mutated from a stem
cell D. cross-country skier

1.3 Paleobotany 31
119. The cell’s ability to produce a biologically B. epigenome

active protein without altering the under- C. microgenetics
lying DNA is known as

D. RNA codon
A. gene expression
B. central dogma 124. Which of the following is a monohybrid
cross homozygous recessive trait?
C. epigenetics
A. GG
D. genome
B. gg
120. Histones are
C. Gg
A. proteins that DNA wraps around
D. none of above
B. the complex of DNA wrapped around a
nucleosome 125. the study of the processes and results of
C. a DNA/mRNA complex inherited traits
D. another term for chromatin A. genetics

B. meiosis
121. Internal epigenetic factors include
C. phenotype
A. Drugs, Hormones, and Temperature
D. diploid
B. Temperature, Light, and Radiation
C. Chemicals, Metabolism, and light 126. Which is NOT a factor of Natural Selec-
tion?
D. Hormones, Metabolism, and Gender
A. variation
122. Original:ATC CATMutation:ATC GCATWhat
B. competition
mutation occurred?
C. mutation
A. deletion
D. acquired characteristics
B. insertion
C. silent 127. An allele whose trait always shows up in
the organism when the allele is present.
D. transverse
A. dominant allele
123. The chemical compound modifications to
the DNA code that can tell the DNA code B. heterozygous
what to do C. homozygous
A. genome D. monohybrid cross
1.3 Paleobotany
1. Which is most likely the cause of extinction 2. Who is the one who discovered plant evo-
of prehistoric plants? lution?
A. Lack of sunshine A. Albert Einstein
B. Climate change B. Isaac Newton
C. Prescence of epiphytes C. Agnes Arber
D. Prescence of poisonous fish D. Charles Darwin

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1.4 Palynology
1. Glass evidence is: 6. What is the first step in a forensic soil com-
parison?
A. class
A. low-power microscopic examination
B. individual
B. high-power microscopic examination
C. direct
C. pH test
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D. both class and individual depending on
the situation D. color comparison
7. Hair without a root attached is what type

2. The central core of the hair (the tube that
of evidence?
runs down the middle) is called the ?
A. Class
A. Medulla
B. Individual
B. Cuticle
C. unknown
C. Cortex
D. all of the above
D. Shaft
8. Flowers are large, brightly coloured,
3. Diameter of the medulla is 0.2 and di- Scented, Produce nectaries generally pro-
ameter of the hair is 0.4. What is the mote pollination
medullary index?
A. Anemophily
A. 2.5 B. hydrophily
B. 0.5 C. malacophily
C. 0.1 D. entomophily
D. cannot be determined
9. Latropalynology is the study of
4. The portion of hair in which nuclear DNA A. pollen in air
can be found. B. Pollen in honey
A. Medulla C. Pollen in medicinal aspects
B. Root D. Pollen in excrements
C. Cuticle
10. The pole neareast to the centre of tetrad
D. Cortex of a pollen is
A. distal pole
5. Synchronous or simultaneous maturation
of anthers and stigma of the same flower B. proximal pole
is called C. equatorial pole
A. Cliestogamy D. none of the above
B. homogamy
11. Refers to small evidence like hairs of
C. heterogamy fibers
D. none of the above A. physical evidence

1.5 Phytochemistry 33
B. trace evidence A. heterostyly

C. suspect
B. heteromorphism

D. witness
C. herkogamy
12. Self Pollination is prevented by Physical
barriers called D. Dichogamy
1.5 Phytochemistry
1. Suspension cultures should be subcultured D. Streptoccocus pneumonae
after every
6. Auxin autotrophy is found in
A. 4 to 6 weeks
A. N.glauca
B. 1 to 2 days
B. N.langsdorffi
C. 3 to 14 days
C. Rangpur orange
D. 2 to 3 days
D. Both A and B
2. In a batch culture when the level of the
rapid increase in cell numbers termed as 7. Calcareous soil contains % of Loam.
A. Log phase A. 10%
B. Mid phase B. 20%
C. Stationary phase C. 25%
D. lag phase D. 30%
3. IN batch culture when the cell number or 8. Strychnine is used as a effective

biomass remains unchanged is known as A. Fungicides
A. Log phase B. Rodenticides
B. Stationary phase C. Insecticides
C. Lag phase D. Weedicides
D. Mid phase 9. Strawberry plant is
4. The continuous culture is of A. Octaploid
A. Closed type B. Hexaploid
B. Open culture C. Diploid
C. Both of the above D. Haploid.
D. Lower type 10. In a batch culture when the cell number
5. Which of the following is a type of biofer- gradually declines is termed as
tilizer? A. Mid phase
A. Pseudomonas aeruginosa B. Log phase
B. Bacillus subtilis C. Lag phase
C. Rhizobium azobacter D. Stationary phase

1.6 Plant anatomy 34
11. Which of the following is a physical agent 15. Raphandobrassica has number of chro-
used in polyploidy? mosoms.
A. Mercuric chloride A. 3n=28
B. Nitrous oxide B. 2n=12
C. Carbon dioxide C. 4n=36
D. Abcissic acid D. 5n=25
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16. Which of the following is used in the cul-
12. Protoplast are the cells devoid of
ture of regeneration protoplasts, single
A. Cell membrane cells or very dilute cell suspensions
B. Cell wall A. Nurse medium
C. Both of the above B. Nurse or feeder culture
D. None of the above C. Both of the above
D. All of the above
13. FITC stands for
17. In batch culture the cell number of biomass
A. fluorescein isothiocyanate
exhibits typical
B. Fluoro iso tetra carbol. A. Sigmoidal curve
C. Fluorine iso ti chloro. B. Trigonal curve
D. None of the above. C. Linear curve
14. The size of clay soil particles lies in the D. None of the above
range of 18. Raphandobrassica is in nature.
A. 0.002-0.02 mm A. Diploid
B. 0.02-2 mm B. Haploid
C. 0.03-0.05 C. Amphiloid
D. 0.2-0.5 D. Amphidiploid
1.6 Plant anatomy

1. Increase surface area of root: C. hydrogen
A. Apical meristem D. chlorophyll
B. Root Cap
3. How many growth rings (layers of xylem)
C. Vascular Cylinder
should a 3 year old tree have?
D. Root Hairs
A. 2
2. Which of these is a necessary requirement
for photosynthesis to occur? B. 3
A. carbohydrates C. 5
B. oxygen D. none of above

4. Tissue type that includes root hairs, tri- 10. Xylem and phloem are examples of what
chomes, and guard cells. tissue type?

A. dermal A. Vascular tissue
B. vascular B. Root tissue
C. ground C. Dermal tissue

D. Ground tissue
D. none of above
11. Apical meristem is located at
5. Chlorophyll is
A. only at the very top of a plant
A. produced during photosynthesis.
B. only at the bottom of a plant
B. found mainly in the roots. C. at the very top and bottom of a plant
C. a green substance that traps sunlight. D. none of above
D. none of above
12. A modified leaf that surround the repro-
6. What is bran? ductive parts of flowers. They are often
brightly colored or unusually shaped to at-
A. A type of Cereal tract pollinators-insects, bugs, and birds.
B. The edible, outer layer of the kernel. A. sepal
C. Inside part of kernel B. pistil
D. made of proteins and starches C. petal
D. stamen
7. These are tubelike cells that transport wa-
ter and nutrients 13. Which is a way animals can help spread
seeds?
A. xylem
A. Eating fruit.
B. cambium
B. Eating leaves.
C. veins
C. Digging up plants.
D. vascular tissue D. Eating stems.
8. The two groups of seed plants are 14. Transpiration occurs mainly through
A. angiosperms and gymnosperms A. flower bud
B. vascular and nonvascular B. epidermis
C. spores and seeds C. cuticle
D. short and tall D. stomata
15. Which structure inside the ovary contains
9. embryos with two cotyledons
egg cells?
A. Dicots A. Ovules
B. Monocots B. stigma
C. Enzymes C. peduncle
D. Organelles D. none of above

16. The process of water evaporating from the 22. Which part of the flower is responsible for
leaves is known as covering the plant before it blooms?
A. Evaporation A. stigma
B. Gravitropism B. stamen
C. Transpiration C. sepal
D. xylem D. pistil
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23. The central vein is also called
17. Multiple epidermis is found in
A. midbrib
A. Sugarcane leaf
B. margin
B. Nerium leaf
C. apex
C. maize leaf
D. none of above
D. Jowar leaf
24. All events below occurs in sink tissue, ex-
18. Radial vascular bundles are found in ? cept
A. Dicot root A. Water potential increases
B. Monocot stem B. Water enters sieve elements from
xylem
C. Dicot stem
C. Higher(+ve) solute potential
D. All the above
D. Phloem turgor pressure decrease
19. What is the cotyledon’s job? 25. Water moves in bryophytes by means of
A. feed the seed A. diffusion
B. protect the seed B. phloem
C. reproduction C. xylem
D. it has no function D. active transport
20. Sunflower belongs to the family 26. The of the plant supports it and holds
it upright.
A. Magnoliaceae
A. root
B. Oliaceae
B. stem
C. Asteraceae
C. leave
D. Liliaceae
D. flower
21. What molecules are produced by cellular 27. A plant growing in response to the sun-
respiration? light.
A. Water & glucose A. Gravitropism
B. Water, carbon dioxide & ATP B. Phototropism
C. Glucose, oxygen & ATP C. Thigmotropism
D. Oxygen & ATP D. Hydrotropism

28. open and close the stomata. C. Stomata

A. Guard cells D. Xylem

B. Xylem
34. Which of the following characteristics of
C. Roots plants is absent in their closest relatives,
D. Phloem the charophyte algae?
29. Plants carry out respiration A. chlorophyll b
A. during the day. B. cellulose in cell walls

B. at night. C. alternation of generations
C. day and night. D. sexual reproduction
D. none of above
35. What is the function of phloem tissue?
30. The plant tissue that carries food materials A. Transport water and minerals
DOWNWARD from the leaves to the rest
of the pant is the B. Support plants
A. Phloem C. Photosynthesis process occur
B. Stomata D. Transports glucose and other nutri-
C. Chlorophyll ents
D. Xylem 36. This forms from the ovary and surrounds

the seed.
31. The vascular tissue in plants that trans-
ports water and other fluids throughout A. fruit
the plant:
B. vegetable
A. phloem
C. flower
B. xylem
D. pollen
C. roots
D. veins 37. In what part of the flower does fertiliza-
tion take place?
32. The are absent in the epidermis of a
dicot plant leaf. A. anther
A. Stomata B. stigma
B. Bulliform Cells C. ovary
C. Epidermis D. filament
D. Stele
38. Which living thing can make its own food?
33. What type of vascular tissue is responsi- A. alligator
ble for transporting water from the roots
to the leaves? B. plant
A. Cuticle C. rabbit
B. Phloem D. none of above

39. Which of these structures is a gameto- D. all of the above.

phyte on an angiosperm?
45. Why do bees need nectar?
A. leaves
A. to eat
B. stems
B. to sleep
C. roots
C. for honey
D. pollen
D. to be sticky
40. Which of the following is the stem of the
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46. AGE OF A TREE CAN BE ESTIMATED BY
leaf?
A. ITS HEIGHT AND GIRTH
A. Petiole
B. BIOMASS
B. Leaf Blade
C. NUMBER OF ANNUAL RINGS
C. Internode
D. none of above
D. Node
47. What is the spreading of seeds in new ar-
41. Which part of the root absorbs the mois- eas called?
ture and minerals?
A. Scattering
A. Medium roots
B. Dispersal
B. Root roots
C. Disposal
C. Root canal
D. Pollination
D. Root hairs
48. The important gases, carbon dioxide and
42. What part of the female part of the flower oxygen, enter and leave the leaf through
gathers pollen? the
A. Ovary A. upper epidermis
B. Style B. phloem
C. Filament C. stomata
D. Stigma D. guard cells
43. Secondary growth increases of the 49. In which part of the plant do you find the
plant. seeds?
A. Age A. Fruit
B. Length B. Seed
C. Girth C. Flower
D. none of above D. Hydroponics
44. The stamen is 50. A pollen-producing male reproductive or-

gan of a flower that has pollen in it.
A. the male part of the flower.
A. stoma
B. the part of the flower that produces
pollen. B. stable
C. the part of the flower that holds the an- C. sepal
ther. D. stamen

51. cells open and close the stomata 57. What process do plants go through to cre-
ate glucose
A. palisade

A. Cellular Respiration
B. guard
B. Photosynthesis
C. xylem
C. Light Reaction
D. epidermis
D. Calvin Cycle
52. are plants that produce naked, or not
58. Which structure is the main site of photo-
covered, seeds.
synthesis?
A. Nonvascular A. stem
B. Vascular B. roots
C. Gymnosperms C. leaves
D. Angiosperms D. flowers
53. Attracts animals that help the parent plant 59. This part of the plant acts like an “eleva-
with seed dispersal tor” carrying nutrients to the plant.
A. pollen A. roots
B. leaves B. stem
C. stems C. leaves
D. fruits D. flower
60. Which type of plant lives the longest?

54. Plants with seeds in cones are called?
A. annual
A. gymnosperms
B. biennial
B. angiosperms
C. perennial
C. flowers
D. none of above
D. mosses
61. Where do photosynthesis & respiration
55. Three nutrients that help plants grow are take place?
A. phosphorus, nirtogen, and potassium A. flower
B. nitrogen, oxygen, and potassium B. leaves
C. potassium, hydrogen, and neon C. stem

D. roots
D. none of above
62. The cells in this part of a root make the the
56. What does external mean tips of the root grow longer:
A. A structure on the outside A. meristem
B. A structure on the inside B. root cap
C. A structure surrounding something C. vascular cylinder
D. A structure around something D. none of above

63. The stalks in a flower that produce the B. Root system

male reproductive cells
C. Soil
A. pistil
D. Endocrine system
B. stamen
C. filament 69. Study of plants’ internal structure.
D. stigma A. Plant Ecology
B. Plant Anatomy
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64. What type of vascular tissue is responsible
for transporting the sugars made in photo- C. Plant Morphology
synthesis from the leaves to the roots?
D. Plant Physiology
A. Cuticle
B. Phloem 70. A flower that has only just male or just
female reproductive structures
C. Stomata
D. Xylem A. Plants
B. Perfect flower
65. Which tissue provides support and mechan-
ical strength to the plant? C. Imperfect flower
A. parenchyma tissue D. Weed
B. sclerenchyma tissue
71. The cell organelle where photosynthesis
C. xylem tissue occurs in plant cells is the
D. collenchyma tisssue A. chloroplast
66. The two structures that limit transpiration B. mitochondrion
or regulate water loss in the plant are
C. vacuole
known as
A. Guard cells and xylem D. nucleus
B. Stomata and guard cells 72. What are the main parts of a plant?
C. xylem and phloem A. buds and leaves
D. stomata and phloem
B. soil and sugar
67. Which of the following cell types does not C. leaves, roots, and stems
originate form epidermal tissues?
D. none of above
A. Root hair
B. Trichomes 73. Which of the following actively divides
and produces alternating layers of xylem
C. Guard cells
and phloem?
D. Vessel elements
A. Outer bark
68. Above-ground part of a plant that includes
B. Pith
the organs such as leaves, buds, stems,
flowers (if the plant has any), and fruits: C. Vascular cambium
A. Shoot system D. Cork cambium

74. This part of the plant holds the plant in the 80. Development of methods for the grouping
ground and gets water and nutrients from of plants
the soil.

A. Plant Ecology
A. stem B. Plant Systematics
B. leaves C. Plant taxonomy
C. flower D. Plant Physiology
D. roots
81. The structures that are part of bark include
75. When the seed gets the proper amount of cork, cork cambium, and
sunlight, air, and water the seed is going A. vascular cambium.
through
B. secondary xylem.
A. pollen
C. heartwood.
B. watering
D. phloem.
C. germination
D. metamorphosis 82. Which process is a major source of oxygen
in the atmosphere?
76. What is the job of the root cap? A. evaporation
A. Store food B. photosynthesis
B. Collect sunlight C. precipitation
C. Protect the root from damage D. respiration
D. Absorb water and minerals
83. In which type of growth response does the
77. Xylem and phloem tissue are found in this plant grow in response to touch?
part of the root: A. Hydrotropism
A. vascular cylinder B. Heliotropism
B. meristem C. Geotropism
C. root cap D. Thigmotropism
D. root hairs
84. Where does photosynthesis happen?
78. What two parts does a plant cell have that A. In the leaves
an animal cell does not.
B. In the stem
A. cell membrane and cell wall
C. In the flower
B. cell wall and chloroplast
D. In the roots
C. mitochondria and vacuoles
D. none of above 85. A root system having one or a few main
roots that are thicker and longer than the
79. The shoot of a plant growing up. other roots of the plant.
A. Positive Gravitropism A. taproot system
B. Negative Gravitropism B. root hair system
C. Thigmotropism C. fibrous root system
D. Hydrotropism D. rootbeer system

86. What are kernels? 92. The Xylem in plants transport what
A. Small, separate dry fruits produced by throughout the plant?
some grains. A. Sunlight
B. Nuts
B. Oxygen
C. Husks
C. Blood
D. corn
D. Water
87. How else can pollen be moved besides pol-
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linators?
93. The fertilizing element of flowering
A. Sunlight plants; fine, powdery, yellowish grains
B. Wind or spores?
C. Snow A. chlorophyll
D. Hail B. pollen
88. The part of the plant that makes food. C. seedling
A. stem
D. ovary
B. leaves
C. roots 94. Almost all plants need these things except
D. flower for
89. Chemical pest controls are dangerous to us A. water

because: B. sunlight
A. Depletes aquifers
C. soil
B. Causes soil erosion
D. oxygen
C. Causes death of keystone species due
to poisoning
95. Waxy layer that covers the surface of the
D. Increases pH levels of the soil leaf and reduces water loss:
90. Which plant organ system does the flower A. Stoma
belong to?
B. Epidermis
A. the vascular system
B. the root stem C. Veins
C. the reproductive system D. Cuticle

D. the dermal system
96. The absorb sunlight to help make food
91. Which vessels carry nutrients and water for the plant.
up a plant?
A. seed
A. Pholem
B. stem
B. Xylem
C. Veins C. roots
D. Vascular bundles D. leaves

97. Which is most likely to happen when sto- 102. Why do you have to change out the pots
mates are open? that plants are planted in?
A. Soil becomes to wet

A. CO2 will leave the leaf
B. Guard cells will lose water and become B. Roots are constantly growing
flacid C. Water won’t soak into soil
C. transpiration will shut down D. Plants need reenergized
D. water is released 103. Which plant hormone speeds up plant

growth by stimulating cell enlargement?
98. Which of the following animals help to A. Cytokinin
carry pollen grains from the anthers to the
B. Auxin
stigma? A) Ant B) Bee C) Butterfly D) Fruit
fly C. Gibberellin
A. A and B only D. Inhibitor
B. B and C only 104. What part of the female part of the

flower is the place that holds the eggs?
C. A, B, C only
A. Ovary
D. B, C and D only
B. Style
99. What is the part of the flower that is C. Filament
brightly colored to attract pollinators? D. Stigma
A. Petals 105. What do you call a substance that is
B. Stamen added to soil to help a plant produce
food?
C. Pistil
A. Fertilizer
D. Sepals
B. Dirt
100. The part of a flower that protects the C. Worms
flower while in bud are the D. Photosynthesis
A. sepals 106. The underground part that absorbs water
B. petals and minerals from soil.
C. corolla A. Leaves
B. Stem
D. petiole
C. Petals
101. As living individuals grow and reproduce D. Roots
their response to environmental stimuli
may include 107. Bees’ original motive to go from flower
to flower are to get to what?
A. Movement
A. stamen
B. Increase in size B. nectar
C. Change in postition C. pollen
D. All of these D. none of above

108. After photosynthesis, plants store their 114. Which structure in the leaf controls the
glucose as in plants . opening and closing of the stoma?
A. starch A. cuticle
B. pigment B. epidermis
C. sugar C. guard cell
D. Oxygen D. spongy mesophyll
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109. What is the green color in leaves called? 115. Which of the following is NOT an exter-
A. Chlorine nal factor affecting transpiration
B. Chloride A. Temperature
C. Chlorophyll B. Wind and air movement
D. Chloe C. Relative humidity
110. Vascular plants with seeds are split into D. Rain

what two groups? 116. In a plant, the roots
A. angiosperms & bryosperms A. draw up water and minerals
B. gymnosperms & angiosperms B. convert sunlight to energy
C. gametophytes & sporophytes
C. make and store food
D. sporophytes & gymnosperms
D. perform transpiration
111. Roots absorb and for plants?
117. Leaves need nutrients and water to
A. Water and Nutrients
A. Make food for the plant
B. Soil and Sun
B. Make energy for the plant.
C. Warmth and Water
C. Keep the plant cool in the summer.
D. Soil and Water
D. Make water.
112. This structure holds nonvascular seedless
plants into the ground 118. The four features seed plants have in
common are roots, stems, leaves, and
A. roots
A. angiosperm
B. saprophyte
B. xylem
C. rhizoid
C. fronds
D. cones
D. vascular tissue
113. structure of nucleic acids and proteins
which carries genetic information in the 119. The main source of energy for all life
form of genes comes from
A. Dicotyledons A. the Earth
B. Conifers B. the moon
C. Monocots C. the sun
D. Chromosome D. the food we eat/make

120. What part of the leaf is responsible for C. Leaf Blade

gas exchange? D. Node

A. pallisade cells
126. Which structure of the plant is responsi-
B. spongy mesophyll ble for transport?
C. cotyledon A. Flower
D. stomata and guard cells B. Leaf
121. Which of the following is NOT a function C. Stem
of the flower? D. Root
A. Be attractive 127. Which of these is NOT a plant tissue?
B. Female reproductive parts A. leaf
C. Male Reproductive parts B. ground
D. Control Hydration C. vascular
122. What are the 3 main plant organs? D. dermal
A. dermal, vascular, ground 128. What part of a plant collects sunlight?
B. roots, stems, leaves A. seed
C. roots, stems, flowers B. root
D. roots, ground, vascular C. leaf
D. stem
123. A eukaryotic, multicellular producer or-
ganism in the kingdom Plantae with tis- 129. Which best states the role of the pollen
sues, cell walls containing cellulose, and tube?
plastids. A. produces pollen grains in the stamen
A. plant B. transports sperm to the embryo sac
B. node C. protects pollen during air travel
C. vein D. all of the above
D. blade
130. Which part of the plant is responsible for
124. chloroplasts trap light energy is to water reproduction?
enters the leaf as sperm fertilizes the egg A. stem
cell is to B. roots
A. sugar leaves the leaf C. flower
B. oxygen is produced D. leaf
C. seeds grow into a new plant
131. Flowers that include both male and fe-
D. egg cells become a plant male reproductive structures
125. Which part of the plant attracts bees and A. Plants
other insects to aid in pollination? B. Perfect flower
A. Flower C. Imperfect flower
B. Fruit D. Weed

132. What is the male part of the flower? 138. This vegetable is an example of a root
A. Petals that we eat
A. cabbage
B. Stamen
B. orange
C. Pistil
C. green bean
D. Sepals
D. potato
133. In aquatic plants oarenchyma is mostly
139. Having only tender leaves and stems is
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modified into
characteristic of what type of plant?
A. Chlorenchyma
A. Deciduous
B. Collenchyma
B. Dormant
C. Idioblast
C. Woody
D. Aerenchyma D. Herbaceous
134. Phototropism 140. Which part of the seed is used for protec-
A. response to light tion?
B. response to tough A. seed leaf
C. response to gravity B. cotyledon
D. response to water C. embryo
D. seed coat
135. Extensions along the roots that increase
the root surface area are called? 141. Which of these is a structural adaptation
of the upper epidermis?
A. roots
A. Long, vertically arranged cells
B. root hairs
B. Transparent, no chloroplasts
C. leaves
C. Tightly packed
D. stem
D. Rounded shape
136. A plant native to which of the following
biomes is likely to have the thickest cuti- 142. Which plant parts carry sugars and other
cle? nutrients throughout the plant?
A. phloem
A. Tropical Rainforest
B. xylem
B. Desert
C. roots
C. Wetlands
D. leaves
D. Temperate Grasslands
143. Plants have three types of tissue der-
137. Stem mal, ground, and ?
A. supports the plant A. vascular
B. A flower B. epidermal
C. Part of a flower C. muscular
D. A plant D. skin

144. If the xylem in a young tree is damaged, 150. Which trait evolved first?
which process is first affected? A. seeds

A. performing photosynthesis B. stems
B. transporting sugar to the roots C. phloem
C. transporting water to the leaves D. xylem
D. absorbing water from the soil
151. Which of the following would tend to in-
145. What do apple trees have that both ferns crease transpiration?
and algae do not? A. a rainstorm
A. vascular tissue B. sunken stomata
B. spores C. a thicker cuticle
C. gametes D. higher stomatal density
D. pollen 152. Stickers, thorns, and other physical de-
146. A reasonable human comparison for the fenses are which type of tissue?
vascular bundle in plants could be A. collenchyma
A. the immune system B. epidermal
B. the circulatory system C. parenchyma
C. the nervous system D. sclerenchyma
D. the digestive system 153. This type of ground tissue makes up the
greatest part of a plant:
147. Eutrophication is when ?
A. collenchyma
A. A plant wilts due to lack of water
B. vascular
B. Fertilisers cause rivers and lakes to
lack oxygen C. parenchyma
C. Plants lack chlorophyll D. epidermal
D. Water and minerals flow into and out 154. If guard cells are swollen with water,
of a plant then the are more likely to be
148. The roots absorb what for the plant? A. OPEN with stomata
B. CLOSED with no stomata
A. Water and Nutrients
C. Cannot tell-the water amount doesn’t
B. Soil and Sun
affect it at all.
C. Warmth and Water
D. none of above
D. Tap and Fibrous
155. The of a plant use sunlight to make
149. Occurring once every year food.
A. annual A. leaves
B. perenial B. stem
C. monthly C. seedling
D. none of above D. none of above

156. The male structures of the flower 162. An organism who can make their own
A. Pistil food from the sun is known as a-
B. Stamen A. Heterotroph
C. Pollination B. Eukaryote
C. Autotroph
D. Petals
D. Prokaryote
157. The mesophyll is responsible for
163. Which item best describes the function of
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A. Photosynthesis
roots?
B. Gas exchange
A. Anchor the plant & absorb wa-
C. Storage ter/nutrients
D. All of the Above B. Site of photosynthesis
158. Through this process, light energy is used C. Develops into a new plant
to obtain electrons from water and pro- D. Attracts bees and birds for pollination
duce
164. Which part of the kernel contains the
A. Carbon dioxide plant’s food supply?
B. Oxygen A. Germ
C. Cellular respiration B. Endosperm
D. Photosynthesis C. bran
159. What is the main function of the roots D. none of above
A. To store water and food 165. In which part of the plant is pollen
B. To provide support and keep it stable made?
C. To absorb water and minerals in the A. Stamen
soil B. Petal
D. To stop soil erosion C. Sepal
160. Define the word function D. Stigma
A. The way something is built 166. What part of the flower turns into the
B. The purpose or activity what some- fruit?
thing is used for A. Seeds
C. The definition of an object B. Ovary
D. Why something does what it does C. Stamen
D. Sepals
161. Central zone of histogen theory in root
apex is named as 167. The cotyledon in an embryo becomes the
A. dermatogen A. stem
B. periblem B. roots
C. plerome C. flower
D. protoderm D. first leaves

168. soft, green stem like a daisy 174. What do we call the process of plants pro-
A. herbaceous stem ducing their own food?

B. woody stem A. Photosynthesis
C. fibrous root B. Dormancy
D. taproot C. Pollination
D. Growth
169. What soil nutrient is needed for a plant
to make proteins? 175. The photosynthetic cells in the interior of
A. Magnesium a leaf are what kind of cells?
B. Iron A. collenchyma
C. Potassium B. parenchyma
D. Nitrates C. scierenchyma
170. Structures of the root that protect the D. phloem

root from injuries as it grows deeper into 176. This is the main support of the plant.
the soil are called
A. Stem
A. root feathers
B. Root
B. root caps
C. Vein
C. root hairs
D. Leaf
D. root fingers
177. A MAJOR CHARACTERISTIC OF MONO-
171. Which of the following provides food for
COT ROOT IS THE PRESENCE OF
the embryo?
A. SCATTERED VASCULAR BUNDLES
A. Fruit
B. Endosperm B. VASCULATURE WITHOUT CAMBIUM
C. Cotyledon C. OPEN VASCULA BUNDLE
D. Vascular cambium D. none of above
172. is a substance inside a plant’s cell that 178. Transport water from cell to cell through
gives leaves their green color. the cell wall.
A. Chlorophyll A. vascular
B. Sun B. nonvascular
C. Soil C. leaves
D. Water D. stems
173. Which part is how most plants reproduce 179. To avoid nutrient loss, never cooked
and is where seeds are usually found? pasta.
A. Flower A. reheat
B. Bud B. rinse
C. Fruit C. cook
D. Leaf D. cool down

180. According to our current knowledge of C. Spores

plant evolution, which group of organisms D. none of above
should feature mitosis most similar to that
of land plants? 186. Monocot roots show type of vascular
A. unicellular green algae bundles.
B. cyanobacteria A. Radial
C. charophytes B. Conjoint
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D. red algae C. Concentric
181. In plant transport, the movement of liq- D. none of above
uid in response to the pressure gradient is
which of the following? 187. YOU ARE GIVEN A FAIRLY ONLY PIECE OF
DICOT STEM AND A DICOT ROOT. WHICH
A. osmosis OF THE FOLLOWING ANATOMICAL STRUC-
B. bulk flow TURE WILL YOU USE TO DISTINGUISH BE-
C. diffusion TWEEN THE TWO?
D. none of above A. SECONDARY XYLEM / PHLOEM

B. PROTOXYLEM
182. What is the function of the cuticle on a
leaf? C. CORTICAL CELLS
A. to keep water from entering the leaf D. none of above
B. to keep water from leaving the leaf
188. What does xylem transport?
C. to keep bacteria out of the leaf
A. Water and minerals
D. to keep oxygen in the leaf
B. Water only
183. All plants are classified based in to C. Sugar
A. vascular plants or nonvascular plants
D. Food
B. flowers or not
189. Which part of the flower is responsible
C. cuticle or not
for making seeds?
D. none of above
A. anther
184. The four main organs of the flower: B. sepal
A. Stamen, style, ovary, pistil
C. pistil
B. Petal, pistil, stamen, sepal
D. petal
C. Anther, petal, sepal, receptacle
D. Anther, petal, stamen, receptacle 190. The green color of leaves is caused by tiny
particles in the food-producing cells called
185. contain the sperm and egg cells of a
A. guard cells.
plant which is protected by a tough coat
inside a spore capsule. B. epidermis.
A. Conifers C. chloroplasts.
B. Sponges D. starch.

191. adenosine triphosphate, the molecule C. transpiration

which provides the energy in the cells of D. transportation
all living things

197. What is it called when seeds move from
A. Chromosome
one place to another?
B. ATP
A. germination
C. Photosynthesis
B. seed dispersal
D. Gamete
C. life cycle
192. Vascular tissue that transports water D. seedling
and minerals UPWARDS from a plant’s
roots is know as 198. What causes the stoma to open?
A. Chlorophyll A. Leaves placed in dark areas.

B. Water moving into the guard cells.
B. Phloem
C. Leaves that are suffering in a drought.
C. Stomata
D. Water moving out of the guard cells.
D. Xylem
199. The epidermis of the leaf
193. The growth and movement of a plant part
in response to touch. A. Is responsible for photosynthesis
A. thigmotropism B. Protects the leaf

C. Keeps water in the leaf
B. phototropism
D. Stores water and food
C. gravitropism
D. touch induced reactions 200. The part of plant that grow underground:
A. spinach
194. What two things do plants need to do the
PROCESS of photosynthesis? B. cauliflower
A. Carbon dioxide & water C. lemon
B. Oxygen & water D. carrot
C. Sugar & water 201. Plants that grow best in temperatures of

60-75 degrees F are known as:
D. Carbon dioxide & Sugar
A. Warm Season
195. In roots, where are phloem and xylem lo- B. Cool Season
cated?
C. Both of these
A. In the center
D. Neither of these
B. Arranged in rings
202. Helps the plant to anchor to the soil and
C. In the root cap
get water and nutrients.
D. Immediately under the surface cells
A. Leaves
196. The loss of water in plants is called? B. Stems
A. evaporation C. Roots
B. condensation D. Odd shapes

203. The part of the flower that is under the 209. A plant that is filled with moisture is con-
petals sidered to be
A. Stem A. Turgid
B. Roots B. Wilted
C. Sepal C. Deciduous
D. Stalk D. Evergreen
210. What part of the seed helps to protect
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204. Xylem and Phloem are both
the embryo?
A. Transpiration A. embryo
B. Absorption B. seed coat
C. Photosynthesis C. root
D. Vascular tissue D. leaves
205. Sugar and the products of photosynthesis 211. Which is a primary stimulus that makes a
move through the plant in stem from a seed grow up and out of the
ground, instead of down into it?
A. the phloem cells
A. air
B. the xylem cells
B. gravity
C. the root hair cells
C. light
D. palisade mesophyll layer
D. pressure
206. Which part of the plant soaks in the sun 212. Water and dissolved minerals are carried
to help feed the plant? from the roots to the rest of a plant by the
A. stem A. dermal tissue
B. root B. ground tissue
C. seed C. xylem
D. leaf D. phloem
207. The reproductive part of the plant that 213. The vascular cambium and cork cambium
attracts bees and butterflies are examples of
A. Petals A. Intercalery meristem
B. Flower B. Lateral meristem
C. Stem C. Apical meristem

D. Primary meristem
D. Stigma
214. Select the plants that reproduce by using
208. Two examples of vascular tissue are: spores.
A. Xylem and Sugars A. Gymnosperms
B. Stems and Flowering plants B. Angiosperms
C. Xylem and Phloem C. Seedless vascular plants
D. Xylem and Stems D. none of above

215. VASCULAR BUNDLE IN MONOCOTYLE- C. Leaf

DONS ARE CONSIDERED CLOSED BECAUSE
D. Flower

A. CAMBIUM IS ABSENT 221. A region of active cell division where pri-
B. XYLEM IS SURROUNDED ALL AROUND mary growth occurs is the
BY PHLOEM A. Internode
C. A BUNDLE SHEATH SURROUNDS EACH B. Apical meristem
BUNDLE
C. Root nodule
D. none of above
D. none of above
216. Located at tip of stem & roots for primary
growth 222. A root system having a cluster of roots
A. lateral meristem that are about equal in size and lacking a
taproot.
B. apical meristem
A. fibrous root system
C. root hair
B. taproot system
D. hypocotyl
C. root hair system
217. Regions containing actively dividing cells-
D. rootbeer system
A. Phloem
B. Guard Cells 223. What is the process that plants use to
C. Meristem make food?
D. Xylem A. Globosynthesis
B. Photosynthesis
218. Where does water and minerals enter on
the root? C. Picturesynthesis
A. Epidermis D. Slowmosynthesis
B. Primary Root
224. Contains xylem and phloem within the
C. Root Cap leaf:
D. Apical Meristem A. Mesophyll
219. A stem may carry out all of the following B. Veins
functions except
C. Epidermis
A. storing nutrients.
D. Stoma
B. absorbing water from the soil.
C. transporting food to the roots. 225. One function (or job) of a plant’s leaf is
to
D. conducting photosynthesis.
A. Take in sunlight.
220. Part of plant that anchors it into the
ground B. Give the plant shade.
A. Root C. Convert water to carbon dioxide.
B. Stem D. Be green.

226. how do gases diffuse in and out of a 232. Which plant structure is the primary site
leaf? of photosynthesis?
A. xylem A. Root
B. stomata B. Stem
C. phloem
C. Leaf
D. mesophyll
D. Flower
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227. How much of our atmosphere is made up
of nitrogen gas? 233. Actively carries products from photosyn-
A. 58% thesis anywhere around a plant?
B. 28% A. Xylem
C. 78% B. Vascular bundles
D. none of above C. Veins
228. Bulliform cells are found in epidermis of D. Phloem
A. Maize leaf
234. What happens to light energy during pho-
B. Mango leaf
tosynthesis?
C. Ficus leaf
A. it is converted to chlorophyll
D. papaya leaf
B. it is converted to stored energy
229. Plants are:
C. it leaves the plant through the roots
A. multicellular eukaryotes
D. it leaves the plant through transpira-
B. unicellular eukaryotes
tion
C. prokaryotes
D. none of above 235. Which part of the flower makes and holds
pollen?
230. Plants with tube-like vessels that carry
water, minerals and food throughout the A. stigma
plant (xylem and phloem) B. ovary
A. vascular plants
C. pistil
B. nonvascular plants
D. anther
C. flowering plants
D. spore producing plants 236. Plant cells that are specialized for cell di-
vision are most likely found in what part
231. This type of cell is responsible for open- of the plant?
ing and closing the stomata.
A. root tips
A. tracheid
B. guard cell B. leaf epidermis
C. companion cell C. stem epidermis

D. spongy mesophyll D. vascular tissue

237. Fill in the blank:The is like an elevator 243. Identify the statement which is incorrect
because it moves the water and nutrients about Heart wood. It
to the rest of the plant.

A. is centrally located secondary xylem
A. Root B. has deposits of tannin, resin, gum etc
B. Flower C. is very hard and durable
C. Stem D. Conducts water
D. Seeds
244. ROOT HAIRS DEVELOP FROM THE RE-
238. Histogen theory was proposed by GION OF
A. Hofmeister A. MERISTEMATIC ACTIVITY
B. Hanstein B. ROOT CAP
C. Schmidt C. MATURATION
D. Guttenberg D. none of above
239. Agronomy is the applied plant science 245. Plants that grow towards the sunlight is
that includes all of the following EXCEPT? known as
A. Trees A. geotropism
B. Wheat B. thermotropism
C. Soybeans C. phototropism
D. Cotton D. thigmotropism
240. The part of the plant that water travels 246. The part of the stamen that produces
through. pollen grains is the
A. xylem A. anther
B. phloem B. pistil
C. seed C. filament
D. stigma D. ovary
241. Which of the following specifically brings 247. Which of the following is NOT a function
glucose (sugar) and nutrients to the of roots?
roots? A. Store food
A. xylem B. Absorb water
B. phloem C. Anchor the plant
C. petiole D. Make food
D. roots
248. Which part of the plant produces glu-
242. of water is absorbed through: cose?
A. primary root A. roots
B. root hairs B. stem
C. secondary root C. leaf
D. tap root D. flower

249. Water loss to the atmosphere from the 255. The non-green parts of the plant
leaves occurs primarily through
A. get their nutrients from raw sap.
A. Vacuoles
B. get their nutrients from elaborated
B. Stomates
sap.
C. Petioles
C. need water to carry out photosynthe-
D. Xylem sis.
250. Which part of the plant is NOT used for
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D. none of above
reproduction?
A. leaves 256. The radial vascular bundle is the charac-
B. spores teristic of
C. flowers A. Stem
D. cones B. Leaf
251. The two type of vascular tissue in plants C. Floral bud
are the and the ?
D. Root
A. bark, wood
B. ground, dermal 257. After fertilization what does the ovule
develop into?
C. roots, stem
D. phloem, xylem A. Fruit
252. A long, thick-walled cell that supports a B. Bud

plant. C. Seed
A. fiber
D. Flower
B. phloem
C. xylem 258. What molecule absorbs sunlight for pho-
tosynthesis?
D. vein
A. chloroplast
253. The structure that transports food out of
the leaf is B. thylakoid
A. xylem C. grana
B. phloem D. chlorophyll
C. bundle sheath
D. chloroplast 259. Stomata are open when the guard cells
are , and curving (Think carefully!
254. A plant has thorns & poisonous leaves to you have 2 mins for this question).
A. turgid, less
A. defend itself
B. turgid, more
B. breathe
C. make food C. flaccid, less
D. move around D. flaccid, more

260. The vascular conducting tissue in plants 266. Which tissue type is found in the center
that transports nutrients (food) through- of a root that helps to transport water and
out the plant: minerals throughout the plant?

A. phloem A. Vascular
B. seed B. Dermal
C. xylem C. Ground
D. pollen D. Epidermal
261. The area of the stem where the leaf de- 267. In order to convert the sun’s energy into
velops a form that they can use, plants perform:
A. Node A. Aerobic
B. Internode B. Carbon dioxide
C. Bud C. Cellular respiration
D. none of above D. Photosynthesis
262. In colder climates (in coniferous trees) 268. The first root that germinates from a
xylem is made of: seed is the
A. sieve tubes A. taproot
B. companion cells B. radicle
C. vessel elements C. cotyledon
D. tracheids D. none of these
263. The food that a plant makes is 269. Vascular tissue that carries water from
A. sugar or glucose roots to leaves
B. water A. Pith
C. oxygen B. Phloem
D. carbon dioxide C. Xylem
D. Cambium
264. Most of the chloroplast cells for photo-
synthesis are found in the 270. Sticky tip of the style
A. upper epidermis A. petiole
B. pallisade mesophyll B. stigma
C. lower epidermis C. sepal
D. stomata D. bud
265. Which plant part carries water and min- 271. The part of the flower where the seed
erals throughout the plant? begins to grow.
A. Leaf A. stamen
B. Flower B. leaves
C. Stem C. pistil
D. Roots D. roots

272. Which plant hormone works with auxins B. warm, dry day
to stimulate cell division C. warm, humid day
A. Cytokinin D. cool, humid day
B. Auxin
278. The two parts of plants are:
C. Gibberellin A. germination
D. Inhibitor B. plantation
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273. In any given plant, the majority of grana C. root and shoot
may ultimately be found in the D. budding
A. Palisade Mesophyll 279. What plant process on the roots and
B. Upper Epidermis stems helps increase the plant’s length?
C. Bundle Sheath A. primary growth
D. Spongy Mesophyll B. secondary growth
C. photosynthesis
274. What do plants release during photosyn-
thesis? D. cellular respiration
A. Water 280. What type of food does a plant make?
B. Sugar A. hamburger
C. Oxygen B. water
D. Carbon Dioxide C. sugar
D. none of above
275. The cells that control the stoma are the
cells? 281. Hormone related to the growth of the
A. guard plant in response to tropisms
A. Auxin
B. tackle
B. Cytokinins
C. stoma
C. Ethylene
D. helper
D. Absisic acid
276. Which plant hormone stimulates cell elon-
gation, premature flowering, and breaking 282. The xylem and phloem make up the
of dormancy A. plants protection system.
A. Cytokinin B. plants vascular bundles.
B. Auxin C. plants root system.
C. Gibberellin D. plants photosynthesis system.
D. Inhibitor 283. Which nutrient do plants NOT use to pro-
duce food?
277. Ignoring all other factors, what kind of
A. nitrogen
day would result in the fastest delivery
of water and minerals to the leaves of a B. hydrogen
tree? C. carbon
A. cool, dry day D. protein

284. Which structure of a plant is responsible D. none of above

for anchoring it to the ground?
290. Transporting sugar from the leaf down to

A. Flower the roots is done by the
B. Leaf A. xylem
C. Stem B. phloem
D. Roots C. cotyledon
285. What is the PROCESS by which plants D. pallisade cells
make food?
291. The sepal
A. xylem A. smells good
B. phloem B. protects and supports the flower
C. germinate C. attracts other animals
D. photosynthesis D. produces pollen grains
286. What does phloem transport? 292. What organelle in the leaves of plants
A. Water capture light energy from the sun to com-
B. Minerals plete photosynthesis?
C. Fruit A. Chloroplasts
B. Mitochondria
D. Sugar
C. Nucleus
287. Plants produce what, that animals need
D. Ribosomes
to survive?
A. Oxygen 293. Periderm is what?
B. Carbon Dioxide A. the part that uptakes water
C. Helium B. a woody outer layer that replaces the
epidermis
D. none of above
C. the part that uptakes food
288. A place where trees and other plants are D. support structure in roots
grown for scientific and educational pur-
poses is know as a(n) 294. Water travels through
A. Bonsai A. phloem
B. Arboretum B. xylem
C. Conservatory C. veins
D. Greenhouse D. tubes
289. What happens to a plant shoot if the tip 295. flowering plants with only one seed
is cut off? cotyledon
A. the shoot does not grow longer A. monocot
B. the shoot continues to grow B. dicot
C. the shoot will grow towards the sun- C. chromosome
light D. gamete

296. An unopened flower 302. which of these tissues provides flexible

A. Plant support to young plants?
B. Seed A. collenchyma tissue
C. Leaf B. parenchyma tissue
D. Bud C. sclerenchyma tissue

D. xylem tissue
297. What structure transports food and wa-
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ter back and forth from roots to leaves? 303. The female reproductive structure in
A. petals plants that includes the stigma, style, and
ovary:
B. stems
A. carpel
C. guard cells
B. xylem
D. ground tissue
C. phloem
298. What is the function of vascular tissue? D. stem
A. physical support of the plant
304. What structure helps to anchor the plant
B. transport water and nutrients in the soil?
C. defend against predators A. leaf
D. none of above B. flower
299. A plant species lives in an area with lim- C. stem
ited sunlight. Which physiological adapta- D. root
tion would be most useful to the plant?
A. colorful flowers 305. Which is NOT a way seeds can be dis-
persed?
B. large leaves
A. animals
C. deep roots
B. wind
D. thin cuticle
C. water
300. What is the function of the stem? D. photosynthesis
A. It takes water and minerals from the
soil. 306. What is the function of roots?
B. It makes seeds. A. Uptake water and nutrients
C. It makes food for the plant. B. Provide anchorage
D. It moves water and minerals from the C. All are correct.

roots to the leaves. D. none of above
301. how would you describe a plant? 307. The process that plants use to make food.
A. unicellular prokaryote A. photosynthesis
B. unicellular eukaryote B. producing
C. multicellular eukaryote C. pollen
D. multicellular prokaryote D. nutrition

308. What is a pollinator? 314. The following are examples of spore-

A. Animal that moves pollen from plant to bearing plants except:

plant A. Fern
B. Animal that eats pollen B. Mosses
C. A plant that makes pollen C. Gingko
D. A plant that does not make pollen D. none of above
309. The main function of the leaves of a 315. is how carbon moves from living
plants is things back to the environment.
A. carry out photosynthesis A. Photosythesis
B. support the plant
B. Respiration
C. get water to all plant parts
C. Combustion
D. anchor the plant
D. none of above
310. Plant with 1 seed leaf in the seedling
stage. 316. The root of a plant growing down.
A. dicot A. Positive Gravitropism
B. xylem B. Negative Gravitropism
C. monocot C. Thigmotropism
D. none of above D. Hydrotropism
311. Which of the following is a REACTANT for 317. Study of cell structure and function.
Photosynthesis?
A. Cell biology
A. Sunlight
B. Ethnobotany
B. ATP
C. Plant physiology
C. Glucose
D. Plant systematics
D. Oxygen
318. What is the sticky part of the flower that
312. What is the food the leaves make for the catches pollen?
plant?
A. style
A. sugar
B. stigma
B. sap
C. sandwich C. ovary
D. seeds D. petal
313. Which type of tissue accumulates year af- 319. Its job is to support the plant and hold its
ter year? leaves up to the sun.
A. Phloem A. root
B. xylem B. stem
C. cortex C. flower
D. epidermis D. leaf

320. Leaf like structures that enclose the 326. Which is NOT a way that pollen can move
petals until flower blooms: from one flower to another?
A. Sepals A. birds
B. Petals B. insects
C. Stamen C. rain
D. Pistil D. wind
321. Discipline that pertains to metabolism
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327. Which of the following are not considered
and other plant processes. plants?
A. Plant genetics A. Lichens
B. Ethnobotany B. Corals
C. Plant physiology C. Mushrooms and fungi
D. Plant ecology D. All of the above
322. Which is a method of reproduction used 328. The growth and movement of a plant part
by plants that don’t make seeds? in response to gravity.
A. cones A. gravitropism
B. stamens B. thigmotropism
C. pollen
C. phototropism
D. photosynthesis
D. massotropism
323. What part of the female part of the
329. When soil is humid and rich in mineral
flower is a tube that pollen travels
salts, we say it is
through?
A. abundant
A. Ovary
B. Style B. poor
C. Filament C. fertile
D. Stigma D. none of above
324. A slimy substance found on the root tips 330. These produce the seeds of a plant.
helps to ? A. Root
A. Absorb water B. Stem
B. Repel gravitropism C. Flower
C. Reduce friction D. Stamen
D. Absorb nitrogen
331. Botany is the part of biology that deals
325. Life Cycles of plants are adapted to their with
A. water A. People
B. succession B. Plants
C. environments C. Animals
D. none of above D. All of the above

332. Which gas do plants take in from the air 338. This helps support the plant.
in order to make their own food? A. root

A. Carbon dioxide B. leaf
B. oxygen
C. flower
C. helium
D. stem
D. none of above
339. What is the TISSUE that carries food from
333. Where is the site of photosynthesis in a plant’s leaves to its cells?
plants?
A. xylem
A. stomata
B. phloem
B. guard cells
C. photsynthesis
C. chloroplasts
D. vascular tissue
D. waxy cuticle
340. Botanical name of Sunflower is
334. Plants take in mineral salts through their
A. Holoptelia pinnata
A. stomata B. Hemidesmus indica
B. roots C. Helianthus annuus
C. Chlorophyll D. none of above
D. none of above 341. The process by which a plant grows from
a seed.
335. is how water vapor becomes liquid
again. A. fertilization
A. Evaporation B. reproduction
B. Precipitation C. pollination
C. Condensation D. germination
D. none of above 342. Which flower, after it is fertilized, will
336. Plants make food using and in the develop the most seeds?
presence of sunlight. A. a flower with dozens of ovules
A. water, oxygen B. a flower with multiple stamens
B. water, carbon dioxide C. a flower producing lots of pollen
C. minerals, oxygen D. a flower receiving a lot of sunlight
D. minerals, carbon dioxide
343. The ovary, style, and the stigma make up
337. In sunflower stem xylem is the female part of a plant called the?
A. Exarch A. stamen
B. Endarch B. petals
C. Mesarch C. stem
D. none of above D. carpel (pistil)

344. What is the name of the process where 350. Sugars are transported throughout the
plants make food plant by the
A. oxygen A. tracheids
B. carbon dioxide B. guard cells
C. photosynthesis C. phloem
D. none of above D. Xylem
351. Which cells are responsible for opening
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345. What is the tissue that is used to trans-
port necessary materials throughout the and closing stomates to regulate water
plant? loss & gas exchange?
A. Circulatory tissue A. Guard Cells
B. Transport tissue B. Gate Cells
C. Vascular tissue C. Vascular Cells
D. Pathway tissue D. Root Cells
346. Small grains that contain a plant’s male 352. Plants without vessels that carry water,
reproductive cells. minerals, and food throughout the plant
are called?
A. stamen
A. flowering plants
B. pollen
B. cone bearing plants
C. anther
C. nonvascular plants
D. stigma
D. spore producing plants
347. Plants respond to stimuli such as light,
touch, water or gravity. This is called a 353. Tightly packed columnar and elongated
cells make up the layer.
A. tropism
A. Palisade
B. dispersal
B. Spongy
C. hormone
C. Epidermal
D. photosynthesis
D. Ground
348. Study of plant form and structure.
354. This part of the plant supports it and car-
A. Plant physiology
ries water.
B. Plant anatomy A. root
C. Plant morphology B. stem
D. Plant systematics C. leaf
349. One function of roots is D. seed
A. transport food 355. Which part is the main structure of the
B. anchor plant plant?
C. carry out photosynthesis A. Stem
D. gas exchange B. Tap Root

C. Flower C. phelloderm
D. Fruit D. cork cambium

356. The outer protective tissue of plants is 362. Which part holds the transportation sys-
called: tem for plant?
A. dermal tissue A. Xylem
B. ground tissue B. Roots

C. Stem
C. vascular tissue
D. Leaves
D. none of above
363. What does xylem carry up the stem?
357. Why do plants do photosynthesis?
A. Water
A. to make oxygen for people
B. Nutrients
B. to make food for itself
C. Water and Nutrients
C. to make a flower D. None of the above
D. to make carbon dioxide
364. Which tissue is responsible for creating a
358. A primary root that grows vertically water tight seal around the plant?
downward. A. Dermis
A. fibrous root B. Ground
B. taproot C. Meristematic
C. prop root D. Vascular
D. none of above 365. What is the male reproductive material
of plants?
359. The outermost layer of a stem is called
a(an) A. Seeds
A. Cortex B. Pollen
B. Adaptation C. Fruit
D. Sepals
C. Cambium
D. Epidermis 366. Why is water so sticky? ?
A. Glue
360. Water is transported throughout the
plant by the B. Its a strong molecule
C. Hydrogen bonds
A. tracheids
D. because its transparent
B. guard cells
C. phloem 367. What part of the plant does photosynthe-
sis occur?
D. Xylem
A. roots
361. Outer layer of periderm is called B. leaves
A. Phellem C. flower petals
B. Phellogen D. pollen

368. In woody plants the dermal tissue is 374. Tiny pores that allow for gas exchange.
called the A. lenticel
A. dermal B. bud scar
B. periderm C. xylem
C. epidermis
D. none of above
D. phloem
375. This part of the plant produces seeds and
369. The stalks in a flower that support the
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creates pollen.
anthers, which produce the male reproduc-
A. roots
tive cells (pollen grains):
B. flower
A. carpels
C. stem
B. sepals
C. filaments D. leaves
D. stigma 376. many main roots with smaller ones

branching off
370. where does reproduction take place in an-
giosperms? A. herbaceous stem
A. cone B. woody stem
B. moss C. fibrous root
C. flower D. taproot
D. leaves 377. Region where velamen tissues are lo-
cated?
371. Which type of plant produces a flower?
A. Below the endodermis
A. angiosperm
B. gymnosperm B. Just outside the cortex
C. both C. Just outside the exodermis
D. none of above D. Below the epidermis
372. Which of the following would NOT be an 378. Scientists classify plants in order to
example of a pollinator? A. Study them more easily
A. Bumblebee B. Collect them more easily
B. Hummingbird C. Earn more money
C. Fruit Bat D. Fight insects that damage them more
D. Praying Mantis easily
373. The flat broad surface part of the leaf is 379. What are the main functions of roots?
called the , A. To make seeds and attract insects
A. Petiole B. To absorb sunlight and make food
B. Node C. To absorb water and hold the plant in
C. Blade the ground
D. Mesophyll D. All of the above

380. A petiole is? 386. The main function of the stem is

A. the part that connects the leaf and A. make the food

stem together B. anchor the plant
B. the tip of the root C. transport water and minerals
C. the petal of a flower D. none of above
D. a magical wizard
387. What is needed to increase surface area
381. The first thing a seed grows is the . to absorb more water?
A. stem A. leaves
B. leaf B. stems
C. root C. root hairs
D. flower D. xylems
382. The part of the stem of a plant from 388. A perfect flower has:
which a leaf, branch, or aerial root grows; A. both stamens and pistils.
A. Stamen B. both petals and sepals.
B. Node C. only petals.
C. Root D. only stamens.
D. none of above
389. The part of the plants that supports the
383. Which tissue type does a majority of the plant, stores food, allows movement of
photosynthesis? materials through vessels.
A. Dermis A. stem
B. Ground B. roots
C. Mersitematic C. root hairs
D. Vascular D. leaves
384. What is does a plant need for photosyn- 390. Flower parts in dicots are in multiples
thesis of?
A. oxygen A. 4
B. sugar B. 7
C. carbon dioxide C. 3
D. none of above D. 2
385. Where new leaves or other stems are at- 391. The pistil is
tached. A. the female part of the flower.
A. node B. the male part of the flower.
B. stolon C. the showy part of the flower.
C. stem D. the pollen-producing part of the
D. none of above flower.

392. Which gas do plants give off that helps 398. is the process of burning fuel. This
us breathe? process also releases carbon back into the
A. Nitrogen atmosphere.
B. Oxygen A. Decomposition
C. Carbon Dioxide B. Respiration

C. Combustion
D. Air
D. none of above
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393. This layer of a woody stem produces new
layers of xylem and phloem every year 399. In what organelle of plant cells does pho-
tosynthesis occur?
A. Pith
A. mitochondria
B. Epidermis
B. centrioles
C. Vascular Cambium
C. chloroplast
D. Phloem
D. ribosomes
394. are tubes that distribute elaborated
sap throughout the plan 400. Wind-pollinated flowers usually have
and petals.
A. phloem vessels
A. big bright
B. xylem vessels
B. small bright
C. stomata
C. big dull
D. raw sap
D. small dull
395. hard, rigid stem like bark
401. There are two main classifications of
A. herbaceous stem stems, which are:
B. woody stem A. Aerial and Subterranean
C. fibrous root B. Woody and Herbaceous
D. taproot C. Aerial and Herbaceous
396. The male part of the flower is D. Woody and Subterranean
A. pistil 402. How do plants protect us?
B. sepal A. Plant products are used to make shel-
C. ovaries ter, clothing, heat, and machines
D. stamen B. They kill us
C. Plants can tell us when danger is near
397. Which is not a function of stems?
A. Hold up the leaves D. none of above
B. Transport water and nutrients to dif-
ferent parts of the plant 403. This is a tissue in plant stems and roots.
It transports water and minerals upwards
C. Absorb water from soil from the roots to the stem, via capillary
D. All of these action.

A. Xylem 409. Which is not a type of tissue in plants?

B. Phloem A. Dermal

C. Photosynthesis B. Connective
D. Oxygen C. Vascular
D. Ground
404. which tissue provide support and mechan-
ical strength to the older parts of plant? 410. The tissues of the plant that store food
and water are called
A. parenchyma tissue
A. Dermal
B. sclerenchyma tissue
B. Vascular
C. xylem tissue
C. Ground
D. collenchyma tisssue
D. Meristematic
405. The edge of the leaf blade is called ‘
411. When new cell form in a stem, what hap-
A. midrib pens?
B. margin A. The stem grows thicker
C. petiole B. The stem turns green
D. none of above C. The stem falls over
D. The plant dies
406. In due to the intrusion of the phloem
at four places, secondary xylem is ridged 412. A chemical produced by living cells that is
and furrowed at four places. transported to other body tissues where it
A. Helianthus causes a specific effect.
B. Bignonia A. hormone
C. Dracaena B. oxygen
C. carbon dioxide
D. none of above
D. tropism
407. A male or female plant that do not pro-
duce fruit or flowers and have needles for 413. In order for this to occur In flowering
leaves. plants, insects or other animals must trans-
port the pollen to the pistil.
A. cauliflower
A. germination
B. cabbage
B. fertilization
C. crucifer
C. reproduction
D. cone
D. pollination
408. Plants get this from the air through their 414. You should put bread in a refrigera-
leaves to produce sugar, food. tor.
A. nitroxide A. never
B. carbon minoxide B. Sometimes
C. oxygen C. Always
D. carbon dioxide D. Only in humid areas

415. Do not add to the pot. This keeps 421. Anomalous Secondary Growth is seen in
sauce from clinging to cooked pasta.
A. Salt A. Mangifera
B. pepper B. Dracaena
C. oil C. Zea
D. sauce D. Helianthus
422. What is a sac-like structure used to store
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416. When the plant responds to gravity
water and nutrients? These are much
A. Phototropism larger in plant cells?
B. Thigmotropism A. Lysosomes
C. Gravitropism B. Mitochondria
D. Hydrotropism C. Vacuoles
417. A type of vascular plant that produces D. Golgi Body
flowers in order to reproduce. 423. The role of the guard cell is to
A. fruit plant A. help control the temperature of the
B. fragile plant plant
C. flowering plant B. control how much water enters the
leaf
D. fake plant
C. control how much glucose is stored
418. The opening or hole in plant leaves that D. control the movement of water vapour
allow air in and water out are the? & gases
A. roots
424. is how water moves from living
B. stoma things back to the atmosphere.
C. pores A. Evaporation
D. none of above B. Transpiration
419. The bottom of the style is this part which C. Condensation
produces the eggs or ovules through meio- D. none of above
sis.
425. Supports anther:
A. Pollen
A. Petals
B. Ovary
B. Stamen
C. Stigma C. Anther
D. Pistil D. Filament
420. Which of the following is a pollinator? 426. what part of the flower produces pollen
A. spider A. ovary
B. terminator B. petals
C. bee C. stigma (female)
D. ant D. anther (male)

427. The male reproductive structure of a 433. Plants need to conduct photosynthe-
flower is the sis

A. pistil A. Oxygen
B. ovary B. Soil
C. stamen C. Carbon dioxide
D. ovule D. Sugar
428. A ripened ovary containing a seed is 434. Study of plant heredity.
called? A. Ethnobotnay
A. fruit B. Plant taxonomy
B. embryo C. Plant anatomy
C. vegetable D. Plant genetics
D. plant
435. How do we call plants that have seeds,
429. What part of the flower will turn into a but no flowers or fruit?
seed? A. Nonvascular plants
A. ovary B. Seedless vascular plants
B. anther C. Gymnosperms
C. ovule D. Angiosperms
D. filament
436. What do the leaves of a plant do?
430. Which part of a plant absorbs nutrients A. They make the food for the plant.
from the soil?
B. They soak up the water from the
A. Roots ground.
B. Root hairs C. They deliver water to the other parts
C. Xylem of the plants
D. Stem D. They make seeds
431. Openings between guard cells of a leaf 437. In plants, a structure containing vascular
that permit water vapor and gases to pass tissues in leaf blades.
into and out of the leaf. A. vein
A. stomata B. xylem
B. guard cell C. phloem
C. spongy layer D. fiber
D. palisade layer
438. The part of the plant that holds the leaves
432. The growing points of stems. and flowers
A. Node A. Stalk
B. terminal bud B. Stem
C. bud C. Style
D. none of above D. Filament

439. These take food and water from the soil, C. cytokinins
store energy, and provides support for the D. transpirational pull
plant. Most grow underground.
A. Root 445. Stalk that connects a leaf to the stem
B. Stem A. petiole
C. Flower B. sepal
D. none of above C. stigma
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D. embryo sac
440. The function of a is to absorb water,
store food, and anchor plants. 446. This layer of tissue grows between the
A. flower xylem and the phloem
B. leaf A. angiosperm
C. stem B. gymnosperm
D. root C. frond
D. cambium
441. The growth of plants in response to ex-
ternal stimuli such as light, gravity, and 447. What part of the plant absorbs oxygen?
touch. A. stem
A. tropism B. roots
B. hormone C. leaves
C. fertile D. flower
D. germination
448. The stigma must be sticky so that will
442. Gases pass in and out of a leaf through stick to it and travel down the style to fer-
the what? tilize the ovules in the ovary.
A. vascular tissue A. pollen
B. mouth hole B. anthers
C. stomata C. petals
D. cell wall D. fruit
443. Field examining the practical uses of 449. Tunica corpus theory was proposed by
plants and their products. A. Hofmeister
A. Plant ecology B. Hanstein
B. Plant morphology C. Schmidt
C. Ethnobotany D. Guttenberg
D. Plant genetics
450. Jeffrey saw a small plant with a green
444. Which of the following is directly related stem sticking out of the soil. What stage
to photoperiodism? in the plant life cycle is the plant in?
A. ethylene gas A. seedling
B. phytochrome B. germination

C. young plant 456. What helps plants pollinate by carrying

pollen from one plant to another?
D. seed

A. Mailman
451. Which of these is NOT something a plant B. Pollinator
needs to survive?
C. Terminator
A. Water
D. Commentator
B. Space
457. vegetative reproduction is , which
C. Carbon Dioxide means the offspring are
D. Oxygen A. sexual, different
B. sexual, identical
452. This part of a fruit is used to make new
plants. C. asexual, identical
A. stem D. asexual, different
B. root 458. The two type of roots are fibrous and

?
C. seed
A. ground
D. leaf
B. tap
453. In some grass plants, the vascular tis- C. bushy
sue forms the central core of a root-this D. elongated
is called a structure?
A. Adventitious 459. Angiosperms produce from
A. rhizoids
B. Monocot
B. cones
C. Cortex
C. fruit and flowers
D. Stem
D. none of above
454. Study of how and why plants are dis- 460. Carbon dioxide enters plant leaves
tributed where they are. through the
A. Plant systematics A. stomata
B. Plant Anatomy B. chloroplasts
C. Plant taxonomy C. xylem
D. Plant Geography D. cuticle
461. The of a plant help it survive by hold-
455. Food flows down from the leaves of a
ing it in place, absorbing water, and often
plant through the
storing food.
A. Tracheid A. roots
B. Phloem B. leaves
C. Fibre C. stems
D. Xylem D. flowers

462. Xylem and phloem are examples of 468. A hard, non-flexible plant stem.
tissue A. woody stem
A. Spores
B. herbaceous stem
B. Nonvascular
C. cork
C. Seeds
D. bark
D. Vascular
469. TIssue type found lining the outside of
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463. The basic unit of structure and function in plant organs.
living things.
A. Dermal
A. cell
B. Vascular
B. cell wall
C. Ground
C. plant cell
D. cell membrane D. none of above
464. The rough outer part of a woody stem is 470. which of this tissues support the young
called plants and woody plants?
A. Bark A. collenchyma tissue
B. Cortex B. parenchyma tissue
C. Xylem C. sclerenchyma tissue
D. Pith D. xylem tissue
465. Their function is to protect the flower 471. Field of describing, naming, and classify-
while attracting insects and other organ- ing plants.
isms to help the plant reproduce.
A. Plant taxonomy
A. stamen
B. Plant anatomy
B. sepals
C. Plant systematics
C. pistils
D. Ethnobotnay
D. petals
472. Gymnosperms are plants that
466. The broad, thin portion of the leaf.
A. produce seeds inside of cones.
A. Blade
B. produce flowers and fruit.
B. Petiole
C. Auricles C. are pollinated by animals.
D. none of above D. produce spores rather than seeds.
467. The tip of the leaf is the 473. Poison is an adaptation that
A. Base A. makes animals sick or itchy.
B. Apex B. pollinates the plant.
C. Blade C. attracts pollinators to the plant

474. Which organ of a plant is specialized for 480. The cycle is how the movement of ni-
photosynthesis? trogen from the environment returns to liv-
ing things.

A. Palisade Mesophyll
B. Chloroplast A. Carbon
C. Leaf B. Nitrogen
C. Water
D. Flower
D. none of above
475. Transports water, minerals, and energy
throughout the plant 481. Plants use carbon dioxide
A. Spongy Mesophyll A. to absorb light from the sun.
B. Palisade Mesophyll B. to make their own food.
C. Veins C. to take in mineral salts from the soil.
476. In angiosperms, xylem is made up of 482. When a bud scale falls off, this is
formed..
A. Tracheids
A. Leaf Scar
B. Vessels
B. Bundle Scar
C. Fibres
C. Bud Scale Scar
D. All the above
D. none of above
477. Contains a young plant inside that grows
483. How does water flow through plant
into a big plant
stems?
A. Seed
A. xylem
B. Seed coat B. phloem
C. Seed leaves C. guard cells
D. Seedling D. cellulose
478. The smallest units of life in plants are 484. houses the ovules in the flower.
A. tissues A. ovary
B. cells B. style
C. organs C. stigma
D. organ system D. none of above
479. Most of the water and minerals taken up 485. Plant hormones called cause plant
from the soil by a plant are absorbed by: cells to elongate (become longer) and play
A. taproots an important role in phototropism.
B. the thick parts of the roots near the A. auxins
base of the stem B. ethylene
C. storage roots C. cytokinins
D. root hairs D. insulin

486. Another name of phellogen is 492. Which of the following is NOT a pollina-
tor?
A. Cork
A. bees
B. Cork Cambium
B. humming bird
C. Lenticel
C. fruit bat
D. Periderm D. scorpion
487. After fertilization the ovule will 493. This vascular tissue is alive and is con-
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A. Be carried away by a pollinator trolled by the associated companion cells:
A. pallisade mesophyll
B. Be blown away by the wind
B. phloem
C. Will grow into a new plant
C. stomata
D. Develop into a fruit that contains seeds
D. xylem
488. These help the plant to reproduce. 494. What do plants need to make their own
A. flowers food?
B. stems A. oxygen, carbon dioxide, sugar
B. sugar, water, carbon dioxide
C. leaves
C. sunlight, carbon dioxide, water
D. roots
D. carbon dioxide, water, sugar
489. Plants release oxygen 495. The helps hold the plant up and car-
A. during respiration. ries water and nutrients to the rest of the
plant from the roots.
B. during photosynthesis.
A. leaves
C. through the roots.
B. roots
D. none of above
C. stem
490. The release of water from plant leaves D. seed
through stomata.
496. Apical meristem is responsible for
A. transpiration A. Increasing height
B. respiration B. increasing thickness
C. exhailation C. formation of phloem tissue
D. condensation D. Formation of xylem tissue
491. The male reproductive structure in plants 497. A is a storage container for the plant
that includes the anther and filament: embryo it has a hard coat and protects
the embryo from drying out.
A. Style
A. seed
B. Stamen B. root
C. Lignin C. stem
D. Wood D. leaf

498. Non-flowering plants produce a tiny or- 503. The stalk of the leaf is also known as the:
ganism that is so small and light, they can A. petiole
be dispersed by the wind to new locations

where they can grow into a new plant. B. lamina
C. node
A. spore
D. none of above
B. sponge
C. seed 504. Dracaena belongs to the family
A. Asparagaceae
D. spruce
B. Apiaceae
499. A fruit is the mature ovary of a flower; C. Liliaceae
a flower is the reproductive structure of
these seed plants: D. Bignoniaceae
A. angiosperm 505. The leaf has a shiny, waxy cuticle around

it to
B. gymnosperm
A. increase the rate of photosynthesis
C. ginkgo biloba
B. attract more light
D. pine, redwood, and fir trees
C. control water loss
500. The process by which carbon dioxide, wa- D. stop carbon dioxide and oxygen gases
ter and sunlight are converted into glucose escaping
and oxygen
506. What is the function of the flower?
A. xylem
A. To absorb water and nutrients
B. photosynthesis
B. To take in sunlight and make food
C. oxygen C. To hold the plant upright
D. glucose D. To attract pollinators and help the
plant reproduce
501. Pine, gingko, cypress and spruce are ex-
amples of ? 507. My flowers are not sweet-scented and I
A. angiosperm do not produce nectar. How am I likely
dispersed?
B. gymnosperm
A. By wind
C. ppteridophytes B. By insects
D. none of above C. By water
502. What do we call the process by which D. By explosive action
pollen is transferred from the stamens to 508. The growth and movement of a plant part
the stigma? in response to light.
A. Photosynthesis A. phototropism
B. Dormancy B. thigmotropism
C. Pollination C. gravitropism
D. Growth D. soloropism

509. Velamen tissue is seen in 515. What is the purpose of the leaf?
A. Epiphytes A. To absorb sunlight in order to create
B. Xerophytes food.
C. Hydrophytes B. To transport water for the plant.
D. Mesophytes C. To absorb water and nutrients.
D. To attract pollinators for reproduction
510. Which type of plant tissue covers the
outer surface of the plant and acts as a 516. They enclose the eggs (female gameto-
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protective layer? phytes) inside the flower’s ovary.
A. epidermal A. ovules
B. Vascular B. anther
C. Ground C. seeds
D. Connective D. angiosperms
511. Which structure is made of mature, living, 517. What nutrient is needed for a plant to
fully functioning cells? make chlorophyll?
A. vessel elements of xylem A. Potassium
B. sieve tube cells of xylem B. Magnesium
C. tracheid cells of phloem C. Nitrates
D. companion cells of phloem D. Iron
512. Photosynthesis occurs in the while 518. Where in plants do you think you will find
cellular respiration occurs in the meristematic tissue?
A. Chloroplast; Vacuole A. where the plant grows quickly
B. Vacuole; Mitochondria B. where the plant is finished growing
C. Mitochondria; Chloroplast C. on flowers only
D. Chloroplast; Mitochondria D. where food and water are transported
513. Why do fruits taste sweet? 519. Anchoring plants, storing food, and ab-
A. So people buy them sorbing water are functions of plant
B. So animals eat them and disperse the A. flowers
seeds inside B. fruits
C. Insects are attracted to them C. nuts
D. So they will grow better D. roots
514. This plant hormone is produced by fruits 520. Define the word structure
and causes them to ripen. A. Object defining specific parts
A. auxin B. The way something is labeled
B. ethylene C. The way that something is built, ar-
C. gibberellin ranged, or organized.
D. cytokinin D. A part of something or object

521. The seeds of apple would probably be dis- 527. Which of the following is an example of
bursed by? a non-vascular plant?
A. grass

A. animals
B. wind B. corn
C. water C. trees
D. fire D. moss
522. Plants will die if they dry out completely. 528. Transpiration helps the plant
The waxlike, waterproof layer that holds A. make more sugars at night
in moisture and covers the surfaces of B. move water from the roots to the stem
plants is called a and leaves
A. cuticle C. move sugars from the leaf to be stored
B. pollen in the stem & roots
C. stem D. make more chloroplasts
D. none of above 529. Response to light in which plant stems
523. The place in the plant cell where photo- bend toward a light source
synthesis happens A. gravitropism
A. Chlorophyll B. phototropism
B. xylem C. negative gravitropism
C. phloem D. negative phototropism
D. chloroplast 530. When the plant has leaves but no flower
or fruit, the plant is in the stage.
524. Ripening of fruit is promoted by
A. seed
A. auxins
B. mature plant
B. phytochrome
C. young plant
C. ethylene
D. germination
D. gibberellins
531. Roots that develop from an organ other
525. A plant that keeps its leaves and remains than a root are
green all year is known as:
A. root hairs
A. Evergreen
B. fibrous roots
B. Deciduous
C. adventitious roots
C. Dormant
D. primary root
D. Woody
532. A region on a stem where a leaf is or was
526. Which part of the plant makes the food? attached.
A. roots A. node
B. stem B. stem
C. leaf C. blade
D. flower D. petiole

533. I have large petals and are usually 539. The thick waxy covering of a leaf that
brightly coloured. How am I pollinated? helps prevent water loss is known as the
A. By animals
B. By birds A. Flower
C. By insects B. Cuticle
D. All of the above C. Mitochondria
D. Chloroplast
534. Which of the following is an example of
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a tap root? 540. Pollen grains are produced by?
A. Grapes A. the anther
B. Carrott B. the carpel
C. Corn C. the ovary
D. Beans D. the leaves
535. The wood portion of a tree is made up of 541. Plants COULD NOT survive without
these cells and
A. vascular cambium A. Transpiration and Gravity
B. phloem B. Oxygen and Water
C. xylem C. Seeds and Water
D. cortex D. Carbon Dioxide and Water
536. The inside mesophyll layer of the leaf is 542. is how water moves from the land to
made of the following tissues the atmosphere.
A. vascular, ground, and A. Evaporation
B. Vascular and Ground B. Precipitation
C. Vascular and dermal C. Condensation
D. Ground and dermal D. none of above
537. What are the reactants for aerobic cellu- 543. Apical meristem is to primary growth as
lar respiration? A. cork cell is to cork cambium.
A. Glucose & oxygen B. tree ring is to secondary growth.
B. Glucose & carbon dioxide C. secondary growth is to width.
C. Oxygen & water D. vascular cambium is to secondary
D. Water & carbon dioxide growth.
538. An opening in a leaf that allows gas ex- 544. A soft, flexible, and often green plant
change stem.
A. guard cell A. herbaceous stem
B. stoma B. woody stem
C. chloroplast C. cork
D. cuticle D. bark

545. process by which water evaporates from C. Stomata

plant leaves.
D. Xylem

A. transpiration
B. evaporation 551. What happens in the flower?
C. condensation A. Nothing
D. none of above B. Photosynthesis
546. Seeds can be disbursed by animals, wa- C. Reproduction
ter, and ? D. Nutrient absorption
A. wind
B. earthquakes 552. Carbohydrates produced during photo-
synthesis are transported by in the
C. fire
A. tracheids / xylem
D. blizzards
B. sieve tubes / phloem
547. Which of the following is not a male part
of the flower? C. vessel elements / phloem
A. Pistil D. companion cells / xylem

B. Anther
553. The sporophyte is
C. Stamen
A. haploid
D. Filament
B. diploid
548. What is a tissue
C. triploid
A. A group of cells that share a common
goal D. none of above
B. a tissue that has a function 554. Which of the following terms refers
C. A group of cells that share a common to the waxy coating on the outside of
function, structure or both leaves?
D. A group of cells A. Cuticle
549. Which part of a tree trunk can still trans- B. Phloem
port water? C. Stomata
A. phloem
D. Xylem
B. sapwood
C. heartwood 555. The xylem, or wood, of a stem
D. cortex A. conducts manufactured food down to
the roots.
550. Which of the following structures allows
for gas exchange between a leaf and the B. stores food.
atmosphere? C. is green in color.
A. Cuticle D. conducts water and minerals up to the
B. Phloem leaves.

556. What is the correct term for the large sec- C. Decomposition
tion of the leaf where photosynthesis oc- D. none of above
curs?
A. Leaf Blade 562. What does a plant make in photosynthe-
sis?
B. Petiole
A. sugar and oxygen
C. Node
B. water and sunlight
D. Leaf
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C. carbon dioxide and water
557. what is the chlorophyll? D. none of above
A. Green pigment found in the chloroplast
563. Openings in the outer cell layer of leaf
that absorbs sunlight
surfaces that allow the exchange of water
B. Something in a plant and gases are called what?
C. The process of photosynthesis occurs A. Petiole
there B. Stomata
D. NONE C. Phloem
558. In a leaf what is the tissue which in which D. Xylem
most gas exchange occurs?
564. They enclose the egg cells inside the
A. upper epidermis ovaries.
B. spongy mesophyll A. ovules
C. palisade mesophyll B. anther
D. No options are correct C. seeds
559. Poison Ivy growing on a tree by touch. D. angiosperms
A. Gravitropism 565. The veins of the plant
B. Phototropism A. dermal
C. Thigmotropism B. vascular
D. Hydrotropism C. ground
D. meristematic
560. How do water enter the roots from the
soil? 566. Vascular bundles in dicot stem are
A. diffusion A. Closed, conjoint, endarch
B. osmosis B. Open, conjoint, endarch
C. transpiration C. Open, conjoint, exarch
D. active transport D. Closed, conjoint, exarch
561. is how carbon moves from the envi- 567. What is the function of a flower?
ronment into living things. A. To help with photosynthesis
A. Photosynthesis B. To help with reproduction and produc-
B. Respiration tion of seeds

C. To support leaves 573. All of the following are nonvascular EX-

CEPT:
D. To transport water throughout a plant

A. moss
568. The small stem that attaches the leaf to B. liverworts
the branch is the
C. hornworts
A. Petiole D. club moss
B. Margin
574. When water leaves a plants’ leaves in
C. Blade the water cycle
D. none of above A. evaporation
B. transpiration
569. carries water and minerals from roots to
C. precipitation
other parts of the plant
D. condensation
A. xylem
575. Why are flowers very colorful (and why
B. phloem
do they produce odor? )
C. stoma A. So people buy them
D. guard cell B. To make gardens look good
570. A tissue that serves as a protective cov- C. To attract pollinators

ering in plants. D. To attract sunlight
A. epidermis 576. The first root of the embryo is known as
B. palisade layer the
A. root hairs
C. spongy layer
B. radicle
D. vein
C. hypocotyl
571. Where could you find an angiosperm liv- D. seed coat
ing?
577. The ancestors of land plants were most
A. Underwater only likely similar to modern
B. In wet environments A. conifers
C. In dry environments only B. ferns
D. In wet or dry environments C. green algae

D. flowering plants
572. Xylem cells transport , Phloem cells
transport 578. The process by which water evaporates
out of a leaf is called
A. Glucose, Water
A. Transpiration
B. Glucose, Minerals B. Absorption
C. Oxygen, Water C. Transport
D. Water, Glucose D. Vascular tissue

579. Xylem carries what? C. Enzymes

A. water D. Chromosomes
B. nutrients
585. The three main tissue types in plants
C. blood
are?
D. protein
A. Dermal, Vascular and epidermis
580. cells that open and close the stomata are B. Vascular, Dermal and Grouchy
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A. Guard cells
C. Ground, Dermal and Veins
B. Wall cells
D. Dermal, Ground and Vascular
C. Chloroplasts
D. Thylakoids 586. Annual rings are formed from spring and
summer layers of
581. What is the name of the organelle in the
leaves of plants that absorbs the Sun’s en- A. phloem
ergy? B. xylem
A. roots C. support cells
B. chlorophyll
D. heartwood
C. chloroplast
D. stomata 587. Which tissue provide support and
strength to mature plants?
582. what ground tissue type is like the stem
A. parenchyma tissue
cells of plants
A. collenchyma B. sclerenchyma tissue
B. parenchyma C. xylem tissue
C. sclerenchyma D. collenchyma tisssue
D. epidermis
588. The below-ground part of a plant that in-
583. A root system that is composed of one cludes the organs such as roots, tubers,
main primary root and many secondary and rhizomes:
roots branching off of the primary root is A. Root system
called a system.
B. Flower system
A. Adventitious
B. Taproot C. Germophobe system
C. Fibrous D. none of above
D. Cyndrical
589. Any seed plant that has no woody stem.
584. mature male or female sex cell which is A. monocot
able to unite with another of the opposite
sex in sexual reproduction B. dicot
A. Monocots C. herbaceous
B. Gamete D. gymnosperm

590. The four basic parts of a plant are 596. The transfer of pollen, containing the
A. Leaves, stems, roots, and flowers sperm cells, to the female part of the
flower.

B. Flowers, leaves, pollen, and fruit
A. seed disperal
C. Sepal, pistil, stamen, ovary
B. pollination
D. None of the above
C. germination
591. The two main functions of roots are to D. fertilization
absorb water and minerals and to the
plant. 597. What type of sugar molecule is produced
A. anchor by plants during photosynthesis?
B. gather sunshine for A. Oxygen
C. protect B. Starch
D. none of above C. Glucose

D. Water
592. Function of cortex
A. store food 598. What gives plants their green color?
B. support A. Vacuoles
C. watertransport B. Chlorophyll
D. region of branch root C. Chloroplasts

D. Central Vacuole
593. The plant roots grow towards gravity is
known as 599. This is plant tissue that conducts nutri-
A. phototropism ents (food) through the plant.
B. geotropism A. Xylem
C. thigmotropism B. Phloem
D. thermotropism C. Photosynthesis
D. DNA
594. The insides of the plant that stores food
and water 600. Another word for balance is
A. dermal A. Hydration
B. vascular B. Homeostasis
C. ground C. Autotroph
D. meristematic D. Absorption
595. Plants have three main structures:roots, 601. the stalk that joins a leaf to a stem; leaf-
stems, and ? stalk.
A. flowers A. annual
B. petals B. perennial
C. sepals C. petiole
D. leaves D. simple leaf

602. Root systems function in 608. What is the male part of the flower
A. anchoring the plant called?
B. growth A. pistil
C. absorption B. petal
D. all of these C. stamen
D. leaf
603. Raw sap is
609. Which of the following is NOT an at-
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A. produced during photosynthesis
tribute of ALL living organisms?
B. a mixture of water and mineral salts
A. Response to stimuli
C. absorbed through stomata
B. Metabolism
D. none of above
C. Nervous system
604. The amount of water plants need to sur- D. Reproduction
vive
A. varies from plant to plant 610. Which plant part spreads out and
searches for water?
B. is the same for all plants
A. Leaf
C. depend on the number of leaves they
have B. Flower
D. none of above C. Stem
D. Roots
605. A system that has no dominant primary
root but is made of many primary and sec- 611. Which of the following is not a compo-
ondary roots of similar size is called a nent of the Stomatal apparatus?
root system. A. Stomatal pore
A. Tap B. Guard cells
B. Fibrous C. Subsidiary cells
C. Apical D. Epidermis
D. Small
612. Which plant structure is used for defense
606. What is another word for anaerobic res- of the plant?
piration? A. seeds
A. Fermentation B. trichomes
B. Breathing C. stamen
C. Glycolysis D. flowers
D. Synthesis
613. Plants that produce their seeds in wood-
607. The annual rings in a stem show like cones.
A. 3 years of growth A. gymnosperms
B. 1 year of growth B. legumes
C. how much nutrients the plant has C. deciduous
D. where the plant lives D. conifers

614. What are the reactants of photosynthe- C. Gibberellin

sis? D. Inhibitors

A. water, carbon dioxide, light energy
620. Celery is an example of which part of the
B. oxygen and glucose plant?
C. oxygen and carbon dioxide A. roots
D. oxygen and water B. Stem
615. A young plant inside a seed C. Flower
A. cone D. none of above
B. conifer 621. What part of the male part of the flower
C. embryo holds up the anther?
D. seedling A. Ovary
B. Anther
616. What TWO things help a plant to stand
vertically? C. Filament
A. cell wall & vascular tissue D. Stigma
B. cell wall & chloroplasts 622. What is a germ?

C. vascular tissue & vacuole A. A bug
D. cytoplasm & ribosomes B. The seed that grows into a new plant.
C. Outside part that grows into a plant
617. In which type of growth response does
the plant’s roots grow toward a water D. Tough coating on outside of kernel
source?
623. What is the depositing of seeds in new
A. Hydrotropism areas called?
B. Phototropism A. Scattering
C. Heliotropism B. Dispersal
D. Thigmotropism C. Disposal
D. Pollination
618. Stalk of pistil which pollen travels
through: 624. The waxy, waterproof layer that covers
A. Stigma most leaves is called the what?
B. Style A. spore
C. Ovary B. cuticle
D. Ovule C. seed coat
D. xylem
619. Which plant hormone hastens fruit ripen-
ing, retains seed germination and stem 625. Tightly packed columnar cells make up the
elongation. layer.
A. Cytokinin A. Palisade
B. Auxin B. Spongy

C. Epidermal 631. The epiblema is also called as

D. Ground A. Piliferous layer
B. Endodermis
626. What green pigment is used to trap light
energy from the Sun to be used for photo- C. Pericycle
synthesis? D. Cambium
A. Chlorophyll 632. Auxin is a growth hormone in plants that
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B. Xanthophyll are found/made in
C. Carotene A. the tips of the plant shoots and roots
D. Chloroplast B. the middle of the plant

C. the leaves
627. Dendrochronology is the study of the age
D. the seeds
of trees by counting
A. The number of leaves 633. Gymnosperms reproduce with
B. Number of annual rings A. cones

B. fruit
C. Number of roots
C. flowers
D. Height of the tree
D. none of above
628. What is pollen?
634. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS MADE UP
A. a thick substance OF DEAD CELLS?
B. a watery substance A. COLLENCHYMA
C. a fine powdery substance B. PHLOEM
D. none of above C. SCLERENCHYMA
D. none of above
629. Plants that have a life cycle of 3 years or
more are: 635. Begin to grow and put out shoots after a
period of dormancy?
A. Perennial
A. photosynthesis
B. Biennial
B. germinate
C. Annual
C. seedling
D. None of these
D. ovule
630. What are the root’s job in a plant? 636. When pollen from the anther contacts the
A. absorb water and sunlight sticky stigma of a pistil.
B. give off oxygen and absorb water A. Germination
C. make sugar and absorb water B. Reproduction
D. anchor the plant to the ground and ab- C. Regeneration

sorb water D. Pollination

637. Plants that have dense sturdy tissue and 643. A flowerless plant that has feathery or
tend to be long lived are: leafy fronds and reproduces by spores re-
leased from the undersides of the fronds.

A. Herbaceous
B. Woody A. weed
B. cactus
C. Deciduous
C. moss
D. Evergreen
D. fern
638. Which of the following is NOT a part of
the plant’s SHOOT system? 644. What did Robert Hooke do during his life-
time?
A. Flower
A. He constantly questioned Louis Pas-
B. Leaf
teur on his discoveries
C. Stem B. He was the first to observe cells in
D. Root plant tissue by using a microscope
639. What includes an embryo, food supply, C. All of the above

and covering D. none of above
A. pollen 645. How do we call plants that have seeds,
B. seed flowers and fruit?
C. spore A. Nonvascular plants
D. gametophyte B. Seedless vascular plants
C. Gymnosperms
640. What part of the male part of the flower
makes pollen? D. Angiosperms
A. Ovary 646. What is the function of xylem tissue?
B. Anther A. Transports water and minerals salt
C. Filament B. Control the opening and closing of
D. Stigma stoma
C. Carry out photosynthesis
641. female gametophyte in flowering plants
D. Provide support for young plant
A. petiole
647. All of the following are vascular plants
B. sepal
EXCEPT:
C. stigma
A. ferns
D. embryo sac
B. horsetails
642. Plant absorbs water through the C. liverworts
A. stem D. club moss
B. roots 648. The outermost layer of CELLS of the leaf
C. leaves is the
D. all of the above A. cuticle

B. epidermis 654. What type of tissue covers the outside of

C. spongy mesophyll the plant and makes up the bark of woody
plants?
D. bundle sheath
A. vascular
649. Most of the chloroplast cells are found in B. dermal
the
C. ground
A. upper epidermis D. none of above
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B. pallisade mesophyll layer
655. The main plant body of a moss is
C. lower epidermis
A. gametophyte
D. stomata
B. sporophyte
650. The upper layer of leaf tissue that con- C. capsule
sists of tall, thin, closely packed cells that
D. spores
carry on the majority of photosynthesis.
A. palisade layer 656. Which of these includes a plant embryo
(seed), a food supply, and a protective cov-
B. spongy layer ering?
C. epidermis A. flower
D. cuticle B. fruit
651. The main plant body of a vascular plant C. stem
is: D. stamen
A. sporophyte
657. Where do fruits develop?
B. gametophyte A. Ovary of the flower
C. antheridium B. Near the roots
D. archegonia C. The grocery store
652. Which plant part produces food through D. Only at the top of a plant
photosynthesis?
658. Some plants have spines or that
A. Leaf cause pain if an animal touches them.
B. Flower A. thorns
C. Stem B. wax
D. Roots C. stalks
D. smells
653. Which plant part is responsible for pro-
ducing fruits and seeds? 659. The tip of the root is called the
A. Leaf A. Root force
B. Flower B. Root guard
C. Stem C. Root shield
D. Roots D. Root cap

660. What PART of the plant collects water? C. Dormant

A. leaves D. None of these

B. flower 666. Plants that complete their life cycle in one
C. roots year are:
D. stem A. Perennial
B. Biennial
661. I am a flower that produces nectar. What
is the function of the nectar? C. Annual
A. To provide food for the flower D. None of these
B. To attract pollinators 667. All sporophytes are
C. To attract animals to disperse the A. haploid
fruits B. diploid
D. To produce perfumes for humans C. seed bearing
662. What do we call a period of suspended D. spore bearing
plant life brought on by changes in the en- 668. What tissue type defends the plant from
vironment? physical damage and pathogens?
A. Photosynthesis A. Ground tissue
B. Dormancy B. Protective tissue
C. Pollination C. Vascular tissue
D. Growth D. Dermal tissue
663. Which part of the flower traps and col- 669. THE MORPHOLOGICAL NATURE OF THE
lects pollen? EDIBLE PART OF COCONUT IS
A. stigma A. COTYLEDONS
B. anther B. ENDOSPERM
C. sepal C. PERICARP
D. petal D. none of above
664. Organsisms maintain a balance between 670. Carrots are a

their cells and the external environment A. stem
through the process of B. flower
A. growth C. root
B. pH D. none of above
C. cellular respiration
671. Green pigment that helps to absorb sun-
D. homeostasis light
665. A plant that looses its leaves during the A. Xanthophyll
dormant season is B. Carotene
A. Deciduous C. Chlorophyll
B. Evergreen D. Lycopene

672. Part of the plant that absorbs water. 678. Mosses are non-vascular, which means
A. Roots they do not have
B. Flowers A. Xylem
C. Petals B. Phloem
D. Leaves C. Leaves
D. All of the above
673. The part of a plant that attaches it to the
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ground or to a support? 679. TIssue type used to transport materials.
A. stem A. Dermal
B. leaf B. Vascular
C. root C. Ground
D. flower D. none of above
674. Which of these is not an example of a 680. What does internal mean
plant tissue?
A. A structure on the outside
A. Glandular tissue
B. A structure on the inside
B. Mysophyll tissue
C. A structure surrounding something
C. Xylem tissue
D. A structure around something
D. Epidermal tissue
681. The pistil consists of a sticky part where
675. Which organ of the plant anchors the
pollen grains land.
plant and absorbs water and minerals?
A. Style
A. roots
B. stems B. Stigma
C. leaves C. Stamen
D. flowers D. Anther
676. The sticky top of the pistil that collects 682. Structures of the root that absorb most
pollen. of the water an minerals are called
A. stamen A. root feathers
B. anther B. root caps
C. stigma C. root hairs
D. pollen D. root fingers
677. What is the energy source for photosyn- 683. Which layer of cells in the leaf conducts
thesis? the majority of photosynthesis?
A. Enzymes A. root cells
B. Sunlight B. pallisade
C. Glucose C. spongy mesophyll
D. Carbohydrates D. guard cells

684. This occurs after a tube grows down from C. seed

the pollen grain through the style to the D. none of above
ovary.

690. The applied plant science that involves
A. pollination
growing, processing and marketing fruits,
B. germination vegetables, and ornamental plants is:
C. fertilization A. Biology
D. seed dispersal B. Agronomy
C. Forestry
685. What are the types of Rice?
D. Horticulture
A. Long
B. Medium 691. Phloem and Xylem are types of
C. Short A. vascular tissue

B. roots hairs
D. All three
C. cells
686. This part of the plant holds it in the D. surface cells
ground
692. A vascular tissue that carries dissolved
A. stem
food in a plant.
B. root
A. phloem
C. leaf
B. xylem
D. seed C. vein
687. A student is collecting the gas given off D. fiber
from a plant in bright sunlight at a tem-
693. What other job do the roots do for a
perature of 27◦ C. The gas being collected
plant?
is probably
A. make food
A. oxygen
B. anchor the plant in the soil
B. carbon dioxide
C. attract insects
C. ATP
D. smell nice
D. glucose
694. The study of plants.
688. The male part of the plant that sits on top A. botany
of the filament
B. biology
A. Stamen
C. cytoloty
B. Stigma
D. plantology
C. Anther
695. What is the waxy layer on leaves?
D. Style
A. Chloroplasts
689. We get and from plants.. B. Plastic
A. soil C. Wax
B. a fruits and vegetables D. Cuticle

696. Mosses and ferns grow from C. Gymnosperms

A. pollen D. Angiosperms
B. seeds 702. The phloem of a plant is responsible for:
C. spores A. Making the plant trunk thicker
D. weeds B. Making the plant grow taller
697. Water gets into root hair cells through C. Carrying water to all parts of the plant
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the process of D. Carrying sugars to all parts of the plant
A. diffusion
703. The reproductive organ of a flowering
B. active transport plant
C. osmosis A. Seed
D. mass flow B. Flower
698. The internal transport of water and min- C. Pistil

erals in plants requires that two systems D. Stamen
work together. Which system transports
water? 704. trees which bear cones and need-like or
scale-like leaves
A. Vascular Bundle
A. Monocots
B. Xylem
B. Dicots
C. Phloem
C. Conifers
D. none of above
D. Gamete
699. Vascular tissue not only transports mate-
705. The part of a seed that develops into a
rial it also
plant?
A. protects the plant A. flower
B. supports the plant structurally B. embryo
C. transports minerals C. roots
D. transports energy D. leaf
700. The function of a is to absorb water, 706. In which part of the flower is pollen
store food, and keep a plant stable. found?
A. flower A. Filament
B. leaf B. Anther
C. stem C. Ovary
D. root D. Xylem
701. “Flowering plants” is a common name for 707. What is the first stage of the plant life
cycle?
A. Nonvascular plants A. seedling
B. Seedless vascular plants B. seed

C. adult plant C. Leaves

D. germination D. Runner

708. is only living element in xylem tissue 714. is how carbon moves from dead or-
A. vessel ganisms back to the environment.
B. Tracheid A. Photosynthesis
C. Xylem sclerenchyma B. Decomposition
D. Xylem parenchyma C. Respiration
709. Conjoint bicollateral vascular bundles are D. none of above
found in
715. Which is NOT a characteristic of plants?
A. Fabaceae
A. Autotroph
B. liliaceae
B. Eukaryotic Cell
C. Cucurbitaceae
C. Unicellular
D. Ateraceae
D. Cell walls
710. Bordered pits are found in
A. Vessel wall 716. What chemical is located in the chloro-
plast of plants that gives them the green
B. Sieve cells
pigment?
C. Sieve tube
A. angiosperm
D. Companion cells
B. chlorophyll
711. I have a long and feathery stigma that C. mesophyll
sticks out of the flower. How am I polli-
nated? D. pharnyx
A. By wind 717. The cycle is the movement of carbon
B. By insects from the environment into living things
and back again.
C. By water
D. By explosive action A. Carbon
B. Nitrogen
712. the transfer of pollen from a stamen to a
pistil. C. Water
A. germination D. none of above
B. fertilization 718. TIssue type where most photosynthesis
C. pollination occurs
D. reproduction A. Dermal
713. Woody stem of trees are called B. Vascular
A. Chlorophyll C. Ground
B. Trunk D. none of above

719. proteins which assist chemical reactions 725. What are the small holes on the under-
in living cells side of plant leaves called?
A. Gamete A. Guard Cells
B. Chromosome
B. Stomates
C. Enzyzmes
C. Air Spaces
D. Monocots
D. Vascular Cells
720. Which hormone promotes seed germina-
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tion?
726. Jenny saw a tree growing red apples.
A. abscisic acid What stage of the plant life cycle is the
B. ethylene tree in?
C. gibberellin A. mature plant
D. auxin B. seedling
721. Plants that grow at temperatures of 80- C. young plant
95 degrees F are:
D. seed
A. Warm Season
B. Cool Season 727. Where in the plant does photosynthesis
C. Annual occur?
D. Perennial A. Flower
722. What is the job of the plant’s leaves? B. Leaves
A. It takes water and minerals from the
C. Stem
soil.
B. It makes seeds. D. Roots
C. It makes food for the plant.
728. The process in which plants use chloro-
D. a. It moves water and minerals from phyll and light to make sugar/food and
the roots to the leaves. oxygen is known as
723. What structure protects the surface of A. spores
the leaf?
B. photosynthesis
A. cambium
B. phloem C. vascular plants
C. cuticle D. flowering plants

D. front
729. The part of the plant that collects sunlight
724. Male reproductive parts of a plant
A. Leaves
A. Petals and ovary
B. Stem
B. Ovary and ovule
C. Anther and filament C. Petals
D. Stigma and style D. Ovary

730. The part of the plant that holds the plant 736. This cell structure stores water and other
in place and absorbs water and minerals materials for plant cells
from the soil.

A. chloroplast
A. stem B. nucleus
B. roots C. large vacuole
C. leaves D. nucleus
D. none of above
737. The colorful flower structure that at-
731. Growth or movement of a plant in re- tracts pollinators.
sponse to an external stimulus: A. sepals
A. tropism B. pistils
B. dynamism C. anthers
C. externality D. petals
D. operation
738. Which part of the plant supports the
732. In which part of the plant is pollen trans- leaves, flowers and fruit?
ferred for pollination? A. Leaves
A. Stamen B. Roots
B. Petal C. Stem
C. Sepal D. Flowers
D. Stigma
739. Which part of the plant absorbs water
733. which of this tissues are not known as and nutrients into the plant?
ground tissue? A. Flower
A. perenchyma tissue B. Stem
B. collenchyma tissue C. Roots
C. epidermal tissue D. Leaves
D. sclerenchyma tissue
740. The gametophyte is
734. Seedless plants reproduce with A. haploid
A. spores B. diploid
B. seeds C. triploid
C. binary fission D. none of above
D. flowers
741. What does the phloem carry up the
735. Which tissue gives rise to the cork? stem?
A. Periblem A. Sugar
B. Phellogen B. Water
C. Phelloderm C. Oxygen
D. Dermatogen D. All of the above

742. Which of the following does NOT affect 748. Jute, Flax and Hemp are of commercial
rate of transpiration? importance. To which part of the plant do
A. Minerals in the soil they belong to?
B. Temperature A. Phloem Fibres
C. Amount of sunlight B. Xylem Fibres
D. Wind C. Sieve tube

D. Tracheids
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743. The thin stalk that supports the anther.
A. Pistil 749. Cutting down forests and clear-cutting
large areas of land causes:
B. Stamen
A. Contamination of ground water
C. Anther
B. Depletion of aquifers
D. Filament
C. Erosion of soil
744. THE VASCULAR CAMBIUM NORMALLY D. Death due to poisoning
GIVES RISE TO
750. Xylem transports
A. PRIMARY PHLOEM
A. water
B. SECONDARY XYLEM
B. sugar
C. PERIDERM
C. carbon dioxide
D. none of above
D. nutrients
745. If you cut down a tree and look inside,
the xylem tell you 751. How do some plants survive in the win-
ter?
A. What type of tree it is
A. stored food
B. How old the tree is
B. they can’t so they die
C. How healthy the tree is
C. animals take care of them
D. What fruit the tree grows
D. they produce a coat
746. How are people important to plants?
752. What did Jean-Baptiste do?
A. We cultivate crops for food, lumber,
cloth, and oils A. He died
B. People water the plants B. He made the lightbulb
C. None of the above C. He determined that protoplasm was
composed of ordinary chemical com-
D. none of above pounds
747. Vascular plant tissue includes all of the D. none of above
following cell types, EXCEPT:
753. One of the cells that surround a stoma on
A. vessels a plant leaf and control the opening and
B. sieve cells closing of the stoma.
C. companion cells A. guard cell
D. cambrium cells B. stomata

C. spongy layer 759. Water & soluble nutrients move through

the plant in
D. palisade layer

A. the phloem cells
754. structure that grows toward the ovary B. the xylem cells
through the style
C. the root hair cells
A. stigma
D. palisade mesophyll layer
B. embryo sac
760. What is the outer most layer of root?
C. bud
A. epidermis
D. pollen tube
B. cortex
755. Study of how plants interact with each C. periyicle
other and their environment.
D. xylem
A. Plant ecology
761. When would a plant have maximum tran-
B. Plant anatomy spiration?
C. Plant Geography A. A hot, dry, windy day
D. Plant Systematics B. A hot, humid, windy night
C. A cool, dry, windy day
756. Promotes cell division and prevents
senescence (cell breakdown) D. A hot, humid, calm day
A. Gibberellin 762. What does the seed coat do?
B. Auxin A. uses sunlight to make food for the
plant
C. Cytokinins
B. makes pollen
D. Ethylene
C. protects the seed
757. What plant has a waxy stem to keep wa- D. takes in nutrients from the soil
ter inside
763. What is the first stage in a plant’s life?
A. Birch tree
A. germination
B. Cactus
B. seed
C. Palm tree
C. young adult
D. Daisy
D. seedling
758. Which of the following is not a reactant 764. several main roots that branch off to
in photosynthesis form a mass of roots
A. H2O A. taproot
B. Light Energy B. fibrous root
C. CO2 C. root canal
D. O2 D. none of above

765. A living thing that can make its own food C. Epidermal Cells
by taking in the sun’s energy, water, and
D. Root Cells
nutrients from the soil.
A. consumers 771. Strong nitrogen-containing chemicals
B. producers found in some plants:
C. herbivores A. alkaloids
D. omnivores B. heavy metals
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766. What substance is transported in the C. sugars
xylem? D. cuticles
A. Carbon dioxide and oxygen
B. Sugars made in the leaves 772. Which part of the leaf consists of xylem
and phloem?
C. Hormones
A. vascular bundle
D. Water
B. bundle sheath
767. Which of the following is a complex tis-
sue that transports water, minerals, and C. palisade mesophyll
sugars to different parts of the plant? D. spongy mesophyll
A. Dermal tissue
773. Which part of the plant is where pollina-
B. Ground tissue
tion occurs?
C. Permanent tissue
A. Leaves
D. Vascular tissue
B. Roots
768. What part of the plant soaks up nutrients
C. Stems
from the ground?
A. leaves D. Flowers
B. stem 774. Spherical cells that are spaced apart leav-

C. roots ing air pockets are called the layer.
D. flower A. Palisade
769. What is the function of a leaf? B. Petiole
A. Leaves are where photosynthesis C. Cuticle
takes place
D. Spongy
B. Leaves absorb water from the soil
C. Leaves help a plant reproduce 775. The process of photosynthesis takes
place in organelles (part of cell) called
D. Leaves absorb minerals from the soil
A. Phloem
770. What type of cells transport water UP
the stem? B. Xylem
A. Xylem cells C. Stomata
B. Phloem Cells D. Cholorplasts

776. Roots are pushed to grow further by the 782. Which plant parts are the tubes that carry
area of water throughout the plant?

A. growing cells A. xylem
B. dividing cells B. phloem
C. root cap cells C. roots
D. vascular tissue cells D. leaves
777. The female reproductive cells are found in 783. The long stalk-like part that supports the
the stigma.
A. seed A. Filament
B. pollen B. Anther
C. ovule C. Stigma
D. root D. Style
778. In which type of growth response does 784. Which of the following is NOT a function
the plant grow in response to gravity? of the stem of a plant?
A. Hydrotropism A. Hold the leaves toward the sun
B. Phototropism B. Hold the petals up for pollinators

C. Provide a way for xylem to transport
C. Geotropism
food
D. Thigmotropism
D. Support the plant
779. Root hairs allow a plant to absorb more
785. Inside of which cell organelle does cellular
water-this is because of ?
respiration take place?
A. the increased root surface area
A. Ribosome
B. they have more stomata B. Cell Membrane
C. the sieve tube members C. Nucleus
D. the greater volume of sugar crystals D. Mitochondria
780. Which of the following best characterizes 786. Contains the male reproductive cells of
sclerenchyma cells? the plant
A. found in meristems A. hypocotyl
B. make up majority of root cortex B. radical
C. have thick, hardened cell walls C. pollen
D. perform photosynthesis D. ovule
781. The flower parts that are a varied color 787. Which process directly requires energy?
A. Seed A. absorption of minerals in the root
B. Petals B. movement of water up the xylem
C. Stem C. transpiration in the leaves
D. Leaves D. movement of sugar in the phloem

788. What part of the flower will turn into a C. leaf

fruit? D. stem
A. petal
794. The tip of the style that has sticky hairs
B. ovary to trap pollen is the
C. ovule A. stamen
D. stamen B. stigma
C. ovary
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789. In which type of growth response does
the plant grow toward a light source? D. style
A. Phototropism 795. What cell structure do plants use to ob-
B. Heliotropism tain food?
C. Geotropism A. chlorophyll
D. Hydrotropism B. chloroplast
C. vacuole
790. specialized part of a cell which has a spe-
cific function D. cell wall
A. ATP 796. Where are the seeds located on an adult
B. Organelle plant?
A. roots
C. Enzymes
B. stem
D. Dicotyledons
C. leaf
791. In which two layers of the leaf are most
D. flower
active chloroplasts found?
A. Palisade and spongy mesophyll 797. A plant grows taller by:
B. Epidermis and stomata A. meiosis
C. xylem and phloem B. primary growth

C. binary fission
D. Roots and spongy mesophyll
D. secondary growth
792. The time when a plant rests or grows
very little is 798. What cycle is transpiration a part of?
A. Evergreen A. The water cycle
B. Wilted B. The phosphorous cycle
C. Dormant C. The nitrogen cycle

D. The carbon cycle
D. Turgid
799. What does the leaf do?
793. Which part of the dandelion plant helps
it stay alive when water is scarce and an- A. It is where the plant makes its food
chors it firmly? B. It captures sunlight energy
A. root C. It absorbs rain water
B. flower D. It provides protection for the plant

800. What structure on the underside of the 805. Where does the plant get its energy
leaf allows the leaf to breathe or tran- from?
spire?

A. the Sun
A. Pistil B. rain
B. Stem C. air
C. Stoma D. none of above
D. Chloroplasts
806. one main root (ex:carrot)
801. Which plant part provides support for the A. taproot
leaves and flowers? B. fibrous root
A. Leaf C. root canal
B. Flower D. none of above
C. Stem 807. This layer of cells is where photosynthe-
D. Roots sis occurs within the leaf; there are air
spaces within this layer
802. Carbon dioxide and oxygen, enter and
A. spongy mesophyll
leave the leaf through the
B. palisade mesophyll
A. upper epidermis
C. chloroplast
B. phloem
D. upper epidermis
C. stomata
808. Which is not the function of stems?
D. guard cells
A. Water absorption
803. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING FACILITATES B. Support
OPENING OF STOMATAL APERTURE?
C. Transportation
A. DECREASE IS TURGIDITY OF GUARD
CELL D. Food storage
B. RADIAL ORIENTATION OF CELLULOSE 809. One unique function of the root cap is
CELL WALL OF GUARD CELL A. sensing gravity
C. CONTRACTION OF OUTER WALL OF B. producing root hairs
GUARD CELL
C. forming bud scales
D. none of above
D. producing an ion barrier
804. These are tiny packets of cells for asex- 810. Mosses and their relatives grow close to
ual reproduction the ground because they do not have:
A. Spores A. vascular systems
B. Sperm B. root systems
C. Eggs C. reproductive systems
D. Diploid D. none of above

811. Why are plants that photosynthesize im- 817. Which part of the plant is the site of pho-
portant for the human population? tosynthesis?
A. they use water A. Roots
B. they contain chlorophyll B. Stem
C. they produce oxygen C. Fruit
D. they produce carbon dioxide D. Leaves
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812. Undeveloped shoot 818. These convert energy from sunlight into
food for the plant through a chemical pro-
A. stigma
cess called photosynthesis.
B. embryo sac
A. Root
C. bud B. Stem
D. pollen tube C. Leaves
813. The space between nodes on a stem. D. Flowers
A. Node 819. CORTEX IS THE REGION FOUND BE-
B. terminal bud TWEEN
C. internodes A. ENDODERMIS & PITH
D. none of above B. ENDODERMIS & VASCULAR BUNDLE
C. EPIDERMIS & STELE
814. The cells with the most number of chloro-
plasts in the leaf are D. none of above
A. spongy mesophyll cells 820. What is TISSUE that carries water and nu-
B. palisade mesophyll cells trients from the roots to every part of the
plant?
C. guard cells
A. xylem
D. vascular bundle
B. pholem
815. whole grain C. gymnosperm
A. The entire grain kernel containing D. angiosperm
most of the original nutrients.
821. What are the openings on the underside
B. Contains all nutrients
of leaves that let carbon dioxide into the
C. Contains only the husk and hull leaf and let oxygen out?
D. Contains only the endosperm A. Chloroplasts
816. The yellow, powdery stuff on the sta- B. Stomata
mens C. Stomach
A. Pollen D. Cuticle
B. Dust 822. Brightly colored parts of flowers that at-
C. Mites tract insects and other animal pollinators:
D. Germs A. petals

B. pistils 828. What is the region of rapid cell division

(growth) in plants?
C. stamen
A. Guard

D. filaments
B. Stomata
823. tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or C. Xylem
stem through which gases and water va-
D. Meristem
por pass:
829. The pistil includes the
A. stomata
A. filament and style
B. stem
B. the filament and anther
C. anther
C. the stigma, style, and ovary
D. pollen
D. the stigma, style, and anther
824. Which group does NOT have roots? 830. Which is the tissue transports the prod-
A. mosses ucts of photosynthesis?
A. Phloem
B. ferns
B. Xylem
C. gymnosperms
C. Ground
D. angiosperms
D. Dermal
825. The male part of the flower is called the: 831. al dente means
A. Pistil A. Cooked so that it is firm, but not soft or
B. Ovary mushy.
B. you cooked pasta till it is soft
C. Style
C. You cooked it long enough to stick to
D. Stamen
wall
826. The female part of the flower is known D. you cooked it so it is crunchy
as the
832. The gas that plants take in from the air
A. stamen is
B. anther A. carbon monoxide
C. filament B. oxygen
C. carbon dioxide
D. pistil
D. none of above
827. Monocot stems have the xylem and
833. Which structure is waxy and waterproof,
phloem
and helps to prevent water loss in the
A. on each side of a cambium layer. leaf?
B. in small bundles scattered through the A. Palisades mesophyll
stem. B. Spongy mesophyll
C. side by side. C. Vascular tissue
D. near the outside of the stem. D. Cuticle

834. Cauliflower is a part of a plant. 840. What is chlorophyll’s main function?

A. leaf A. to make the plant a vegetable
B. stem B. to blend into their environment
C. flower C. to capture energy from sunlight for
photosynthesis
D. branch
D. to help prevent water loss
835. Plants use energy from the
841. What is the function of dermal tissues in
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. soil plants?
B. sun A. protect the outer layer
C. roots B. transport nutrients
D. water C. grow new flowers
D. complete photosynthesis
836. Which of the following is NOT specifically
a plant adaptation for life on land? 842. Nitrogen is an example of a because
A. roots plants need this element in large quantities
B. stomates A. Organic molecule
C. auxins B. Micronutrient
C. macronutrient
D. seeds
D. deficiency
837. one main root with smaller ones branch-
ing off 843. The cycle is the movement of water
among oceans, atmosphere, land, and liv-
A. herbaceous stem ing things.
B. woody stem A. carbon
C. fibrous root B. nitrogen
D. taproot C. water
838. The transfer of pollen from the anther to D. none of above
the stigma. 844. Definition:Regions that are inhibited by
A. pollination the production of auxin, and are responsi-
ble for width-wise growth of a plant.
B. germination
A. Apical Meristem
C. photsynthesis
B. Guard Cells
D. reprodution
C. Lateral Meristem
839. Helps fruit ripen D. Xylem
A. Auxin
845. If the xylem in a tree is damaged, which
B. Gibberellin process would affected?
C. Cytokinins A. performing photosynthesis
D. Ethylene B. transporting sugar tot the roots

C. protecting the plant 851. Where is pollen made?

D. absorbing water from the soil A. ovary

B. petal
846. The two structures that limit transpira-
C. pistil
tion are known as
D. anther
A. Guard cells and xylem
852. What is the junction of the stem and peti-
B. Stomata and guard cells
ole called?
C. xylem and phloem A. Node
D. stomata and phloem B. Internode
847. Where does gas exchange occur within C. Stem

the plant? D. Axillary Bud
A. Flower 853. A vascular tissue made of long, hollow
cells that carry water and dissolved min-
B. Leaf
erals upward in a plant.
C. Stem A. xylem
D. Roots B. vein
848. The movement of O2 and CO2 between C. phloem
the plant and the environment is known D. fiber
as
854. Mangrove plants will have what root
A. gas exchange type as a result of living in a swamp?
B. transport A. Tap
C. photosynthesis B. Fibrous
D. respiration C. Adventitious
D. Pneumatophore
849. What is the region of rapid cell division
855. Raw sap travels up to the leaves through
in plants?
the
A. Guard A. xylem vessels
B. Stomata B. roots
C. Xylem C. phoem vessels
D. Meristem D. none of above
850. The majority of the stomata of a leaf can 856. Organisms that are able to take inorganic
usually be found within the raw materials and convert them into or-
ganic products to use for food are called
A. guard cells
A. Autotrophs
B. upper epidermis B. Heterotrophs
C. lower epidermis C. Decomposers
D. cuticle D. Consumers

857. The water needed for photosynthesis 862. What are the small, green leaf-like struc-
comes into the leaves through the tures that protect the flower when it is a
A. upper epidermis bud?
A. Seeds
B. stomata
B. Pollen
C. guard cells
C. Petals
D. xylem cells
D. Sepals
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858. Which is of japanese origin meaning
863. Which tissue is not a ground tissue?
“tray planting” and is the art of dwarfing
plants and growing them in shallow pots A. perenchyma tissue
and trays? B. collenchyma tissue
A. Arboretum C. epidermal tissue
B. Conservatory D. sclerenchyma tissue
C. Bonsai 864. The small green leaf-like structures of a
D. None of these flower that protect it during development
are called
859. The type of arrangement in which pro- A. Petals
toxylem lies towards the outside and B. Stamens
metaxylem lies towards the inside is
called: C. Anthers
A. Exarch D. Sepals
B. Endarch 865. What anchor plants to the ground and ab-

sorb water and nutrients?
C. Mesarch
A. Roots
D. none of above
B. Stem
860. When a tree grows wider in trunk diam- C. Xylem
eter, this is an example of which of the D. Leaves
following?
866. What type of gas do plants take in during
A. Secondary growth
photosynthesis?
B. Primary growth
A. oxygen
C. Photosynthesis B. cabon
D. Xylem transport C. carbon dioxide
861. Vascular tissue that carries dissolved D. carbon monoxide
food from leaves to other parts of the 867. Tissue type that includes xylem and
plant phloem.
A. Xylem A. dermal
B. Phloem B. vascular
C. Cortex C. ground
D. Cambium D. none of above

868. All plants 874. “Evergreen plants” is a common name

A. make sugar for

B. have roots A. Nonvascular plants
C. make flowers B. Seedless vascular plants
D. have stems C. Gymnosperms
869. Before the xylem can transport water, D. Angiosperms

first the
875. Which of these describes a taproot?
A. stomata must be opened at all times
A. thin
B. roots must absorb water
B. thick
C. the guard cells must be closed
C. spread out
D. it must be dark outside
D. soft
870. In which organelle inside of plant cells
does the process of photosynthesis occur? 876. Plants need sunlight to
A. Mitochondria A. breathe
B. Ribosomes B. keep the plant warm
C. Cell Wall C. make food for the plant
D. Chloroplasts D. plants do not need sunlight
871. Which process converts inorganic raw
materials from the environment into or- 877. Seeds can move from one place to an-
ganic molecules? other by
A. Aerobic Respiration A. wind

B. Anaerobic Respiration B. water
C. Photosynthesis C. animals
D. Homeostasis D. wind, water, and animals
872. The process that a plant undergoes to 878. Structure that covers and protects flower
make its own food is called buds
A. cellular respiration A. stigma
B. transpiration B. embryo sac
C. photosynthesis C. bud
D. reproduction
D. sepal
873. Bicollateral vascular bundles are seen in
the plants belonging to family 879. A frond is a leaf from a
A. Malvaveae A. fern
B. Gramineae B. pine tree
C. Anacardiaceae C. moss
D. Cucurbitaceae D. none of above

880. The lower layer of leaf tissue consisting C. Whether they have cuticle or not
of loosely packed cells that carry on pho-
D. Whether they do photosynthesis or not
tosynthesis and have many air spaces be-
tween them.
886. The edge of the leaf is the
A. spongy layer
A. Midrib
B. epidermis
B. Margin
C. cuticle
C. Petiole
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D. palisade layer
D. none of above
881. is how water moves from the atmo-
sphere to land. 887. adapting characteristics of a stronger or-
A. Evaporation ganism for defense
B. Precipitation A. vascular
C. Condensation B. nonvascular
D. none of above C. mimicry
882. Brightly colored parts of flowers that at- D. rhizoid
tract insects.
A. petals 888. The female organs of a flower, com-
prising of the stigma, style, ovary, and
B. pistils
ovule?
C. stamen
A. pistil
D. filaments
B. stamen
883. A compact knoblike growth on a plant
C. filament
that develops into a leaf, flower, or
shoot? D. anther
A. ovary
889. Closed vascular bundle in monocot stem
B. pistil lacks
C. bud A. Xylem
D. flower
B. Phloem
884. Which flower structure produces pollen? C. Cambium
A. Anther
D. Water cavities
B. Style
C. Stigma 890. Which cells control the opening and clos-
ing of stomata?
D. Filament
A. Epidermis
885. All plants are classified based on
B. Vascular tissue
A. Whether they have vascular tissue or
not C. Guard cells
B. Whether they have flowers or not D. Spongy mesophyll

891. Plants use sunlight to convert carbon C. sepal

dioxide and water into sugar in a process
D. stamen
called

A. Phototsynthesis 897. Phloem transports
B. Oxygen A. water from roots to rest of plant
C. Science B. sugar from roots to rest of plant
D. Trudged
C. water from leaves to rest of plant
892. Forestry includes which of the follow- D. sugar from leaves to rest of plant
ing?
A. Trees 898. Mosses, liverworts and hornworts make
B. Wheat up the group of plants called
C. Vegetable A. atracheophytes
D. Fruits B. angiosperm
893. Which organelle belongs in plant cells C. tracheophytes

only? D. none of above
A. Cytoplasm
899. What do plants produce that animals, in-
B. Mitochondrion
cluding humans, benefit from for their sur-
C. Cell Wall vival?
D. Nucleus A. food and oxygen
894. Drain pasta in a B. water and carbon dioxide
A. To be celebrated C. oxygen only
B. strainer D. glucose and carbon dioxide
C. pan
D. broiler 900. Which cells of a leaf undergo the MOST
photosynthesis?
895. What is moved from one flower to an- A. Guard cells
other by wind and by bees, allowing
plants to reproduce? B. Palisade cells
A. nutrients C. Epidermal cells
B. seeds D. Cells in the spongy layer
C. oxygen
901. which of these tissues supports the
D. pollen
young and growing parts of plants?
896. A flower is damaged just as it opens. For A. collenchyma tissue
this flower to become a fruit, which flower
structure must remain undamaged? B. parenchyma tissue
A. petals C. sclerenchyma tissue
B. pistil D. xylem tissue

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902. How does pollen reach the ovule? B. Apical tissue

A. Stigma → Style C. dermal tissue
B. Style → stigma D. Vascular tissue
C. Ovary → stigma
905. Insectivorous plants have
D. Ovary → style
A. Digestive glands
903. What are the buds called that are along B. osmopores
the branch?
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C. laticifers
A. lateral buds
D. resin ducts
B. terminal buds
C. nodes 906. The female part of a flower is
D. none of above A. pistil
904. What plant tissue transports material be- B. stamen

tween the root and the shoot of the plant C. filament
A. Ground tissue D. sepal
1.7 Plant ecology

1. Which plant structure is extremely neces- 4. A trait that helps a living thing survive is
sary for photosynthesis to take place? called an
A. leaves A. trait
B. flower petals B. adaptation
C. anthers C. survive
D. pistils
D. reproduce
2. The series of changes that a living thing
goes through as it grows is its 5. The raccoon has hands and feet. Why
would the raccoon need this adaptation?
A. life cycle
A. to fight
B. environment
C. population B. to help them find and pick up food
D. none of above C. to hang from trees
3. Under certain conditions, the openings of D. to dig a tunnel

stomates in leaves become smaller. This
6. Every living organism interacts with its en-
process enables the plant to avoid exces-
vironment. This includes:
sive loss of
A. water A. abiotic factors, such as sunlight
B. salt B. biotic factors, such as viruses

C. methane C. abiotic factors, such as plants
D. nitrates D. biotic factors, such as air

7. Tia looked at a leaf under a microscope and C. Reproductive

noticed a number of pores on its surface. D. Respiratory
These pores are called

A. cells 13. ll of the living and nonliving things in an
area that interact with each other are
B. veins called a/an
C. stomata A. community
D. chlorophyll
B. population
8. In incomplete metamorphosis which stage C. habitat
doesn’t belong?
D. ecosystem
A. egg
14. What is the purpose of vascular tissues in
B. nymph
a plant?
C. pupa
A. reproduction
D. adult
B. movement
9. Flowering plants are unique because their C. transport materials
seeds are enclosed in:
D. make energy
A. flowers
15. What turgor pressure is a healthy turgor
B. cones
pressure for plants?
C. fruits
A. High turgor pressure
D. spores
B. Low turgor pressure
10. Hydras, earthworms, grasshoppers, and C. Mild turgor pressure
humans are classified in the same
D. Carbon turgor pressure
A. genus
B. species 16. Which situation best represents a parasitc
relationship?
C. phylum
A. both organisms benefit
D. kingdom
B. one benefits while the other is unaf-
11. A giraffe’s long neck-used to reach leaves fected
high in trees-is an example of a C. one benefits while the other is harmed
A. instinct D. neither organism benefits
B. learned behavior
17. Which body system transports materials
C. behavioral adaptation (such as oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and
D. physical adaptation antibodies) through out the body?
12. Which physiological system includes the A. Muscular System

lungs, trachea, and pharynx? B. Nervous System
A. Endocrine C. Digestive System
B. Nervous D. Circulatory System

18. An adapltation of some plants consisting B. Mimicry

of an embryo packaged along with a store
C. Camouflage
of food within a protective coat
D. Habitat
A. Cone
B. Fruit 24. What is another name for glucose?
C. Spore A. Chlorophyll
D. Seed B. Chloroplasts
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19. Cells that control the opening and closing C. Stomata
of stomata
D. Sugar
A. Cuticle
B. Guard cell 25. What is an example of a pioneer species
in primary succession?
C. Vascular tissue
D. Stomata A. insects
B. small bushes
20. Which life process is classified as au-
totrophic in some organisms and het- C. grass
erotrophic in other organisms? D. lichen
A. hormonal regulation
26. What purpose do brightly colored flowers
B. nutrition
serve?
C. anaerobic respiration
A. wind pollination
D. transport
B. insect pollination
21. Our body systems are constantly interact-
C. spore production
ing with one another in order to maintain
? D. nutrition for the developing rose.
A. homeostasis
27. This is produced by the plant to protect the
B. gene expression seeds and is something we can eat
C. protein production A. Fruit
D. cell energy
B. Flower
22. Which adaptation would you expect in an- C. Seed
imals that live in caves?
D. Stem
A. blindness
B. poor hearing 28. What is the name of the process in which
extra water exits the leaf?
C. very good eyesight
D. brightly colored fur A. stomata
B. epidermis
23. An animal’s color or pattern that helps it
blend into its surroundings C. transpiration
A. Environment D. photosynthesis

29. A plant is near a well. Its roots are mov- 35. Some grasses grow in hot dry areas. Why
ing towards the well. What tropism is this might they grow deep roots?
plant responding to?

A. to protect the plant from sun damage
A. gravitropism
B. to take in as much light as possible
B. hydrotropism
C. to spread seeds to new places
C. phototropism
D. thigmotropism D. to reach water down below
30. What is the tropism when the plant re- 36. In a plant, most water is conducted from
sponds to gravity? the roots to the leaves through structures
A. Phototropism known as
B. Thigmotropism A. phloem tubes
C. Gravitropism B. xylem vessels
D. Hydrotropism C. lenticels
31. A growth response of a plant toward or D. capillaries
away from a stimulus
A. Nastism 37. Of the plants we listed in class, an exam-
ple of a flowering plant would be:
B. Tropism
C. Photosynthesis A. Whisk fern
D. Transpiration B. Horsetail
32. A is the plant part where fruit and C. Cycad

seeds form. D. Hibiscus
A. flower
38. Which statement illustrates a plant
B. roots
tropism?
C. stem
A. stem bends toward light.
D. none of above
B. an apple develops from a flower.
33. Complete the sentence.The tiny plant in-
side a seed is called the C. water moves through vascular tissue
A. young adult D. carbon dioxide diffuses out of a stem.
B. seed coat
39. A rocky island appears as oceanic waters
C. embryo recede. Which of the following forms of
D. baby plant vegetation would probably appear first on
the bare rocks?
34. The living part of an ecosystem
A. lichens
A. Biotic
B. Abiotic B. weeds
C. Mother Earth C. shrubs

D. Flowers D. pioneer trees

40. Why do hollow bones help birds during 46. Plants have the ability to make their own
flight? food in the form of:
A. Hollow bones make the birds weigh A. lipids
less
B. proteins
B. Hollow bones are full of heavy blood
C. Hollow bones store water C. glucose
D. Hollow bones are made of feathers D. nucleic acids
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41. During pollination, pollen is transferred
47. A group of populations that coexist in
from
space and time and interact directly or in-
A. B to A directly.
B. C to D A. Species
C. B to G
B. Population
D. F to H
C. Community
42. What are some things that can cause an
animal to become endangered or extinct? D. Biome
A. habitat loss
48. When a seedling emerges upright from the
B. disease soil, which force is it overcoming?
C. climate change
A. Gravity
D. all of the above
B. Magnetism
43. An example of a plant adaptation is
C. Repulsion
A. its color
B. its use D. Heat
C. its environment
49. What in a plant cells hold food, water, and
D. none of above waste?
44. What term refers to a plant growing or A. Cell Wall
moving away from a stimulus?
B. Mitochondria
A. Touch
B. Tropism C. Vacuole
C. Dormancy D. Nucleus
D. Development
50. What is germination?
45. What happens when the vacuole is empty
A. when germs spread to different plants
or skinny?
A. Mild Turgor pressure B. when a plant begins to grow
B. Low turgor pressure C. when a bird takes a plant seed to an-
C. High turgor pressure other place
D. Regular turgor pressure D. none of above

51. A group of organisms that resemble one 57. What is the correct order of the stages in
another in appearance, behavior, chem- the life cycle of a butterfly?
istry and genetic structure.

A. egg, adult butterfly, larva, pupa
A. Species
B. egg, pupa, larva, butterfly
B. Population
C. egg, larva, pupa, butterfly
C. Community
D. Biome D. butterfly, larva, egg, pupa
52. The holds the plant in place. 58. Hibernation is a state of inactivity that oc-
A. stem curs in some animals when outside tem-
peratures are cold. This is an example of
B. seed
what type of adaptation?
C. roots
A. behavioral
D. none of above
B. physiological
53. The parts of an animal’s life from birth to
death is called a ? C. Structural/physical
A. Life cycle D. none of above

B. Seed Coat
59. What occurs after a disturbance that left
C. Food Chain no soil behind
D. Heart Rate A. primary succession
54. Of the plants we listed in class, all of the B. secondary succession
following are mosses EXCEPT for:
C. climax community
A. Liverwort
D. pioneer species
B. Hornwort
C. Club moss 60. A seedling grows shoot up and roots down.
D. Luminous moss This shoots growing up is an example of
55. Plants are essential to animals because A. negative gravitropism (geo)

they produce gas. B. positive gravitropism (geo)
A. carbon dioxide C. negative phototropism
B. nitrogen
D. positive thigmotropism
C. hydrogen
D. oxygen 61. The dissolved sugars produced in the
leaves of amaple tree move to the tree’s
56. What is the tropism when the plant re- roots through the
sponds to touch?
A. xylem
A. Phototropism
B. Thigmotropism B. phloem
C. Gravitropism C. epidermis
D. Hydrotropism D. guard cells

62. A group of individuals of the same species A. phototropism

occupying a given area at the same time. B. hydrotropism
A. Species C. thigmotropism
B. Population D. gravitropism
C. Community
68. Community of different species interacting
D. Biome with one another and with their nonliving
environment of matter and energy.
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63. Which life cycle has nymphs that resemble
the adults? A. Population
A. complete metamorphosis B. Community
B. direct development C. Biome
C. indirect development D. Ecosystem
D. incomplete metamorphosis 69. Gills are to fish, like are to humans
64. In plants, the growth of leaves toward A. heart
sunlight and the growth of roots toward B. kidneys
moisture rich regions of the soil are con-
trolled by C. lungs
A. vitamins D. feet
B. neurotransmitters 70. What helps plants grow?

C. hormones A. darkness and cold air
D. antobodies B. a secret plant food
65. What is the energy conversion during pho- C. good soil, water, and sunlight
tosynthesis? D. plants don’t need anything to grow
A. chemical → chemical 71. Which organism has an advantage in its
B. thermal → electrical environment?
C. chemical → electrical A. The fastest
D. radiant → chemical B. The strongest
66. Some plants have an adaptation to help C. The best adapted

them survive a wildfire. Which of the fol- D. The most tamed
lowing could it be?
72. The understanding of interactions and re-
A. Thick bark lationships between different elements of
B. Large leaves ‘life’ on earth, and their impacts on each
C. Shallow roots (not deep in soil) other and with their environment.
D. none of above A. Contrary

B. Chemistry
67. A vine plant brushes against a fence and
wraps itself around the fence. To what C. Ecology
stimulus is the plant responding? D. Physiology

73. What is an adaptation? C. phloem

A. A feature or behavior that helps an or- D. anther

ganism survive.
79. There is 80, 000 joules of energy at the
B. The food that an animal eats. producer level. How much energy is at ter-
C. How energy moves in a food web. tiary level?
D. How animals evolve throughout time. A. 80
B. 800
74. A large, distinctive complex of plant com-
munities created and maintained by cli- C. 8, 000
mate. D. 80, 000
A. Ecosystem
80. Which situation best represents a mutual-
B. Biome istic relationship?
C. Biosphere A. both organisms benefit
D. Biology B. one benefits while the other is unaf-
fected
75. A peach fruit develops from the tissues of
the C. one benefits while the other is harmed
A. petal D. neither organism benefits
B. stamen 81. Which of the following pairs of plants pro-
C. cotyledon duce spores?
D. ovary A. Mosses and Ferns

B. Ferns and Cone-bearing plants
76. Which of the following structures found in
leaves allows for oxygen and carbon diox- C. Cone-bearing plants and Flowering
ide to diffuse in and out of the leaf? plants
A. cuticle D. Flowering plants and Mosses
B. stomata 82. What system removes waste products

from the blood?
C. phloem
A. excretory system
D. xylem
B. endocrine system
77. How do adaptations help animals?
C. immune system
A. to hide from predators
D. nervous system
B. to hunt for food
83. Which of the following transports carbo-
C. to survive in their habitats
hydrates (sugars) from the shoot to the
D. All of these are correct roots?
78. Which of the following transports water A. xylem
from the roots to the shoots? B. phloem
A. stomata C. stomata
B. xylem D. cuticle

84. in flowering plants, pollen formation oc- 90. What is the 2nd stage in a plant’s life?
curs in the A. germination
A. stigma B. seed
B. anther C. adult plant
C. pistil D. young plant
D. ovary
91. Which of the following nonliving elements
do all living organisms depend on for sur-
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85. The flower of a plant growing up.
vival?
A. Positive Gravitropism
A. water, grass, air
B. Negative Gravitropism
B. sun, air, water
C. Thigmotropism
C. soil, sun, rocks
D. Hydrotropism
D. water, rocks, air
86. A plant growing in response to the sunlight
is an example of which tropism? 92. What system receives oxygen and gets rid
of carbon dioxide?
A. Gravitropism
A. muscular system
B. Phototropism
B. respiratory system
C. Thigmotropism
C. nervous system
D. Hydrotropism
D. excretory system
87. Which feature would be most helpful to a
93. When an animal looks like another animal
plant in a desert?
it is called
A. small leaves
A. camouflage
B. large seeds B. mimicry
C. small roots C. warning coloration
D. smelly flowers D. protective resemblance
88. Venus Flytrap flower reacts to a bug. 94. Which adaptation would NOT help a hawk
A. Nastic Movement catch a mouse?
B. Negative Gravitropism A. Hollow Bones
C. Thigmotropism B. Good eye sight
D. Hydrotropism C. Talons
D. Camouflage
89. Which situation best represents a commen-
salism relationship? 95. Most autotrophs store energy in the form
A. both organisms benefit of
B. one benefits while the other is unaf- A. starches
fected B. carbon dioxide
C. one benefits while the other is harmed C. water
D. neither organism benefits D. nucleic acids

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1.8 Plant genetics

1. What is a gene? B. Bulb and corms
A. An entire chromosome that codes for C. Clones and cell cultures
a trait D. Rhizomes and cuttings
B. a piece of clothing
7. Two different genes for a trait (sometimes
C. a piece of a DNA on chromosome that
called hybrid). Bb
codes for a trait
A. protein
D. Chemical messengers in your brain
that code for a trait B. homozygous
C. heterozygous
2. Plants take in carbon dioxide from the air
and give off: D. genotype
A. Oxygen. 8. In a seed, the plumule grows into
B. Nectar. A. The shoot
C. Sugar. B. The leaves
D. Steam. C. The roots
3. Roots grow downward in the soil in re- D. The branch
sponse to-
9. Gregor Mendel’s principles of genetics ap-
A. gravity ply to
B. sunlight
A. plants only
C. water
B. animals only
D. wind
C. pea plants only
4. The different forms of genes are known as D. all organisms that reproduce sexually
A. environment
10. What substance in flowers attracts bees
B. probability and butterflies?
C. traits A. Embryo
D. alleles B. Periosteum
5. Gravitropism and are the same thing. C. Carbon dioxide
A. Geotropism D. Nectar
B. Phototropism 11. The physical appearance or the way a gene
C. Thigmotropism looks is known as it’s
D. Triangular Prism A. genotype
6. What two types of asexual reproduction B. allele

are the MOST similar? C. gene
A. Runners and tissue cultures D. phenotype

12. The pollen grains are found in this part of 18. Define genetic modification
the stamen.
A. Altering the physical features of an an-
A. anther imal
B. style B. Altering an organism’s amount of cells
C. pistil
C. Altering an organism’s DNA to improve
D. none of above or correct a defect in the organism
D. none of above
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13. An allele or gene that always shows is
A. recessive
19. How long does it take for a Wisconsin Fast
B. dominant Plant to mature?
C. hidden A. 4 days
D. present
B. 28 days
14. What plant is an example of a tuber? C. 40 days
A. Spider plant
D. 200 days
B. Geranium
C. Irish potato 20. Before Mendel how did people think you
got your traits
D. Onion
A. equal from each parent
15. What do we call the table used to calcu-
late the probability of an offspring’s geno- B. more from the dad
type? C. more from the mom
A. Punnett Square D. from a stork
B. Venn Diagram
21. Define Genome Editing
C. Avogadro’s Graph
D. Circle of Life A. Technology that allows the develop-
ment of new genes
16. A plant’s root grow in a downward direc-
B. Technology that allows the growth of
tion in response to what force?
new organs in a lab
A. sunlight
C. Technology that allows a change to an
B. gravity organism’s DNA.
C. soil
D. none of above
D. turgor pressure
22. If a plant is going towards water it is
17. A root grows downward in a response to
showing
an stimulus
A. Positive hydrotropism
A. external
B. internal B. Positive Geotropism
C. phototropism C. Negative hydrotropism
D. geotropism D. Positive Solar Radiation

23. The mathematical chance that something 29. is the field of science that studies of
will happen is known as how traits are passed on, or inherited.

A. chance A. dominant traits
B. luck B. ratio
C. probability C. phenotype
D. none of above D. genetics
24. Each pea plant had alleles for each 30. Two of the same genes for a trait (some-
trait. times called purebred). BB or bb
A. 1 A. homozygous
B. 2 B. hetrozygous
C. 3 C. protein
D. 4 D. chromosome
25. A stimulus is 31. Yy is an example of

A. a change in an organisms surround- A. A heteroygous phenotype
ings. B. A heterozygous genotype
B. process in which organisms grow C. A homozygous phenotype
larger.
D. A homozygous genotype
C. a reaction to a change in surroundings
D. tropism 32. What is the response of a plant that is fur-
ther away from the window?
26. In a seed, the radicle grows into? A. Growing towards the light
A. The shoot B. Growing away from gravity
B. The leaves C. Growing toward moisture
C. The stem D. none of above
D. The roots
33. The pistil is the:
27. A rhizome is a(n): A. Part of the plant where flowers first ap-
A. Plant cutting. pear.
B. Underground stem. B. Part of the flower that breathes.
C. Flower. C. Female part of the flower.
D. Bulb. D. Male part of the flower.
28. What is the name of the tiny plant inside 34. All living things receive ALL their genetic
a seed? traits from their:
A. Nectar A. Parents.
B. Fruit B. Mother.
C. Stem C. Father.
D. Embryo D. Brother.

35. Mr Burns’ favourite flower is 41. This stalk supports the stigma.
A. Roses A. filament
B. Bluebells B. style
C. Daffodils C. ovary
D. Foxgloves D. anther
42. Which amongst these is NOT a part of PIS-
36. Asexual plant reproduction requires:
TIL
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A. Only one organism. A. stigma
B. A male and a female. B. stamen
C. A clone. C. style
D. A pistil and a stamen. D. ovary
37. An example of a genetic trait in humans is: 43. What plant substance turns plants green
and helps the plant capture light?
A. Being left handed or right handed.
A. Eosinophil
B. Being happy or sad.
B. Chlorophyll
C. Having one brother and one sister.
C. Slime
D. Having a weight problem.
D. Pollen
38. Changes in an organism’s environment 44. How did Mendel refer to the two kinds
that cause a response of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one
A. Tropism coming from the father, one from the
B. Hormone mother)?
A. Gametogenic
C. Stimuli
B. Elective traits
D. Response
C. Alleles
39. The Wisconsin Fast Plant is from what D. Sequals
species of plant?
45. Contain a plant’s male reproductive cell
A. Dandelion
A. Stamen
B. Brassica
B. Pollen
C. Sapian
C. Style
D. Diffenbachia
D. Stigma
40. The stalk that supports or holds up the an- 46. The pollen grains are found and made in
ther is the this part of the stamen.
A. style A. Anther
B. filament B. Style
C. ovary C. Stigma
D. pistil D. Ovary

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47. The differences that occur within the off- 52. The enlarged base of the pistil that stores
spring of a particular species are called: the eggs of the plant is the

A. Selection. A. ovary
B. Extension. B. ovule
C. Variation. C. stigma
D. Closure. D. style
48. What does the term Genome mean? 53. What force or substance causes turgor
pressure?
A. An organisms cells
A. light
B. An organism’s complete set of DNA
B. gravity
C. An organisms gene on one chromo-
some C. glucose
D. none of above D. water
54. Dominant alleles are represented by a:

49. At the very beginning of seed germination
how will the mass of a seed change? A. Male gene
A. It will increase slightly B. lowercase letter
B. It will decrease C. recessive trait
C. It stays the same D. capital letter
D. It will increase significantly 55. Heredity is the passing of traits from
to
50. What do we call the result of the genotype
(for example, the color of the peas)? A. predators to prey
A. Visible traits B. water to rain
B. Physiotrait C. parents to offspring
C. Genotype 2 D. fungi to protists
D. Phenotype 56. ONE cell from a carrot taproot is put into

a tube of water with plant nutrients, and
51. What force allows a plant to become more can regenerate into an entire plant. This is
rigid and stand upright? an example of a:
A. turgor pressure A. Clone.
B. geotropism B. Runner.
C. photosynthesis C. Cell culture.
D. phototropism D. Throat culture.
1.9 Plant morphology

1. Which of the following is not a type of 7. Root hairs arise from which of the follow-
Phyllotaxy? ing regions?
A. Alternate A. Region of maturation
B. Opposite B. Region of elongation
C. Whorled C. Region of meristematic activity
D. Imbricate D. Root cap Root cap Root cap
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2. In Bougainvillea thorns are the modifica- 8. An example of edible underground stem is
tions of
A. carrot
A. stipules
B. groundnut
B. adventitious root
C. sweet potata
C. stem
D. potato
D. leag
9. Stilt roots grow from-
3. when the margins of sepals or petals over-
lap one another without any particular di- A. Lower internodes
rection, the condition is termed as B. Lower nodes
A. vexillary C. Upper nodes
B. imbricate D. Upper internodes
C. twisted
10. Leaf become modified into spines in
D. valvate
A. Onion
4. Geocarpic fruit is B. Pea
A. potato C. Silk cotton
B. groundnut D. Opuntia
C. onion
11. Plant having column of vascular tissues,
D. garlic bearing fruits and having a tap root sys-
5. is an edible underground stem. tem is
A. Sweet Potato A. monocot
B. Carrot B. dicot
C. Potato C. gymnosperm or dicot
D. none of above D. gymnosperm or monocot
6. Which of the following is not a stem mod- 12. Arrangement of flowers on floral axis is
ification? called-
A. Thorns of Citrus A. Placentation
B. Tendrils of cucumber B. Phyllotaxy
C. Flattened structures of Opuntia C. Inflorescence
D. Pitcher of Nepenthes D. Angiology

13. Vegetative reproduction of Agave occurs 19. The morphological nature of the edible part
A. rhizome of coconut is
A. perisperm

B. stolon
B. cotyledon
C. bulbils
C. endosperm
D. sucker
D. pericarp
14. A drupe develops in
20. The technical term used for the androecium
A. wheat in a flower of China rose
B. pea A. monadelphous
C. tomato B. diadelphous
D. mango C. polyandrous
15. The type of branching on a coconut tree is D. polyadelphous
easily marked by the presence of a clear 21. Radial symmetry is found in the flowers
main stem. This type is called of
A. dicots A. Brassica
B. monopodial B. Trifolium
C. simpodial C. Pisum
D. bipedal D. Cassia
16. MODIFIED STEM FOUND IN POTATO IS 22. The type of placentation in which vary is
CALLED AS syncarpous, unilocular and ovules on su-
A. RHIZOME tures is called
A. apical placentation
B. TUBER
B. parietal placentation
C. BULB
C. marginal placentation
D. CORM
D. superficial placentation
17. Identify the correct statement:
23. In epiphyllous, stamens are attached to
A. Hypogynous flowers have inferior the
ovary
A. Perianth
B. Perigynous flowers have inferior ovary
B. Sepal
C. Hypogynous flowers have superior C. Petal
ovary
D. none of above
D. Epigynous flowers have superior ovary
24. Incision in the leaf does not reach the
18. fused carpels are called midrib in
A. syncarpous A. Simple leaf
B. polycarpous B. Bipinnately compound leaf
C. apocarpous C. Tripinnately compound leaf
D. acarpous D. More than one option is correct

25. In some leguminous plants the leaf base 31. Which of the following plants does not
becomes swollen which is called have a specialized vesicle root system?
A. leaf sheath A. tumbler
B. bulbil B. duck
C. thalamus C. pandanus
D. Pulvinus D. Watercress
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26. Which among the following is not a modi- 32. What plants do not have twiner stems?
fied stem for storage purpose? A. Pepper, Deep Li, Slow Betel
A. Ginger B. morning glory, butterfly pea, yard long
B. Zaminkand bean
C. Turmeric C. peppercorns, morning glory, dill
D. Sweet potato D. Butterfly pea, yard long bean, betel nut
27. In which structure do seeds develop? 33. What type of placentaion is seen in sweet
pea?
A. Anther
A. Axile
B. Ovary
B. Free central
C. Pollen Grain
C. Marginal
D. Spore
D. Basal
28. Vexillary aestivation is characteristic of
34. When the ovules develop on the inner wall
the family
of the ovary or on the peripheral part the
A. Fabaceae placentation is
B. Asteraceae A. Axile
C. Solanaceae B. Marginal
D. Brassicaceae C. Parietal
29. Which of the following plants does not D. Basal

have a fibrous root system? 35. Morphology means
A. yam A. Study of plants
B. yam B. Study of flowers
C. it’s a tiger’s hand C. Physics appearance
D. Krachai D. Non of these
30. Phyllode is present in 36. In pea flower, the stamens are
A. Asparagus A. Free
B. Euphorbia B. Monoadelphous
C. Australian Acacia C. Diadelphous
D. Opuntia D. Polyadelphous

37. Arrangement of leaves on stem or its 43. Oil reserve of groundnut is present in
branches is called- A. embryo

A. Phyllotaxy
B. cotyledons
B. Venation
C. endosperm
C. Vernation
D. underground tubers
D. Heterophylly
44. Which part of the coconut produces coir?
38. among China rose, mustard, brinjal,
potato, guava, cucumber, onion and tulip, A. Seed coat
how many plants have superior overy? B. Mesocarp
A. Five
C. Epicarp
B. Six
D. Pericarp
C. Three
D. Four 45. The mode of arrangement of sepals or
petals in floral bud is called as
39. Perisperm differs from endosperm in
A. inflorescence
A. being a haploid tissue
B. phyllotaxy
B. having no reserve food
C. aestivation
C. being a diploid tissue
D. placentation
D. its formation by fusion of secondary
nucleus with several sperms 46. In a cereal grain the single cotyledon of em-
40. How many works you have completed? bryo is represented by
A. All A. scutellum
B. Some are left B. prophyll
C. Nothing C. coleoptile
D. D. colearhiza
41. The characteristic direction of growth of 47. In unilocular vary with a single ovule, the
the main stem that is perpendicular to the placentaion is
top is called..
A. marginal
A. fastigiatus
B. basal
B. erectus
C. free central
C. dependes
D. axile
D. dicots
42. The ‘eyes’ of the potato tuber are 48. Which one of the following is a true fruit?
A. flower buds A. Apple

B. shoot buds B. Pear
C. axillary buds C. Cashewnut
D. root buds D. Coconut

49. Free-central placentation is found in 55. Which of the following plants have pneu-
A. Dianthus matophores? Maize Maize Sweet potato
Sweet potato Rhizophora Rhizophora Sug-
B. Argemone arcane Sugarcane
C. Brassica A. Sweet potato
D. Citrus B. Rhizophora
50. The hanging structures that support a C. Sugarcane
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banyan tree are its D. Maiza
A. stilt roots 56. The petiole is swollen & spongy in
B. tap roots A. All of the below
C. prop roots B. Nepenthes
D. pneumatophores C. Trapa
51. The embryo in sunflower has D. Clematis
A. one cotyledon 57. Petiole when becomes green, flat and tend
to function as leaf, is called as
B. two cotyledons
A. Phylloclade
C. many cotyledons
B. Cladode
D. no cotyledon
C. Cladophyll
52. A typical leaf consists of three main parts D. Phyllode
A. petiole, leaf margin and lamina
58. The type of flower where the gynoecium
B. leaf base, petiole and lamina occupies the highest position while the
C. leaf base, leaf apex and lamina other parts are situated below it.
D. leaf apex, petiole and lamina A. Hypogynous
B. perigynous
53. Placenta and pericarp are both edible por-
tions in C. epigynous
A. apple D. monogynous
B. banana 59. The term polyadelphous is related to

C. tomata A. Gynoecium
D. potato B. Corolla
C. Androecium
54. Placentation in which ovules develop on
the inner wall of the ovary or in periph- D. none of above
eral part, is 60. Root hairs develop from the region of
A. Basal A. Maturation
B. Axile B. Elongation
C. Parietal C. Root Cap
D. Free central D. none of above

61. Flowers are unisexual in C. pea

A. pea D. wheat

B. cucumber 67. Pea flower is an example for
C. China rose A. Actinomorphic
D. onion B. Zygomorphic
62. Fruit of groundnut is C. Asymmetric
A. legume D. none of above
B. carpopsis 68. THE TYPE OF MODIFIED ROOTS FOUND IN
C. berry Ficus bengalensis IS CALLED AS
D. nut A. STILT ROOTS
B. PROP ROOTS
63. How many plants among Indigofera, Ses-
bania, Salvia, Allium, Aloe, mustard, C. FUSIFORM ROOTS
groundnut, radish, gram and turnip have D. NAPIFORM ROOTS
stamens with different lengths in their
flowers? 69. Racemose inflorescence is identified by-
A. Three A. Acropetal arrangement of flowers on

peduncle
B. Four
B. Presence of sessile flowers
C. Five
C. Continuous growth of main axis
D. Six
D. a and c
64. which type of placentation is found in sun-
70. Vexillum is found in
flower?
A. Crucferae
A. marginal
B. Rosaceae
B. basal
C. Solanaceae
C. free central
D. Papilionaceae
D. parietal
71. Which of the following features is exhib-
65. Roots developing from plant parts other ited by the cells in the region of meristem-
than radicle are- atic activity?
A. Epiphyllous A. Large size
B. Epicaulous B. Thick cell walls
C. Adventitious C. Dense protoplasm
D. Fibrous D. Low rate of cell division
66. Roots play insignificant role in absorption 72. THE TYPE OF PLACENTATION FOUND IN
of water in LEMON IS
A. sunflower A. AXILE
B. Pistia B. PARIETAL

C. FREE CENTRAL 79. Parallel venation occurs in

D. MARGINAL A. Banana
73. Placentation in tomato and lemon is B. Peepal
A. parietal C. Hibiscus
B. free central D. Mango
C. marginal
80. Root hairs usually develop in which region
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D. axile of a typical tap root?
74. Axile placentation is present in A. Region of Maturation
A. dianthus B. Region of Meristematic activity
B. lemon C. Region of Elongation
C. pea D. Root cap
D. Argemone
81. Stem tendrils are not seen in
75. Tricarpellary, syncarpous gynoecium is
A. pumpkin
found in flowers of
B. watermelon
A. Solanaceae
B. Fabaceae C. grapevines
C. Poaceae D. Bougainvillea
D. Liliaceae 82. Which one of the following is correctly
matched?
76. What part of the flower attracts an insect
to pollinate? A. Onion-Bulb
A. Petal B. Ginger-Sucker
B. Anther C. Chlamydomonas-Conidia
C. Stigma D. Yeast-Zoospores
D. Style
83. The term ‘Polyadelphous’ is related to
77. Pneumatophores help the plant in
A. Gynoecium
A. Collects more minerals from the soil
B. androecium
B. getting oxygen from air
C. corolla
C. holding the plant tightly to the soil
D. calyx
D. give mechanical support to the plant
78. Root hairs develop from- 84. Non-albuminous seed is porduced in
A. Region of maturation A. maize

B. Zone of elongation B. castor
C. Meristematic region C. wheat
D. Region of mature cells D. pea

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85. the standard petal of a popilionaceous C. groundnut

corolla is also called D. gram

A. pappus
90. In Australian acacia plant
B. vexillum
A. leaves are short lived, petioles be-
C. corona come leaf like
D. carina
B. leaves become fleshy
86. Edible part in mango is C. leaves are modified into spines
A. mesocarp D. leaf tips are modified into tendrils
B. epicarp
91. Stem modified into flat green organs per-
C. endocarp forming the functions of leaves are known
D. epidemis as
A. phyllodes
87. A few millimeters above the root cap is the
region of- B. phylloclades
A. Elongation C. scales
B. Maturation D. cladodes
C. Meristematic activity 92. If more than two leaves arise at nodes, the
D. Root hairs phyllotaxy is which type?
A. Alternate
88. Which of the following plants has a tap
root system? B. Whorled
A. Maize C. Opposite superposed
B. Wheat D. Opposite Decussate
C. Rose 93. Vegetation propagation in mint occurs by
D. Sugarcane A. runner
89. Seed coat is not thin, membranous in B. offset
A. maize C. rhizome
B. coconut D. sucker
1.10 Plant physiology

1. What is neutral on the pH scale transports them to the golgi?
A. 5 A. golgi
B. 7 B. nucleus
C. 8 C. chloroplast
D. 12 D. endoplasmic reticulum
2. Which structure prepares proteins and 3. When an organism grows toward the sun-

light it is called what? C. Mychorrizae

A. Luminescent D. none of above
B. Photogenic
9. What’s the temperature range of photo-
C. Phototropism synthesis?
D. none of above A. 60-80
4. Why does chlorophyll make plants appear B. 70-80
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green? C. 65-85
A. Reflecting all colors expect green D. 75-85
B. Absorbing all colors and reflecting
back green 10. Which gasses are produced by photosyn-
thesis?
C. Not absorbing any colors
A. Oxygen
D. Leaves aren’t green, what do you
mean? ! B. Carbon Dioxide
C. Hydrogen
5. What is the most important life-sustaining
process? D. Water vapor
A. Photosynthesis 11. P680 is part of while P700 is part of
B. Transpiration
C. Respiration A. Calvin Cycle / Photosystems II and I
D. none of above B. Photosystem II / Photosystem I
6. is a stack of thylakoids C. Photosystems II and I / Calvin Cycle
A. Granum D. Photosystem I / Photosystem II
B. Stomata 12. Found in hardwoods only, these are the
C. Stroma primary conduction elements composed of
stacks of dead, hollow cells that form long
D. Chloroplast
tubes:
7. If the root of the plant is towards the sun A. Vessels
then it is
B. Xylem
A. Positively phototropic
C. Cambium
B. Nastic movement
D. none of above
C. Positively geotropic
D. Negatively phototropic 13. The membrane enclosed the vacuole is
called
8. When roots are living in a symbiotic rela-
A. plasmalema
tionship with certain fungi that help the
tree get essential minerals, it is called: B. cell membrane
A. Absorption C. endoplasm
B. Osmosis D. tonoplast

14. These trees have only one apical meristem: 20. What is the first process in photosynthe-
A. Pines sis?
A. Photosystem I

B. Junipers
C. Oaks B. Photosystem II
D. Palms C. Calvin Cycle

D. Dark Reactions
15. What is the natural environment for the
root zone? 21. Which structure produces energy for the
cell?
A. Water
A. mitochondria
B. Air
B. nucleus
C. Soil
C. golgi
D. none of above
D. endoplasmic reticulum
16. What is the most essential ingredient for
all living things? 22. Hydrotropism is the movement of a plant
due to?
A. Air
A. Chemicals
B. Water
B. Light
C. Soil
C. Water
D. none of above
D. Physical contact
17. What is significance of transpiration
23. Which of the following is not internal fac-
A. Maintenance of turgidity tors affecting transpiration
B. Helps in gaseous exchange A. Plant cuticle
C. Cooling effect for plants B. Number of stomata
D. All of the above C. Temperature
18. The study of functions and the complex D. Number of leaves
chemical processes that allow plants to 24. A slightly englarged portion of the twig,
grow is known as where leaves and buds arise is called:
A. plant taxonomy A. internode
B. plant physiology B. node
C. plant nutrition C. Leaf bud scar
D. photosynthesis D. none of above
19. Which type of transpiration have maxi- 25. What effect does citrus blight have on cit-
mum loss of water (80-90% total water rus trees.
loss) A. kills them
A. Cuticular transpiration B. helps the tree produce more fruit
B. Stomatal transpiration C. renders a tree worthless for fruit pro-
C. Leaf transpiration duction and kills them
D. Guard cell transpiration D. does stuff

26. Where the branch and trunk expand 31. This tissue is composed of mostly living
against each other in the crotch and the cells:sieve cells in conifers and; sieve tube
bark gets pushed up is called the: elements with companion cells in hard-
A. Branch collar woods:
A. Functional phloem
B. Branch bark ridge
B. Functional xylem
C. petiole
C. Parenchyma cells
D. none of above
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D. none of above
27. This component provides strength and
rigidity in plant cell walls, especially in 32. What two characteristics determine how a
wood. tree will grow and develop?
A. Phloem A. Food and water
B. Cellulose B. Exercise and sleep
C. Lignin C. genetic potential and surrounding en-

vironmental conditions
D. none of above
D. none of above
28. Storage, anchorage, conduction and ab-
33. A tree that keeps it’s leaves for more than
sorption are all functions of what?
one year is called a what?
A. Tree Trunk
A. Deciduous
B. Tree Crown
B. Wintergreen
C. Tree Roots
C. Evergreen
D. all of the above D. none of above
29. The xylem of angiosperms is composed of 34. Photosynthesis will work best in which
these 4 elements: temperature range
A. chloroplasts, vessels, phloem & stom- A. 50-60 degrees F
ata
B. 60-70 degrees F
B. Guard cells, tracheids, fibers & peti-
oles C. 65-85 degrees F
D. 85-95 degrees F
C. tracheids, fibers, parenchyma cells &
vessels 35. quanta of light is needed for fixation
D. none of above of 6 CO2 molecules.
A. 8
30. In the Kreb’s Cycle molecules of
NADH2 are formed per molecule of acetyl B. 12
CoA oxidized to CO2 and H2O. C. 48
A. 4 D. 6
B. 8
36. Which structure contains DNA and controls
C. 3 the cells processes?
D. 6 A. mitochondria

B. vaculole 42. The loss of from the aerial parts of the

C. nucleus plant body is known as Transpiration.
A. Stomata

D. golgi
B. Guard cell
37. The area of the leaf stalk that enables leaf
C. Water
drop and protects the stem from dessica-
tion and pathogen entry. D. Leaves
A. Branch bark ridge 43. The swollen area at the base of a branch
B. Branch collar is called the:
C. Abscission zone A. Branch bark ridge
D. none of above B. Branch collar

C. Leaf bud scar
38. Which structure controls what enters and
D. none of above
leaves the cell?
A. cell wall 44. Process in which food substances are
moved to the rest of plant by phloem is
B. nucleus known as
C. plasma membrane A. transpiration
D. golgi B. respiration
39. How does Photosystem II create O2? C. photosynthesis
A. It reduces H2O into H+ and O D. translocation
B. O2 is actually generated in the Calvin 45. Which of the following process creates the
Cycle most ATP during aerobic cellular respira-
C. It Oxidizes H2O into H+ and O tion?
D. Oxygen atoms are assembled in Photo- A. Glycolysis
system II B. Calvin cycle
40. What two materials are needed for photo- C. Electron transport chain
synthesis? D. Citric acid cycle
A. Water and soil. 46. Trees that form vessels of uniform size
B. Carbon dioxide and water. throughout the growing season are called:
C. Carbon dioxide and chlorophyll. A. Diffuse porous
D. Peanut butter and jelly. B. Ring porous
C. Hydroponic
41. These are adaptations trees have made to
survive in hot, dry climates: D. none of above
A. Small leaves, Sunken stomata & thick 47. Bolting is induced by hormone.
cuticle A. GA2
B. large leaves and cuticle B. IAA
C. thin bark, small leaves & small crown C. IPA
D. none of above D. GA3

48. What is the process where living cells take C. nitrogen phosphorus and potassium
in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide? D. nitrogen potassium and calcium
A. Oxygen
54. What occurs in the Calvin Cycle of photo-
B. Photosynthesis synthesis?
C. Cellular Respiration A. nothing happens there is no energy
D. Carbon Dioxide B. glucose is synthesized from CO2
C. Oxygen is being converted into sugar
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49. What structure uses light to do photosyn-
thesis? D. energy is generated in the form of ATP
A. vacuole 55. In what process does the plant give up wa-
B. mitochondria ter vapor to the atmosphere?
C. chloroplast A. Photosynthesis
B. Transpiration
D. nucleus
C. Respiration
50. This is the primary structural component D. none of above
of the cell wall
56. In the absence of oxygen, follows gly-
A. Lignin
colysis.
B. Cellulose
A. Kreb cycle
C. Symplasm
B. ETC
D. none of above C. Fermentation
51. Plant Physiologists are responsible for D. Calvin cycle
studying and researching what?
57. What is the site of photosynthesis?
A. process of plant development
A. Cell Wall
B. how respiration works B. Cytoplasm
C. process of plant growth and develop- C. Chloroplast
ment
D. none of above
D. how photosynthesis works
58. What is the most common specialized stem
52. Site of β -oxidation is and Mitochon- used for food?
dria. A. Tuber
A. Chloroplast B. Fibrous
B. Glyoxysomes C. Hairy
C. Peroxisomes D. Branch
D. Golgi complex 59. Transpiration also occurs in what?
53. what are the elements that are essential A. flowers
for plant growth? B. roots
A. iron zinc and boron C. stems
B. copper iron and nitrogen D. leaves

60. These provide a large surface area for ab- C. Gravity

sorbing sunlight & CO2. They also facili- D. Physical contact
tate gas exchange.

A. Twigs 66. which of the following is a reactant to pho-
tosynthesis?
B. Buds
C. Leaf blades A. Oxygen
D. none of above B. Carbohydrates

C. Glucose
61. Which structure provides protection to the
plant cell and gives it its shape? D. Water
A. plasma membrane 67. What is pH?
B. vacuole
A. the sweetness of plants
C. cell wall
B. the sourness of plants
D. endoplasmic reticulum
C. The measure of how acid/basic the
62. There are 3 types of transpiration except water is
A. Cuticular transpiration D. The measure of gasses in the air
B. Stomatal transpiration
68. Trees that form wide vessels early in the
C. Lenticular transpiration season and narrower vessels later in the
D. Chlorophyll transpiration season are called
A. Diffuse porous
63. Citrus growers and the U.S. Horticultural
Research Laboratory have been studying B. Monocots
the disease citrus blight since what year? C. Ring porous
A. 1900
D. none of above
B. 1890
69. What are the words above and below
C. 1920
the equal sign of the photosynthesis equa-
D. 1892 tion?
64. When cell structure changes and allows A. Light Energy, Chlorophyll
cells to assume a variety of specific func- B. Chlorophyll, Light Energy
tions it is called
C. Glucose, Water
A. Differentiation
D. Water, Glucose
B. Alternative pathways
C. Reverse osmosis 70. What is the structure that produces pro-
D. none of above tein for the cell?
A. golgi
65. Thigmonasty is the movement of a plant
or a plant part in response to B. mitochondria
A. Water C. chloroplast
B. Light D. ribosome

1.11 Plant reproduction 140
71. The process through which plants leaves, 72. This conductive tissue is composed of tra-
stems and roots consume oxygen and give cheids, fibers and parenchyma cells in gym-
off carbon dioxide is? nosperms
A. absorption A. Xylem
B. translocation B. Phloem
C. respiration C. Cambium
D. photosynthesis D. none of above
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1.11 Plant reproduction
1. A type of stem cutting used where stock 5. Splitting a root system into 2 or more
material is limited and has alternate pieces that will each become a new plant
leaves is a is called
A. stem tip cutting A. Cuttings
B. cane cutting B. Division
C. simple layering C. Tissue Culture
D. single-eye cutting D. Grafting
2. A plant has 24 chromosomes in its mi- 6. What is photoperiodism?

crospore mother cell. The number of chro- A. The amount of chlorophyll in plants
mosomes in its endosperm will be
B. The time in which photosynthesis can
A. 36 occur
B. 24 C. The fertile time for a plant
C. 12 D. The response of a plant to the length
of night
D. 48
7. What a plant or animal does
3. The sticky top surface of the pistil.
A. pollination
A. Stigma
B. specialized
B. Pistil
C. stamen
C. Pollen
D. behavior
D. Sepal
8. My seeds are usually sticky and spiky so
4. A cutting that is usually made from large that they can
leaf plant with the veins split is
A. stay on the insects’ body without
A. split-vein cutting falling off easily
B. leaf petiole cutting B. prevent insects from eating them
C. terminal tip cutting C. None of the above
D. tissue propagation D. none of above

9. Plants can reproduce. This means 15. Which of the following is (are) an advan-
tage to asexula reproduction methods
A. to recreate a similar plant.
A. faster time to a mature plant

B. to make the plant grow larger.
B. create large numbers of identical
C. to make more of its own kind. plants
D. to regrow dead plants. C. keep best traits pure
D. all of the above
10. Plants that produce their seeds in cones.
A. gymnosperms 16. Male structure of the flower that contains
the anther
B. legumes
A. stamen
C. deciduous B. pistil
D. conifers C. anther
11. Found inside the ovary and contain the ova D. petal
A. ovules 17. What has to happen before nutrients can

be taken up by the roots of a plant?
B. anther
A. scarification
C. seeds
B. leaching
D. stamen C. dissolve in water
12. What part of the flower holds the pollen? D. none of the answers are correct
A. stem 18. The structures containing female reproduc-
tive cells.
B. anther
A. seeds
C. pistil
B. style
D. flower
C. gametes
13. What type of information is passed on due D. anthers
to reproduction?
19. These are non-flowering plants that pro-
A. Plants duce naked seeds, not fruit.
B. Specialized Structures A. Cochemeas
C. Genetic B. Gymnosperms
D. Offspring C. Wildflowers
D. Angiosperms
14. Tomatoes, peas, and cucumbers are exam-
ples of plants that reproduce through 20. These plants reproduce through seeds ex-
cept
A. fruits
A. Mango tree
B. flowers B. Pumpkin plant
C. seeds C. Sugar cane plant
D. vegetables D. Cucumber plant

21. bees use nectar to make honey. C. ovules and seeds

A. hive D. alternation of generations
B. real 27. What results in seed formation?
C. queen A. Asexual reproduction
D. worker B. Sexual Reproduction
C. Mitosis
22. Which of the following plant adaptations
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allows plants to use animals to transport D. None of the above
their seed to new locations? 28. The product of the union of a sperm and an
A. Long vines egg is a
B. Strong stems A. embryo
C. Sweet fruit B. gametophyte
D. Large leaves C. fruit
D. zygote
23. The female sex cell is the
29. Where does fertilization in a plant occur?
A. sperm
A. flower
B. egg
B. leaf
C. ovule
C. stem
D. stigma
D. root
24. Propagation is defined as
30. All of them are the important of plant ex-
A. union of egg and sperm cept?
B. process of increasing numbers of a A. For wood supply
species B. For oxygen supply
C. a cheaper method of propagation than C. For shelter or habitat
with seeds
D. For protection
D. the only way to reproduce some
species and cultivars 31. The reproductive structure of a gym-
nosperm is a
25. The process in which an organism produces A. flower
more of its own kind is called-
B. fruit
A. genetics
C. cone
B. reproduction
D. ovary
C. adaptive behavior
32. Where does a plant get the energy for pho-
D. offspring tosynthesis?
26. The two stages of a plant life cycle are A. water
called B. soil
A. gymnosperms and angiosperms C. sunlight
B. spores and zygotes D. none of above

33. Male reproductive organ 39. When pollen from one plant joins with the
A. Anther pistil of another plant.

B. Pistil A. seed disperal
C. Style B. pollination
D. Stamen C. germination
D. condensation
34. Which of the following is/are part of the
carpel? I. antherII. stigmaIII. style 40. Catches pollen
A. I only A. Stigma
B. II and III only B. Pollen
C. I and II only C. Sepals
D. I, II and III D. Petal
35. List three external conditions required for 41. The pollen of the flowering plants are dis-
seed germination persed by wind because the pollen grains
A. soil, water, air are
B. suitable temperature, water, sunlight A. big and flat
C. oxygen, water, suitable temperature B. dry and black
D. none of above C. hairy and sticky
36. These are the female parts of a flower D. very tiny and light
A. stamen and pistil 42. The tip of the style that catches pollen is
B. stamen and sperm the
C. pistil and sperm A. stamen
D. pistil, ovary, and egg B. stigma
37. An apple falling from a tree is an example C. ovary

of seed dispersal via D. style
A. Wind 43. Produces pollen
B. Water A. Ovule
C. Gravity
B. Stem
D. Animal
C. Pistil
38. A very small and smooth pollen grain with D. Anther
a very low mass would be expected to
have which dispersal method? 44. What part of the plant makes the seeds?
A. water A. stem
B. animals B. flower
C. insects C. roots
D. wind D. leaves

45. What becomes a seed? 51. Which part of a flower is known to attract
pollinators?
A. anther
A. Stem
B. pistil
B. Leaf
C. ovule
C. Pollen
D. filament
D. Colorful Petals
46. All seed plants have
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52. Joining of an egg cell and sperm cell from
A. cones. two different organisms
B. flowers. A. sexual reproduction
C. eggs. B. asexual reproduction
D. fruit. C. growth
D. development
47. What is the stamen?
53. The male part of the flower includes the
A. male part of the flower
A. anther, stigma
B. female part of the flower
B. anther, style
C. the fruit of the flower
C. anther, filament
D. the petals of the flower
D. stigma, style
48. Reproduce means to 54. Vegetative propagation in potato takes
A. make more of the same kind. place by
B. die-off. A. leaves
C. transport from one place to another. B. stem
D. the pit of the avocado. C. roots
D. seed
49. Which type of cell produces growth at the
root and stem of a plant? 55. If a plant gets light from only one direction
the shoots will
A. Lateral meristems
A. grow straight up
B. Apical meristems
B. grow down
C. Vascular cambium
C. grow toward the light source
D. Cork cambium
D. grow faster
50. Seeds need , warm temperatures, and 56. In asexual reproduction, all of the off-
nutrients in order to start growing. spring are:
A. grass A. Physically Identical
B. water B. Genetically Identical
C. leaves C. Physically and Genetically Identical
D. stems D. Not Identical

57. I have long and feathery stigma that sticks 63. generation produces gametes (sperm
out of the flower. How am I likely to be and egg)
pollinated by?

A. gamete
A. By wind B. Pollen
B. By insects C. sporophyte
C. By water D. gametophyte
D. By explosive action
64. What does a plant need in the leaf for pho-
58. Okra plants and maize plant reproduce tosynthesis?
through A. glucose
A. suckers B. chlorophyll
B. stem cuttings C. xylem
C. leaves D. oxygen
D. seeds 65. This occurs directly AFTER a tube grows
59. What part of the flower must the pollen down from the pollen grain through the
go down to reach the egg? style to the ovary.
A. Pistil A. pollination
B. Stamen B. germination
C. fertilisation
C. Flower
D. seed dispersal
D. Anther
66. What is the pistil?
60. Sexual Reproduction involves parents.
A. the male part of the flower
A. zero
B. the female part of the flower
B. one
C. he fruit of the flower
C. two
D. the petals of the flower
D. three
67. egg cells develop inside a structure called
61. Grafting is an example of reproduction a
A. sexual A. anther
B. spore B. ovary
C. asexual C. ovule
D. none of above D. pollen tube
62. In tissue culture, contamination may be a 68. Eggs of a flowering plant are contained in
problem from
A. air A. Pollen Grains
B. hands B. Anthers
C. tools C. Stamen
D. all of the above D. Ovules

69. is when plants are separated and re- C. fertilization

planted. D. germination
A. germination
75. Place the following events in sequence:A)
B. tip cutting Pollen is deposited on a pistil;B) Pollen
C. root cutting fertilizes an ovule;C) A honeybee collects
pollen
D. division
A. B, C, A
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70. In the first fertilization in sexual reproduc-
B. A, C, B
tion in plants are formed.
C. C, A, B
A. seeds
D. B, A, C
B. endosperm
C. flowers 76. Which of the following is not considered a
factor that would influence dormancy?
D. fruits
A. Temperature
71. What is a seasonal movement of an animal B. Mechanical constraint
to another location to find food called?
C. Light
A. camouflage
D. Soil Production
B. migration
C. grouping 77. What structure does a gymnosperm use to
reproduce?
D. mimicry
A. cone
72. Which of the following is always true B. flower
about a fruit?
C. fruit
A. It contains a seed.
D. pine needle
B. It is edible (meaning that it can be
eaten). 78. How are plant cells different from animal
cells?
C. It is colorful and juicy.
A. Only plant cells can grow
D. All choices are correct.
B. Only animal cells can reproduce
73. What is the function of nectar?
C. Only animal cells can store energy
A. To provide food for the flower
D. Only plant cells can perform photosyn-
B. To attract pollinators thesis
C. To attract animals to disperse the
79. What is the name of the hormone that
fruits
helps the plant in root initiation, leaf ab-
D. To produce perfumes for Man scission and cell expansion?
74. The transport of seed from one location to A. Gibblerin
another is called B. Auxin
A. seed dispersal C. Ethylene
B. pollination D. Cytokins

80. The function of a flower is 86. In which asexual reproduction method

A. to smell pretty. does the new plant grow in artificial me-
dia under sterile conditions?

B. to look beautiful.
A. Cutting
C. to help the plant reproduce by growing
B. Division
seeds.
C. Tissue Culture
D. to help a plant grow fruits.
D. Layering
81. colorful to attract insects
87. What do animals get from plants during
A. Style respiration?
B. Sepals A. Oxygen
C. Petals B. Carbon dioxide
D. Anther C. Water
D. Minerals
82. An advantage of sexual reproduction is
88. Which part of the flower has sticky hairs
to trap pollen?
A. less energy needed
A. stamen
B. variation in offspring
B. stigma
C. no variation in offspring
C. ovary
D. more energy needed
D. style
83. Which of the following is NOT a job of the 89. Animals have developed characteristic be-
roots? haviors that help in the odds of being
A. take in nutrients for the plant able to reproduce.
B. hold the plant in place A. decreasing
C. to make food B. equalizing
D. take in water from the soil C. leveling
D. increasing
84. The process of a seed developing into a
plant is called 90. Fine to coarse particles spread from flow-
ers and seeds of plants
A. fertilization
A. specialized
B. pollination
B. reproduction
C. germination
C. pollen
D. transpiration
D. ovary
85. Pollen is located 91. Which fruit has seeds on the outside?
A. in the ovary of the flower. A. strawberry
B. at the end of the pistil. B. corn
C. on each of the petals. C. pea
D. at the end of the stamen. D. cones

92. Young plant that develops from the fertil- 98. What word means the seed is growing?
ized egg A. Germination
A. embryo B. Propagation
B. cotyledon C. Fertilization
C. seed coat
D. Pollination
D. none of above
99. The female bee that lays the egg is called
93. A structure that contains pollen.
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the
A. Stamen A. worker
B. Sepal B. queen
C. Anther C. bees
D. Style D. drone
94. Which part of the flower contains the 100. What Kind Of Reproduction Do Yeast Per-
ovules? form?
A. the fruit A. Spore Formation
B. the petals B. Budding
C. the stigma
C. Grafting
D. the ovary
D. Rhizomes
95. What is added to fertilizer so that it will
101. An angiosperm is a plant that
spread easily and prevent burning?
A. produces seeds inside of cones.
A. filler
B. pH balancer B. produces flowers and fruit.
C. lime C. is wind pollinated.
D. nitrogen D. produces spores rather than seeds.
96. The plants below have two ways of repro- 102. What is true about asexual reproduc-
duction method except tion?
A. sweet potato A. Insects are needed to transfer pollen.
B. water spinach B. New plants grow from seeds.
C. ginger C. Offspring are genetically identical to
their parent.
D. basil
D. Two types of gametes are involved.
97. When a starfish grows a new body off a
broken arm, what kind of reproduction is 103. What is the sticky tip of the center struc-
its regeneration process? ture in the flower called?
A. Sexual A. Style
B. Photosynthesis B. Stigma
C. Asexual C. Anther
D. Specialization D. Filament

104. My flowers are not sweet-scented and 110. Many angiosperms rely on animals for as-
I do not produce nectar. How am I polli- sistance with what process?
nated?

A. pollination
A. By wind B. fertilization
B. By insects C. germination
C. By water
D. extermination
D. By explosive action
111. What part of a flower contains the
105. What is a testa? ovules?
A. pore in the seed for water absorption A. pistil
B. embryonic root B. stamen
C. outer coating of the seed C. ovary
D. an easier version of a test D. filament
106. Growth of a plant in response to an ex- 112. Supports the flower, also serves to trans-
ternal stimulus, such as light port water and food
A. hormone A. Filament
B. tropism B. Pistil
C. phototropism
C. Stem
D. stimulus
D. Style
107. Which is an example of courtship or col-
113. What part of the flower makes pollen?
orful breeding plumage?
A. pistil/ carpel
A. A peacock shows off his feathers
B. A rabbit runs away from a wolf B. stamen/anther
C. A bear hibernates C. ovule
D. Bees communicating with pheromones D. ovary
108. The sporophyte produces 114. A coconut would probably be disbursed

by?
A. eggs
A. animals
B. spores
B. wind
C. gametes
C. water
D. sperm and egg
D. volcanos
109. The period of time where the seed is un-
der decreased metabolic activity because 115. The sprouting of a plant from a seed is
of its environment is called called
A. Germination A. germination
B. Pollination B. pollination
C. Fertilization C. fertilization
D. Dormancy D. seed dispersal

116. Because it lives for many years a maple 122. What is the ultimate ORIGINAL source of
tree is a energy for living things
A. perennial A. Sugar
B. biennial B. Sun
C. annual C. Moon
D. biannual D. Carbon Dioxide
117. The part of a flower that contains the 123. What method involves taking segments
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pollen of leaves, stems, or roots and placing them
in growing media to develop into new
A. anther
plants?
B. ovary
A. Cuttings
C. pistil
B. Division
D. stamen
C. Grafting
118. This contains all the female parts of the D. Layering
flower?
124. I have air spaces within my fruit. What
A. pistil is likely my dispersal method?
B. stamen A. wind
C. stigma B. water
D. sepal C. animals
119. Why do bees dance and shake when it is D. explosive action
cold?
125. After fertilization what does the ovary
A. to heat up the hive and warm the develop into?
queen
A. Fruit
B. for exercise B. Bud
C. to communicate C. Seed
D. because they are happy D. Flower
120. Most gymnosperms produce both male 126. The haploid structures of a fern plant
and female grow from
A. fruit A. eggs
B. seeds B. seeds
C. sepals C. spores.
D. cones D. zygotes.
121. What is the female organ of the flower? 127. What causes the conversion of Pr to Pfr?
A. Ovary A. darkness
B. Pistil B. red light
C. Stigma C. far red light
D. Style D. auxin

128. The way a plant grows/moves toward C. spore and gametophyte

water is called? D. egg and gametophyte

A. phototropsim
134. What structure forms during angiosperm
B. gravitropism fertilization but does not form during fer-
C. hydrotropism tilization among other types of plants?
D. thigmotropism A. a haploid egg cell
129. Seedless plants, such as mosses, have a B. a diploid zygote

generation that reproduces using C. a haploid sperm cell
A. spores. D. a triploid cell
B. pollen.
135. are horizontally growing stems that
C. flowers produce few, if any, leaves. The stems
D. cones creep along the ground and can be cut from
the parent plant to produce a new plant.
130. A seed that is encapsulated in a brightly A. Cell Culture
colored juicy fruit would be expected to
have which dispersal method? B. Bulb
A. wind C. Runner
B. water D. Corm
C. animals 136. A brightly colored part of the flower that
D. all of the above attract insects.
A. Sepal
131. Seed dispersal does not reduce competi-
tion between the seedlings and the parent B. Petal
plant for C. Pistil
A. light D. none of above
B. oxygen
137. Animals plant pollination and seed
C. water dispersal .
D. space A. hurt
132. Which structure is responsible for attract- B. make no difference to
ing pollinators C. destroy
A. Petals D. help
B. Anther
138. When the plant responds to light, it is
C. Sigma known as:
D. Ovary A. Phototropism
133. The stages of a plant’s life cycle are B. Geotropism
A. sporophyte and spore C. Thigmotropism
B. sporophyte and gametophyte D. Hydrotropism

139. A is the reproductive structure of the 145. Plants need sunlight to survive because
most common gymnosperms, conifers.
A. spore A. they need to stay very warm.
B. fruit B. they need to be able to see danger.
C. cone C. they get minerals from sunlight.
D. seed D. they make food from sunlight.
146. What does an ovule become when it is
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140. “Occurs when a plant’s sperm combines
with a plant’s egg.” pollinated?
A. Asexual Reproduction A. a seed
B. Sexual Reproduction B. a sprout
C. Regeneration C. a fruit
D. Cells D. it stays an ovule
147. When a plant responds to gravity it is

141. Which of the following plant reproduce
called:
through leaves?
A. Phototropism
A. Snake plant
B. Thigmotropism
B. Onion plant
C. Geotropism
C. Hibiscus plant
D. Hydrotropism
D. Yam plant
148. What part of a plant transports water
142. Plants with small flowers that make a lot and nutrients?
of pollen are most likely pollinated by
A. flower
A. bats
B. leaf
B. wind
C. seed
C. insects
D. stem
D. birds
149. Which of the following is/are types of
143. The four basic parts of an angiosperm are pollination? A) wind pollination B) Insect
A. Leaves, stems, roots, and flowers pollination C) water pollination D) explo-
sive pollination
B. Flowers, leaves, pollen, and fruit
A. B only
C. Sepal, pistil, stamen, ovary
B. A and B only
C. A, C and D only
144. The “sperm” of a plant is the D. All of the above
A. stamen
150. Attaching a cutting of one plant to an-
B. pollen other plant is:
C. anther A. cutting
D. stigma B. grafting

C. painting C. six
D. planting D. eight

151. A non-flowering seed plant is called a
157. Which of these is not a tuber?
A. angiosperm
A. Turnip
B. gymnosperm
B. Broccoli
C. vascular
C. Sweet potato
D. mosses and liverworts
D. Taro
152. After fertilization/pollination what does
the ovule develop into? 158. Tissue culture may be used for
A. Fruit A. cloning
B. Bud
B. disinfecting
C. Seed
C. sexual reproduction
D. Flower
D. sterilization
153. Leaflike parts that cover and protect the
flower bud 159. You observe a baby duck following
A. Ovary closely behind your friend’s adult cat. This
is an example of
B. Sepals
A. imprinting
C. Style
D. Pollen B. hibernating
C. herding
154. The colorful leaf-like structures of flow-
ers D. migrating
A. ovary
160. What is the term for the product of the
B. pistil union of sperm and egg?
C. petal A. zygote
D. stamen
B. gamete
155. Which part attracts insects and mammals C. seed
to the flower
D. ovary
A. sepal
B. petal 161. Because it lives for many years, a maple
C. ovaries tree can be classified as what type of
plant? (classified based on life cycle)
D. style
A. perennial
156. How many nuclei are contained within an
angiosperm embryo sac? B. biennial
A. two C. annual
B. four D. subliminal

162. The way a plant grows/moves in re- C. food

sponse to gravity is called?
D. vitamins
A. phototropims
B. hydrotropism 168. A monoecious plant is one that:
C. thigmotropism A. Is able to self-fertilize
D. gravitropism B. Produces one flower per stem
163. Which part of the plant is mostly respon- C. Has one type of reproductive organ
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sible for its own food making? D. Has one ovule per flower
A. Leaves
B. Roots 169. What process occurs when the plant em-
bryo breaks out of the seed coat?
C. Seeds
A. Pollination
D. Stems
B. Fertililzation
164. A Venus fly trap plant closing its pedals
on a spider is an example of which type of C. Growth
tropism? D. Germination
A. hydrotropsim
170. A small leaf that protects the flower be-
B. gravitropsim
fore it blooms.
C. thigmotropism
A. Fruit
D. phototropism
B. Sepal
165. The development of a plant from a seed
C. Stamen
or spore during the right conditions such as
temperature, moisture, and light. D. Self-pollenation
A. Fertilization
171. Goats, sheep and cattles live in a group
B. Angiosperm to protect each other from being eaten by
C. Pollination predators. This is an example of
D. Germination A. Vocalization
166. My pod splits open and seeds are thrown B. Nesting
out with a force. What is likely my disper- C. Herding
sal method?
D. Circadian Rhythm
A. wind
B. water 172. What are the brightly colored parts of
C. animals flowers that attract insects?
D. explosive action A. petals
167. Plants make their own ? B. pistils

A. water C. stamen
B. sun D. filaments

173. Pollination of a flower or plant with 179. Which of the following is (are) pollina-
pollen from the same flower. tor?

A. Cross Pollination A. Birds
B. Self Pollination
B. Bats
C. Budding
C. Bees
D. Meiosis
D. all of the above
174. Which of the following includes all of the
male reproductive structures of a flower?
180. Which of these parts of a flower is NOT
A. the pistil considered a “male” part?
B. the stigma A. anther
C. the stomata
B. stamen
D. the stamen
C. pistil
175. Strawberries reproduce by sending out
runners on top of the soil. Runners look D. filament
kind of like stems sitting on the ground.
This is an example of what? 181. part of a plant is removed to grow an-
A. stolons other plant
B. tubers A. cutting
C. rhizomes B. planting
D. bulbs C. tuber
176. What happens after pollination? D. eating
A. The ovule is fertilised
B. A seed develops 182. The male part of the flower ( stamen) con-
sists of
C. The ovary swells up
D. A pollen tube grows A. Anther and Style
177. The brightly colored parts of flowers that B. Stigma and Style
attract insects and birds. C. Anther and Filament
A. petals
D. Stigma and Filament
B. pistils
C. stamen 183. What percentage of chromosomes are
D. filaments handed down by a parent cell in asexual
reproduction?
178. All seeds have
A. 75%
A. Seed CoatSeed Coat
B. 25%
B. First Seed
C. Embryo C. 50%
D. All of the above D. 100%

184. This is the transfer of pollen grains from C. Stem

the male anther of a flower to the female
D. Ovule
stigma
A. Pollination 190. The specialized leaves of a flower that do
B. Fertilization not produce gametophytes are the
C. Germination A. carpel and stamens.

D. none of above B. filaments and anthers.
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185. Each ovule in plant contain a single C. stigma and style.
A. megaspore D. sepals and petals.

B. megasporangium 191. Which part of a flower is the male repro-
C. spore ductive organ?
D. megasporocyte A. ovary
186. A plant produces fruit or seeds that float. B. pistil
Which is the most likely way its seeds are C. stamen
moved from one place to another.
D. sepal
A. wind
B. water 192. A cutting from an end of a branch contain-
C. animals ing a terminal bud is known as
D. none of above A. germination

B. division
187. A 20 lb bag of fertilizer has an analysis
of 15-10-20. How many pounds of phos- C. tip cutting
phorus does it contain?
D. root cutting
A. 2
B. 4 193. The venus fly trap will close if a fly
touches two hairs on the leaves. Which of
C. 3 the following tropisms does this show?
D. 1 A. Phototropism
188. What becomes a fruit? B. Gravitropism
A. ovary C. Thigmotropism
B. ovule D. Hydrotropism
C. pistil/carpel
194. Tiny grains that contain sperm cells.
D. stamen/anther
A. Pollen
189. Supports the stigma, serves as passage-
way for pollen B. Sepal
A. Anther C. Stamen
B. Style D. Petal

195. is when the life cycle of an organ- C. the stigma and style, only
ism alternates between diploid and hap- D. the sepals and petals
loid generations.

A. Alternation of generations 201. Where do bees store food for later?
B. Spores A. refrigerator
C. Fertilization B. in flowers
D. Diploid generation C. in the honey comb
196. is a huge industry devoted to farm- D. none of above
ing, ranching, food production, and many
other vocations 202. Splitting a root system into two or more
pieces that will each become new plants is
A. Engineering called
B. Agriculture
A. cuttings
C. Construction
B. division
D. none of above
C. tissue culture
197. Why do living things reproduce? D. grafting
A. Living things do not have a choice.
203. Which of the following pair is correctly
B. To ensure continuity of their kind.
match based on the method of reproduc-
C. To ensure consistency in their kind. tion?
D. none of above A. Bougainvillea-Underground Stem
198. How many parent(s)are needed for asex- B. Ferns-Stem Cuttings
ual? C. Onions-Seeds
A. 4
D. Bryophyllum-Leaves
B. 1
204. Plants develop brightly coloured flowers
C. 9
to attract animals. Which process is di-
D. 100 rectly assisted by this adaptation?
199. After meiosis, each microspores will un- A. seed dispersal
dergo mitosis two produce two haploid B. pollination
cells. Which cell is needed to divide again
before fertilisation? C. fertilization
A. Microsporocyte D. germination
B. Generative cell 205. The Venus flytrap closing in response to
C. Sperm cell a bug touching it is an example of
D. Tube cell A. Phototropism
200. The stamen includes B. Hydrotropism
A. the filament and anther C. Geotropism
B. the stigma, style, and ovary D. Thigmotropism

206. The transfer of pollen from the male parts C. needles

(stamens) to the female parts (pistils) of
D. water
a flower is called
A. germination 212. The part of the stamen that produces mi-
B. seed dispersal crospores that become pollen grains is the
C. pollination
A. anther
D. fertilization
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B. pistil
207. Which of the following is NOT a way that
seed dispersal happens in plants? C. filament
A. by air D. ovary
B. by animals 213. What three structures make up the pistil
C. by sunlight
A. Ovary, style, stigma
D. by water
B. Ovary, style, Sepal
208. The transfer of pollen from the anther of C. Ovary, sepal, stigma
one plant to the stigma of another plant.
D. Ovary, Stigma, Filament
A. Pollination
B. Self-pollination 214. Seeds that are forcefully ejected from
C. Cross-pollination their fruits are using
D. Pollen tube A. Animal Dispersal

B. Fire Dispersal
209. The queen honeybee can layup to
eggs in one day. C. Self Dispersal
A. 10 D. Water Dispersal
B. 200
215. A seed can grow in water instead of soil
C. 1, 000 as long as they have what?
D. 2, 000 A. Germination
210. This is when a pollen grain combines with B. Nutrients
an egg in the plant’s ovary.
C. Air
A. Fertilization
D. Light
B. Pollination
C. Reproduction 216. Which is not a requirement for germina-
tion of a seed?
D. Germination
A. Favorable Temperature
211. What are the leaves of a conifer tree
like? B. light
A. triangle C. fertilizer
B. huge D. sufficient moisture

217. The alternation of generations occurs C. pistil

when the life cycle of an organism alter- D. stamen
nates between

A. haploid and diploid generations. 223. What asexual reproduction method is
commonly used by orchards on trees?
B. seedless and seed-producing genera-
tions. A. Cuttings
C. flowering and non-flowering genera- B. Division

tions. C. Tissue Culture
D. none of above D. Grafting
218. Reproduction that involves two parents 224. Which of the following is reproduce
is called through suckers?
A. asexual reproduction A. Potato plant
B. genetics B. Pineapple plant
C. behavior C. Bryophyllum
D. sexual reproduction D. Tapioca
219. What is the part of the grafted plant 225. A flower that has both male and female
called that becomes the stem? parts.
A. Union A. angiosperm
B. Scion B. perfect flower
C. Style C. imperfect flower
D. Ovary D. gymnosperm
220. When the ovules become fertilized, they 226. Why do plants need to reproduce?
will create A. To get sunlight
A. Seeds B. To get food
B. Fruit C. To be the best plant
C. Pollen D. To avoid extinction
D. none of above
227. Fill in the blank:Protecting young is a
221. What is the male reproductive organ of a to help offspring survive.
plant called? A. genetics
A. Pistil B. behavior
B. Anther C. reproduction
C. Filament D. pollination
D. Stamen
228. Which environmental factor is not always
222. This part of the plant bears pollen? a requirement for seed germination?
A. anther A. light
B. filament B. oxygen

C. suitable temperature 234. What is a fruit?

D. water A. A swollen anther
B. A swollen nectary
229. Which of the following plants able to
reproduce naturally in more than one C. A swollen ovule
method? D. A swollen ovary
A. papaya tree
235. Many angiosperms rely on animals for
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B. water spinach
A. fertilization
C. banana tree
B. pollination
D. onion plant
C. photosynthesis
230. Why it is better for seeds to be scattered D. transpiration
far and wide?
A. To provide shelter to other animals. 236. The transfer of the pollen grains from the
anther to the stigma is called
B. For farmers to see which soil is good
for the plants. A. Transpiration
C. For plants to have a better chance of B. Pollination

growing healthier. C. Fertilization
D. none of above D. Ovulation
231. A tube that grows from a pollen grain to 237. Has the beginnings of roots, stems, and
an ovule. leaves.
A. Pollen tube A. A. Fruit
B. Filament B. Embryo
C. Anther C. Pollination
D. Pollination D. Fertilization
232. What does a plant need to survive? 238. Which of these is an example of a non-
A. sunshine vascular plant?
B. nutrients A. grass
C. water B. corn
D. all of the above C. trees

D. moss
233. A plant created by asexual reproduction
has the parent plant. 239. is when a seed starts to sprout.
A. More DNA A. Germination
B. Less DNA B. Imbibition
C. Different DNA C. Tip Cutting
D. Same DNA D. Root Cutting

240. The joining of an egg cell and a sperm cell C. ovules.

is called
D. sepals.

A. pollination
B. fertilization 246. Angiosperm pollen grains travel by wind,
gravity, water, or animal from the anther
C. seed dispersal
to the
D. germination
A. pistil
241. A pollen grain landing on a stigma of a B. stigma
flower of the same species produces a
C. ovaries
A. gametophyte.
B. pollen tube. D. stamen
C. flower. 247. Why are some flowers scented?

D. stamen. A. To attract insects for pollination
242. The fusion of the male gamete nucleus B. To attract wind for pollination
with the female gamete nucleus to make
a zygote C. To attract humans for pollination
A. Pollination D. So we grow more

B. Germination
248. Water lily can be dispersed by
C. Dispersal
A. Animal
D. Fertilisation
B. water
243. The way a plant grows/moves in re-
C. insect
sponse to touch is called?
A. thigmotropism D. wind
B. gravitropism 249. Which is not the importance of plant re-

C. hydrotropism production?
D. phototropsim A. Plants are food sources for living
things.
244. Grafting is
B. Plants supply oxygen to living things.
A. a type of sexual reproduction
B. a type of hybridization C. Plants supply wood to humans.
C. a method by which two plants are prop- D. Plants provide a habitat for humans.
agated
250. Which of the following is a micronutri-
D. a method of joining two parts of two
ent?
different plants
A. Calcium
245. In angiosperms, pollen grains are pro-
duced in B. Chlorine
A. anthers. C. Magnesium
B. carpels. D. Sulfur

251. Having characteristics that allow specific 257. Which is true about Asexual reproduc-
functions to be performed tion?
A. specialized A. Insects are needed to transfer pollen.
B. behavior B. New plants grow from seeds.
C. reproduction
C. Offspring are genetically identical to
D. photosynthesis their parent.
252. What part of the flower produces pollen D. Two types of gametes are involved.
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grains?
A. the anther 258. What is one of the most important soil
properties that affects the availability of
B. the stigma
nutrients?
C. the petals
A. moisture
D. the leaves
B. texture
253. The way a plant grows/moves in re-
sponse to light is called? C. organic material
A. gravitopism D. pH
B. phototropsim
259. Pollen grains collect on the of a
C. hydrotropism flower, which is often sticky or feathery.
D. thigmotropism A. Anther
254. Male gamete in angiosperms are formed B. Stamen
by the division of
C. Ovary
A. generative cell
D. Stigma
B. vegetataive cell
C. microspore mother cell 260. The will supply food to the young
D. microspore seedling until it is able to make its own
food.
255. A male reproductive structure in a flower
is called a(n) A. Seed Coat
A. Stamen B. Endosperm
B. Pistil C. Embryo
C. Ovary D. Cotyledon
D. Stigma
261. The transfer of pollen from the anther to
256. Carnations can be induced to flower in the the stigma, leading to fertilization.
winter by:
A. Self-pollination
A. Keeping daylight short in a greenhouse
B. Keeping daylight long in a greenhouse B. Pollination
C. Inhibiting the amount of Pr C. Cross-pollination

D. Inhibiting the hormone auxin D. Pollen

262. What specialized plant structure in- C. Respiration

creases the probability of successful repro- D. Photosynthesis
duction?

A. Brightly colored petals 268. In which asexual reproduction method
does the parent plant provide water and
B. Strong roots nutrients until the new plant develops
C. Dark green leaves roots?
D. The ability to hold in more water A. Cutting
263. Which of the following plants reproduce B. Division

through stem cutting? C. Tissue Culture
A. Snake plant D. Layering
B. Tapioca 269. Producing genetically different offspring
C. Onion is
D. Carrot A. an advantage
264. The ovules of a pine tree are found in its B. a disadvantage

C. neither an advantage nor a disadvan-
A. fruits tage
B. cones D. none of above
C. ovaries 270. Pollination is

D. seeds A. when pollen grows on a plant
265. What is reproduction? B. when pollen moves from the pistil to

the stamen.
A. When your the only one in your family.
C. when pollen moves from the stamen to
B. When to pizzas are eaten. the petals.
C. Biological process by which new off- D. When pollen moves from the stamen
spring are produced from their parents. to the pistil.
D. none of above
271. Fertilization takes place when a haploid
266. This type of cutting is best taken when sperm and a haploid egg fuse and form a
the plant is dormant. diploid
A. tip cutting A. zygote
B. root cutting B. spore
C. stem cutting C. fertilization
D. leaf cutting D. generation
267. What do you call the process where 272. The transfer of pollen from the male
plants use sunlight to make food from wa- flower parts to the female flower parts is
ter and carbon dioxide? called
A. Plant Cycle A. Fertilization
B. Transpiration B. Pollination

C. Reproduction B. 3.6
D. Dispersion C. 5
273. New plants produced from roots, stems D. 12
and leaves
279. In asexual reproduction, the offspring is
A. propagation
B. vegetation propagation A. unique
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C. vegetative propagation B. identical to the parent
D. none of above C. a mixture
274. Which molecule regulates the flowering D. their own random set of genes
of plants? (active form)
280. Pollination occurs when travels from
A. Phytochrome red
the male part of the flower to the female
B. Chlorophyll part of the flower.
C. Phytochomer far red A. seed
D. Auxin B. wind
275. Which of the following is correctly match C. pollen
based on the way it reproduces? D. roots
A. Mango-Underground Stems
281. Which of these is not a fruit?
B. Mushroom-Suckers
A. Tomato
C. Papaya-stem cuttings
D. Begonia-Leaves B. Eggplant
C. Carrot
276. Synonym for not active.
D. Zucchini
A. dormant
B. sterile 282. cutting are normally made of a sec-
tion containing one or two nodes.
C. spry
A. Leaf cutting
D. mobile
B. Cane Cutting
277. Which part of the plant uses up most of
the energy and attracts animals? C. Heel Cutting
A. ovary D. Tip Cutting
B. anther 283. A haploid moss plant produces sperm and

C. fruit egg cells that unite during fertilization to
create a
D. petals
A. diploid seed.
278. A 60 pound bag of fertilizer has an anal-
B. diploid spore.
ysis of 30-6-12. How many pounds of ni-
trogen does it contain? C. diploid stolon
A. 18 D. diploid zygote.

284. What is an advantage of asexual repro- 290. A plant that produces seeds without
duction flowers (Example:Pine Trees)

A. variation of offspring A. angiosperm
B. no variation of offspring B. pistil
C. less energy needed C. gymnosperm
D. more energy needed D. pollen
285. The male reproductive part of a flower is 291. What is the scientific term for babies or
called the what is produced from reproduction?
A. egg A. Plants
B. pistil B. Specialized Structures
C. stamen C. Genetic
D. stem D. Offspring
286. Which amongst these is NOT a part of 292. When we see growth, or when a seed
CARPEL (PISTIL)? sprouts it shows
A. stigma A. pollination
B. stamen B. sun
C. germination
C. style
D. reproduction
D. ovary
293. An angiosperm keeps its seeds inside
287. Animals that eat fruits help to their
seeds by depositing them in new area A. pollen
A. dispense B. cones
B. pollinate C. flowers
C. put D. none of above
D. none of above 294. Because it lives for many years, a maple
tree is a(n)
288. Which of these is not female?
A. perennial
A. Carpal
B. annual
B. Stigma
C. biennial
C. Style
D. biannual
D. Stamen
295. A transfer of pollen from the anther to
289. consists of an embryo, a supply of the stigma of the same flower or flowers
food, and a protective covering. of the same plant.
A. spores A. Pollination
B. seeds B. Cross-pollination
C. fruits C. Pollen
D. cones D. Self-pollination

296. What two structures are included in sta- C. Stamen

men
D. .Pistil
A. Filament and pistil
B. Anther and pistil 302. What is the seed made from?
C. Anther and filament A. The ovule
D. Filament and style B. The ovary
297. The transfer of pollen from anther of 1
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C. The anther
plant to stigma of another is called
D. none of above
A. Fertilisation
B. Pollination 303. Which type of plant produces a seed with-
out a flower?
C. Germination
D. Dispersal A. conifer
B. moss
298. Onions, chives, and lilies are examples
of plants that utilize , which are very C. fern
short stems surrounded by fleshy leaves
D. dandelion
that contain stored nutrients.
A. bulbs 304. After fertilization, the ovary of a flower
B. tubers develops into a(n) that contains seeds.
C. runners A. cone
D. cuttings B. seed
299. What does it mean to survive? C. spore
A. To stay alive D. fruit
B. To grow
C. To have energy 305. The asexual reproduction method that is
commonly used by orchards on trees is
D. To be born
A. Cuttings
300. Part of the plant that helps in seed dis-
persal B. Division
A. Stem C. Tissue Culture

B. Leaf D. Grafting
C. Flower
306. A horizontal, underground stem that pro-
D. Fruit duces new leaves, shoots, and roots
301. the part of the ovary of seed plants that A. Rhizoid
contains the female germ cell and after fer-
tilization becomes the seed. B. Rhizome
A. Ovule C. Angiosperm
B. Style D. Pollen

307. What is true of tubers? D. none of above

A. They are a result of sexual reproduc- 313. Female part of the flower

tion
A. Pistil
B. They contain seeds
B. Stamen
C. They are swollen ovaries
C. Ovary
D. They produce identical copies of the
parent D. Sepals
308. Which of the following terms is another 314. are new organisms that are geneti-
term for innate or an inborn behavior? cally identical to the parent plant.
A. instinct A. Clones
B. learned B. Siblings
C. trial and error C. Offspring
D. copying D. Zombies
309. Many angiosperms rely on animals for 315. The most common type of grafting is
A. t-budding
A. fertilization B. simple layering
B. pollination C. stem-tip propagation
C. photosynthesis D. scion cut out of the stock plant
D. transpiration 316. anything that causes a reaction or change
310. In sexual reproduction the second fertil- in an organism
ization creates the A. hormone
A. seed B. carbon dioxide
B. endosperm C. stimulus
C. fruit D. chlorophyl
D. roots 317. Flowering plants when fertilized produce
311. The colorful, leaf-like structures that en-
circle the center part of the flower A. fruits
A. ovary B. vegetables
B. stamen C. seeds
C. anther D. Both fruits and seeds
D. petals 318. How are seeds dispersed through the en-
312. A plant that cross-pollinates vironment?
A. reproduces with itself A. wind
B. reproduces with one other plant B. water
C. reproduces with more than one other C. animals
plant D. all of the above

319. A dandelion produces light, fluffy, seeds 325. After meiosis, only one divide by mi-
that are carried by tosis 3 times to produce female gameto-
A. stay inside phyte.
B. wind A. spore
C. fruits B. megasporocyte
D. water C. megaspore
D. embryo sac
320. In flowering plants, which of the follow-
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ing helps seed dispersal? 326. Female reproductive organ that produces
eggs
A. Bees
A. ovary
B. pollens
B. anther
C. mammals
C. petal
D. germination
D. pistil
321. Which insect is the main pollinator?
327. A haploid moss plant produces sperm and
A. Bee egg cells that unite during fertilization to
B. Butterfly create a
C. Ant A. seed.
D. Bat B. spore.
322. Name the modified leaves that surround C. stolon.

reproductive parts of the plants to attract D. zygote.
pollinators
328. The male part of the flower.
A. Petals
A. Ovary
B. Sepal B. Style
C. Style C. Stamen
D. Ovary D. Pollen tube
323. Which of the following is an abiotic factor 329. What is the male part of the flower used
affecting germination? during reproduction?
A. Erosion by digestive enzymes A. Pistil
B. Oxygen availability B. Stigma
C. Level of Gibberellin C. Stamen
D. Level of inhibitor D. Pollination
324. The product of the union of sperm and egg 330. Spirogyra is an example of what kind of
is a(n) reproduction.
A. embryo A. Aneomic
B. gametophyte B. Budding
C. fruit C. Fragmentation
D. zygote D. none of above

331. Why do bees go to flowers? 337. A disadvantage of using asexual repro-

A. to collect nectar and pollen duction is

B. to keep warm during the winter A. Requires more skill and expense
C. to find other bees B. Genetic differences in offspring
D. to work together C. Long time to a mature plant

332. Cutting is used in
A. sugarcane 338. These are all types of stems that grow
along the ground.
B. rose
A. runners
C. both rose and sugarcane
B. tubers
D. none of above
C. stems
333. Which reproduction involves flowers, D. leaves
seeds, and fruit?
A. sexual reproduction 339. Which type of cell produces growth in the
girth of the stem?
B. asexual reproduction
A. Lateral meristems
C. cloning
B. Apical meristems
D. none of above
C. Vascular cambium
334. When a female green sea turtle return to D. Cork cambium
the area she was born to create a specific
site to lay her eggs, this behavior is 340. Why are flowers colorful?
A. nesting A. It helps photosynthesis
B. herding B. To attract pollinators
C. vocalization C. Natural camouflage
D. colorful plumage D. To regulate temperature
335. The process of moving pollen from one 341. When grafting the part that becomes the
flower to another is called stem and leaves is the
A. pollination A. Union
B. fertilization B. Scion
C. germination C. Style
D. none of above D. Ovary
336. Transfer of pollen from anther to stigma 342. Flowers form on the swollen tip of a flo-
is called ral branch in an area known as the
A. germination A. receptacle
B. fertilisation B. stamen
C. photosynthesis C. pistil
D. pollination D. ovary

343. What part of the plant take up water C. Tubers

and mineral from the soil? They also keep
D. Bulbs
plants firmly in the soil.
A. Roots 349. I have parachute like structures. What is
B. Leaves likely my dispersal method?
C. Stems A. wind
D. Seed B. water
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344. The stamen is made of the C. animals
A. Anther & filament D. explosive action

B. Anther & petal 350. Fill in the blank:Bright flowers are
C. Fliament & ovary that attract insects and birds to help in pol-
D. Ovary & style lination.
A. behaviors
345. Which part of the flower develops into a
fruit? B. genetic material
A. Petals C. offspring
B. Ovary D. specialized structures
C. Anther
351. What are the daughter cells of haploid
D. Stem structures called?
346. Which part of the flower when removed A. zygotes
would not result in fertilisation of a
B. spores
flower?
A. Petal C. conifers
B. Sepal D. ovules
C. Ovule 352. What will the ovules become after fertil-

D. Filament isation?
347. Which of the following go through the A. Fruit

process of photosynthesis? B. Seed
A. bees C. Flower
B. algae D. none of above
C. humans
353. Which group is by far the largest?
D. mushrooms
A. conifers
348. Potatoes are that can grow “eyes”
(new shoots) to grow a new plant B. ferns
A. Stolons C. flowering plants
B. Rhizomes D. mosses

354. Which is NOT a way seeds scatter 360. The wearing away of the seed coat to al-
A. water low water in to the embryo is a process
known as

B. wind
A. scarification
C. animals eat fruit and seeds are de-
posited B. stratification
D. lightning C. pollination
D. germination
355. Tropism is
A. a plants response to changes in its en- 361. What is the reproductive part of the plant
vironment is?
B. a behavior of plants A. Stem
C. when plants grow their stems, roots, B. Root
leaves toward/away from stimulus C. Flower
D. all answers are correct D. Leaf
356. Supports the anther 362. Which of the following is NOT part of the
A. .Stem female structure of a flower?
B. Stigma A. filament
C. .Filament B. style
D. Anther C. stigma
D. ovary
357. What sticky part of the Pistil ( femLE
STRUCTURE) receives pollen? 363. Which of the following best describes a
A. Anther social behavior?
B. Filament A. One monkey grooming another.
C. Stigma B. A predator chasing prey.
D. Sepal C. An animal defending its territory.
D. An animal hibernating.
358. Which of the floral parts below would at-
tract butterflies to the flower? 364. Male gametopyte is
A. Sepals A. pollen sacs
B. Petals B. pollen grains
C. Stigma C. sperms
D. Anther D. anthers
359. Substance produced by the stamen that 365. The stalk that supports the anther of the
contains the sperm cell stamen is the
A. Stem A. pistil
B. Stigma B. filament
C. Pollen C. ovary
D. Petal D. style

366. What is the name of the hormone that C. No wasted effort finding a mate.
helps the plant develop its fruit and in D. all of these are advantages for the
stem elongation? plant
A. Gibblerin
372. a flowering plant
B. Auxin
A. gymnosperm
C. Ethlyene
B. stamen
D. Cytokins
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C. pistil
367. When the plant responds to touch it is D. angiosperm
known as:
373. Which structure is not important in wind-
A. Phototropism
pollinated flowers?
B. Thigmotropism
A. anther
C. Geotropism
B. ovary
D. Hydrotropism
C. petal
368. Which part of the seed will protect it and D. stigma
must break for germination?
374. Which word could describe the stigma in
A. cotyledon a wind pollinated flower?
B. Hilum A. feathery
C. Aleurone layer B. sticky
D. Testa C. soft
369. Which of the following includes the fe- D. light
male reproductive structures of a flower?
375. Why do plants make and spread seeds?
A. the stigma
A. to create food for animals
B. the stamen
B. to drink up the nutrients
C. the anther
C. to make more plants
D. the pistil
D. to make food
370. How many parent(s) are involved in
376. All flowering plants reproduce with
asexual reproduction?
A. roots
A. 1
B. flowers
B. 2
C. leaves
C. 3
D. seeds
D. 0
377. In flowering plants, what structure con-
371. Which of the following is an advantage taining DNA is transported from on plant
to the plant of asexual reproduction? to another in order to help with plant re-
A. It takes less time. production?
B. It requires less energy. A. Pollen

B. Stem 383. Which Method involves taking parts

C. Roots (leaves, stem, etc) and placing them
in growing media to develop into new

D. Leaves plants?
378. The ovules of a pine tree are found in its A. Cuttings
A. flower B. Division
B. fruit C. Tissue Culture
C. cone D. Grafting
D. ovary 384. Becomes the fruit A flower structure that
encloses and protects ovules and seeds as
379. If a plant produces seed that are sticky they develop.
or bristles, most likely moves the seed
from one place to another. A. Petal
A. an animal B. Ovule
B. the wind C. Stigma
C. flowers D. Ovary
D. stay inside 385. After meiosis, each microspores will un-

dergo mitosis two produce two haploid
380. The spores of the flowering plants are cells. which cell is needed to create a path-
dispersed by wind because the spores are way inside carpel?
A. Microsporocyte
A. big and flat
B. Generative cell
B. dry and black
C. Sperm cell
C. hairy and sticky
D. Tube cell
D. very tiny and light
386. When pollen grains land on a female plant
381. A fault is formed by the movement of a structure of the same species, it is called
plate boundary
A. Transform A. sperm
B. Convergent B. stamen
C. Divergent C. pollination
D. none of above D. fertilization
382. The movement of pollen from one plant 387. Which condition is NOT needed for germi-
to another. nation?
A. Reproduce A. Water
B. Photosynthesis B. Oxygen
C. Pollunation C. Light
D. none of above D. Suitable temperature

388. These are the male parts of the flower 394. Which part of the Stamen (male struc-
A. stamen and pistil ture) contains pollen?
B. stamen and sperm A. Anther
C. pistil and sperm B. Filament
D. pistil, ovary, and egg C. Ovary

D. Style
389. Which provide protection for the flower
in the bud 395. What are 3 requirements for germina-
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tion?
A. Petal
A. Air, water, and warmth.
B. Sepal
B. Air, roots, seeds.
C. Stigma
C. Air, seeds, sun.
D. Ovary
D. Sun, soil, air.
390. A disadvantage of using asexual repro-
duction to produce plants is 396. Which of these helps pine trees polli-
nate?
A. requires more skill and expense
A. bees
B. genetic differences in the offspring
B. wind
C. long time to a mature plant
C. water
D. none of the above
D. roots
391. What type of seed dispersal carries
397. Which structure produces and contains
lightweight seeds with feathery or wing-
pollen
like structures?
A. Style
A. Wind
B. Filament
B. Water
C. Anther
C. Fire
D. Stigma
D. Self-Dispersal
398. The growth of a plant toward or away
392. What is seed dispersal? from light.
A. plant reproduction A. thigmatropism
B. ability of plants to make food B. phototropism
C. moving seeds to a new location C. gravitropism
D. adaptation of plants to produce more D. none of above
seeds
399. The process of fertilizing flowers by
393. Which part of the flower is sticky to catch transferring pollen from the male to fe-
pollen? male parts
A. stigma A. stamen
B. style B. pollination
C. filament C. behavior
D. stamen D. anther

400. This is the name of the first step of ger- 406. When the eggs hatch they are called
mination and occurs when water is taken A. larva
in by the seed.

B. bees
A. Pollination
C. drones
B. Imbibition
D. nectar
C. Seedling Development
D. Mobilization 407. I have large petals and am unusually
brightly colored. How am I pollinated?
401. Pollen grains are produced by
A. By animals
A. the stamen
B. By birds
B. the carpel
C. By insects
C. the pistil
D. the leaves D. All of the above
402. What is the most important process in 408. What are the parts of the pistil?
germination? A. Stigma, Style, Ovary
A. Water B. Stamen, Ovary, Anther
B. Soil C. Anther, Filament, Style
C. Air D. Filament, Stamen, Ovary
D. Hydroponics
409. Which statement is NOT true about plant
403. State the characters ideal for dispersion reproduction?
by wind.
A. plants can reproduce sexually
A. Small, light and hair-like
B. plants have male and female parts
B. Small, light and sharp hooks
C. plants have an ovule that hold eggs
C. Big, light and fibrous husk
D. all plants are formed from a seed
D. Big, light and explode
410. Being able to reproduce quickly is
404. A seed consist of
A. an advantage
A. a root, stem, and flower
B. a disadvantage
B. a root, seed coat, and endosperm
C. a seed coat, endosperm and embryo C. neither an advantage nor a disadvan-
tage
D. an embryo, cotyledons and a new plant
D. none of above
405. How do avocado, squash and ampalaya
reproduce? 411. is when a seed begins to grow.
A. sexually A. Germination
B. asexually B. Fertilization
C. both sexually and asexually C. Pollination
D. neither A or C D. Dormancy

412. reproduction requires only one parent 418. A seed needs , and a to germi-
organism. nate.
A. sexual A. soil, water, air
B. asexual B. suitable temperature, water, sunlight
C. external C. air, water, suitable temperature
D. internal D. water, air, sunlight
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413. Female gametopyte is a 419. Germination is
A. embryo A. when a seed starts to grow
B. ovary B. when an egg and pollen join together
C. integument C. when pollen moves stamen to stigma
D. embryo sac D. when a plant makes its own food.
414. Pineapple plant reproduce through ? 420. Name the part of a plant that enlarges
around and encloses the seeds.
A. Suckers
A. stigma
B. leaves
B. stem
C. Seeds
C. ovary
D. Underground stem
D. leaves
415. Oceanic Trenches are formed by plate
421. A flower that is either male or female but
boundaries
not both.
A. Convergent
A. imperfect flower
B. Transform B. stamen
C. Plate C. perfect flower
D. Divergent D. gymnosperm
416. Some flowers become that contain 422. The part of a flower that contains the
seeds. pollen; located at the end of the stamen
A. ferns A. petal
B. fruit B. pistil
C. conifers C. anther
D. fungi D. ovary
417. Double fertilization is found without any 423. Where are haploid sex cells produced in
exception in a plant?
A. bryophytes A. ovule and filament
B. gymnosperms B. ovary and filament
C. angiosperms C. ovule and anther
D. pteridophytes D. ovary and anther

424. These are flowering plants that protect 430. Which kinds of plants reproduce with
their seeds inside of a fruit. spores, not seeds?

A. Cochemeas A. trees that bear fruit, such as peach
B. Gymnosperms trees and apple trees
C. Wildflowers B. all flowering plants
D. Angiosperms C. mosses and ferns
D. none of above
425. I have hooks to cling to animal fur. What
is likely my dispersal method? 431. In which of the following plants buds are
A. wind present on the margins of leaves?
B. water A. Bryophyllum
C. animals B. Touch me not
D. explosive action C. Chandan
D. Coriander
426. Mosses and are seedless plants that
show an alternation of generation. 432. A female structure of the flower that con-
A. pines tains the stigma, style, and ovary
B. firs A. anther
C. blackberries B. petal
D. ferns C. stamen
D. pistil
427. How do the bees communicate where
flowers are? 433. What does a plant need from the air for
A. speak photosynthesis?
B. jump A. oxygen
C. collect B. carbon dioxide
D. do a wiggle dance C. water
D. chlorophyll
428. daughter cells produced from haploid
structures. 434. What is a pistil?
A. Alternation of generations A. stigma + style + ovule
B. Spores B. filament + anther
C. Fertilization C. stigma + filament + pollen
D. Diploid generation D. petal + sepal
429. Structures in the ovary that contain egg 435. The rubber seed splits open with a force.
cells. What is likely my dispersal method?
A. Ovary A. wind
B. Pistil B. water
C. Ovules C. animals
D. Self-pollination D. explosive action

436. One disadvantage of sexual reproduction 442. Many wind-pollinated flowers have
is A. feathery stigmas and light pollen.
A. more energy needed B. feathery stigmas and sticky pollen.
B. less energy needed C. short stigmas and light pollen.
C. clone of parents D. short stigmas and sticky pollen.
D. variation of offspring
443. What does it mean to reproduce?
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437. Plants that have no seeds are called A. to eat things
A. seed plants B. to make things pretty
B. seedless plants C. to produce energy
C. flowers D. to produce new living things
D. sperm
444. Bugs and animals that spread pollen be-
438. What treatment is most likely to lead to tween flowers are called
germination? A. friends
A. Soaking the seeds in a solution of gib- B. helper animals
berellins
C. pollinators
B. Increasing CO2 concentration
D. fertilizers
C. Increasing light intensity
D. Dehydrating the seeds 445. Each Stamen consists of a thin supporting
stalk called a(n)
439. What is an inherited trait? A. Filament
A. Liking hamburgers B. Ovary
B. Freckles C. Stigma
C. A scar D. Sepal
D. Pierced ears
446. is the sweet liquid produced by flow-
440. Which term does not apply to asexual fer- ers to attract insects and birds.
tilization? A. Nectar
A. budding B. Pollen
B. fission C. Sap
C. cloning D. Water
D. fertilization
447. The part of a flower that is essential for
441. The male structure of the flower; con- the attraction of animal pollinators is/are
tains the anther the
A. ovary A. pistil
B. petals B. petals
C. pistil C. sepals
D. stamen D. stament

448. The transfer of pollen grains from the C. dormant.

male part of the flower to the female part
D. pollinating.
is called

A. Transpiration 454. The male part of the flower consists of
B. Pollination
C. Fertilization A. Anther and Style
D. Ovulation B. Stigma and Style
449. This part contains the egg cells inside the C. Anther and Filament
ovaries. What part is this? D. Stigma and Filament
A. ovules
455. A coconut would probably be dispersed
B. anther by?
C. seeds A. animals
D. angiosperms
B. wind
450. Where does photosynthesis take place? C. water
A. in the roots D. volcanos
B. in the stem
C. in the leaves 456. An owl has a typical “daily schedule” to
hunt for food at night and rest in the day.
D. in the store This is an example of
451. Reproduction that involves only one par- A. circadian rhythm
ent, where the offspring is identical to the
B. hibernation
parent is called
A. asexual reproduction C. colorful plumage
B. sexual reproduction D. herding

C. behavior 457. Bamboo trees and yam plants reproduce
D. pollination through
452. What is the purpose of flowers? A. suckers

A. Take in sunlight for making food B. stem cuttings
B. Transfer minerals and water through- C. underground stems
out the plant D. leaves
C. Fertilization to produce seeds for
other plants 458. When a plant bends towards a light
source, this is known as:
D. Support the plant
A. positive geotropism
453. Grafting usually works best when plants
are B. negative geotropism
A. growing. C. positive phototropism
B. germinating. D. negative phototropism

459. Phytochrome are best described as: 465. This plant grows under the ground. Ex-
A. A pigment that is sensitive to light amples of plants are onion and garlic.
Name this natural way of reproduction.
B. A pigment for inhibiting flowering
A. underground stems
C. A pigment for stimulating flowering
B. stem cuttings
D. A pigment that increases with light
C. leaves cuttings
460. A baby crying is an example of D. suckers
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A. learned behaviour
466. What part of the flower can be identified
B. instinct as the flower’s eggs?
C. migration A. Ovary
D. hibernation B. Ovule
461. An embryo, its food supply, and a protec- C. Anther

tive covering make up a D. Stigma
A. pollen Grain 467. What are the elements that plants need
B. pollination in large amounts called?
C. ovule A. micronutrients
D. seed B. macronutrients
C. trace elements
462. Seeds are spread by water, air, and
D. atmospheric elements
A. sunshine
B. nectar 468. A hydra reproduces when an outgrowth,
or bud, forms and continues to develop un-
C. animals til if falls off of the parent. This is an ex-
D. roots ample of:
463. Which type of plant makes up the largest A. Binary Fission

group in the Plantae kingdom? B. Sporulation
A. land plants C. Budding
B. water plants D. Vegetative Propagation
C. flowering plants 469. Megasporocyte produces suviving
D. nonflowering plants megaspores by process of
A. mitosis
464. pollen landing on the female part of the
flower (which may then cause a seed to B. development
grow) C. meiosis
A. gymnosperm D. fertilization
B. pollinate 470. The production of a new organism from
C. stamen two parents
D. perfect flower A. Sexual Reproduction

B. Asexual Reproduction 476. Lack of water can cause the stomata to

C. Vegetative Propagation of a plant to close, what else causes the
stomata of a plant to close?

D. Fertilization
A. no sunlight
471. A seeded plant needs to move its seeds B. too much water
away from the parent plant C. spooky ghost
A. to avoid competition D. bugs
B. to explore new areas
477. If it is NOT a woody stem, then it is a
C. because it doesn’t want its kids living stem.
with it forever
A. monocot
D. none of above B. dicot
472. The wearing away of the seed coat to al- C. herbaceous
low water in to the embryo is a process D. gymnosperm
known as
478. Which of the following is/are types of
A. scarification pollination? A) wind pollination B) Insect
B. stratification pollination C) explosive pollination
C. pollination A. B only
D. germination B. A and B only
C. All of the above
473. A male gametophyte of a seed plant de-
velops into McKain Miller D. none of above
A. ovule 479. develop into the haploid generation
of seedless plants.
B. pollen grain
A. Seeds
C. pollen tube
B. Fruit
D. cotyledons
C. Spores
474. The joining of male and female reproduc- D. Cones
tive cells is called
480. In angiosperms, a zygote and endosperm
A. Fertilization
form as a result of
B. Pollination A. germination.
C. Fruiting B. double fertilization.
D. Budding C. pollination.
475. The part of the pistil between the stigma D. seed dispersal.
and the ovary. 481. A plant’s response to gravity.
A. Petal A. phototropism
B. Style B. thigmotropism
C. Pollen C. gravitropism
D. Filament D. none of above

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1.12 Plant systematics

1. What is the male reproductive part of the B. adult
flower? C. fertilization
A. carpel D. none of above
B. stamen
7. What is the role of root hairs?
C. ovary
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A. protect the root
D. none of above
B. absorb water and nutrients
2. Which are dry fruits of an angiosperm? C. store food.
A. pecan and walnut D. none of above
B. apple and peach
8. What is the female reproductive part of a
C. acorn and apple flower called?
D. none of above A. anther
3. In humans-the skeleton provides shape B. pistil
and support for the organism-which part C. sepal
of a plant performs the same job?
D. none of above
A. The Mitochondria
9. Which process transfers pollen from the
B. The Cell Wall male reproductive structures to the female
C. The Nucleus reproductive structures?
D. The Cytoplasm A. seed dispersal
4. The location of the shoot and root system B. fertilization

is as follows-the shoots are the ground C. vascular transport
and the roots are the ground D. pollination
A. below/above
10. Jack needs to determine the missing
B. below/below flower part in this set:pistil, stigma, style,
C. above/above Which part of a flower best completes
the set?
D. above/below
A. anther
5. What part of the flower produces eggs?
B. petals
A. ovary
C. stamen
B. petal
D. ovary
C. anther
11. Which of the following describes a mono-
D. stamen cot?
6. Which part of the angiosperm life cycle pro- A. two cotyledons
duces seeds? B. circular vascular tubes lined up in
A. seedling pairs

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C. 3 petals or multiples of 3 17. What are the two kinds of angiosperms?

D. wide leaves, branching veins A. monocots and dicots

B. pollinators and fertilizers
12. which one does NOT match the correct de-
scription? C. rhizomes and bulbs
A. Nodes-Point on stem where one or D. stamen and pistils

more leaves are borne 18. What do seeds need to germinate?
B. Axil-region between two nodes A. warm temperature and water
C. Axillary bud-in the axil and give rise to B. oxygen and nutrients
a new branch
C. water and carbon dioxide
D. none of above
D. oxygen and carbon dioxide
13. What type of leaf is a pinnate leaf? 19. What does the sepal do?
A. simple A. It is the protective covering of the
B. compound flower bud.
B. It is the colored portion that attracts
C. needle-like
bees.
D. none of above
C. It produces pollen.
14. During which part of the life cycle does the D. It produces the pistil.
angiosperm embryo sprout?
20. What does a fleshy fruit protect?
A. fertilization
A. cones
B. pollination B. petals
C. germination C. seeds
D. reproduction D. stamens
15. What is the edge of a leaf blade called? 21. What is the name for the outermost layer
of a seed that helps to protect it?
A. midrib vein
A. angiosperm
B. leaf stalk
B. radicle
C. leaf margin
C. cotyledon
D. none of above
D. seed coat
16. What is the function of the petal on a 22. Which angiosperm feature absorbs water
flower? and nutrients from the ground?
A. to support the flower A. fruits
B. to carry pollen B. leaves
C. to produce food C. roots
D. to attract pollinators D. flowers

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23. Why are flower petals colored? B. Formation of pollen tube

A. They attract different kinds of animals. C. Seed is protected within ovary
B. The colors attract different pollen. D. Produce cone
C. The colors show which flowers are poi- 26. Which seed is more likely to be dispersed
sonous to bugs. by wind?
D. They attract seeds. A. a bean seed
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24. Why Zea mays are considered more ad- B. a maple seed with wings
vanced compared to Pinus sp.? C. a cocklebur in a field
A. Xylem consists of tracheid only D. none of above
B. Reproduction by producing spores
27. During which part of the life cycle does the
C. Phloem consists of sieve tube only angiosperm sprout a seed?
D. Reproduction by producing flower A. fertilization
25. Which of the following is a not unique char- B. pollination

acteristic of Angiosperms? C. germination
A. Double fertilization D. none of above
1.13 Plant taxonomy

1. Identify the kind of the given 4. Which of the following are reactants of
plant.Gumamela photosynthesis?
A. Seedless A. CO2 and H2O
B. Angiosperms B. O2
C. Gymnosperms C. H2O and Glucose
D. none of above D. None of the above
2. What “rules” do you follow when writing 5. A variety:

a scientific name? A. occurs naturally in nature
A. capitalize the first word B. comes up true-to-type 90% of the time
B. lower case the 2nd word C. is never capitalized and always under-
C. underline both words lined
D. all of these must be used D. all of the above
3. Cells that do not have a true nucleus are 6. The energy that powers photosynthesis
called comes from
A. eukaryote A. water
B. prokaryote B. chemicals
C. unicellular C. oxygen
D. multicellular D. the sun

7. The science of classifying and identifying 13. Which taxon includes the most specific
organisms is: characteristics (and the fewest organ-
isms)?

A. Science
B. Anatomy A. Kingdom
C. Taxonomy B. Class
D. Botany C. Genus
D. species
8. This kingdom’s characteristics consists of
trees, grass, moss, ferns, etc. 14. Which kingdoms have some organisms
A. Taxonomy that can make their own food (autotrophic
)?
B. Monera
A. Plantae and Animalia
C. Plant
D. Taxonomists B. Fungi and Plantae
C. Protista and Plantae
9. “Lion” is an example of what?
D. none of above
A. Scientific name
B. Common name 15. Moss is a type of plant.
C. Adaptations A. vascular
D. Food B. nonvascular
C. algal
10. This kingdom’s organisms get energy by
eating external resources and they do not D. seed
have a cell wall.
16. Water lily, Lotus, and Quiapo are all ex-
A. Fungi amples of
B. Monera A. Aquatic plants
C. Plant B. Terrestrial plants
D. Animal C. Aerial plants
11. A is the 2nd half of a binomial name D. none of above
of a plant species.
17. What part of a plant produces seeds?
A. SPECIFIC EPITHET
A. leaf
B. GENUS
B. flower
C. VARIETY
C. root
D. CULTIVAR
D. stem
12. Water and minerals move through vascu-
lar tissue known as what? 18. What is the function of the phloem?
A. phloem A. to move water to parts of the plant
B. cambium B. to move nutrients to parts of the plant
C. root hairs C. to move food to parts of the plant
D. xylem D. to move spores to parts of the plant

19. When writing a cultivar, what should you 25. Which conducting tissues transport food of
NOT do? plants from the leaves to the other parts
A. Capitalize the first letter of the cultivar of the plants?
B. Put the cultivar in single quotation A. flower

marks B. petals
C. Leave the cultivar in lower case
C. xylem
D. none of above
D. phloem
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20. Protists obtain food by
26. What is a pseudopod?
A. Autotrophs
B. Heterotrophs A. A tail like structure that help protist
move
C. Autotroph & Heterotroph
B. Hair like fibers that help protist move
D. Sigotrophs
C. A place where spores are kept
21. Cells that have a true nucleus are called
D. A fake foot that help protist move
A. eukaryotes 27. Which of the following Kingdoms are con-
B. prokaryotes sidered Eukaryotic?
C. unicellular A. Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and
D. multicellular Archaea
22. Which systems in the human male share B. Plantae, Fungi, Eubacteria
anatomical features that are related C. Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista
A. Endocrine and excretory D. Eubacteria, Archabacteria
B. B Reproductive and excretory
C. Excretory and digestive
single cell without a nucleus.
D. Endocrine and nervous
A. Taxonomy
23. This word means becomes larger in size.
B. Monera
A. Growth
C. Plant
B. Stimulus
D. Taxonomists
C. Response
D. Development 29. This kingdom’s organisms fall into three
categories known as mushrooms, yeasts,
24. Who first proposed binomial nomenclature
and molds.
as a way of classifying organisms?
A. Fungi
A. Carl Linnaeus
B. Carl’s Jr. B. Monera
C. Charles Darwin C. Plant
D. Henry Groseclose D. Animal

30. A is a form of a species that is slightly C. bamboo

different but not different enough to war-
D. lotus
rant a new species and hold horticultural

value.
36. How many words make up a species
A. VARIETY name?
B. GENUS A. 1
C. SPECIES B. 2
D. CULTIVAR C. 3
31. What is the broadest category of scientific D. .
classification?
A. Species 37. What should always be done with the first
letter of a genus?
B. Genus
A. LEFT ALONE
C. Order
B. CAPITALIZED
D. Kingdom
C. ITALICIZED
32. Which is the largest grouping (most inclu-
sive) in the taxonomy? D. WRITE IN LOWER CASE
A. family 38. Which is NOT an example of seedless
B. kingdom plants?
C. species A. ferns
D. phylum B. horsetails
33. An example of a evergreen tree is a C. club mosses
A. pine tree D. pine trees
B. oak tree
39. The science of classifying and naming or-
C. maple tree ganisms is
D. dogwood tree A. evolution
34. Which two systems work together to re- B. taxonomy
move excess water from the body?
C. grouping
A. endocrine and nervous
D. scientific names
B. excretory and circulatory
C. integumentary and immune 40. Which name starts with a lower case let-
ter?
D. muscular and digestive
A. Common Name
35. Which of the following is an example of
aquatic plant? B. Genus
A. gumamela C. Species
B. coconut D. none of above

41. Which is a vascular seed plant? 47. Which is a characteristics of all seed
A. moss plants?
A. have nonvascular tissue
B. gymnosperm
B. use seeds to reproduce
C. fern
C. grow near water
D. both A and C
D. produce flowers
42. Term given to describe the 2 name naming
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system is: 48. Bean plants wrap themselves around a
trellis. This is an example of
A. dichotmous key
A. Gravitropism
B. binomial nomenclature
B. Thigmotropism
C. 2 scientific names
C. Dormancy
D. binomial key D. Hydrotropism
43. DICOT PLANTS POSSESS COTYLE- 49. Roots of a new plant grow down. This is
DONS. an example of
A. 1 A. Phototropism
B. 2 B. Gravitropism
C. 3 C. Thigmotropism
D. 6 D. Hydrotropism
44. An example of a deciduous tree is a 50. The division bryophyta includes which of
the following types of plans?
A. Southern Red Cedar
A. Mosses
B. Red Maple
B. Ferns
C. Loblolly pine
C. Fungi
D. Douglas Fir
D. Flowering plants
45. A dichotomous key is used to
51. A is a subset of organisms within a
A. make cladograms family that share similar characteristics.
B. identify derived characteristics A. GENUS
C. trace evolutionary development B. SPECIES
D. identify the species of an organism C. VARIETY
D. CULTIVAR
46. The ancestors of modern day plants were
most likely 52. What two taxa make up a species name?
A. ancient day lillies A. genus, species
B. ferns B. species, class
C. moss C. genus, specific epithet
D. green algae D. species, specific epithet

53. I am immotile. My cells have a nucleus. I C. Spanish

am heterotrophic. To what kingdom do I D. French
most likely belong?

A. Animalia 59. Which contains cotyledons?
B. Eubacteria A. Gymnosperms
C. Plantae B. Angiosperms
D. Fungi C. both A and Bboth A and B

D. ferns
54. MONOCOT PLANTS HAVE COTYLE-
DON(S) IN THEIR SEED. 60. Has membrane bound organelles
A. 1 A. Prokaryotes
B. 2 B. Eukaryote
C. 3 C. both
D. 6 D. none of above
55. THE SWEDISH NATURALIST THAT STARTED 61. In the species name Canis lupis, to what
THE SCIENTIFIC NAMING OF PLANTS. level of the taxonomy does the first word
A. LINNAEUS refer?
B. LINUES A. the organism’s species
C. LINNAUES B. the organism’s phylum
D. LINNIAS C. the organism’s genus

D. the organism’s family
56. What is the proper list of scientific
names? 62. Bacteria
A. K C O F P G S A. Prokaryotes
B. K G C O F S P B. Eukaryote
C. K P C O F G S C. both
D. P K C F O G S D. none of above
57. CAROLUS LINNAEUS PIONEERED THE 63. What part of a plant transports water
CONSISTENT USE OF , WHICH IS A 2 from the root to the plant’s stem and
WORD NAMING SYSTEM. leaves?
A. BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE A. root hairs
B. SCIENCE NAMING B. phloem
C. COMMON NAMING C. xylem
D. DUAL NAMING D. cuticle
58. What language is used for scientific classi- 64. Which is the female reproductive organ of
fication? a flower?
A. English A. stamen
B. Latin B. pistil

C. sepals 70. Has nucleus

D. flower stalk A. Prokaryotes
B. Eukaryote
autotrophs and multi cellular. C. both
A. Taxonomy D. none of above
B. Monera 71. Plants that produce cones.
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C. Plant A. gymnosperms
D. Taxonomists B. legumes
C. deciduous
66. What is a cotyledon?
D. flowers
A. seedling
72. This word means the reaction to a stimu-
B. seed spore lus.
C. seed coat A. Growth
D. seed leaf B. Stimulus
C. Response
67. Based on the following scientific name,
which word is the genus? Iris X germanica D. Development
var. florentina
73. A is a name for a plant that has been
A. Iris bred or selected for horticultural purposes.
B. X A. CULTIVAR
C. germanica B. VARIETY
D. var. florentina C. GENUS
D. SPECIES
68. Which conducting tissues transport water
and mineral salts to all the parts of the 74. A key is a tool that gives users paired
plant? choices, called couplets.
A. flower A. TABLET
B. petals B. DICHOTOMOUS
C. xylem C. GENUS
D. phloem D. SPECIES
75. There are five of these in which scientists

69. THERE ARE KINGDOMS. place organisms into.
A. 2 A. Class
B. 4 B. Kingdom
C. 6 C. Phylum
D. 8 D. Species

76. All plants and fungi are similar in that they 82. This means the study of how scientists
both always classify organisms.

A. have stems A. Taxonomy
B. have cell walls. B. Monera
C. grow from the soil. C. Plant
D. perform photosynthesis D. Taxonomists
77. When writing a scientific name, the culti- 83. “Pinus taeda” is an example of what?
var should be: A. Adaptations
A. underlined B. Common name
B. italicized C. Scientific name
C. single quotes D. Food
D. all of the above 84. What is Cilia?
78. Binomial Nomenclature means? A. A tail like structure that help protist
A. classification move
B. characteristics B. Hair like fibers that help protist move

C. 2 name naming system
D. none of above
85. Which of the following species name is
79. Which of the following scientific name is
NOT written correctly?
NOT written correctly?
A. Animalia Leo
A. Musca domestica
B. Panthera tigris
B. Homo sapiens
C. Homo sapiens
C. panthera Tigris
D. Musca domestica
D. Pinus taeda
86. A tool used by a taxonomist to identify an
80. Organisms that make their own food. unknown organism is known as a
A. autotrophs A. dichotomous key
B. photosynthesis B. binomial nomenclature
C. heterotrophs C. scientific name
D. animal D. binomial key
81. Which of the following is NOT a character- 87. All eukaryotes and prokaryotes are sur-
istic of using scientific names? rounded by a
A. Vary from location to location A. cell wall
B. Universally understood B. cell membrane
C. Always underlined or italicized C. cell envelope
D. Binomial D. loving, supportive family

88. Which is the reproductive organ of the C. Protist

plant? D. Animal
A. petal
94. The Genus name Acer is for all
B. flower
A. Oaks
C. sepals B. Pines
D. floral stalk C. Maples
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89. This word means any change in an organ- D. Begonias
ism’s surroundings causing it to change. 95. PLANTS ARE IN THE KINGDOM
A. Growth A. PLANTAE
B. Stimulus B. PLANTDOM
C. Response C. PLANTULE
D. Development D. PLANTULUS
90. Multicellular eukaryotes that are usually 96. Which of the following is the smallest
mobile and obtain food from other organ- group (least inclusive) in the taxonomy?
isms probably belong to the kingdom A. Genus
A. Plantae B. Species
B. Fungi C. Family
C. Animalia D. Kingdom
D. Protista 97. Identify the kind of the given plant.FERN
91. Blood sugar levels are controlled in the A. Seedless
body through the feedback mechanisms of B. Angiosperms
which two body systems? C. Gymnosperms
A. Respiratory and digestive D. none of above
B. Immune and nervous
98. Organisms that cannot make their own
C. Endocrine and nervous food and must obtain energy from exter-
D. Muscular and skeletal nal sources are called
A. autotrophs
92. Which is an example of an aerial plant?
B. heterotrophs
A. waling-waling orchid
C. thylakoids
B. banana
D. plants
C. mango
99. Woody plants that usually produce cones
D. water lily or “naked seed” are known as:
93. This kingdom’s organisms are made up of A. Ferns
single cells with a nucleus. B. Angiosperms
A. Fungi C. Gymnosperms
B. Monera D. Bryophyta

100. Gases pass in and out of a leaf through 106. The word cultivar is derived from culti-
the vated and

A. stomata A. VARIEGATED
B. phloem B. VARIANCE
C. xylem C. VARIETY
D. cuticle D. VARGOSIS
101. How many kingdoms are there? 107. Kingdom Plantae is
A. 2 A. autotrophic
B. 3 B. heterotrophic
C. 6 C. unicellular
D. 8 D. prokaryotic
102. A plant’s leaves turned toward the light. 108. A Japanese Maple has the botanical name
This is an example of of Acer palmatum var. atropurpureum.
A. Phototropism What does VAR. stand for?
B. Gravitropism A. Variance
C. Thigmotropism B. Variety
D. Hydrotropism C. Vargosis
103. Scientists who group organisms are D. Variegated
called
109. Euglena, paramecium, and amoeba be-
A. Taxonomy long to the kingdom.
B. Monera A. plant
C. Plant B. fungi
D. Taxonomists C. protist
104. CARL VON LINNE’ WHAT A NATURAL- D. monera
IST
110. What type of tropism response to wa-
A. BRITISH ter?
B. GERMAN
A. Hydrotropism
C. FRENCH
B. Geotropism
D. SWEDISH
C. Thigmotropism
105. plants do not have a complex system D. Phototropism
to transport water, nutrients, and food
through their bodies. 111. Another name for flowering plants?
A. vascular A. anthophyta
B. nonvascular B. gymnosperm
C. flowering C. bryophyte
D. cone bearing D. cotyledon

112. What is Flagella? 118. When the plant responds to touch

A. A tail like structure that help protist A. Phototropism
move
B. Thigmotropism
B. Hair like fibers that help protist move
C. Gravitropism
D. Hydrotropism
119. What is the study of classification
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113. THE NAME THAT MOST PLANTS GO BY. called?
A. BOTANICAL NAME A. Taxonomy
B. SCIENTIFIC NAME B. Geology
C. COMMON NAME C. Anatomy
D. none of above D. Geometry
114. Identify the kind of the given 120. Which is a seedless vascular plant?
plant.Cypress
A. gymnosperm
A. Seedless
B. fern
B. Angiosperms
C. angiosperm
C. Gymnosperms
D. moss
D. none of above
121. more complex
115. What is the cell type of plants?
A. Prokaryotes
A. Prokaryotic
B. Blood cell B. Eukaryote
C. Eukaryotic C. both
D. Depends the plant D. both
116. Scientific names are composed of 122. Carlos Linnaeus is known as:
A. Genus & Species A. “Godfather” of taxonomy
B. Genus & Common Name B. Creating all the common names for
plants
C. Species & Common Name
C. Neither of these
D. none of above
D. Both of these
117. This word means to become more com-
plex structurally. 123. Which kingdom is prokaryotic?
A. Growth A. Animalia
B. Stimulus B. ArchaeBacteria
C. Response C. Planta
D. Development D. Fungi

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124. The scientific name for an organism is C. CLASSIFICATION

made from the:
D. COMMON NAME ALIGNMENT

A. class and family name
B. genus and species name 127. Scientific names are used to
C. domain and kingdom name A. show the chemical make-up of plants.

D. kingdom and phylum name B. avoid confusion concerning the names
of plants.
125. The science of describing, classifying, and
naming living things is called: C. increase the number of names of
plants.
A. Geology
D. all of the above.
B. Biology
C. Taxonomy 128. A is the lowest and least inclusive
D. Chemistry ranking of plant classification.
A. GENUS
126. THE SYSTEM OF GROUPING ORGAN-
ISMS TOGETHER IS CALLED B. SPECIES
A. GROUPING C. VARIETY
B. PLANT MODULES D. CULTIVAR
1.14 Seed Technology

1. The seed in which dormancy can be broken 4. In exalbumious seed the food is generally
by red light is stored in
A. Pea A. endosperm initially but hypocotyls
B. Lettuce later on
C. Gram B. endosperm from the beginning
D. castor C. cotyledons
D. Testa
2. A seed which is unable to germinate in the
presence of light is 5. For bajra, recommended size of submitted
A. Viscum sample for Grow-out Test is
B. Bean A. 1000 g
C. Onion B. 200 g
D. Maize C. 500 g
3. Difference between seed and grain is D. 100 g
A. seed processing 6. Minimum standards for genetic purity for
B. genetic purity certified seed is
C. seed quality A. 100
D. Cost B. 98

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C. 99 13. the first process which occurs when the

D. 95 seed is placed in the soil is
A. Imbibitions
7. the hormone which can break seed dor-
mancy is B. photosynthesis
A. coumarin C. respiration
B. ferulic acid D. solubilisation of food
C. ABA
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14. What is the source of foundation seed?
D. GA A. Nucleus seed
8. Integumentary outgrowth present over B. Breeder seed
the micropyle of castor is
C. Foundation seed
A. Aril
D. Certified seed
B. Chalaza
C. Caruncle 15. Outer seed coat is
D. Wing A. Funiculus
B. Tegmen
9. Cotyledon is absent in
C. Hilum
A. Polygonum
B. cuscutta D. Testa
C. santalum 16. Foundation seed production is taken up by

D. shorea A. Qualified breeder
10. An endospermic seed is B. Originating breeder
A. Pea C. Seed corporations
B. Gram D. Scientists of ICAR
C. Castor 17. Hilum of seed is
D. Bean
A. Scar of funiculus
11. No. of plants / heads per count required B. Scar of micropyle
for castor
C. Area through which pollen tube enters
A. 1000 plants the ovule
B. 200 plants D. Glandular and attractant region of
C. 500 plants ovule
D. 100 plants 18. In exalbumious seeds, there is
12. Epigeal germination occurs in A. Consumption of endosperm during de-
A. Castor velopment of seed
B. pea B. Abundant protein
C. Gram C. Nonformation of endosperm
D. Maize D. Abundant formation of endosperm

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19. A dicot exalbuminous seed is 21. Sample received from other than seed cer-
A. castor tification agencies and seed inspectors is

B. rice A. Service sample
C. wheat B. Certified sample
D. Pea C. Official sample

D. Working sample
20. During germiantion, micropyle of seed
takes part in 22. The remnants of nucellus present in the
A. Absorption of water seed constitute
B. Forming weak for emergence of radi- A. perisperm

cle B. Endocarp
C. passage of gases C. endosperm
D. leaching inhibitors D. Aril
1.15 Agronomy
1. Compaction is the reduction of: 4. Visual symptoms of zinc deficiency usually
appear as:
A. soil CEC
A. chlorosis
B. soil weight
B. twisted stems
C. soil pore space
C. pale foliage on older leaves first
D. soil density
D. stem pitting
2. What is the ideal width of the bed trenches 5. Which of the following definitions best de-
for planting chilies in order to get high pro- scribes a petiole?
duction and maximum population, if you
plant 2 rows in the beds A. the surface of the leaf
A. 40 cm B. the small stem attached to the leaf

C. the vein structure in the leaf
B. 70 cm
D. the edge of the leaf
C. 90 cm
D. 120 cm 6. pH is the measurement of the concentra-
tion of what ion in the soil?
3. When entering the fruiting phase, on chili A. hydroxide
or tomato plants, the NPK fertilizer used
B. hydrogen
is
C. phosphorus
A. NPK Mutiara 16.16.16
D. helium
B. NPK Grower 15.9.20
7. What are national regulatory agencies
C. NPK Sprinter 20.10.10
regulating manure applications most con-
D. NPK Yara Mila Faster 25.7.7 cerned about?

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A. excessive phosphorus 13. A weed is described as?

B. phosphorus deficiency A. a plant that is not valued where it is
C. excessive potassium growing
D. potassium deficiency B. a fast-growing plant

C. a plant that lives for more than one
8. Which type of insecticide moves through- year
out the plant?
D. a plant growing from a seed
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A. photosynthetic
B. systemic 14. The point at which soil holds moisture
so tightly that plants cannot extract it is
C. contact called?
D. juvenile A. the permanent wilting point
9. Approach Prima Fungicide is used at the B. the drought point
rate of 6.8 fl oz/ac on soybean for the C. field capacity
control of Frog Eye and Brown Spot. How
D. the transient wilting point
many acres will a 2.5-gal jug treat?
A. 5.9 acres 15. What is 1 job available on agronomy?
B. 11.8 acres A. Planter
C. 23.6 acres B. CAD Drafter
D. 47.1 acres C. Chef
D. Construction worker
10. What is one job available?
A. CAD Drafter 16. Select the condition that could help reduce
pesticide volatilization.
B. Planter
A. high air temperatures
C. Construction Worker
B. low relative humidity
D. Chef
C. incorporation
11. Siapa nama Rice & Vegetable Technical Ex-
D. small droplets
cellence Lead Central Java saat ini
A. Indra L Bruggman 17. What is the pigment associated with sugar
metabolism, when it accumulates in the
B. Ario Bayu
plant, it gives the plant a reddish/purple
C. Indra Lesmana color?
D. Indra Bayu Ardiansyah A. chlorophyll
12. What is the name of the group of nitrogen- B. carotenoid
fixing bacteria in legume nodules? C. anthocyanin
A. nitrosomonas bacteria D. xanthophyll
B. nonsymbiotic bacteria 18. What is the conversion of ammonium to ni-
C. rhizome bacteria trate known as?
D. rhizobium bacteria A. ammonification

1.15 Agronomy 199
B. denitrification C. maturation
C. mineralization D. emergence

D. nitrification
24. In chili plants, when is the best time to ap-
19. You may also have a with a back- ply leaf grafting
ground or minor in a more agronomic field. A. before planting
A. master degree in farming B. before the formation of the Y branch
B. degree in horticulture C. shortly after the formation of the Y
C. degree in agricultural business branch
D. bachelors degree in marketing D. after the leaf canopies touch
20. Pewiwilan which aims to stop generative 25. A plant has a fibrous root system and
growth so that nutrients are more opti- parallel venation.
mally used is called? A. annual
A. The beginning of the shoot B. biennial
B. Branch officers C. dicot
C. The beginning of interest D. monocot
D. Pewiwilan side roots
26. What is the starting salary for an
21. After an herbicide drifts onto a plant, only agronomist?
small spots on the plant leaves and stem A. $50, 391
are dead. The herbicide that drifted was
most likely what type of herbicide? B. $40, 634
A. contact C. $2, 475
B. systemic D. $12, 367
C. adsorptive 27. is adsorbed as a cation and is part of
D. generic the chlorophyll molecule.
A. Na+
22. Nutrient leaching is most likely to occur in
what soil type? B. H+
A. silty clay soil C. Ca+2
B. clay soil D. Mg+2
C. compacted soil 28. A sodic soil is characterized by having
D. sandy soil a disproportionally high concentration of
what exchangeable cation in the Cation Ex-
23. Name the condition in which stalks or change Capacity (CEC) complex?
stems break or fall over above the soil sur-
A. calcium
face because of weak stalks, weak roots,
damage, or weather events. B. chloride
A. germination C. magnesium
B. lodging D. sodium

1.15 Agronomy 200
29. When is the most appropriate time to B. hormones

transplant chilies from the nursery C. receptors
A. a, when leafy 1-2 strands D. vernalization
B. b. When leafing 2-3 strands
35. What does IPM stand for?
C. c. When leafing 3-4 strands
A. Intensive Pesticide Management
D. d. When it leaves 4-6 strands for fast
flowering B. Intensive Personnel Management
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C. Integrated Pest Management
30. is an eroded material deposited by run-
ning water including gravel, sand, silt, and D. Intensive Pest Manipulation
clay. 36. Father of agronomy
A. Bedrock A. Sanjana
B. Glacial till B. Varma
C. A loess deposit C. Bhargavi
D. An alluvial deposit D. John
31. Growing two or more crops together in the 37. What is a horizontal layer of soil, created
same field at the same time is known as? by soil forming processes, that differ in
A. intercropping physical or chemical properties from adja-
cent layers called?
B. strip till
A. hardpan
C. continuous cropping
B. soil horizon
D. double crop
C. fragipan
32. Based on the type of growth, tomato
D. tillage pan
plants are divided into 3 except
A. Determinate 38. In chili plants, if the tips of the fruit look
yellow, the flower buds and the tips of the
B. Semi Determinate
shoots die, is that a symptom of an ele-
C. Indeterminate ment deficiency?
D. Intermediate A. a, Nitrogen
33. In small grain production, jointing refers to B. b, Phosphate
which of the following? C. c. Potassium
A. tiller production D. d. Kalsium
B. the head is in the boot 39. To trigger the basic vegetative growth
C. the first node is visible above the soil rate, the appropriate type of fertilizer to
surface use is?
D. the flag leaf has emerged A. NPK 25.7.7
34. What is the growth of a plant toward any B. NPK 16.16.16

stimulus is called? C. NPK 15 .9.20
A. tropism D. NPK 15.15.15

1.16 Biotechnology 201
40. The sand pit method is ineffective in the B. alluvium

following soils C. clay

A. sand D. Red soils
1.16 Biotechnology
1. Using biotechnology techniques to solve C. stem cells
environmental issues. D. vaccines
A. biotechnolgy
6. Bioinformatics deal primarily with biologi-
B. bioremediation cal information maintained in:
C. agriculture A. A logbook.
D. engineering B. A database.
2. Who coined the term “biotechnology” in C. A locked safe.
1919? D. A storage facility.
A. Charles Darwin
7. RNA interference helps in
B. Karol Ereky
A. Cell proliferation
C. James Watson
B. Micropropagation
D. Rosalind Franklin
C. Cell defence
3. Messing with DNA by doing things like D. Cell differentiation
putting genes from one organism into an-
other is 8. Which of these macromolecules is cut by
A. Gene modification restriction enzymes?
B. gene therapy A. DNA
C. Selective breeding B. carbohydrates
D. Animal husbandry C. proteins

D. lipids
4. Human insulin is being commercially pro-
duced from a transgenic species of 9. Which of the following can NOT be
A. Rhizobium cloned?
B. Eschericha A. A Tree
C. mycobacterium B. A Squirrel
D. saccharomyces C. A Pencil
D. A Strawberry
5. Which of the following is a preventative
measure, and is used before to prevent 10. Which of the following could be the source
someone from getting sick? of new applications in biotechnology
A. antibiotic resistance A. bacteria
B. gene therapy B. water

C. body waste 16. What type of jobs are Secretaries, Ac-

countants and Computer Technicians con-
D. hair follicles
sidered?
11. It is the transfer of genetic material for the A. High paying jobs
purpose of treating human disease.
B. Upper levels management jobs
A. chemotherapy
C. Support Staff jobs
B. gene therapy
D. College staff
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C. gene transfer
D. gene editing 17. Water like substance in a cell that sur-
rounds the cell parts and transports chem-
12. Which of these is a problem without hav- ical and nutrients withing the cell?
ing the pasteurization of milk? A. Cytoplasm
A. Diabetes B. Nucleus
B. Smallpox C. Chloride
C. Food-borne illness D. Gel
D. none of above
18. When scientists combine different plants
13. What applications can gel electrophoresis in an attempt to grow a plant with the best
be used for? traits from both parents, the new plant is
called a(an):
A. Parental Testing
A. Hybrid
B. Criminal Investigations
B. Clone
C. Sequence Endangered Species DNA
C. Variation
D. All of the above
D. Pistil
14. What process uses bacteria to eat away
at minerals, leaving the silver, copper and 19. Which choice describes a chromosome in a
gold behind? prokaryotic cell?
A. Fermentation A. linear in the nucleus
B. Bioremediation B. circular in the nucleus
C. Biomining C. linear in the cytoplasm
D. Composting D. circular in the cytoplasm
15. What do all organisms have in common? 20. An example of biotechnology being used
as a nutritional application is
A. They use DNA and RNA to pass on in-
formation. A. biodegredable plastics
B. They are all eukaryotes. B. industrial strength fibers
C. They are all prokaryotes. C. xenotransplantation
D. They are genetically identical. D. golden rice

21. Gregor Mendel mixed different types of B. Increased cost

peas to bring out their desirable traits. C. Increased yield
This is called:

D. Increased use of preservatives
A. Pollination.
B. Gene therapy. 27. Which of the following is NOT true
about biotechnology research and develop-
C. Composting.
ment?
D. Selective breeding.(Hybridization)
A. Focuses on studying diseases
22. Which chemical reaction is catalysed by B. Creates new diseases
maltase?
C. Discovers new treatments
A. glycogen → glucose + maltose
D. Invents or improves medical devices
B. maltose → glucose + glucose
28. RNA contains the sugar
C. maltose → starch
A. ribose
D. starch → glucose + maltose
B. deoxyribose
23. Small supplemental circles of DNA that
can be exchanged between bacteria or im- C. glucose
ported from the environment are called D. lactose
A. Restriction enzyme 29. Which career is found at a customer loca-
B. Cloning tion, planting, cultivating, and harvesting,
C. Plasmid plants?
D. RNA A. Agricultural equipment operator

B. Nursery worker
24. organism that contains functional recombi-
nant DNA from a different organism C. First line supervisor
A. bacteria D. General farmworker:
B. plasmid 30. Dogs derived from wolves. Today, dogs
C. transgenic organism vary in size, color, and fur type. Which
process led to this variety?
D. clone
A. Cloning
25. In which field would a student most likely
B. Genetic Engineering
pursue a career after obtaining a degree in
biotechnology? C. Artificial Selection
A. geology D. none of above
B. civil engineering 31. A biotechnologist who specializes in aqua-
C. astronomy culture would work MOSTLY with:
D. pharmaceuticals A. Plants.
26. Which is a positive result of the use of B. Bacteria.

biotechnology in agriculture? C. Fish.
A. Increased use of pesticides D. Birds.

32. One function of gel electrophoresis is to C. transgenic organism

D. cloning
A. separate DNA fragments
B. cut DNA 38. What is the science of forensics deal
with?
C. lengthen DNA
A. Farming (plants and animals)
D. extract DNA
B. Crime
33. Gene therapy is successful if the
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C. Medical
A. DNA can be placed in a virus
B. Virus carrying the gene can insert it D. Computers
into DNA
39. The linking of antibodies resistance gene
C. New gene is expressed as a protein with plasmid vector became possible with
D. New gene is replicated in DNA A. DNA ligase
34. Issues that refer to people’s moral values B. Exonucleases
or the code of conduct by which they live
C. endonucleases
A. Social issues
D. DNA polymerase
B. Legal issues
C. Cultural issues 40. Which of these is not a way in which
D. Ethical issues biotechnology can benefit agriculture?
A. increase crop population
35. Which enzyme would be added to fruit in
order to create a larger volume of juice out B. reducing the loss of crops to insects
of the plant cells?
C. producing better-tasting fruits
A. Amylase
D. improving farm machinery
B. Maltase
C. Pepsin 41. Which is NOT a skill that a bioinformatics
D. Pectinase specialist should have?
A. Good written and Oral Communication
36. changes the genetic material of a living Skills
organism.
B. Poor attention to detail
A. Crossbreeding
B. Genetic Modification C. Good Teamwork skills
C. Bioremediation D. Logic and Critical Thinking
D. Genome
42. Source of complementary RNA in RNAi is
37. The process in which large numbers of iden- A. retrovirus
tical recombinant DNA molecules are pro-
duced is called? B. transposons
A. test cross C. both
B. selective breeding D. none

43. The manipulation of DNA is called 49. Which category does the following biotech-
A. Genetic engineering nology fall under? Doctors have used ge-
netic testing to devise the first treatment

B. Karyotype for MS in 20 years.
C. Plasmid A. Forensic
D. Gel electrophoresis
B. Agricultural
44. Both sense and antisense RNA together C. Medical
form
D. Consumer Goods
A. dsRNA
B. ssRNA 50. What is the process in which an unspecial-
ized stem cell turns into a specialized body
C. cRNA cell?
D. siRNA
A. DNA Replication
45. Which is NOT a goal of agricultural bioengi- B. Differentiation
neering?
C. Respiration
A. to boost nutrient content
D. Genetic Modification
B. to increase food production
C. forensic science 51. bt toxin is coded by which genes
D. to extend the average human life by A. cry
preventing malnutrition B. iac
46. Polymerase chain reaction is used to C. lap
A. determine the sequence of DNA. D. noy
B. make copies of a DNA sequence.
52. What is the purpose of gel electrophore-
C. selectively breed plants and animals. sis?
D. produce mutations in bacteria. A. helps cut DNA
47. What is a greenhouse technician? B. count the genes in DNA
A. Someone that cares for plants C. separates DNA based on size
B. Someone that cares for animals D. allows for an exact replicated organ-
C. A green person ism
D. a computer specilaist
53. Which of the following is NOT an example
48. In what decade was Dolly the sheep of how biotechnology has been used in the
cloned? past?
A. 1930s A. Fermentation
B. 1950s B. Cheese making
C. 1970s C. Selective breeding
D. 1990s D. Genetic engineering

54. The function of a cell determines the cell’s C. Foreign DNA

D. GMO
A. number of chromosomes
60. Which of the following subjects would
B. volume someone most likely study if he or she
C. size wanted to work in the biotechnology
field?
D. shape
A. Chemistry
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55. Name the two types of stem cells.
B. Genetics
A. Reproductive and Therapeautic
C. Physics
B. Adult (bone marrow) and Reproductive
D. Environmental Science
C. Embryonic and Therapeutic
61. Where is much of Biotechnology research
D. Embryonic and Adult (bone marrow)
done?
56. Flu vaccine in the form of a nasal spray is A. Colleges / Universities
an example of: B. Warehouses
A. Agricultural biotechnology. C. Zoos
B. Food and consumer goods biotechnol- D. Industry offices
ogy.
C. Environmental biotechnology. 62. Coal has long been used to produce energy.
It is classified as a:
D. Medical biotechnology
A. Sugar.
57. If you were a student studying biotech- B. Bacteria.
nology, which of the following would you
most likely pursue? C. Fossil fuel.
A. astronomy D. Natural electric source.
B. forensic science 63. A fingerprint with DNA may do which of

the following?
C. geology
A. disrupt a crime scene
D. hydrology
B. reproduce an individual
58. When we refer to a “G.M.O.” we are talk-
C. provide irrelevant information
ing about
D. identify a suspect using crime scene
A. Guaranteed micro-organism
DNA
B. Gigantic money organization
64. What type of biotechnology can develop
C. Genetically modified organism
different types of cells or tissues from an
D. none of above undifferentiated cell?
59. Which of the following is not a tool of ge- A. DNA fingerprinting
netic engineering? B. stem cell therapy
A. Cloning vector C. restricted enzymes
B. Restriction enzyme D. cloning

65. Fingerprints have often been used in the 70. Problems with selective breeding such as
past because they are considered what inbreeding include
type of characteristic?

A. Better animals
A. Group
B. More Meat
B. Partner
C. Animals can have health problems
C. Couple
D. more diversity
D. Individual
71. Genetic code for all living organisms which
66. Which of the following cuts DNA into small
looks like a zipper or ladder found in chro-
pieces?
mosomes containing genes (also called the
A. dissolving blue dye Double Helix)
B. restriction enzymes A. stem cells
C. surgically cutting DNA under micro- B. cloning
scope
C. DNA
D. none of above
D. RNA
67. Kathy tested fifty soil samples in one day,
pinpointed the source of contamination, 72. For most agricultural and health care ca-
and decided how to clean it up. What was reers, what type of shoes should be
Kathy using? worn?
A. Biosensors A. Trendy fashion shoes
B. Biodegradation B. Tennis shoes
C. Biomedicine C. Sandals
D. Bioleaching D. Shoes appropriate to the profession
68. What does a Geneticist do? 73. Which enzyme would be used in a biologi-
A. Repair medical equipment cal washing powder?
B. Specializes in how diseases are trans- A. DNA ligase
mitted through family relationships
B. lactase
C. Protect the safety and health of people
C. pectinase
in the workforce
D. protease
D. none of above
69. What type of science allows us to alter the 74. This is the practice of inserting the DNA of
DNA of a corn plant so that it will contain another species into an organism’s DNA so
more protein? that the organism gains a new trait.
A. biology A. Cloning
B. biotechnology B. Gel Electrophoresis
C. geology C. Genetic Engineering
D. physiology D. DNA Fingerprinting

75. Dr. Ben Carson gained world-wide recog- 80. A lab technique used in crime fighting
nition for his work in separating Siamese to prove a suspects innocence or guilt is
twins who were joined at the back of the known as:
head. Dr. Carson is a: A. genetic engineering
A. Genetic engineer. B. PCR
B. Neurosurgeon. C. electrophoresis
C. Biologist. D. gene therapy
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D. Pediatrician. 81. Before transgenic animals, farmers prac-
ticed selective breeding. An example is:
76. Using scientific methods with organisms to
produce new products or new forms of or- A. Kangaroo
ganisms is called B. Mule
A. Experimenting C. Gelding
B. Biotechnology D. Race Horse
C. Gene modification 82. Planting trees at a site polluted by indus-
D. Science trial chemicals to absorb the chemicals is
called:
77. A genetically engineered organism that A. genetic engineering
contains a new gene from a different or- B. biostimulation
ganism is called?
C. oleophilic cleanup
A. Bacterial
D. phytoremediation
B. Genetic
83. A molecule containing DNA from two dif-
C. Transgenic ferent organisms is called
D. Multigenic A. a plasmid.
78. The name of the international effort to B. a polyploid.
identify the sequence of human DNA. C. a hybrid organism.
A. The Gene Sequencing Project D. recombinant DNA.
B. The DNA Fingerprinting Project 84. What is the recognition sequence and site
C. The Cell Differentiation Project of cleavage for restriction enzyme Eco
R1?
D. The Human Genome Project
A. 5’GGATCC3’
79. The laboratory process that makes many B. 5’GAATTC3’
copies of DNA
C. 5’AAGCTT3’
A. PCR D. 5’CCCGGG3’
B. Electrophoresis
85. After finding the location of a gene, how
C. Gene Therapy can a scientist take it out of a cell?
D. none of above A. Using a microscope

B. Using PCR 91. Bioinformatics may be a smart career

C. Using scissors choice for someone who likes to:

D. Using enzymes A. Play computer games.
B. Have a flower garden.
86. Cells that can differentiate into any type of
cell and are used to cure disease are cate- C. Care for animals.
gorized as
D. Work on cars.
A. specialized cells
B. cloning cells 92. Plants that have been genetically modified
so that certain insects are toxic to it.
C. somatic cells
A. GMO
D. stem cells
B. Pest resistant crops
87. What is the science of agriculture deal
with? C. Biotechnology
A. Farming (plant and animals) D. I don’t know
B. Crime
93. Which is an ethical issue surrounding the
C. Medical use of genetically modified foods?
D. Computers A. cost of production
88. Which of the following sequences can form B. long-term health effects
a palindrome?
C. ability to grow more nutritious foods
A. GGCATC
D. ability to produce a lot of food quickly
B. GGCCGG
C. GGGCCC 94. What is Genetic Engineering?
D. CCGCCC A. the manipulation of an organism’s
genes
89. A person that studies crime scenes is called
a B. a natural change in an organism’s
genes
A. Forensic Scientist
C. a random and abrupt disruption to
B. Police officer
DNA
C. Chemist
D. the manipulation of an organism’s
D. Zoologist physical appearance
90. Mules are the offspring of a male donkey
95. How many years can it take to develop a
and a female horse. What kind of biotech-
new drug?
nology is used to create mules?
A. Cloning A. 3-4 years
B. Artificial Selection B. 5-7 years

C. Genetic Engineering C. 10-12 years
D. none of above D. 20 years

96. In bread making, what microorganism eats B. Fermintation

the sugar in bread dough which gives off C. Aviation
carbon dioxide gas and alcohol?
D. Hybridization
A. Virus
102. Finding and recording the location of
B. Bacteria
genes is called:
C. Amoeba
A. matching.
D. Yeast
B. mapping.
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97. What is the benefit to society of using C. meshing.
Ethanol instead of regular gasoline? D. combining.
A. Less expensive to produce
103. Rosalind Franklin was a scientist in Lon-
B. Reduces carbon monoxide emissions don at King s College in 1950-1952. She
to 25% played an important part in the discovery
C. It is makes cars run faster of:
D. It is inflammable A. DNA.
B. Pasteurization.
98. Which career supplies flowering plants to
a florist? C. Stem cells.
A. Floral designer D. Pea plants.
B. Forest ranger 104. Biotechnology is developing a new source
C. Greenhouse manager for rennin. The old way to get rennin was
from:
D. Landscape architect
A. Sheep liver extract.
99. Which is a widely used bio-indicator B. Inside a calf’s stomach.
species used to detect air that is badly pol-
C. Ground horses hooves.
luted with sulfur dioxide?
D. Lemon peels.
A. E. coli
B. bacteria 105. Where would you most likely find a job
involving biotechnology?
C. lichens
A. On a farm
D. viruses
B. At a bank
100. During gel electrophoresis, the pieces C. In a restaurant
of DNA move farthest down the gel
D. Driving a truck
A. lightest
106. The performing of computations using bi-
B. heaviest
ological molecules, rather than traditional
C. ugliest silicon chips.
D. deadliest A. Biotechnology
101. The technique that Sumerians used to pro- B. Nano-Biological Motors
duce beer and bread is called C. Telemedicine
A. Penicillin D. DNA Computing

107. Who discovered the DNA molecular struc- C. unknown side effects
ture? D. higher nutritional values

A. George Washington Carver
113. What is an example of a biocatalyst? :
B. Louis Pasteur
A. Enzyme
C. James Watson and Francis Crick
B. Corn stalk
D. Linus Pauling
C. Electronic sensor
108. The first biotech food on the market that D. Lubricant
could be transported without bruising?
A. Cucumber 114. Which is a product of biotechnology?
B. Orange A. video surveillance camera
C. Tomato B. soil-eating bacteria
D. Strawberry C. electronic communications devices
D. Global Positioning System (GPS)
109. What is one of the pros of Herbicide
use? 115. Using bacteria to clean up toxic waste
A. It makes weeding easier and cheaper spills in the environment is known as
for farmers A. yeast fermentation
B. It keeps animals away from crops B. domestication
C. Plants grow taller and stronger C. bioremediation
D. It makes more organic crops D. selective breeding
110. What are important skills to have if look- 116. Correcting mistakes in DNA is
ing for a job in Biotechnology?
A. Gene therapy
A. typing
B. Gene modification
B. reading, writing, mathematical and
C. Selective breeding
speaking
D. animal husbandry
C. irresponsibility
D. tardiness and laziness 117. A cell that has not yet differentiated into
a specialized cell
111. Which of the following industries use
A. germ cell
biotechnology?
A. crime fighting B. somatic cell
B. agriculture C. stem cell
C. medicine D. gamete
D. all of these 118. What is a restriction enzyme?
112. Which is a disadvantage of the use of A. Enzyme that cuts DNA

biotechnology in agriculture? B. Enzyme that add to the DNA strand
A. increased crop yields C. Enzyme that builds proteins
B. reduction in pesticide use D. Enzyme that breaks down lipids

119. Where is DNA located in the cell? 125. GMO stands for
A. Cell wall A. Genetically Made Organism
B. Cytoplasm B. Growing More Organisms
C. Vacuole C. Genetically Modified Organism
D. Nucleus D. Growing Many Organisms

126. Using living things or parts of living
120. Which is a product of genetic engineering
things to make a product or solve a prob-
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related to weed control?
lem:
A. Roundup-ready soybeans A. biotechnology
B. High-oleic peanuts B. biological evolution
C. Bt corn C. geological evolution
D. Delayed-ripening tomatoes D. transgenic
121. Segment of DNA that codes for a trait 127. This cuts DNA at specific sequences
A. Nucleus A. Plasmid
B. Gene B. Recombinant DNA
C. Chromosome C. Restriction enzyme
D. Cell D. Gel electrophoresis

128. Which of the following is true about plas-
122. When an electrical current is used to sep- mids
arate a mixture of DNA
A. small circular piece of DNA
A. electricity
B. small circular piece of RNA
B. restriction maps
C. located in bacteria
C. gel electrophoresis
D. small circular piece of DNA that is lo-
D. electron map cated in bacteria
123. In 2001, President Bush decided to per- 129. In 1996, this person created the first
mit federal funding for research using: true clone, which was a Dorset ewe named
Dolly.
A. Existing stem cell lines.
A. Ian Wilmut
B. Human insulin.
B. Rosalind Elsie Franklin
C. Rabies vaccines.
C. Ernst Ruska
D. DNA fingerprinting.
D. Anton van Leeuwenhoek
124. Scientific study of crime scene evidence. 130. Plants and animals contain
A. bacteria A. Living cells
B. cloning B. dead material
C. protein C. biotechnology
D. forensics D. fermentation

131. Hippocrates was a Greek physician who 137. What process was used in prehistoric
is known as the: times to make cheese and wine?

A. Father of Medicine. A. Bioremediation
B. Founder of Infection Control. B. Composting
C. Greek Dr. Freud.
C. Fermentation
D. Ancient Wonder of the World.
D. Lactation
132. Problems with selective breeding include
A. Better animals 138. the human practice of breeding animals or
plants that have certain desired traits
B. More Meat
C. Animals can have bad health problems A. biotechnology
D. more diversity B. artificial selection
133. What was the purpose of the Human C. genetic engineering

Genome Project? D. clone
A. To develop the first human clones
139. Scientists have been able to cause some
B. To map out the entire human genome
bacteria to produce insulin. In which area
C. To create new antibiotics of science would these scientists most
D. To improve stem cell research likely work?
134. Use of living organisms to serve humans A. biotechnology

is B. nuclear engineering
A. biotechnology C. marine biology
B. human biology
D. chemistry
C. service biology
D. social biology 140. What agricultural worker would drive
and control farm equipment to produce
135. A form of technology that uses living or- crops?
ganisms, usually genes, to modify prod-
ucts (plants & animals) A. Agricultural inspectors
A. biotechnology B. Agricultural equipment operators
B. bioremediation C. Animal breeders
C. genetic modification D. Farm labor contractors
D. clone
141. How does NC benefit from the biotechnol-
136. Studying Biotechnology is least likely to ogy industry?
be helpful for which career?
A. Jobs created
A. Agricultural Researcher
B. Pharmacist B. Farmers have resistant crops
C. Auto Mechanic C. Healthier animals

D. Livestock Breeder D. All of the choices benefic NC.

142. Which of the following is not a benefit of 148. Which field would most likely NOT incor-
GMO food? porate biotechnology?
A. herbicide tolerance A. Agriculture
B. disease resistance against fungus in- B. Genetics
fections C. Medicine
C. gene transfer to other species D. Mining
D. longer shelf life
149. Which career may need a know of ar-
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143. What characteristic is MOST LIKELY bred tificial insemination techniques and equip-
for in grapes? ment use?
A. Cost A. Nursery workers
B. Seedlessness B. Agricultural equipment operators
C. Bruising C. Animal breeders
D. Carbohydrates D. Farm labor contractors
144. Root knot disease of tobacco is caused by 150. Besides the nucleus, which other or-
ganelle in your cell has DNA in it?
A. Agrobacterium tumificians
A. Mitochondria
B. Meloidegyne incognitia
B. Vacuole
C. Bacillus thuriengiensis
C. Ribosomes
D. Thermus aquiticus
D. Lysosomes
145. Genetic engineering has been used to
151. Information in segments of human DNA
develop bacteria strains to convert solid
can be expressed by bacterial cells as a re-
waste from humans and livestock into:
sult of
A. paper and tissue
A. sexual reproduction
B. salt and pepper B. random mutation
C. sugar and fuel C. genetic variability
D. wood and fiber D. genetic engineering
146. Which is true of DNA? 152. What is a clone?
A. Cannot be duplicated A. A baby
B. Found in all living cells B. a copy of another organism
C. Found only in male cells C. An egg cell
D. Produced only in a test tube D. none of above
147. Science of managing and analyzing bio- 153. Which of the following is true in regards
logical data using advanced computers. to gene therapy? We insert a
A. Bioinformatics A. Vaccine
B. Genomics B. Protein
C. Forensics C. Gene
D. Human Genome Project D. Lipid

154. Antibiotics are prescribed to C. computers

A. kill bacteria. D. medicines

B. breed bacteria.
160. A gene gun and a virus may both be clas-
C. work as vaccines. sified as because they are mechanisms
D. assist in PCR. by which foreign DNA may be transferred
into a host cell.
155. All of the following are advantages of
A. bacteria
GMO’s except
B. plasmids
A. pest resistant crops
C. vectors
B. more nutritional foods
D. splicers
C. unknown long term health effects
D. creating more human insulin 161. Sillage contains protein, oil and water
and can be used as:
156. What is a toxicologist?
A. An industrial antiseptic.
A. Someone who studies Animals
B. Animal feed.
B. Someone who studies murders
C. A gasoline substitute.
C. Someone who studies chemicals and
drugs D. Hair gel.
D. Someone who studies plants 162. Which food is most likely a product of
biotechnology today?
157. What process uses bacteria to eat away
at unwanted iron and minerals, leaving the A. potato
valuable silver, copper and gold behind? B. chicken
A. Fermentation
C. beef
B. Bioremediation
D. corn
C. Biomining
163. Which is an application of biotechnology
D. Composting
in agriscience?
158. What is the process by which microor- A. Genetic engineering
ganisms to change harmful chemicals into
harmless ones called? B. Planting seed
A. eutrophication C. Stem cuttings
B. bioremediation D. Selective breeding

C. chemosynthesis 164. T6-What type of macromolecule are re-
D. cellular respiration striction enzymes?
A. nucleic acid
159. What is a product of the biotechnology
industry? B. carbohydrate
A. paper C. protein
B. plastics D. lipid

165. What is the biggest benefit for biotech- B. human antibiotics and vaccines
nologies being researched in North Car- C. crops that taste better and stay fresh
olina? longer
A. More animals are modified in NC D. all of these
B. Less farms in NC.
171. One function of gel electrophoresis is to
C. Fewer scientists move to NC.
A. separate DNA fragments
D. More jobs move to NC.
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B. cut DNA
166. Making changes in the DNA of an organ- C. recombine DNA
ism is
D. extract DNA
A. selective breeding
172. An Animal Technician is responsible for
B. artificial selection
the care of
C. genetic engineering
A. Zoo animals
D. genetic transformation
B. Laboratory animals
167. Which color scheme does the develop- C. Patients at a rest home
ment of drought-tolerant crops that can
D. Animals at the pound
survive in desert zones is classified
A. brown biotechnology 173. Someone who enjoys caring for animals
might consider which biotechnology ca-
B. blue biotechnology
reer?
C. red biotechnology
A. Research associate
D. green biotechnology
B. Laboratory assistant
168. FDA, EPA and the USDA are all what C. Greenhouse technician
types of agencies?
D. Veterinary technician
A. Regulatory Agency
174. A genome is
B. Law Enforcement
A. part of a chromosome
C. Engineering
B. a gene inserted into a chromosome of
D. Federal Bureau of Investigation
bacteria
169. The chemical molecule that is the basic ge- C. a sequence of units in a short segment
netic material found in all cells. of DNA
A. DNA D. the complete sequence of an organ-
B. GMO ism’s DNA
C. Hybrid 175. What is unique (special) about a stem
D. Protein cell?
A. It can become a plant stem.
170. Recombinant DNA are currently used to
produce B. It can reproduce by itself.
A. clothing dye, cheese, and laundry prod- C. It can become any type of animal cell.
ucts D. It can become any type of plant cell.

176. Which would most likely increase the C. Biomedical Engineer

amount of money made from agriculture D. Health Information Technician
in NC

A. Tomatoes that are resistant to disease 182. If a plasmid vector is digested with Eco R
I at a single site then
B. Tomatoes that taste the same
C. Tomatoes that are more expensive A. one sticky end will be produced
D. none of above B. two sticky ends will be produced

C. four sticky ends will be produced
177. Oil spills are a recognized problem. What
oil spill led to todays biodegradation of D. six sticky ends will be produced
oil?
183. To produce industrial ethanol, one needs
A. Wesson oil spill corn, water, and what?
B. Exxon Valdez spill
A. Sodium and Chlorine
C. Canola oil spill
B. Vitamins and minerals
D. The sinking of the Titanic
C. Enzymes and yeast
178. For what purpose is corn most often ge- D. Gas and oil
netically modified?
A. color change 184. Biobased energy companies want to re-
place fossil fuels with biofuels like ethanol
B. disease resistance
made from
C. slower growth
A. Seaweed.
D. shorter growing season
B. Corn.
179. Transgenic organisms contain C. Viruses.
A. genes from other species.
D. Rain water
B. cells of another organism.
185. Which produces offspring from a single
C. genes of only one parent.
cell of an adult?
D. one or more human genes.
A. inbreeding.
180. What would an environmental biotechnol- B. mutations.
ogist use to clean up an oil spill?
C. hybridization.
A. Ethanol
D. cloning.
B. Gene therapy
C. Oil-eating bacteria 186. What microorganism eats the sugar in
D. Oil-dissolving detergent bread dough which gives off CO2 gas and
alcohol?
181. Which of the following careers is within
A. Virus
the Biotechnology Research & Develop-
ment pathway? B. Bacteria
A. Public Heath Educators C. Amoeba
B. MRI Technologist D. Yeast

187. Which sequence of DNA bases would pair C. DNA fingerprinting

with this partial strandATG TGA CAG D. Gene therapy
A. ATG TGA CAG
193. bt toxin requires which medium to be-
B. TAC ACT GTC
come active
C. GTA AGT GAC
A. acidic
D. CAT TCA CTG
B. alkaline
188. Agrobacterium causes disease in
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C. neutral
plants
D. none
A. rust
B. gall 194. Virus with RNA genome is
C. smut A. bacteriophage
D. blight B. baculovirus
189. Biotechnology Research and Develop- C. retrovirus
ment includes all of the following, except D. cyanophages
A. Epidemiologist 195. Why do farmers choose to use GM crops

rather than regular crops?
B. Biomedical Chemist
A. They are safer
C. Geneticist
D. Transport Technician B. They are more productive
C. They are less expensive
190. Which of the following is NOT an argu-
ment in favor of GMOs? D. They are less controversial
A. Reduced biodiversity 196. What invention helped people discover
B. Disease resistant crops that microbes could be beneficial to our
food and beverages?
C. Food with extra nutrients
D. Controlled production of insulin A. Photo Booth
B. Microscope
191. Someone has a wild cat breed with a
house cat in order to have a cat that looks C. Camera
wild but is more gentle. This is D. Telescope
A. Genetic Modification
197. Which is an application of genetic engi-
B. Gene Therapy neering?
C. Animal Husbandry
A. destroying all bacteria
D. Selective breeding
B. creating synthetic insulin
192. Of the following, what happened first in C. producing cells from nonliving mate-
the field of genetics? rial
A. Cloning sheep D. preventing weeds from spreading to
B. Mendel s peas farmland

198. Which scientific field is responsible for B. decreased disease resistance

developing vaccinations against infectious C. increased resistance to pests
diseases?

D. increased demands for nutrients
A. Kinesiology
B. Cardiology 204. Which is a transgenic organism?
C. Biotechnology A. a mutation in an animal cell
D. Endotology B. an animal cell with no mutation
199. Susan has a highschool diploma and expe- C. bacteria with antibiotic resistance
rience, she could interview for which job? D. a plant with bacterial DNA
A. Toxicologist
205. a technology in which the genome of a liv-
B. Biophysicist ing cell is modified for medical or industrial
C. Veterinary technician use
D. Laboratory assistant A. biotechnology
200. During PCR, DNA sample is cooled to 54 B. artificial selection

0C, allowing primers attach to opposite C. genetic engineering
ends of the target sequence. That step in D. clone
the PCR is called:
A. Denaturation 206. Organisms that contain genes from differ-
ent species are called organisms.
B. Annealing
A. Blended
C. Elongation
D. Condensation B. Hybrid
C. Transgenic
201. North Carolina’s #1 Biotech Industry is
D. Freaky
A. Biomedical Research
B. Environmental Biotechnology 207. Which is the most useful change made
to crops using applications of biotechnol-
C. Making Clones
ogy?
D. Agriculture
A. Crops use more nutrients.
202. What is the benefit of geneticially modi- B. Crops need more fertilizer
fied organisms?
C. Crops resist more diseases.
A. They may be better looking or more
productive/effective D. Crops take more time to grow
B. They are easily reproduced 208. Which career in biotechnology requires a
C. They are higher in population minimum of a bachelor’s degree?
D. They live longer/stronger A. Biological technician
B. Technical writer
203. Which would be the benefit of a trans-
genic crop? C. Laboratory assistant
A. decreased drought tolerance D. Industry secretary

209. A process used to treat contaminated wa- C. Ribosome

ter, soil and surface us microorganisms D. Nucleotide
A. Bioremediation
215. Which careers are most closely related to
B. Forensic Testing
biotechnology?
C. Biotechnology
A. Construction and engineering
D. Gentic Modification
B. Water treatment and electricity gener-
210. What type of job would a person who ation
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studied biotechnology in college be likely C. Medicine and agriculture
to have?
D. Communication and information tech-
A. A job making medicines nology
B. A job studying stars.
216. Why is DNA fingerprinting used?
C. A job studying the physical features on
Earth. A. To determine who is the child’s father
D. none of above B. Link suspects to a crime scene
C. determine if a family relationship exist
211. Endonuclease which cleaves dsRNA is
between two people
A. ricer
D. all of the above
B. dicer
C. RISC 217. One example of biotechnology is the pro-
cess of making fuel from
D. slicer
A. Oil Spills
212. What is recombinant DNA? (*hint think B. Corn
recombining)
C. Steam Cells
A. DNA brought together from two
sources D. Cheese
B. Original Plasmid 218. Who was the first adult mammal success-
C. DNA that restriction enzyme cuts fully cloned?
D. a cell with DNA A. Dolly the Sheep
213. Which process uses a body cell to create B. Copy Cat the Cat
a new organism? C. Donald Trump the Donald
A. Crossbreeding D. Agouti Gout the Mouse
B. cloning
219. You see a pile of grass clippings, corn-
C. genetic modification stalks, and tomato stems that are decay-
D. gene splicing ing. What is it?
A. An ant hill
214. A circular piece of DNA, found in bacteria,
is called: B. A compost heap
A. A plasmid C. An ethanol pile
B. mRNA D. A pile of manure

220. Any change in the sequence of DNA is 226. John recently earned his doctoral degree,
A. transgenic shift which job is he MOST LIKELY pursuing?

B. Single Genotype A. Research scientist
C. Monohybrid Trait B. Sales representative
D. Mutation C. Technical writer
221. A company uses living organisms to make D. Veterinary technician
cosmetics. What technology is being
used? 227. What color scheme of biotechnology does
A. Composting production of pest-resistant corn such as
B. Biosensing the Bt corn belongs to
C. Bioprocessing A. white biotechnology

D. Nuclear reaction B. red biotechnology
222. Which would provide the least genetic ev- C. green biotechnology
idence of a crime?
D. gray biotechnology
A. fingerprints
B. saliva 228. Which of the following is a product made
by biotechnology
C. hair
D. blood A. Bread
223. DNA is an acronym for: B. Cheese

A. dynamite alert. C. Penicillin
B. dibonucleic acid. D. All of these
C. dioxynucleic acid.
229. Nematodes may be free living or par-
D. deoxyribonucleic acid.
asitic.A parasitic Nematode of Tobacco
224. In order for a new biotechnology product plants is
to be approved, the product must be:
A. Meloidogyne incognita
A. worth at least $1 million.
B. Agrobacterium tumefaciens
B. tested to make sure that it is safe.
C. bacillus thuringiensis
C. able to kill insects.
D. affordable to the average consumer. D. Caenorhabditis elegans
225. Which of the following is the process of 230. What is the process of making an RNA
using technology to create or modify living copy of a gene?
things?
A. replication
A. Biotechnology
B. transcription
B. Replication
C. Transcription C. translation
D. Translation D. nucleosomes

231. How many fragments will be generated 236. the creation of genetically identical organ-
if you digest a linear DNA molecule with a isms
restriction enzyme having four recognition A. Bioremediation
sites on the DNA
B. Cloning
A. 3
C. Gene Therapy
B. 6 D. Tissue Culturing
C. 5
237. Penicillin is made in a fermenter by grow-
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D. 4 ing organisms.Which type of organism is
used in the production of penicillin?
232. The transfer of genes between species is
A. bacterium
called gene modification, and the new or-
ganism created is called a B. fungus
A. Plasmid C. protosctist
D. virus
B. Vector
C. Transgenic 238. What is the most useful change biotech-
nology has made in agriculture?
D. Restriction enzyme
A. Crops need more water
233. This is the practice of cutting DNA and B. Crops need more nutrients
separating it by the size of the pieces C. Crops need more time to grow
A. Cloning D. Crops resist more diseases
B. Gel Electrophoresis 239. Influenza is caused by
C. Genetic Engineering A. a virus
D. PCR B. fungus
C. parasite
234. A DNA fingerprint is
D. bacterium
A. unique sequence of repeating units in
a section of DNA 240. What is the first cloned mammal?
B. a gene inserted into a bcteril chromo- A. goat
some B. cat
C. the complete sequence of an organ- C. sheep
ism’s DNA D. cow
D. a copy of a chromosome 241. Administers first aid treatment or life
support care to sick or injured persons in
235. the process of creating a genetically iden-
the pre-hospital setting. The first to assist
tical copy of an organism or gene
with a car accident and emergencies
A. cloning A. EMT
B. gel electrophoresis B. ENT
C. polymerase chain reaction C. ELO
D. restriction enzymes D. EKG

242. In order for DNA to be visible in the gel, B. masking.

it needs to be C. splicing.

A. stained
D. swapping.
B. charged
248. Klenow enzyme is the product of enzy-
C. chopped
matic breakdown of
D. liquified
A. DNA polymerase I
243. Which of the following is an example of B. DNA polymerase II
a GMO
C. DNA polymerase III
A. Bt Corn
D. RNA polymerase
B. Black Lab Puppies
C. Dolly the sheep 249. A clone is
D. none of above A. recombinant DNA
244. The gene that is taken from one organism B. a transgenic organism
and inserted into another is called C. plasmid
A. Plasmid D. genetically identical
B. Recombinant DNA
250. The purpose of selective breeding is to
C. Restriction enzyme
D. Cloning A. get bigger animals.
245. A Biomedical Chemist career falls under B. get smaller animals.
which Health Science pathway? C. create animals with desirable traits.
A. Interpreter D. create animals with bad traits.
B. Biotechnology Research and Develop-
ment 251. If a gene is found only on the X chromo-
some and not the Y chromosome, it is said
C. Support Services
to be
D. Therapeutic Services
A. an x-linked trait
246. Two humans believe they are related. B. polygenic trait
Which would be the best technique to de-
termine if they are related? C. codominant trait
A. testing blood types D. incomplete dominance trait

B. comparing DNA 252. If the environment gets cold, we will of-
C. examining karyotypes ten shiver in order to:
D. testing for genetic disorders A. keep body temperature the same as
the external temperature
247. Changing a characteristic by removing
B. decrease body temperature
and inserting genes into DNA is known as
gene: C. increase body temperature
A. mapping. D. regulate blood pressure

253. Which of the following is an advantage B. Homicide

of genetically modified crops? C. Pesticide
A. resistance to pests D. Genocide
B. unknown side effects
259. Of the following, what event happened
C. public outrage and debate first?
D. increased seed cost A. DNA fingerprinting was developed.
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254. What does PCR stand for? B. First test tube baby was born.
A. Polypeptide Chain Reaction C. Dolly the sheep was cloned.
B. Polysacharide Chain Reaction D. The Hippocratic Oath was created.
C. Polymerase Chain Reaction 260. The cell that able to receive recombinant
D. Periodical Chain Restriction DNA for cloning purpose known as
A. vector
255. A baby created in a laboratory to donate
organs, blood, or other bodily materials B. target DNA
for an ill sibling is an example of which C. plasmid
of the following?
D. host cell
A. Artificial Selection
261. An example of a product developed
B. Genetic Engineering
through biomanufacturing is:
C. Cloning
A. Canned beans.
D. none of above
B. Pain medicine.
256. A cloned pig has a diploid chromosome C. Soccer balls.
number of 35. What is the diploid chro-
D. Hospital beds.
mosome number of the pig cell that was
used to produce the clone? 262. When we cut a gene out of a strand of
A. 17.5 DNA and paste it into another strand of
DNA, we have:
B. 70
A. Ribosomes
C. 35
B. Message DNA or RNA.
D. 23
C. Lycopene.
257. Where humans have bred organisms to- D. Recombinant DNA.
gether based on traits we like.
A. Evolution 263. Which is a career that would use microor-
ganisms to remove pollutants from wa-
B. Natural Selection ter?
C. Extinction A. medical specialist
D. Artificial Selection B. DNA fingerprint specialist
258. A chemical agent that destroys plants or C. Environmental Protection Agency spe-
inhibits their growth; especially weeds: cialist
A. Herbicide D. Center for Disease Control

264. Which of the following is when an organ- D. developing hydropower energy

ism’s DNA is duplicated? sources

A. Cloning
270. All of the following are modern biotech-
B. Artificial Selection nology tools except
C. Genetic Engineering A. proteins
D. none of above
B. cells
265. This is the practice of choosing individuals C. DNA
of a species to mate based on their desir-
able characteristics D. crystals
A. Bacterial recombination 271. What did Gregor Mendel use to conduct
B. Natural selection his experiments?
C. Genetic modification A. Wisconsin Fast Plants
D. Selective breeding B. Pea plants
266. Combining biotechnology and animals re- C. Mice
sults in advances in what areas?
D. Daisies
A. Improved animal and human health
B. Sales and marketing 272. Which is an example of a transgenic ani-
mal?
C. Less expense and more animals
D. Ethical and legal concerns A. Dog
B. Lion
267. Feeding and treating animals, and main-
taining their living space, is called: C. Mouse that carries a florescent green
A. Veterinary medicine. protein
B. Artificial insemination. D. Cat

C. Animal breeding. 273. Which of the following best describes a
D. Animal husbandry. gene?
268. Clones have the exact same A. A section of DNA
A. intelligence levels B. A bundle of DNA
B. physical appearances C. Every cell in your body has 23 pairs of
C. genetic material genes
D. personalities D. All of the genetic material in your cells
269. Which of the following would be an ex- 274. DNA is in the shape of a:
ample of biotechnology?
A. single helix.
A. studying rock layers
B. single circle.
B. monitoring water quality
C. double circle.
C. developing plants that are resistant to
week killers D. double helix.

275. uses bacteria to clean up our sur- B. Associate

rounding. C. Bachelor s
A. Genome D. Master s
B. Bioremediation
281. Which term refers to a farmer choosing
C. Genetic Modification the best corn from this year to plant next
D. Crossbreeding year?
A. natural selection
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276. Inserting a desired gene into another or-
ganism for that organism to make a de- B. selective breeding
sired product is? C. genetic engineering
A. Cloning D. genetic transformation
B. GMOs 282. Using a virus to enter a cell and re-
C. Stem Cell Therapy place defective genes with healthy genes
is called
D. Recombinant DNA
A. tissue culturing
277. Which of the following is when an organ-
B. bioremediation
ism is bred for desired traits?
C. cloning
A. Cloning
D. gene therapy
B. Artificial Selection
C. Genetic Engineering 283. Which is a negative result of the use of
biotechnology in agriculture?
D. none of above
A. Increased crop yields
278. The tendency of female sheep to have B. Reduction in pesticide use
twins is due to:
C. Unknown side effects
A. weather conditions
D. Higher nutritional values
B. the sequence of the bases between
the DNA strands 284. What is a transgene?
C. the age of the ram A. A mutant chromosome
D. the desire of the mother to have twins B. A gene that is different as a result of
genetic engineering
279. An example of post transcriptional gene C. The offspring of a genetically engi-
silencing is neered animal
A. gene therapy D. A gene that does not carry any traits
B. molecular diagnosis
285. Which of the following is most likely to
C. RNA interference bring together two recessive alleles for a
D. Bioinformatics genetic defect?
A. inbreeding
280. Kumi graduated from a community col-
lege and is lab technician . What degree B. hybridization
did she receive? C. genetic engineering
A. Doctoral D. cloning

286. In 1863, this person discovered genetics. 292. Genetically engineering corn to be im-
A. Walter Sutton mune to corn diseases is an example of
what Biotechnology?

B. Gregor Johan Mendel
A. Stem Cell Therapy
C. Sir Alexander Fleming
D. Thomas Hunt Morgan B. Genetically Modified Organisms
287. a rice strain that has been genetically C. Cloning

modified to make Vitamin-A D. Recombinant DNA
A. Brown Rice
B. Yellow Rice 293. Choosing which organisms can have off-
spring is
C. Golden Rice
A. Selective Breeding
D. Vitamin Rice
B. Gene Modification
288. corn with a gene from a bacteria that pro-
duces a natural pesticide C. Gene Therapy
A. Bt Corn D. Animal Husbandry
B. Bacteria Corn
294. Enzymes used to cut DNA molecules in re-
C. Healthier Corn
combinant DNA research are
D. Remediated Corn
A. cofactors
289. The entire collection of genes within hu-
man cells is referred to as the B. coenzymes
A. human genome C. restriction enzymes
B. karyotype D. isomerases
C. pedigree
295. In EcoRI, what does ‘co’ stand for
D. gene map
A. Genus
290. Permeability is the rate of movement of
what through the soil? B. Species
A. air and fertilizer C. Kingdom
B. water and air D. Phylum
C. water and fertilizer
D. water and microorganisms 296. Why could gene therapy be beneficial in
medicinal practice?
291. Which of these careers would a student
studying biotechnology most likely pur- A. Gene therapy allows patients to seek
sue? advice for their genetic disorders
A. electrical engineering B. Gene therapy treats the cause of dis-
ease
B. astronomy
C. agricultural research C. Gene therapy is a simple process
D. geology D. none of above

297. The process when an electrical current 302. Which are most closely related to
is used to separate a mixture of DNA is biotech?
called A. medicine and agriculture
A. Recombinant DNA B. water treatment and electricity gener-
B. Plasmid ation
C. Gel electrophoresis C. construction and engineering
D. Restriction enzyme D. communication and information tech-
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nology
298. Why is biotechnology-produced BST
given in supplemental doses to dairy 303. Which of the following careers would
cows? a student studying biotechnology most
likely pursue?
A. increase muscle for meat
A. electrical Engineering
B. produce only female offspring
B. Astronomy
C. produce large calves
C. Agricultural research
D. increase milk production
D. Geology
299. Biobased energy companies want to re-
304. Which is used to cut DNA molecules at
place fossil fuels with renewable, raw ma-
specific points?
terials such as sugars. One fuel that can
be made in this way is ethanol. It comes A. gel electrophoresis
from: B. PCR analysis
A. Seaweed. C. a restriction enzyme
B. Corn. D. recombinant DNA
C. Viruses. 305. Which of these would be a concern about
D. Rain water. the use of biotechnology?
A. creation of new pathogens
300. This is how a genetically modified organ-
ism is made B. making of new vaccines
A. Translation C. increased opportunities for jobs
B. Transformation D. increased crop yield
C. Mutation 306. The purpose of selective breeding is to

D. Restriction enzyme A. Get bigger animals
B. get smaller animals
301. Molly removes a stem and leaves from a
plant and puts it in soil, hoping to grow a C. create animals with desirable traits
new plant from? D. create animals with bad traits
A. Cloning
307. Enzymes used to cut genes in recombi-
B. Creeping nant DNA research are
C. Cuttings A. ligases
D. Canteens B. restriction enzymes

C. transcriptases 313. Which of these scientists studies genes

and how traits are inherited?
D. DNA polymerases

A. Nutritionist
308. Problems with cloning are B. Genetics
A. creating too many embryos that are un- C. Entomologist
needed D. chemist
B. premature aging and a high failure
314. The intentional mating of two of the
rate
same organism to produce offspring with
C. they have a tendency to overpopulate specific traits
D. none of above A. Natural Selection
B. Selective Breeding
309. Guanine bonds with
C. Crossbreeding
A. Adenine D. Artificial Selection
B. Guanine
315. Natural genetic engineer is
C. Cytosine A. Meloidegyne incognitia
D. Thymine B. Agrobacterium tumificians
310. In 1978 the first test tube baby, Louise C. Bacillus thuriengiensis
Brown, was born in: D. Thermus aquiticus
A. Russia. 316. Gel electrophoresis is used for
B. China. A. Construction recombinant DNA by join-
ing with cloning vectors
C. England.
B. Cutting of DNA into fragments
D. Pittsburgh.
C. separation of DNA fragments accord-
311. Bacteria that are attracted to oil used to ing to their size
clean up oil spills are called: D. Isolation of DNA molecules
A. bioindicators 317. Genetic Engineering to perform cloning
B. oleophilic and embryo transfer is an example of
A. Ancient Biotechnology
C. algae
B. Modern Biotechnology
D. lichens
C. Classical Biotechnology
312. The BASF institute in RTP is a biotech com- D. none of above
pany that specializes in what area?
318. Who is dolly the sheep?
A. Developing Medicines
A. A cloned sheep
B. Agriculture B. A ordinary sheep
C. Industrial Products C. I don’t know

319. All of the following are benefits of GMOs C. Reduced air pollution
except
D. Increased gas mileage
B. unknown long term health effects 325. Cells that have no job and can differenti-
ate to become other types of cells
C. more nutritional foods
A. GMO
D. creating more human insulin
B. Hybrid
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320. Which technique would most likely be
used by forensic scientists? C. Stem Cells
A. gene cloning D. Genome

B. gene therapy 326. What bacteria were genetically engi-
C. DNA fingerprinting neered to produce insulin?
D. karyotyping A. E. coli
321. The process of producing millions of B. Salmonella
copies of a specific DNA. C. Yeast
A. PCR D. Listeria
B. PPA
C. RNA 327. In 1928 Dr discovers penicillin, the
first antibiotic?
D. PTB
A. Norman Borlaug
322. Organisms that have DNA from a differ-
B. Ben Carson
ent species artificially inserted into their
cells are called C. Ian Wilmut
A. bioremediated D. Alexander Fleming
B. transgenic
328. Which best describes the process where
C. cultured genes from one organism are inserted into
D. a clone the DNA of another organism?
323. The term chemical knife refers to A. genetic coding
A. Polymerases B. genetic evolution

B. Endonucleases C. genetic adaption
C. Ribonuclease D. genetic engineering
D. Cellulases
329. In what decade was DNA discovered?
324. Artificial selection has the greatest im- A. 1950s
pact on society by providing which of the
following? B. 1970s
A. More efficient energy C. 1980s
B. Improved food sources D. 1990s

330. Doctors use biosensors in the medical 336. Which of these is biotechnology most
field to test for: likely not going to be used in?

A. Mental illness. A. Agriculture
B. Headaches. B. Genetics
C. Strep throat.
C. Medicine
D. Fractures.
D. Mining
331. The term molecular scissors refers to
337. Which is an agricultural benefit of
A. Recombinant DNA
biotechnology in North Carolina?
B. Restriction enzymes
A. farmers’ growing cost of fuel
C. Taq polymerase
B. farmers growing smaller vegetables
D. Palindromic nucleotide sequences
C. farmers growing longer lasting vegeta-
332. What has been an advantage of produc- bles
ing transgenic plants
D. none of above
A. increasing the food supply
B. using more pesticides 338. What are the 2 functions of DNA poly-
C. producing clones merase?
D. studying human genes A. makes DNA and RNA
333. Restriction enzymes were discovered by B. makes DNA and protein

A. Smith and Nathans C. makes DNA and fixes its mistakes
B. Berg D. makes RNA and protein
C. Alexander Fleming
339. What biotechnology allows a researcher
D. None to make thousands of copies of a DNA
334. What technique was used to clean up the strand?
Exxon Valdeze oil spill? A. Cloning
A. bioremediation B. PCR
B. indicator species C. gene therapy
C. phytoremediation
D. gel electrophoresis
340. Bacteria are used in genetic engineering
335. Which are most closely related to biotech-
and biotechnology.Bacteria are used be-
nology?
cause of the presence of which cell struc-
A. medicine and agriculture ture?
B. construction and engineering A. cell membrane
C. water treatment and electricity gener- B. cell wall
ation
C. cytoplasm
D. communication and information tech-
nology D. plasmid

341. When two different organisms are bred C. telophase

together D. thyllakoid
A. Crossbreeding
347. What is a product of biotechnology
B. Bioengineering
A. Video surveillance cameras
C. Selective Breeding B. Oil-eating bacteria
D. Natural Selection C. Electronic communications devices
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342. What is involved in creating genetically D. Recycling bins
modified bacteria? 348. The only way to cure a genetic disease is
A. allowing them to reproduce freely to.
B. changing their food source A. transplant affected tissue
C. using biotechnology techniques B. change the affected DNA sequence
D. growing them on selected plants C. induce mutations in affected gene
D. remove the affected gene
343. The insertion of a gene of interest into a
bacterial DNA loop is called 349. What is an example of how biotechnol-
ogy is used to improve health?
A. recombinant DNA
A. DNA fingerprinting
B. insertion technique
B. New fuels
C. mutation propagation
C. Bioremediation
D. none of above
D. Development of vaccines
344. Plasmids, yeast, and viruses are known
350. What is the name of the cloned sheep?
as
A. Jeff
A. restriction enzymes
B. Dolly
B. vectors
C. Fred
C. genetically modified organisms
D. Sally
D. bacteria
351. Which North Carolina industry profits the
345. Scientists have produced plants that are most from biotechnology advancements?
resistant to herbicides. Which applica- A. textiles
tion of biotechnology is most likely being
used? B. computer software
C. auto manufacturing
A. genetic cloning
D. medicine
B. recombinant DNA
C. DNA fingerprinting 352. The process of making changes in the
DNA code of a living organism is called
A. selective breeding.
346. Mobile genetic elements B. genetic engineering.
A. therapeutics C. inbreeding.
B. transposons D. hybridization

353. Using cloning as a form of regenerating 359. The sticky ends of a fragmented DNA
cells for damaged tissues is viewed at molecule are made of
which level?

A. Calcium salts
A. Naked eye B. Endonuclease enzyme
B. Microscopic C. Unpaired bases
C. Too small to even see
D. Methyl groups
D. Macroscopic
360. An example of biotechnology used in agri-
354. Study of genes and their function. culture is
A. Forensics A. cloning
B. Bioinformatics B. embryo transfer
C. Genomics C. transgenic crops
D. Human Genome Project D. all the above
355. DNA fingerprinting is used in 361. Genome is
A. Forensic science A. RNA
B. Paternal disputes B. Genetic makeup
C. Research work
C. a step in PCR
D. All of the aove
D. used to help restriction enzymes
356. Why is yeast used in breadmaking?
362. Two sides of DNA strands are held to-
A. to produce alcohol gether by base pairs. Two bases that pair
B. to produce carbon dioxide together are:
C. to use up oxygen A. guanine and adenine
D. to use up sugar B. adenine and cytosine
357. Which of the following is when an or- C. adenine and thymine

ganism’s DNA is modified for medicine, re- D. thymine and guanine
search, production, or industry?
363. Genetics is known as:
A. Cloning
A. the science of heredity.
B. Artificial Selection
B. the study of plant biology.
C. Genetic Engineering
C. biochemistry.
D. none of above
D. biotechnology.
358. Louis Pasteur was a French scientist in
the 1800s who is well known for his study 364. With which kingdoms do bacteria share
of: the same genetic code?
A. Evil spirits that cause disease. A. animal, plant, fungus and protoctist
B. The structure of DNA. B. animal, plant and fungus only
C. Cloning human embryos. C. animal and plant only
D. Germs and the rabies vaccine. D. animal only

365. Which of the following could be used as C. Hands and lower arms.
a vector for a human gene?
D. The language in biotech publications.
A. Bacterial Plasmid
B. Bacteria 371. Biotechnology is the application of tech-
nology to the study or manipulation of
C. A mitochondria
A. Plants
D. mRNA
B. Animals
366. Gene therapy is when:
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C. People
A. A person’s genes are edited
B. New genes are added to a person’s D. Living things
genome
372. What does the term economics refer to?
C. Bacterial DNA is incorporated into the
human genome A. Health
D. Stem cells are used to cure a disease B. Safety
367. What would a biotechnology engineer C. Money

not work with? D. Ethics
A. astronomy
373. Genetic engineering was a major factor
B. farming
in the development of which of the follow-
C. crime ing?
D. pharmaceuticals A. High-strength metals
368. What is the enzyme responsible for DNA B. Miniature electronics
replication?
C. Synthetic fabrics
A. DNA polymerase
D. Disease-resistant crops
B. RNA polymerase
C. ribosome 374. growing human tissue and organs in a
D. nucleolus laboratory
A. Gene Therapy
369. What is recombinant DNA
B. Bioremediation
A. DNA from 2 different organisms com-
bined C. Tissue Culturing
B. DNA from 2 different ribosomes D. Cloning
C. DNA that is separated out from a vec-
tor 375. Most farmworkers and laborers require
how much educational preparation?
D. none of above
A. On-the-job training
370. Environmental biotechnology involves
the use of science to clean up: B. Certificate
A. Pollution. C. Associate degree
B. Space waste. D. Bachelor s degree

376. Bt cotton is not B. Gregor Mendel

A. genetically modified plant C. Stanley Cohen

B. insect resistant D. Norman Wilmut
C. bacterial gene modified plant 382. Which career field would most likely be
D. butterfly involved in the creation of transgenic or-
ganisms that produce insulin?
377. Which of these has to do with genetic
modification? A. agriculture
A. Crossbreeding B. medicine
C. manufacturing
B. Kidney surgery
D. none of above
C. Gene splicing
D. use of herbicides 383. Which of the following careers would fall
under the Biotechnology Research and De-
378. All of the following are advantages velopment Pathway?
(things that are helpful) of GMO’s EXCEPT:
A. Family Doctor
B. Epidemiologist
B. more nutritional foods
C. ER Nurse
C. unknown long term health effects
D. Radiologist
D. creating more human insulin
384. Roderick recently earned his doctoral de-
379. During insertion step, gree Which job is he MOST LIKELY pursu-
A. The recombinant plasmid is inserted ing?
into a host cell A. Research scientist
B. The gene of interest is inserted into a B. Sales representative
plasmid
C. Technical writer
C. The plasmid is inserted into the gene
D. Veterinary technician
of interest
D. none of above 385. Some consumers are opposed to the use
of biotechnology because of
380. Using microbes like bacteria to remove A. ethical questions
harmful toxins from the environment is
called B. fear of the unknown health risks
A. bioremediation C. biotech products are more costly
B. transgenic D. any of the above
C. tissue culturing 386. An individual who uses computers to an-
D. gene therapy alyze biological data.
A. Computer Systems Developer
381. Who is known as the father of genetics
because of his research with pea plants B. Network Security Analyst
and hybridization? C. Software Developer
A. Ben Carson D. Bioinformatics Scientist

387. Using biotechnology to change the ge- B. Genetic Engineering

netic makeup of an organism is called
C. Cloning
A. Tissue Culturing
D. Selective Breeding
B. Biotechnology
C. Cloning 393. What is a biggest benefit of using biotech-
nologies in agriculture?
D. Genetic Engineering
A. Increase modifications
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388. Which is a use of genetically engineered
B. Increase resistance
bacteria?
C. Decreased nutrition
A. making human insulin
B. DNA fingerprint for blood left at a D. Increase crop yield
crime scene
394. One of the limitations of bioremediation,
C. producing corn that is resistant to her- as compared to the use of chemical tech-
bicides niques, is:
D. none of above A. emissions
389. Bacterial DNA is than human DNA B. space
A. More simple C. time
B. More complex D. oil
C. uglier
395. Bioreporters are useful in detecting:
D. deadlier
A. Environmental contaminants.
390. An organism that is genetically identical
B. Coal mines.
to the organism from which it was pro-
duced. C. Diseases.
A. gene D. Underground water.
B. genetic modification
396. Breeders can increase the genetic varia-
C. clone tion in a population by using
D. penicillin A. inbreeding.
391. Vitamin A is a nutrient that helps pre- B. mutations.
vent?
C. hybridization.
A. cancer
D. restriction enzymes.
B. diabetes
C. loss of eyesight 397. This project was established to identify
all 300, 000+ genes found in our DNA.
D. viruses
A. Human genome project
392. When genes from one organism are in-
B. Animal DNA study
serted into the genes of another organism
that is know as C. Human genetics road map project
A. Stem Cell Therapy D. The DNA solution

398. In agriscience as well as other sciences, 404. This is the practice of producing a geneti-
the method used to solve a problem is cally identical cell or organism
called the: A. Cloning

A. educated-guess method. B. Gel Electrophoresis
B. most-popular-decision technique. C. Genetic Engineering
C. process of elimination. D. DNA Fingerprinting
D. scientific method.
405. What is a fermented alcohol made from
399. crystal contain toxic the sugar found in corn?
A. protein A. Oxygen
B. carbohydrate B. Hydrogen
C. fats C. Acetone
D. nucleic acids D. Ethanol
400. Which organisms are used to manufac- 406. What is the name of the international
ture human insulin? effort to sequence a human’s DNA se-
quence?
A. Protozoans
A. The Gene Sequencing Project
B. Algae
B. The DNA Fingerprinting Project
C. Bacteria
C. The Nuremberg Trials
D. Amoebas
D. The Human Genome Project
401. What process occurs when bacteria are
407. A cloned daughter organism receives
used to clean up oil spills?
from the identical parent organism.
A. biomedication
A. An egg
B. bioremediation B. The DNA (nucleus)
C. bioaccumulation C. The DNA and egg
402. Which of these is an example of a trans- 408. The latter R in EcoRI is derived from
genic organism?
A. The name of genus
A. a mutation in an animal cell
B. The name of strain
B. an animal cell with no mutation
C. The name of species
C. bacteria with antibiotic resistance
D. The term restriction
D. a plant with bacterial DNA
409. Which is a biotechnology career that in-
403. In the process of , breeders cross two volves designing and building new prod-
genetically different individuals ucts?
A. inbreeding A. laboratory technician
B. cloning B. engineer
C. PCR C. clinical research associate
D. hybridization D. none of above

410. What living organism did the Egyptians C. have specific sequences of nucleotides
discover that made bread rise?
D. have random sequences of nucleotides
A. Helium
B. Egg 416. What is an example of a life form used in
industrial biotechnology?
C. Yeast
A. Android
D. Bacteria
B. Bacteria
411. Gene splicing can be done with that
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cut and remove genetic information and C. Proton
transplant or recombine it with another or- D. Oil
ganism
A. Enzymes 417. Which situation is most likely to raise eth-
B. fermentation ical questions about using biotechnology?
C. chromosomes A. increased crop yields

D. Electroporation B. new vaccine development
412. DNA of one organisms is inserted into an- C. increased job opportunities
other. D. genetically modified food crops
A. plasmid
418. Which career field is most related to
B. bacterial DNA
biotechnology?
C. Recombinant DNA
A. journalism
D. Restriction Enzymes
B. medicine
413. All of the following are biotechnology
C. meterology
tools except
A. Protein D. political science
B. DNA 419. Genetic engineering has been used to pro-

C. Cells duce
D. Crystals A. medicines.
414. What connects the pairs of strands that B. food animals.
make up the double helix of DNA? C. improved crops.
A. Bases
D. all of these.
B. Starches
C. Sugars 420. Genetic engineering is used for all the fol-
lowing EXCEPT
D. Tar
A. Medicine
415. The fragments of chromosomes split by
restriction enzymes B. Farming
A. have fused ends C. Agriculture
B. form a circle D. Machinery

421. What is the end goal of PCR? C. bacteria

A. Look at banding patterns of DNA D. cyanobacteria

B. Increase amount of DNA 427. Which is MOST important for biotechnol-
C. Decrease the amount of DNA ogy professionals who work with the gen-
D. Fingerprinting eral public?
A. Have a good fashion sense
422. What naturally occurring soil bacterium is
a protein that wards off the European corn B. Able to read road maps
borer? C. Communicate effectively
A. Carotene D. Practice lab safety
B. Lycopene
428. The transmission of characteristics from
C. Hepatitis B an organism to its offspring through genes
D. Bt in reproductive cells is known as:
A. progeny.
423. Strawberries have been genetically mod-
ified to resist frost. How does this benefit B. traits.
farmers? C. heredity.
A. A longer growing season. D. genetics.
B. A pest-resistant berry.
429. What are some examples of biotechnol-
C. A larger berry. ogy being used in agriculture?
D. Easier harvesting. A. Crop irrigation
424. Genetic engineering has directly in- B. DNA fingerprinting
creased productivity in which U.S. indus- C. Gentically modified crops
try?
D. Crop rotation
A. agriculture
430. Which substance is cut by restriction en-
B. automobile
zymes?
C. media
A. DNA
B. carbohydrates
425. Transfer of genetic material began in the C. proteins
19 ‘s
D. lipids
A. 60
B. 70 431. All of the following are fields that
biotechnology is most likely used in EX-
C. 80 CEPT:
D. 90 A. Medicine
426. RNA interference is a method of cellular B. Agriculture
defence mechanism in C. Food and Nutrition
A. eukaryotes D. Civil Engineering (engineer of roads
B. prokaryotes and bridges)

432. What should a person working in a C. Francis Crick.

biotech laboratory do if he/she has long D. Gregor Mendel.
hair?
A. Cut it short 438. The process that has been used for cen-
truries to create purebred animals such as
B. Wear a hair net or pin it back
black labs is called
C. Use hair spray to keep the hair in place
A. recombinant DNA
D. No special care is needed
B. cloning
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433. What agricultural worker works primar- C. selective breeding
ily with plants?
D. none of above
A. Geneticist
B. Horticulturist 439. Bt toxin genes were isolated from
C. Animal breeder A. beetle
D. First line supervisor B. bacillius thuringenesis
C. yeast
434. Decreasing pesticide applications falls
into which category of biotechnology? D. mushrooms
A. Agriculture 440. using living things or parts of living
B. Diagnostics things to produce a product or solve a prob-
C. Therapeutics lem
D. Bioremediation A. biotechnology
B. tissue culturing
435. Which best represents a negative impact
of biotechnology on agriculture C. bioremediation
A. cows increasing their milk production D. transgenic
B. crop resistance to herbicides 441. Creating a transgenic organism is an ex-
C. crop resistance to insect pests ample of
D. larger crop yield A. PCR
436. An associates degree takes how many B. Genetic Engineering

years? C. Gel Electrophorsis
A. 8 D. Gene Therapy
B. 6
442. Tigers and households cats are members
C. 4 of the same family; however, their sizes
D. 2 are vastly different. What is the cause of
this difference?
437. Modern biotechnology continues to use
A. Biochemical makeup
the basic research developed in the early
1800s by: B. genetics
A. Hippocrates. C. behavioral makeup
B. Jonas Salk. D. habitat size

443. ligase enzymes are used in genetic engi- C. Adapting

neering to D. Bioremediation

A. cut open plasmid DNA
449. The first step in the scientific method of
B. insert plasmids into bacteria
problem-solving is to:
C. isolate the DNA making up a human
gene A. collect data.
D. join human DNA to plasmid DNA B. prepare a written report.

C. identify the problem.
444. the use and application of living things
and biological processes D. draw conclusions.
A. biotechnology 450. What carries the code that tells a plant
B. artificial selection what color it will be or how it will taste?
C. genetic engineering A. Corm
D. clone B. Stem
445. One of the first commercial products cre- C. Flower
ated by genetic engineering was: D. Gene
A. artificial sweetener.
451. Which positive ways has Biotechnology
B. buttermilk.
impacted our environment?
C. insulin.
A. Reduced Pesticides use
D. synthetic oil.
B. Improved color and taste of vegeta-
446. When cloning an organism, DNA is re- bles
moved and placed into an empty C. Improved our waterways
A. virus
D. All of the above
B. sperm cell
452. Which category does the following
C. bacteria cell
biotechnology fall under? Using Roundup
D. egg cell Ready cotton to improve cotton production
on a farm.
447. Which is a use of GMOs in agriculture?
A. making human insulin A. Forensic
B. DNA fingerprint for blood left at a B. Agricultural

crime scene C. Medical
C. producing corn that is resistant to her- D. Consumer Goods
bicides
D. none of above 453. “Trans” means:
A. “Across”
448. The process of changing the genetic ma-
terial of a living organism B. “New”
A. Genetic Modification C. “Different”
B. Taxonomy D. “Many”

454. What is the process for making another C. genes added from a different organ-
DNA copy of a chromosome? ism
A. replication D. genes living outside their bodies
B. transcription 460. Making a genetically identical copy of
C. translation DNA or of an organism.
D. chromatin A. DNA
B. cell
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455. In cloning, what is the purpose of the sur-
rogate mother? C. cloning
A. Donate her DNA D. protein
B. Donate her egg cell
461. Produce energy for cellular process, the
C. Incubate and carry the baby until birth “power house” of the cell
D. Nothing. She’s useless. A. Mitochondria
456. Another name for GMO (Genetically Mod- B. Nucleus
ified Organsim) is C. Cell Wall
A. Transgenic D. Cytoplasm
B. Transplanted
462. A cloned pig has a diploid chromosome
C. Transducted number of 35. What is the diploid
D. Plasmid A. 17.5
457. Which term is not related to the word B. 70
“agriculture”? C. 35
A. farming D. 23
B. crops
463. Two people believe they are related.
C. cultivation Which would be the best technique to de-
D. physics termine if they are related?
A. testing blood types
458. What type of science allows us to alter
the DNA of a bacterial cell to produce hu- B. comparing DNA
man insulin? C. examining karyotypes
A. Geology D. testing for genetic disorders
B. Chemistry
464. The way that crimes are solved today
C. Biology was affected by which of the following
D. Biotechnology technologies?
459. Transgenic organisms have A. gene therapy
A. genes combined from a male and fe- B. DNA fingerprinting

male of the same species C. genetic testing
B. a small number of genes D. Genetic modification

465. The prefix, bio refers to A. convert the DNA into gel
A. Technical Devices B. cut the DNA into fragments

B. People C. change the color of the DNA
C. Useful Items D. produce longer sections of DNA
D. Living things 471. Which improvement to agriculture is
466. Branch of biotechnology that alters the most likely a result of biotechnology?
genes in biological organisms to achieve a A. increased land
medical or agricultural purpose. B. increased fertilizer
A. genetic modification C. increased productivity
B. biotechnology D. increased cost
C. engineering
472. In 1750 BC, the Sumerians are credited
D. bioremediation with being the first to use biotechnology.
467. Which organelle is DNA usually found What did they make?
in? A. Penicillin
A. cell membrane B. Beer
B. vacuole C. Rabies vaccine
C. chloroplast D. Olive oil
D. nucleus 473. Why are thermophilic bacteria used in the
468. Once DNA has been extracted from the biomining of gold?
nucleus of a cell, it is exposed to A. They work in high temperatures
that act like biochemical scissors to cut the B. They work without oxygen
DNA.
C. They are inexpensive to produce
A. restriction enzymes
D. They work in California
B. gel agarose
C. clotting factors 474. Which of these is a concern about the use
of biotechnology?
D. electric shock
A. increased crop yield
469. Humans with genetic diseases can have a B. development of new vaccines
gene inserted into their body using a virus.
This is called: C. increased job opportunities
A. Gene therapy D. creation of new pathogens.
B. Cloning 475. The sensory characteristics of food in-

C. DNA fingerprinting clude:
D. none of above A. Mouthfeel, Odour, Texture, Apperance

B. Appearance, Odour, Flavour, Texture
470. In preparation for an electrophoresis pro-
cedure, enzymes are added to DNA in or- C. Colour, Flavour, Mouthfeel, Odour
der to D. Sweet, Salty, Sour, Bitter, Umami

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476. Bioremediation uses toxin-degrading bac- B. Basic molecular biology

teria to clean up: C. Gene modification
A. Gold and silver. D. Develop transgenes
B. Hazardous material.
480. Which of the following is an application
C. Dirty instruments. of agricultural biotechnology?
D. Viral infections. A. genetic testing and screening
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477. A bioprocessing factory receives daily de- B. vaccine therapy
liveries of oxygen to use for the: C. transgenic crops
A. Workers. D. genetically engineered enzymes
B. Microbes.
481. A is a small ring of DNA found in a
C. Machines. bacterial cell.
D. Purification. A. virus
478. What is genetic engineering? B. plasmid
A. Manipulation/addition of genes C. gene bullet
B. Naturally breeding two animals with D. PCR
desired traits
482. What year was biotechnology used
C. Cross-pollinating two crops first?
D. Harvesting stem cells A. 1931
479. Which of the following is NOT an exam- B. 1919

ple of genetic engineering? C. 1820
A. Gene isolation D. 1972
1.17 Dendrology
1. Deciduous trees: 3. Other than leaves, what other characteris-
tics can be used to identify trees?
A. Lose their leaves each fall
A. Bark
B. Are also known as angiosperms
B. Twigs
C. Are hardwoods
C. Fruits
D. All of the choices
D. All of the choices
2. These trees have cones and needles but 4. What is dendrology?
lose their leaves each fall?
A. Study of trees and shrubs
A. Holly trees
B. Study of shrubs
B. Larch trees
C. Study of trees
C. Yew trees
D. Study of how organisms interact with
D. none of the choices their environment

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5. Which organism WOULD NOT be a part of B. Hardwoods

a lichen’s anatomy? C. Gymnosperms

A. algae
D. Broadleafs
B. plant
C. fungi 9. is the study of woody plants and trees.
D. bacteria A. Forestry
B. Dendrology
6. Conifer leaves are usually:
A. Scale-like C. Hydrology
B. Needle-like D. Botany
C. Broad and flat 10. All trees are:
D. Scale-like OR Needle-like A. Annuals
7. Which MISSOURI TREE SPECIES is dis- B. Biennials
appearing due to a lack of forest fires C. Perrenials
and being outcompeted by other softwood
trees? D. None of the choices
A. Pin Oak 11. Where would you most likely find POLLU-
B. Shortleaf Pine TION TOLERANT SPECIES of lichens?
C. Red Cedar A. forest
D. Silver Maple B. undeveloped coastline
8. Coniferous trees are also known as: C. mountain range
A. Angiosperms D. city park
1.18 Economic botany

1. A milk like preparation can be made from 3. Castor oil is obtained from
the seeds of A. Sesamum indicum
A. Gram
B. Linum sp.
B. Grapes
C. Brassica campestris
C. Soyabean
D. Ricinus communis
D. Barley
4. The curcumin is isolated from
2. The chicory powder which is mixed with
A. Sunflower
coffee powder is obtained from
B. Garlic
A. Seeds
C. Turmeric
B. Leaves
D. Rose flower
C. Roots
D. Stem 5. Pulses belongs to family

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A. Leguminosae A. Oryza sativa

B. Brassicaceae
B. Pennisetum typhoides
C. Poaceae
D. Solanaceae C. Zea mays
6. Botanical name of Rice is D. Aloe vera
1.19 Ethnobotany
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1. These are the uses of plants 4. Where are you now?
A. All mentioned here A. Jogjatarta
B. Cosmetics B. Malaysia
C. Dye C. Yogyakarta
D. Religion rituals D. Thailand
2. ‘Ethno’ means 5. Choose ONE(1) sub-discipline of ethnob-

A. Local people otany
B. Aborigines A. ethno-psychology
C. Indigenous people B. ethno-physiology
D. People C. ethno-mycology
D. ethno-ornithology
3. What was the title of my presentation to-
day? 6. Define conservation
A. Conserving Ethnobotany A. Variety of life
B. Ethnobotanical Conservation B. Protecting our natural resources
C. Ethnobotany in Conservation C. Way of life
D. Conservation of Ethnobotany D. 3R-reduce, reuse, recycle
1.20 Forestry
1. What is a living, complexly interrelated A. Agusan del Sur
community or trees and associated plants B. Surigao del Sur
and animals?
C. Davao del Norte
A. Forest
D. none of above
B. Prairie
3. What is a positive of clear cutting?
C. Marsh
A. It increases habitat
D. Scrubland B. It decreases erosion
2. Where can you find the tallest tree in the C. It is fast and cheap
country? D. none of above

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4. Which of the following is the living wood 10. Which tree is invasive and commonly used
of the tree? in decorative landscape?

A. pith A. Silver maple
B. cambium B. Bradford Pear
C. heartwood C. American Elm
D. sapwood D. White Pine
5. First director of Forestry Bureau 11. The clearing of a forest and the replace-
A. Florencio Tamesis ment of that forest by some other land use
such as agriculture or residential is called
B. George P. Ahern
A. reforestation
C. James Wilson
B. prescribed burn
D. William Harrison
C. salvage reforestation
6. Which tree harvesting technique involves D. deforestation
harvesting the mature trees in an area
over a period of time? 12. Plants that lose their leaves every year
A. clear cutting A. pulpwood
B. seed cutting B. evergreen
C. whole tree harvesting C. conifer
D. shelterwood cutting D. deciduous
7. Currently, how many Implementing PEN- 13. An example of a western NC forest prod-
ROs does the DENR have? uct would be:
A. 71 A. Redwood
B. 17 B. Christmas tree
C. 81 C. Sugar cane
D. None of the above D. Pine straw
8. Which method of harvesting trees reduces 14. Which of the following is a negative ef-
biodiversity the most fect of deforestation? I. Increased flood-
ingII. Increased biodiversityIII. Increased
A. Clear cutting
soil erosion
B. Seed-Tree A. I only
C. Shelterwood B. I and II only
D. Selection System C. I and III only
9. Which of these species is venomous? D. I, II, and III
A. Poison Ivy 15. The % of Earth’s land surface covered by
B. False Morel Mushroom forests is
C. Brown Recluse A. 15
D. Cyanide B. 30

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C. 50 21. The removal of some trees from a row or

area to allow others more room to grow.
D. 75
A. Selective Cutting
16. What was the first National Park B. Controlled Burn
A. Yosemite C. Thinning
B. Yellowstone D. Clear Cutting
C. Devils Lake 22. About of US land is covered by forests.
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D. Grand Canyon A. 1/2
17. The clearing of a forest and its replacement B. 1/4
by another land use is called C. 1/3
A. deforestation D. 2/3
B. timber-harvesting. 23. Also known as plantations, these are
C. clear-cutting. planted and managed tracts of trees of the
same age that are harvested for commer-
D. none of above cial use.
18. What is the art, science, and practice of A. Tree farms
studying ang managing forests, planta- B. Wildlife habitats
tions and related natural resources? C. Wilderness areas
A. Agriculture D. Canopy
B. Forestry
24. this method of thinning removes trees by
C. Agroforestry spacing the trees out to reach their full po-
D. none of above tential
A. clear cutting
19. Which historically significant tree was ru- B. selection thinning
mored to be planted by Emilio Aguinaldo
during his stay at the Malolos Cathedral C. low thinning
convent? D. crown thinning
A. Kalayaan Tree 25. Trees that lose their leaves every year.
B. Kalilayan Tree A. Timberland
C. Kapayapaan Tree B. Forest Land
D. none of above C. Deciduous Trees
D. Evergreen Trees
20. of the paper produced comes from
A. harvested logs 26. The cutting down of selected trees in a for-
est so the growth of other trees is not af-
B. recycled paper fected.
C. cotton or rice A. Selective Cutting
D. resin B. Controlled Burn

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C. Thinning 32. What is a negative of selective cutting?

D. Clear Cutting A. It is very cheap and fast

B. It takes more time
27. What is a resource that cannot be replaced
after being used through natural or human C. It is worse for the habitat than clear
processes. cutting
A. Renewable Resource D. none of above
B. Nonrenewable Resource 33. When plants take in carbon, where does it

get stored?
C. Regenerative Resource
A. the ground
D. Conservative Resource
B. the plant’s structures
28. Missouri has more than million acres C. the air
of forest land.
D. all of these
A. 14
34. A technique sometimes used in forest man-
B. 19
agement, farming, or prairie restoration to
C. 27 improve habitat and reduce wildfire risk.
D. 32 A. Selective Cutting
B. Controlled Burn
29. Which stage of succession is a mature for-
est in? C. Thinning
A. The beginning D. Clear Cutting
B. The middle 35. What is so special about wood with the

FSC mark on it
C. The end
A. It is more expensive
D. None of these
B. It comes from rare trees
30. What does BMP stand for? C. It was produced by a well know com-
A. Best Management Procedures pany
B. Best Management Practices D. the wood came from a sustainable

source
C. Better Management Practices
36. How does clear cutting impact the hydro-
D. none of above
logic cycle?
31. Hardwood trees are also referred to as A. Increases transpiration of water
leaf trees. B. Increase water evaporation from soil
A. Broad C. Decreases runoff from watersheds
B. needle D. Decreases siltation of streams
C. compound
37. Photosynthesis is the process carried out
D. simple by plants, algae and blue-green bacteria

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to make food from sunlight, , and wa- 43. The acreage plot must be between
ter A. 0.10 acres and 0.80 acres
A. Carbon dioxide B. 2 acres and 25 acres
B. Algae C. As big as you can make it.
C. Carbon monoxide D. 0.30 acres and 1.25 acres.
D. soil
44. How many questions does the knowledge
38. What is the first forestry service in the test consist of?
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Philippines? A. 25
A. Inspeccion General de Montes B. 60
B. De Inspeccion General Montes C. 300
C. Inspeccion de General Montes D. 118
D. none of above
45. Prescribed burns
39. Dense covering formed by the leafy tops A. are carefully controlled.
of tall rain forest trees
B. cannot be controlled
A. Wildlife habitats
C. cause fuel buildup.
B. Wilderness areas
D. none of above
C. Tree farm
D. Canopy 46. Temperate deciduous forest are located be-
tween which two areas:
40. What tree species is used to make handles, A. the tropics and the cold land around
baseball bats, oars, and furniture? the poles
A. Aspen B. the equator and North America
B. Ash C. Antartica and Africa
C. Loblolly pine D. near the equator
D. Black walnut
47. The lowest visible surface layer of the for-
41. Which tree is commonly found in Riparian est ecosystem is the
Buffers? A. lower limbs
A. Sycamore B. sunlight restrictive layer
B. Bradford Pear C. forest floor
C. White Oak D. stratification layer
D. Post Oak
48. This branch provides Americans with a
42. Large trees with open cavities are called number of services, including lumber, graz-
where other creatures live are called ing, minerals and recreation.
A. Mast-Bearing trees A. National Forests
B. Den Trees B. National Wildlife Refuge
C. Mature Forest C. National Monument
D. Succession D. National Memorial

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49. Lands managed by agencies of the govern- 55. Tailings are

ment
A. Minerals found in metamorphic rock

A. National Parks
B. Magma ore resulting from seafloor
B. National Rivers
spreading
C. Public Lands
C. The remaining supply of metals on
D. Restricted-use Lands
Earth
50. How is clear cutting bad for the ecosys- D. The waste material from mining
tem?
A. increase in soil erosion, loss of habitat 56. Which of the following is associated more
B. increase in biodiversity with surface mining than subsurface min-
ing?
C. increase in habitat
D. none of above A. It is more expensive
51. Which of the following is NOT a category B. It produces less waste material
of the timber measurement area? C. It disturbs more land
A. Tree Height
D. It causes subsidence
B. Tree Diameter
C. Tree Bushiness 57. What is one economic value of forests
D. Log Scaling A. provide habitat for orgamisms
52. Which tree species would be managed by B. purify water
shelterwood cutting (since they drop seeds
and can do well in shade or sun)? C. timber for lumber and fuel
A. sugar maple D. prevent erosion
B. red oak
58. Layer of soil and rock overlying a mineral
C. big tooth aspen
deposit
D. hemlock
A. underburden
53. What is TSI?
B. overburden
A. Timber Stand Improvement
B. Tree Site Improvement C. lithosphere
C. Tree Soil Improvement D. asthenosphere

D. none of above
59. Supply through goods themselves, such as
54. The growing and cultivation of trees can food, water, timber and fiber.
also be referred to as
A. Provisioning services
A. Agriculture
B. Regulating services
B. Silviculture
C. Monoculture C. Cultural services
D. Biodiversity D. Supporting services

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60. Any tough, heavy timber with a compact 66. How many feet from the tree should you
texture; any deciduous tree (any tree that be to use the biltmore stick to determine
loses its leaves annually) the number of 16’ logs?
A. Softwood A. Arms length
B. Hardwood
B. 25’
C. Timber
C. 50’
D. Canopy
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D. none of above
61. the first Filipino Director of Bureau of
Forestry?
67. Includes soil formation, photosynthesis
A. Florencio Tamesis and nutrient cycling, which underpin
B. George P. Ahern growth and production.
C. Emilio Aguinaldo A. Provisioning services
D. Manuel Roxas B. Regulating services
62. Example of a Nonrenewable Resource.. C. Cultural services
A. Petroleum and Oil
D. Supporting services
B. Water and Crops
C. Soil 68. Which type of forest most likely contains
D. Trees the greatest variety of habitats?
63. What is it called when a replanted forest A. old-growth forests

has no diversity? B. even-aged stands
A. Silviculture
C. plantations
B. Monoculture
D. monocultures
C. Pop culture
D. Bioculture 69. Pulpwood is mainly produced from:
64. A forest dominated by Avicennia alba, A. Ash
Avicennia officinalis, Brownlowia tersa,
Bruguiera cylindrica and etc. B. Fraser Fir
A. Mangrove Forest C. Loblolly Pine
B. Beach Forest D. Oak
C. Pine Forest
D. Dipterocarp Forest 70. The vast majority of forests in Manitoba
belong to which forest region?
65. Acid mine drainage causes
A. Boreal
A. air pollution
B. Montane
B. water pollution
C. subsidence C. Mixed
D. erosion D. Taiga

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71. is the process of returning ecosystems 76. What is board feet?

and communities to their original natural A. How tall a tree is
conditions

B. How wide a tree is
A. Preservation
C. The merchantable height of a tree
B. Remediation
D. How many boards can be cut from a
C. Mitigation tree
D. Restoration 77. Land at least 10% stocked by forest trees.
72. A woody and perennial plant, typically A. Timberland
large and with a well-defined stem or B. Forest Land
stems carrying a more or less definite C. Deciduous Trees
crown.
D. Evergreen Trees
A. Tree
78. The height at which you should measure
B. Shrub
diameter of a tree (DBH) is
C. Grass A. 4 feet
D. Herb B. 4.5 feet
73. Which tree species is the most intolerant C. 5 feet
of shade? D. 10 feet
A. Cottonwood 79. The DBH range of trees in pole-size stands
B. Red Oak is:
C. Sugar Maple A. 0”-5”
D. White Oak B. 5”-10”

C. 10”-15”
74. Which of these is a benefit of clear cut- D. None of the above
ting?
A. Sedimentation 80. A decline in the productivity of an area
of land or in its ability to support natural
B. Loss of recreational land ecosystems or types of agriculture.
C. Dying plants A. Deforestation
D. Increase of water flow B. Degradation
C. Forest Degradation
75. Name the regeneration system where
healthy, large-crowned trees are scat- D. Reforestation
tered throughout the harvested area to 81. Many national memorials are located in or
provide seed for the next forest stand: near where?
A. Clearcut A. New York
B. Shelterwood B. Denver
C. Seed tree C. San Fransico
D. Single-tree D. Washington DC

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82. What is forestland capable of producing B. in tropical areas and arid regions
wood in excess of 20 cubic feet per acre C. in densly populated urban areas
per year and not restricted from being har-
vested? D. on public lands
A. Reserved forestland 88. Defoliators are insects that attack what
B. Timberland part of the tree?
C. Total forestland A. Bark
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D. Forest B. Buds
83. What is the problem with tree planta- C. Roots

tions? D. Leaves
A. low biodiversity
89. What species is considered as agarwood in
B. prone to forest fires the Philippines?
C. cause soil erosion A. Toog
D. absorb excess CO2 from atmosphere B. Philippine Teak
84. Why mine tailings can be dangerous C. Lapnisan
A. can cause miners to trip D. none of above
B. can be full of sharp objects
90. Which of the following is not a way to har-
C. can cause acid to leach into water bod- vest timber
ies
A. Deforestation
D. are full of conflict minerals
B. Clear Cutting
85. This agency manages fish, wildlife, and C. Shelterwood
habitats.
D. Selection System
A. US Forest Service
B. US Fish and Wildlife Service 91. Fire suppression, which allows dead wood,
leaves, and other flammable ground litter
C. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
to accumulate, can result in
ministration
A. a surface fire
D. Bureau of Reclamation
B. a crown fire
86. Estimating the volume of standing timber
is called C. decrease runoff
A. viewing D. a brush fire

B. strolling 92. The Angiosperm trees are
C. estimating A. are non-flowering seed plants.
D. cruising B. which reproduce by seed formed in
flower.
87. Deforestation has the greatest impact on
biodiversity C. produce both male and female cones.
A. on private lands D. none of above

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93. Which one of the following species has the C. Watershed Reservation
opposite arrangement? D. none of above

A. Sugar Maple
99. Which method of timber harvesting is
B. Shagbark Hickory likely to lead to a greater amount of de-
C. Sassafras forestation in an area?
D. White Oak A. Clear-cutting
94. How would manipulation of a crop have B. Seed-tree approach
unforeseen consequences? C. Shelterwood approach
A. The new crop may require more water D. Selection system
than the original
100. Which is NOT a goal of sustainable
B. The crop may harm the environment
forestry?
C. The yield may be reduced
A. Ensuring environmental benefits
D. All of these
B. Making competing needs unfair
95. which practice is used in wet areas to raise C. Increasing benefits for humans
seedling out of standing water
D. Conserving biodiversity
A. bedding
101. A narrow strip of woodland along the
B. chopping
sandy and gravelly beaches of the sea-
C. none of the above coast dominated by Terminalia catappa,
D. scalping Casuarina equisetifolia and etc.
A. Beach Forest
96. Which of the following is NOT an economic
service provided by forests? B. Mangrove Forest
A. provide habitat C. Mossy Forest
B. recreation D. Pine Forest
C. lumber 102. Maximum sustainable yield, ecosystem-
D. job opportunities based management, and adaptive manage-
ment are three approaches to
97. Education in logging most often takes
A. poaching
place in which of the following ways?
B. overharvesting
A. College degrees
B. On-site training C. resource management
C. Vocational schools D. none of these are correct
D. none of above 103. A simple device that serves to estimate

the basal area of a tree.
98. It is a land area drained by a stream or
fixed body of water and its tributaries A. An abney level
having a common outlet for surface runoff. B. A compass
A. Watershed C. A transit
B. Critical Watershed D. A wedge prism

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104. Consumers obtain their energy from 110. cover the beauty, inspiration and recre-
A. Other organisms ation that contributes to our spiritual wel-
fare.
B. The sun
A. Cultural services
C. Scavengers
D. Mineral sources B. Regulating services
C. Provisioning services
105. Forest probably covered of prehis-
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toric Tennessee. D. Supporting services
A. 25%
111. Plants, water, solar energy are all exam-
B. 50% ples of what kind of resources?
C. 75%
A. Renewable
D. 95%
B. Soil and land
106. Forest land capable of producing over 20
ft3 of industrious wood per year. C. Nonrenewable
A. Timberland D. Biosphere
B. Forest Land
112. Crabs, buzzards, and vultures are exam-
C. Deciduous Trees ples of
D. Evergreen Trees A. Scavengers
107. What is the major tree group in our forest B. Autotrophs
type?
C. Decomposers
A. Gum/Cypress
D. Producers
B. Slash/Loblolly Pine
C. Douglas Fir/Redwood 113. Which method of harvesting trees is the
D. Oak/Hickory cheapest way?
108. The texture of soil depends mainly on A. Clear cutting

A. the types of plants that grow in the B. Seed-Tree
soil.
C. Shelterwood
B. the size of the particles in the soil.
D. Selection System
C. the color of the soil.
D. the number of worms in the soil. 114. The habitat in which you are most likely
to find mammals, reptiles, fungi and old
109. Rapid expansion of a city into the sur- growth trees is
rounding countryside is
A. Early Succession
A. Urbanization
B. Urban Sprawl B. Shrub Habitat
C. Smart Growth C. Young Forest

D. Infrastructure D. Mature Forest

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115. Which career has work conditions which C. Logs

are often solitary and in remote loca- D. Heartwood
tions?

A. Education 121. Which method of timber harvesting leads
to the greatest uneven-aged stands of re-
B. Logging growth?
C. Nursing A. Clear-cutting
D. none of above
B. Seed-tree approach
116. If my pace is 2.00 and I walk 500 paces C. Shelterwood approach
how many feet did I walk?
D. Selection system
A. 1000 feet
122. When working in forestry, knowledge of
B. 500 feet
which of the following is considered essen-
C. 250 feet tial?
D. 1055 A. Astronomy
117. Which of the following answer choices B. Engineering
is not an accurate consequence of surface C. Soil science
mining?
D. none of above
A. increased pollution
123. Knowledge of which of the following
B. improved ecosystem health
would be considered as necessary for
C. destruction of flora and fauna forestry?
D. erosion of soil A. Trees
118. Some tree plantations resemble a natural B. Weather patterns
forest thata.b.c.d. C. Chemistry
A. has been adaptively managed. D. none of above
B. contains uneven-aged stands.
124. Larger diameter trees will become what
C. has never been harvested. in the forestry industry?
D. none of above A. chip-n-saw
119. Trees that need full sun to grow: B. saw timber
A. shade intolerant trees C. poles and veneer
B. intermediate shade intolerant trees D. all of the above
C. intermediate shade tolerant trees 125. most of the worlds remaining forests are
D. shade tolerant trees either boreal forests or
120. What is the wood that is used to make A. tropical rain forest
paper and similar products? B. temperate forest
A. Specialty wood materials C. tree plantations
B. Pulpwood D. deciduous forests

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126. Coal, Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Ura- 132. Trees in the main canopy of the forest
nium are all examples of that receive direct sunlight only on the top
A. Land resources of the crown are called:
B. Nonrenewable resources A. Suppressed trees
C. Renewable resources B. Co-dominant trees

C. Intermediate trees
D. Mineral sources
D. Dominant trees
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127. How many trees does Georgia have na-
tive to its land? 133. How many samples must be identified for
plant identification.
A. 3
A. 6
B. 300
B. 50
C. 200
C. 35
D. none of above
D. 600
128. Complete Name of your Instructor
134. An uncut forest is known as
A. Nathanael Salisid Lamoste
A. A regrowth forest
B. Dave Salisid Lamoste
B. Tree farm
C. Nathanael Lamoste
C. A commercial forest
D. Dave Nathanael Lamoste
D. An old-growth forest
129. A series of predictable and orderly
135. Which type of forest management leaves
changes within an ecosystem over time.
adult trees that will release seeds for the
A. Canopy next generation to sprout?
B. Wildlife habitat A. shelterwood cut
C. Succession B. clear cut
D. Wilderness areas C. selective cut
130. Father of Philippine Forestry D. none of above
A. George P. Ahern 136. There are main forest types across

B. Florencio Tamesis the US.
A. 3
C. Emilio Aguinaldo
B. 6
D. Manuel Roxas
C. 10
131. A forest dominated by Shorea astylosa,
D. 12
Parashorea malaanonan, Hopea reynosoi
G. 137. A dry open grassland.
A. Pine Forest A. National wilderness areas
B. Molave Forest B. National wildlife refuges
C. Beach Forest C. Rangelands
D. Dipterocarp Forest D. Forests

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138. What is silviculture? C. Physically

A. composition/structure D. none of above

B. controlling the growth
144. How can you tell if a track is from a mam-
C. specifically timber production
mal that lives in an aquatic environment?
D. All of the Above
A. There are claw marks
139. An area set aside with the intent of- B. There are no claw marks
preserving a large tract of intact ecosys-
tem or a landscape. C. There is webbing
A. National wilderness areas D. There is an extra toe mark
B. National wildlife refuges
145. What percent of earths land animals and
C. Rangelands plants live in forests?
D. Forests A. 50%
140. Basal area is used to determine: B. 90%
A. the degree of stocking of a stand of C. 70%
trees
D. 65%
B. the amount of timber to remove in thin-
ning an over-stocked stand
146. One disadvantage of the selection sys-
C. timber volume tem of timber harvesting is that it
D. All of the above A. produces even-aged stands.
141. the slowest growing tree in the stand B. produces a monoculture.
would be called
C. causes soil erosion.
A. suppressed
D. is more dangerous for loggers.
B. dominant
C. co dominant 147. townships have sections
D. unevened age A. 4
142. The removal of snags following a fire is B. 36
called C. 24
A. monoculture.
D. 35
B. prescribed burning.
C. sustainable forestry. 148. The , whose primary function is food
production, is composed of the leaves,
D. salvage logging.
branches, twigs, and flowers.
143. A career in logging is considered to be the A. Roots
most demanding in which of the following
ways? B. Trunk
A. Emotionally C. Crown
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149. An area where two different plant com- C. Conservation

munities come together, and that may
D. Sustainability
share characteristics and species of both,
is defined as a/an
155. The entire point of a carbon sink is
A. Buffer
A. it emits no carbon
B. Climate community
B. it absorbs no carbon
C. Ecostone
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D. preserve C. it emits more carbon than it absorbs
D. it absorbs more carbon than it emits
150. in florida .thinning should should occur on
stands that have a basil area of sq.
156. Major current program
A. 120
A. Community-Based Forest Manage-
B. 75 ment Program
C. 10
B. Community Forestry Program
D. 50
C. Coastal Environment Program
151. What is the major vehicle for pollination
D. Low Income Upland Communities
for most tree species?
Project
A. bees
B. animals 157. which method of harvesting trees leads
to erosion
C. gravity
D. wind A. Clear cutting
152. Which of the following is a threat to for- B. Seed-Tree

est ecosystems? C. Shelterwood
A. climate change D. Selection System
B. unsustainable logging
C. invasive species 158. What percent of the animals and plants
live in the forest?
D. All of these
A. 40%
153. a stand of trees that are all the same age
is called a stand B. 30%
A. pure C. 80%
B. even aged D. 70%
C. uneven aged
159. Removal of all trees from an area.
D. co dominant
154. Substances washing into water sources
is called B. Controlled Burn
A. Erosion C. Thinning
B. Runoff D. Clear Cutting

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160. Windbreaks are most effective when ori- B. Cedar

ented degrees to prevailing or trouble- C. Frasier Fir
some winds?

D. Virginia Pine
A. 30
B. 45 166. Which of the following ecosystem ser-
vices is the hardest to attach a monetary
C. 60
value to?
D. 90
A. Trees for lumber
161. The result from the regrowth of trees B. Drinking water
that were not all cut at the same time is
C. Soil for agriculture
called
D. Air purification
A. even aged
B. uneven aged 167. Which of these provinces is not one of the
top 3 lumber producers in Canada?
C. same aged
A. Quebec
D. different aged
B. British Columbia
162. Which type of management is being con-
tinually monitored and adjusted C. Manitoba
A. adaptive forest management D. Ontario
B. ecosystem-based forest management 168. Which tree species is the most tolerant to
C. Maximum sustainable yield flooding?
D. none of above A. Northern Red Oak

B. Cottonwood
163. a live crown ratio less than 30% is an
indication that what needs to happen C. Shortleaf Pine
A. thinning D. Shagbark Hickory
B. clear cut 169. There are approximately how many trees
C. select cutting planted in the US each day?
D. crown cutting A. 40
B. 7 million
164. A verticle section of soil from the surface
to the bedrock is a C. 2 thousand
A. soil profile D. 4 million
B. fossil fuel 170. Resource management is the
C. fossil A. preservation of ecosystems
D. reservoir B. management of animals in the area
165. The most popular Christmas tree grown C. managing of resources so that are not
commercially in the mountain region of depleted
North Carolina is the: D. managing of resources so that they
A. Scotch Pine are depleted

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171. Which of the following is an insect C. Provide habitats and improve soil
borer? health
A. IPS beetle D. All of these
B. Gypsy Moth 177. Which is used to reduce the impact of tim-
C. Pine sawfly ber harvesting?
D. wooly adelgid A. slash-and-burn
B. selective cutting
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172. Which type of trees lose their leaves in
the fall? C. prescribed burns
A. Deciduous D. mechanized logging
B. Evergreen
178. Which of the answer choices below is an
C. Tropical example of a nonmetallic mineral?
D. All trees A. sulfur
173. What tree has pink flowers? B. lead
A. Clammy locus C. aluminium
B. Chinnaberry D. gold
C. Franklinia 179. What is the largest Forest region in
D. Witch-hazel Canada?
A. Taiga
174. The process of change in an ecosystem is
B. Boreal
A. Selective Cutting C. Mixed
B. Mast-bearing trees D. West Coast
C. Succession 180. Which of these species would NOT live in
D. Den Trees a piece of land that is in the early succes-
sional stage?
175. Which type of harvesting only removes
A. Cardinal
older trees?
B. Rabbit
C. Quail
B. Shelterwood Cutting
D. Grouse
C. Seed Tree Cutting
D. Clear Cutting 181. Underground structures that anchor the
tree and take up water, nutrients and min-
176. Which of these are reasons to plant erals from the soil.
trees?
A. Roots
A. Lower temperature and increase oxy-
gen B. Inner bark
B. Improve appearance and prevent ero- C. Outer Bark

sion D. Trunk

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182. Forestry and logging fall under what ca- A. Ash

reer category? B. Maple

A. Agricultural C. Frasier Fir
B. Business D. Loblolly Pine
C. Industrial
188. The process by which green plants and
D. Educational certain other organisms use the energy of
183. Which of the following terms describes a light to convert carbon dioxide and water
forest that has never had any disturbances into carbohydrates is called?
from natural disasters or human interfer- A. Glycolysis
ence? B. Photosynthesis
A. Climax Community C. Transpiration
B. New Growth D. none of above
C. Old Growth
189. How many contestants make up a
D. Primary Succession forestry team?
184. When small numbers of mature trees A. 6
are left in place to provide shelter for B. 3
seedlings as they grow, it is called
C. 5
A. seed tree approach
D. 4
B. shelter wood approach
C. classic tree approach 190. Which stage of succession contains
mostly grasses?
D. salvage logging approach
A. Early
185. On a global scale, more than % of B. Shrub Stage
the timber cut each year is used for heat-
ing and cooking. C. Young Forest
A. 25 D. Mature Forest
B. 75 191. Most of Earth’s fresh water is used for

C. 55 A. watering crops
D. 15 B. drinking
186. Spirelike branching occurs when? C. washing clothes and dishes
A. trees have a strong central trunk. D. swimming pools
B. trees have a small central trunk. 192. How can we still gain resources while
C. trees have a big central trunk. sustaining the forest?
D. none of above A. Replace felled trees with seedlings

B. Controlled burning of forests
187. What tree species is commonly used in
the construction of furniture, cabinets, and C. Using animals to haul logs
veneer? D. All of the above

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193. What is an example of a game animal? 199. Grandin was an important part of Mis-
A. Tiger souri logging during this time period.
B. Elephant A. 1810-1830
C. Deer B. 1880-1900
D. Bald Eagle C. 1930-1950

D. 1980-2000
194. The study of insects and their relationship
with the forest is called: 200. Harvesting of trees where all trees are
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cut regardless of age, size, or health
A. Dendrology
A. Strip Cutting
B. Pathology
B. Plantation
C. Entomology
C. Clear Cutting
D. Hydrology
D. Selective Cutting
195. The number of rings on a tree determines
its 201. a forest contains different species of
trees called
A. height
A. even aged
B. weight
B. pure
C. age
C. mixed
D. number of boards
D. dominant
196. which management plan causes the
202. What 2 trees are often used as wind-
largest disruption/change in the forest
breaks in NC?
ecosystem?
A. Long leaf pines and eastern red cedar
A. shelterwood cut
B. Loblolly pines and eastern red cedar
B. seed cut
C. Loblolly pines and Frasier fir
C. selective cut
D. Frasier firs and red maples
D. clear cut
203. What is the largest priority critical wa-
197. What means Trees? tershed in the Philippines?
A. perennial, woody plants that grow to A. Tamontaca River Watershed
be at least 20 feet tall.
B. Cagayan River Watershed
B. have a single main stem.
C. Agno River Watershed
C. all of the above
D. none of above
D. none of above
204. What is a negative to suppressing forest
198. Which phrase is true for private logging fires?
operations? A. Trees will have more room to grow
A. produces a monoculture B. Lots of “tinder” builds up on the forest
B. produces trees of different ages floor
C. produces trees of different species C. nutrients are recycled
D. leads to high biodiversity D. more trees allow for healthier forests

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205. It is the revised forestry code of the C. Sapwood

Philippines:
D. Heartwood

A. RA 9175
B. PD 705, as amended 211. Allows water and nutrients to travel
through the leaf:
C. RA 7161
A. veins
D. none of above
B. xylem
206. About 50% of Canadian softwood is
C. phloem
A. Used for pulp
D. none of above
B. Used in construction
C. Exported 212. Protect natural, cultural, and historic fea-
tures. example-Devils Tower. Over 120
D. Used for firewood or pellets exist in the country
207. Directing active cooperation and partici- A. National Conservation Areas
pation of government agencies in govern-
B. national Wildlife Refuge
ment reforestation programs
C. National Monument
A. LOI 423
B. LOI 103 D. National Historic Sites
C. LOI 1260 213. What is a resource that can be replen-

D. LOI 716 ished when used through natural or human
processes.
208. In 1900 there where 9.4 million acres of
A. Renewable Resource
forest, compared with today.
B. Non Renewable Resource
A. the same
B. 2.4 million C. Regenerating Resource
C. 10.4 million D. Conservative Resource

D. 14.4 million 214. What tree produces “helicopter” seeds?
209. The most “outer” section of a tree cookie A. Cottonwood
is called the? B. Shagbark hickory
A. Pith
C. White oak
B. Heartwood
D. Silver Maple
C. Outer Bark
D. Inner Bark 215. Which of the following is not an econom-
ical benefit of Forests
210. This functions like a backbone and sup- A. Trees for lumber
ports the tree. It composes most of the
trunk and is made up of dead xylem cells. B. Water for Drinking
A. Inner bark C. Soil for agriculture
B. cambium layer D. Air purification

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216. A biltmore stick can tell you which of the 221. Which tree is generally the most impor-
following? tant tree in southern forests because of its
use for pulpwood and lumber?
A. Tree diameter at breast height and
number of board feet A. cedar
B. Number of 16’ logs and height of tree B. maple
C. Diameter of logs on ground C. pine
D. All of the above are true D. walnut
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217. person needs trees in order to gain 222. The first tree species to inhabit a site af-
enough oxygen to survive throughout an ter stand replacing events:
entire year.
A. climax species
A. 1
B. new growth trees
B. 2
C. pioneer species
C. 7
D. none of above
D. 10
223. can be used to stimulate regenera-
218. Why is topsoil darker than all other lev- tion in the forest, maintain a fire depen-
els of soil? dent ecosystem, and create openings for
wildlife habitat.
A. It contains all the darker colored min-
erals A. Thinning
B. It contains volcanic rock B. Firebreaks
C. It contains more organic matter C. Pruning
D. It contains bits of burned trees D. Prescribed burns
219. Approximately % of the world’s 224. I have four species of tree on my land.
forests are currently managed for wood Which tree would make me the most profit
production. if I harvested it?
A. 5 A. Pin Oak
B. 10 B. Black Walnut
C. 20 C. Redbud
D. 25 D. Osage Orange
220. any light, easily cut wood; cone bearing 225. In what part of a forest would you ex-
or coniferous pect to find a squirrel’s nest?
A. Hardwood A. snag
B. Forestry B. understory
C. Softwood C. forest floor
D. Tree farms D. subcanopy

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226. Which biome benefits the most from 232. A mineral or group of minerals from
fires? which we extract metal.

A. deciduous forests A. metal
B. tundra B. ore
C. grasslands
C. magma
D. taiga
D. overburden
227. Trees that need partial shade and sun to
grow: 233. Which type of harvesting removes all the
A. shade tolerant trees trees in a given area?
B. shade intolerant trees A. Selective Cutting
C. intermediate shade tolerant trees B. Shelterwood Cutting
D. intermediate shade intolerant trees C. Seed Tree Cutting
228. What is MAD HORSE D. Clear Cutting
A. Maple, Ash, Dogwood, and Horse
Chestnut 234. Which type of mining is associated with
disturbing more land?
B. Trees that have opposite leaves
C. Way to help ID trees A. Surface mining
D. All of these are true B. Sub-surface mining
229. Which type of regeneration will result in C. Mining in the oceans

an uneven-aged forest? D. none of above
A. Shelterwood
235. Which harvesting method allows for nat-
B. Single-tree
ural regeneration and possible reduces the
C. Seed tree need for artificial regeneration.
D. Clearcut A. Selective Cut
230. Which type of harvest method is not con- B. Shelterwood Cut
sidered to be ecologically sound?
C. Clear Cut
A. clearcut
B. shelter-wood D. All of the above
C. high-grading 236. What is the sequence in a commuity in

D. group selection which animal wildlife species get their
food?
231. Prescribed burns are fires that
A. Food chain
A. are caused by lightning.
B. are set by humans. B. Food web
C. never get out of control. C. Biotic

D. increase the risk of injury. D. Abiotic

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237. The logging method of harvesting in 242. An observable trait that can be improved
which up to 70% of trees are cut, leav- or measured is called a ?
ing small patches of old growth standing A. genotype
to provide seeds for regeneration.
B. DNA
A. Clearcut
C. phenotype
B. Shelterwood
D. gene
C. Selective
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243. Forest is the breaking of large, con-
D. none of above tiguous, forested areas into smaller pieces
of forest and generally reduces its biodi-
238. For every ton of paper recycled we save versity.
how many gallons of water and kw of elec-
tricity A. elongation
B. obliteration
A. 5000 gallons and 2400 kw
C. fragmentation
B. 6000 gallons and 2800 kw
D. condensation
C. 7000 gallons and 4100kw
D. 9000 gallons and 5100kw 244. Which of these provinces is the top lum-
ber producer in Canada?
239. Which is true for private logging opera- A. Quebec
tions? B. British Columbia
A. produces a monoculture C. Manitoba
B. produces tress of different ages D. Ontario
C. produces trees of different species 245. What has become the most successful ge-
D. leads to high biodiversity netic manipulation of a forest tree?
A. breeding
240. Which method of timber harvesting is
likely to be the most costly for a timber B. grafting
company? C. cloning
A. Clear-cutting D. seeds
B. Seed-tree approach 246. The greatest dangers for these working
C. Shelterwood approach in the logging industry lie with which of
the following?
D. Selection system
A. Equipment
241. Where does Georgia rank in naval store B. Wildlife
production?
C. Finances
A. 1st D. none of above
B. 5th
247. If a wood product is certified by the For-
C. 70 est Stewardship Council, it was produced
D. none of above A. using sustainable methods.

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B. from trees grown on a plantation. 253. the planting, growing, and harvesting of
trees
C. from recycled materials.

A. Wilderness areas
D. none of above
B. Forestry
248. Waste soil and rock removed during sur- C. Succession
face mining is called
D. Canopy
A. Hazardous waste
254. Which one of the following is NOT an ad-
B. Overburden
vantage of a riparian forest buffer?
C. Tailings A. Management intensive
D. Smelt B. Filter sediment
249. What is it called when a forest is cleared C. Provide bank stabilization
for something else, besides being forest D. Uptake nutrients and chemicals run-
A. Clear cutting ning off from the field
B. Seed-Tree 255. A snag is a

C. Deforestation A. Always a den tree
D. Selection System B. Standing dead tree at least 6’ tall
C. A log on the ground
250. This is found in the topsoil and is made of
D. none of above
decaying plants and animals.
A. dirt 256. To use a Biltmore Stick to measure diam-
eter, hold the scale stick in a horizontal po-
B. water sition inches away from you with the
C. humus left end of the stick along one side of the
tree.
D. subsoil
A. 25
251. Sustainable forest management must in- B. 26
clude which of the following?
C. 30
A. environmental benefits
D. 32
B. social benefits
257. Which type of harvesting removes all but
C. economic benefits a few trees?
D. all of the above A. Selective Cutting
252. The carries food down from the B. Shelterwood Cutting
leaves to the different parts of the tree. C. Seed Tree Cutting
A. Xylem D. Clear Cutting
B. Phloem 258. What is a trees least favorite month?
C. Cambium A. July
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C. September 264. of the timber cut each year is used for

D. May A. paper and paper products
B. fuelwood and charcoal
259. Fire suppression can result in a(n)
C. building materials
A. increase in animal habitats.
D. furniture
B. buildup of material that fuels future
fires. 265. The purpose of a Hypo-Hatchet is to:
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A. Apply a blaze to trees to mark bound-
C. decrease in property damage.
aries
D. an increase in the jack pine population.
B. Cut small trees quickly
260. How many rings does a tree put on each C. Girdle a tree
year? D. Inject a tree with herbicide
A. 1 266. The living inner bark is composed of
B. 2 A. several basic layers.
C. 4 B. the bark, cambium, wood and pith.
D. numerous C. vascular phloem tissues that transport
food from the leaves to the roots.
261. One practical solution to prevent over-
D. none of above
grazing on rangelands is
267. The main functions of a tree trunk are
A. control the number of grazing animals
?
B. rotational grazing
A. support and move nutrients & food
C. limit the duration of grazing in a given B. support and photosynthesis
area
C. holds roots in place & produces food
D. all of these are viable options for roots
262. The main goal of the Healthy Forests D. produces food & stores carbon
Restoration Act is to 268. Which of the following is an economic
A. prevent prescribed burning. value of forests?
B. prevent erosion and soil damage. A. They provide wood.
B. They prevent soil erosion.
C. prevent salvage logging.
C. They regulate the water cycle.
D. make forests less fire-prone.
D. none of above
263. Which plant structure carries
269. Forestry, especially conservation, has ed-
food/glucose from the leaves down to
ucational roots in which of the following
the rest of the plant?
topics?
A. Phloem A. Science
B. Xylem B. Social Studies
C. Leaves C. Mathematics
D. Biota D. none of above

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270. How many seedlings will be planted one 276. Which is not a ‘growing part’ of the
one acre at a spacing of 10’ x 10’ tree?

A. 302 A. Buds
B. 436 B. Root tips
C. 889 C. Cambium
D. 1, 742 D. Heartwood
271. Smokey the Bear’s message resulted in 277. Trees that need shade and less sunlight
A. an increased number of forest fires. to grow:
B. an increase in carbon dioxide in the air A. shade intolerant trees
C. suppression of forest fires. B. shade tolerant trees
D. none of above C. intermediate shade intolerant trees
272. Land with an area of more than 0.5 D. intermediate shade tolerant trees
hectare and tree crown cover (or equiva- 278. Which one of the following is NOT an ex-
lent stocking level) of more than 10%. ample of Integrated Pest Management?
A. Grazing Area A. Regulatory
B. Forest B. Chemical
C. Upland Community
C. Abiotic
D. Communal
D. Biological
273. The science or practice of planting, man-
279. the environment in which wildlife lives
aging, and caring for forests.
A. Wildlife habitat
A. Forestry
B. Silviculture B. Wilderness area
C. Reforestation C. Canopy
D. Deforestation D. Succession
274. is the period of life of an organism, 280. Harvesting of trees where entire sections
which includes five stages. are cut
A. Growth A. Strip Cutting
B. Maturation B. Plantation
C. Life span C. Clear Cutting
D. Life processes D. Selective Cutting
275. Ecological values for forests include 281. What are organisms that produce their
own food (like green plants) called?
A. prevent soil erosion
B. regulate the water cycle by slowing A. Consumers
runoff B. Heterotrophs
C. store carbon and release oxygen C. Producers
D. all of the above D. Heterotrophs & Producers

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282. The leaves and other organic materials 288. Deciduous trees are trees that
when broken down are called
A. Lose their leaves in winter
A. juice
B. Are evergreen
B. foliage
C. oxygen C. Are characterized by pine cones and
needle-like leaves
D. detritus
D. Are unsuitable for logging
283. crown thinning is sometimes known as
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high grading, this removes what type of
289. What is this called? (green bug)
trees?
A. dominant only A. Emerald Ash Borer
B. co dominant B. Asian Longhorned Beetle
C. both co dominant and dominant C. Birch Leafminer
D. none of above
284. The percentage of Earth’s land surface
covered by forests 290. A windbreak should extend at least
A. 15. feet past structures needing protection to
allow for wind turbulence at the ends of
B. 30. the windbreak?
C. 50.
A. 50
D. none of above
B. 100
285. Which is the genus name for aspens?
C. 200
A. Populus
B. Acer D. 300
C. Cercis
291. The Thousand Cankers Disease attacks
D. Quercus what tree species?
286. Trees that produce nuts are known as A. Black Walnut
A. Hard Mast-bearing trees B. Northern Red Oak
B. Den trees
C. Shortleaf Pine
C. Soft Mast-bearing
D. Green Ash
D. Mature forest
287. The National Forest Management Act of 292. This results from the regrowth of trees
helped restore some damage to af- that were mostly all cut at the same time
fected natural areas.
A. even aged
A. 1976
B. uneven aged
B. 1987
C. 1995 C. monculture
D. 2015 D. no aged

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293. What are four factors that affect plant C. 66

growth in forest soils? D. 60

A. Topsoil Depth, Soil texture
299. The key about a career in logging is know-
B. Limiting layers, drainage
ing that most of the job is what kind of
C. Know all those and mark this one as work?
correct
A. Scientific
D. none of above
B. Academic
294. Fuels that allow the upward spread of
C. Physical
wildfire to the tops or crowns of trees are
called? D. none of above
A. ground 300. What is it called when one forest is used
B. crown for many different things?
C. surface A. Multiple Use Management
D. organic B. Selective Succession
295. What term is used for the wise use of the C. Clearing
natural resources in our environment? D. Multiple Silviculture
A. Environmental extremism
301. If there are many different variations
B. Wildlife management
within a type of species, then that species
C. Consumptive use has a great amount of
D. Wildlife conservation A. Geographic Diversity
296. Only cutting down mature trees of a spe- B. Genetic Diversity
cific size, type, and quality is an example C. Biodiversity
of
D. Monoculture
B. Shelterwood Cutting 302. at what age does the correct basal area
occur?
C. Clear Cutting
D. none of above A. 15-20
B. 10-15
297. Which of the following are benefits of the
forest? C. 20-25
A. Climate regulation D. 30-35
B. Soil stabilization 303. What tree produces acorns that wildlife
C. Healthy functions of ecosystems prefer?
D. All of above A. White Pine
298. chain = how many feet? B. White Oak
A. 100 C. Pin Oak
B. 16 D. Cottonwood

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304. Canada’s biggest supplier of lumber and 310. rings that grow closer together together
other timber supplies toward the outside of the tree, near the
A. Ontario bark, indicates that the tree has grown
how?
B. Alberta
A. fast
C. British Columbia
B. slow
D. Quebec
C. not at all
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305. Why do we clear cut? D. none of the above
A. To cause soil erosion
311. Renewable resources include soil, fresh
B. To increase biodiversity water, wild animals, and
C. To regenerate forests A. minerals
D. To keep birds out of trees B. coal
306. Sometimes called “upper montane for- C. timber
est” or “cloud forest” D. petroleum
A. Mangrove Forest
312. how many square chains are in five acres
B. Beach Forest
A. 1
C. PineForest
B. 10
D. Mossy Forest
C. 50
307. Which of these provinces is not one of the D. 100
top 3 producers of pulp and paper products
in Canada? 313. Clear cutting will cause
A. Quebec A. Increased CO2 in the atmosphere
B. Ontario B. Decreased CO2 in the atmosphere
C. British Columbia C. Increased oxygen for other organisms
D. Alberta to use
D. Decreased VOCs
308. Long lasting trees in a forest that come
after the pioneer species: 314. Timber Management is called
A. climax species A. Forest propagation
B. old growth trees B. Silviculture
C. new growth trees C. Forester
D. none of above D. Timber Farming
309. What tree has 3-4 needles per bunch? 315. An example of a “hard mast” would be:
A. Eastern White Pine A. Persimmons
B. Loblolly B. Nuts and acorns
C. Eastern Red Cedar C. Persimmons, nuts, acorns
D. Shortleaf D. None of the above

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316. All of the following would result in an 322. one cord of wood contains cubic ft of
area that was recently clear cut EXCEPT wood, air, and bark

A. an increase in water runoff A. 128
B. a loss of soil nutrients B. 90
C. an increase in erosion
C. 240
D. an increase in biodiversity
D. 80
317. Which forest layer has the most biodiver-
sity and is home to large animals, insects 323. The variety of organisms within an
and decomposers ecosystem is its
A. Emergent layer A. Niche
B. Understory Layer B. Habitat
C. Canopy Layer C. Community
D. Forest layer D. Biodiversity
318. The most important resources to maintain
a healthy forest is 324. What was the fungus from Asia that at-
tacked trees between 1930 and 1940?
A. topsoil
A. Hemlock woolly adelgid
B. freshwater
C. pollution B. Chestnut Blight
D. saltwater C. Southern Pine Beatle
319. First Forestry School in the Philippines D. Dutch Elms Disease
A. University of the Philippines 325. What tree is used to make wine and
B. Central Mindanao University whiskey barrels because it has pores
plugged with tyloses (outgrowths of
C. Visayas State University
parenchyma cells) that make is water-
D. De La Salle University tight?
320. What greenhouse gas in the atmosphere A. Hickory
can be captured by trees?
B. White Oak
A. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
C. Pine
B. Carbon dioxide
D. none of above
C. Ozone
D. none of above 326. The gradual replacement of one commu-
nity of plants by another based on sunlight
321. Which plant structure carries water from
and nutrients:
the roots up to the rest of the plant?
A. pioneer species
A. Phloem
B. Xylem B. climax species
C. Leaves C. old growth
D. Biomass D. forest succession

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327. Which of these describes a den tree? 333. Inauguration of the Inspeccion General de
A. A tree that bears fruit Montes?
B. A tree that loses its leaves in the fall A. June 1863
C. A tree with a hole that can be used for B. July 1863
shelter C. June 1864
D. None of these D. July 1864
328. Plants make their food by the process of
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334. Coniferous trees are gymnosperms or
plants that have seeds.
A. Respiration A. naked
B. Circulation
B. nut type
C. Digestion
C. wingless
D. Photosynthesis
D. sprout less
329. which method of harvesting trees, leaves
a few trees to provide shade for the new 335. Which of the following is a primary rea-
seedlings son for deforestation?
A. Clear cutting A. to graze cattle
B. Seed-Tree B. to grow crops
C. Shelterwood C. to provide fuelwood
D. Selection System D. all of these
330. What is the problem with timber planta- 336. Current Secretary of DENR
tions?
A. Roy A. Cimatu
A. low biodiversity
B. Gina P. Lopez
B. prone to forest fires
C. Ramon P. Paje
C. cause soil erosion
D. Angelo T. Reyes
D. absorb excess CO2 from atmosphere
337. What tree can have up to 5 needles in a
331. Which method of harvesting trees is the bunch?
most dangerous for loggers
A. Eastern White Pine
A. Clear cutting
B. Loblolly Pine
B. Seed-Tree
C. Shelterwood C. Shortleaf
D. Selection System D. Longleaf
332. A dry open grassland is called a 338. Which tree has needle-like leaves?
A. Rangeland A. Red Spruce
B. Clear cutting B. Apple
C. Grazing land C. Paper birch
D. MSY D. none of above

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339. A division or projecting part of the blade 345. The least disruptive way of harvesting
of a leaf trees is

A. petiole A. Clearcutting
B. leaf scar B. Shelterwood
C. lobe
C. Selective
D. leaflet
D. none of above
340. The process of replanting an area with
trees. 346. Where is the best place to do reforesta-
tion?
A. Forestry
B. Silviculture A. Drylands
C. Reforestation B. Rainy Wetlands

D. Deforestation C. Eroded Soil
341. Removal of all marketable trees D. Grasslands

A. clearcut 347. If a species is found in many different
B. softwood places on planet earth, it is said to have
C. thinning a large amount of
D. harvest A. Geographic Diversity
342. Forestry and logging require an educa- B. Genetic Diversity

tional background in what type of sci- C. Biodiversity
ence?
D. Monoculture
A. Biology
B. Physics 348. Established in the mid 20th century, this
man-made forest located in the border of
C. Astronomy
Loboc and Bilar towns in Bohol, features
D. Nuclear what type of tree?
343. An old growth forest is A. Molave
A. A forest that was cut a long time ago B. Narra
B. A forest that has never been cut C. Mahogany
C. A forest that was cut recently
D. none of above
D. none of above
349. Large scale planting of a single crop is
344. When only some of the tree in a forest
called
are cut at once is called
A. polycuture
A. selection system
B. selection Sunday B. biculture
C. shelterwood selection C. monoculture
D. even aged selection D. even aged culture

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350. How many methods are there to harvest 356. Which of these provinces is the top pulp
timber and paper producer in Canada?
A. 1 A. Quebec
B. 2 B. Ontario
C. 3 C. British Columbia
D. 4 D. Alberta
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351. What are BMP? 357. Fungi and bacteria are examples of
A. Best man people A. Scavengers
B. Best Management Practices B. Autotrophs
C. Better manners practices C. Decomposers
D. none of above D. Producers
352. The managing of resource harvesting so 358. What type of forest management is used
that resources are not depleted is called for sun loving trees?
A. resource management A. shelterwood cut
B. monoculture B. seed cut
C. salvage logging C. selective cut
D. clear cutting D. clear cut
353. Coniferous forests are made up primarily 359. What tree has the largest pinecones?
of trees that A. Eastern White
A. change color in the fall B. Shortleaf
B. bear cones C. Longleaf
C. shed their leaves D. Loblolly
D. have thin bark
360. How many people does Georgia employ
354. The Forest Management Bureau was cre- in the forestry industry?
ated by virtue of which policy? A. 70 thousand
A. Executive Order No. 192 B. 1 million
B. Executive Order No. 26 C. 110, 000
C. Executive Order No. 23 D. 50, 000
D. none of above
361. Which of these is NOT a way that trees
355. How can you determine tree height? help ecosystems?
A. Guessing A. Keeping soils cool
B. Tape measure B. Preventing erosion
C. Clinometer C. Preventing flooding
D. Eagle D. Decreasing available habitat

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362. A large area typically planted with a sin- 368. Which of the following has the worst en-
gle rapidly growing tree species. vironmental results?
A. clearcutting

A. Tree plantations
B. multiple-use lands B. shelterwood cutting
C. Rangelands C. group selection
D. Forests D. single tree selection
363. A leaf that is made up of 2 or more 369. Which of the following is a negative to
leaflets on the same petiole. clear cutting?
A. Compound Leaf A. very efficient
B. Terminal Leaflet B. allows for sun loving trees to regrow
C. Stem C. causes less water to be taken up by
trees
D. Compound Branch
D. easy to do
364. Which tree has been found to be a habitat
for bats, as they hide under the bark? 370. Evergreen tree that has needles like
leaves and produce cones
A. Shagbark Hickory
A. cambium
B. Sycamore
B. conifer
C. White Pine
C. pine tree
D. Cottonwood
D. silvicilture
365. One of the biggest benefit of tree roots
371. a common mechanical thinning would be
is
to remove every row
A. providing food for wildlife
A. third row
B. preventing soil erosion B. fifth row
C. compacting soil C. all of the above
D. none of above D. every other row
366. Which type of harvesting removes only 372. Which part builds the cells?
dead and less desirable trees?
A. cambium
B. heartwood
C. sapwood
C. Seed Tree Cutting
D. crown
D. Clear Cutting
373. Pulpwood creates items such as paper
367. A forest that has never been logged is and countless everyday items that are
called an made from what?
A. old growth forest A. pathogens
B. new growth forest B. cellulose
C. never been touched forest C. fungi
D. really old forest D. fibers

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374. The scientific management of forests. 380. which of the following products does not
A. Forestry come trees?
B. Silviculture A. paint
C. Reforestation B. plastic bags
D. Deforestation C. toothpaste
375. Which Forest region has stunted trees D. cosmetics
due to thin soils and permafrost?
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A. Taiga 381. How many acres of forest land are in
B. Boreal North Carolina?
C. Montane A. 17.3 million

D. West Coast B. 18.6 million
376. Who is the least responsible for defor- C. 15.5 million
estation?
D. 20.4 million
A. Farming
B. Commercial Agriculture 382. Which of the following organisms is a
dominant species in a climax community?
C. Logging
D. Full Wood Removal A. rabbit
377. Which method of harvesting trees is B. cedar trees

safest C. oak trees
A. Clear cutting
D. moss
B. Seed-Tree
C. Shelterwood 383. Passive remote sensing technologies in-
clude
D. Selection System
A. radar and airborne light detection
378. If you wish to enter the field of soil and
forest conservation, what kind of educa- B. aerial photography and satellite im-
tional goal should you attain? agery
A. High school diploma C. ranging (lidar)
B. 2 year associate degree D. aerial photography and airborne light
C. 4 year college degree detection
D. Doctorate degree
384. Removal of all marketable trees from an
379. Cutting down every tree in a large area area.
is an example of
B. Controlled Burn
C. Clear Cutting C. Thinning
D. none of above D. Clear Cutting

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385. Trees that do not lose their leaves every 391. Which factors are considered in a Sustain-
year. able Forest Management Plan?
A. Types of tree and other plant species

A. Timberland
B. Forest Land B. Wildlife and niche habitat elements
C. Deciduous Trees C. Natural disturbance patterns
D. Evergreen Trees D. All of the above
386. soil, fresh water, wild animals, and tim- 392. Type of forest management in which all
ber are examples of trees are cut at the same time.
A. renerable resources A. selective cutting
B. inexhaustible resources B. shelter wood cutting
C. nonrenewable resources C. Seed cutting
D. forest resources D. clear cutting
387. Where else are lots of trees being 393. The two types of Branching are
planted? A. Deciduous and Evergreen Trees.
A. Costa Rica B. Spreading and Spirelike Branching
B. Mexico C. Gymnosperm and Angiosperm
C. None of the Above D. none of above
D. All of the Above 394. Which of the following tools is NOT al-
lowed during the contest?
388. What percent of the United States is
rangeland? A. Clinometer
A. 75 B. Scaling stick
B. 57 C. Range finder
C. 80 D. Calculator
D. 36 395. A U.S. classification used to-designate
lands that may be used for recreation,
389. Selective cutting differs from clear cut- grazing, timber harvesting, and mineral
ting in that selective cutting: extraction.
A. Increases surface runoff and erosion A. Tree plantations
B. Only removes a few trees B. multiple-use lands
C. Takes out all the trees C. Rangelands
D. Reduces the risk of forest fires D. Forests
390. Bark means 396. Govern climate and rainfall, water (e.g.)
A. trees that maintain their taproot sys- flooding) waste and the spread of disease.
tem. A. Regulating services
B. the rough outer covering of a tree. B. Provisioning services
C. several basic layers. C. Cultural services
D. none of above D. Supporting services

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397. What does soil consist of? C. topography

A. Air and water D. soil profile
B. Organic matter 403. The removal of snags (which include
C. Minerals small trees, debris, leaves) following a
D. All of the choices natural disturbance is called
A. clear cutting
398. Which of these BEST describes a similar-
B. open cutting
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ity between clear cutting and deforesta-
tion? C. salvage logging
A. Plant loss D. chain saw cutting
B. Agricutural use
404. openings in the leaf that release water
C. Destruction of a whole area vapor to cool the leaf
D. The endangerment of biodiversity A. stamata
399. Cutting down full strips of forests, but B. galls
leaving fully developed forest in between C. margins
is an example of
D. coppices
A. Selective cutting
405. The UN Strategic Plan for Forests sets
B. Shelterwood cutting
out a framework for action to safeguard
C. Clear cutting the world’s forest. In this frame, the Plan
D. none of above features how many Global Forest Goals?
A. 17
400. trees that rise above others and get full
sun light on their crowns are called B. 6
A. dominant C. 5
B. co dominant D. none of above
C. suppresed 406. Which of the following is NOT an ecosys-
D. intermediate tem service provided by forests?
A. Provide habitat
401. Which of the following in not a reason for
deforestation? B. Aid in nutrient cycling
A. Fuel C. Sequester Carbon
B. Farm land D. Recreational opportunities
C. Settlements/ housing 407. Which product does NOT come from Red
D. room for solar pannels Oak?
402. Which factor does NOT determine the A. Ties

type of forest that grows in an area B. Flooring
A. temperature C. Veneer
B. rainfall D. Cooperage

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408. Properly applied windbreaks can benefit B. management plan

which of the following agricultural prac-
C. harvesting scheme
tice?

D. firebreak
A. Crop rotation
B. Confined animal feeding operations 414. Eastern Redbud and locust trees are both
C. Livestock and dairy cattle husbandry part of the family
D. All of these are correct A. Evergreen

B. Legume
409. Who was the first forester appointed to
be the DENR Secretary? C. Oak
A. Heherson Alvares D. none of above
B. Fulgencio Factoran, Jr.
415. By far the largest part of Canada’s
C. Ramon Jesus Paje forests (about 63%) is made up of
D. none of above A. Deciduous trees
410. What is probably the biggest problem fac- B. Coniferous trees
ing U.S. National Parks today?
C. Mixed woods
A. regulations
D. Maple trees
B. soil erosion
C. environmentalists 416. The fire triangle includes oxygen, heat
and
D. popularity
A. fuel
411. The cell layer that produces new bark
B. gas
(phloem) and new wood (xylem) every
year. C. diesel
A. Inner Bark D. a match
B. Sapwood
417. The ability to maintain something at a cer-
C. Cambium Layer tain rate or level is called
D. Outer Bark A. Biodiversity
412. Which is a major tree of the Pacific Coast B. Conservation
forest region of North America and one of
C. Sustainability
the most commercially grown trees?
D. Recreation
A. White oak
B. Loblolly pine 418. This type of soil is sticky when wet and
C. Red maple hard when dry.
D. Douglas fir A. clay

B. silt
413. The first step in Silviculture is to develop
a(n) ? C. sand
A. timber cruise D. gravel

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419. Who owns many of the tree plantations 425. What is the hardest wood in the Philip-
on which most logging in the United States pines?
takes place? A. Narra
A. The government B. Kamagong
B. Private individuals C. Mangkono
C. The logging companies D. none of above
D. No one 426. Which of the following type of timber har-
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420. Known as the Reorganization Act of the vesting would be the more sustainable?
DENR A. Selective Cutting
A. Executive Order 192 B. Clear Cutting
B. Presidential Decree 1153 C. Seed Tree Cutting
C. Executive Order 263 D. Shelterwood Cutting
D. Letter Of Instruction 423 427. Requiring local governments to establish
and maintain seedling nurseries.
421. A community of living organisms interact-
A. Memo. Circular 985
ing with each other and with their physical
environment. B. Executive Order 263
A. Ecosystem C. Letter of Instruction 423
B. Community D. Presidential Decree 1153
C. Ancestral Domain 428. Remove trees adjacent to the crop tree
D. Ecology so the crop tree’s crown is free to grow
on sides?
422. A rounded projection of a leaf: A. 4
A. lobes B. 3
B. needle C. 2
C. compound leaf D. 1
D. simple leaf 429. Which one of the following species has
423. A clinometer measures: alternate leaf arrangement?
A. Northern Red Oak
A. Soil moisture
B. Ohio Buckeye
B. Tree volume
C. White Ash
C. Tree diameter
D. Sugar Maple
D. Tree height
430. Which of the following could you use to
424. Ash is used in the construction of: determine the slope of a hill?
A. Baseball Bats A. Clinometer
B. Plywood B. Increment borer
C. Veneer C. Diameter calipers
D. Log Homes D. Compass

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431. The conversion of forest to another land 437. Forestry involves understanding types of
use or the long-term reduction of the tree trees, as well as which of the following?
canopy cover below the minimum 10%

A. the animals that might live in trees
threshold.
B. how animals grow over time
A. Deforestation
C. the management of forests
B. Degradation
D. none of above
C. Forest Degradation
D. Reforestation 438. This type of soil is best for plant growth.
A. rock
432. What harvesting method most closely
mimics forest fires B. sand
A. Selective Cut C. loam
B. Shelterwood Cut D. clay
C. Clear Cut 439. Which of the following is NOT environ-

D. All of the Above mental impacts of mining?
A. Destroys natural communities over
433. Deforestation is particularly harmful in large areas.
arid regions because it can lead to
B. Acid drainage pollutes groundwater.
A. desertification.
C. Creates minimal dust.
B. a massive loss of biodiversity.
D. Causes erosion
C. loss of jobs.
D. a decrease in greenhouse gases. 440. How big is a hectare?
A. 1000m x 1000m
434. How many cubic inches in a board foot?
B. 10m x 10m
A. 12
C. 1m x 1m
B. 96
D. 100m x 100m
C. 144
D. 216 441. What is the National Strategy for Sus-
tainable Forest Management?
435. How many feet are in 1 mile? A. Community-based Forest Manage-
A. 2222 ment
B. 5280 B. National Greening Program
C. 1235 C. Sustainable Forest Management Plan
D. 5521 D. none of above
436. Which type of mining is usually most di- 442. The habitat composed of short trees lead-
rectly harmful to miners? ing to a mature forest is
A. Mountaintop Removal A. early succession
B. Open-pit Mining B. shrub habitat
C. Strip Mining C. young forest
D. Subsurface Mining D. mature forest

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443. What is a positive of forest fires? B. Eating too much vegetables

A. More erosion of soil C. Going to a forest and pulling weeds
B. keeps the animal population lower D. Clearing the five trees in my backyard
C. puts more carbon dioxide in the air 448. Which of the following is not a native
D. recycles nutrients back into the soil tree in the Philippines?
A. Narra
444. The proper distance one should hold a
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hypsometer from his or her eye is B. Acacia/Rain Tree
inches? C. Molave
A. 15 D. none of above
B. 20
449. Which method of harvesting trees is the
C. 25 best for the environment
D. 30 A. Clear cutting
445. Snags are B. Seed-Tree
A. screwed up fishing lines C. Shelterwood
B. dead or dying trees in a forest D. Selection System
C. something that happens when your 450. What percentage of paper making mate-
clothes get stuck on something rials comes from whole trees?
D. a type of animal that lives with frogs A. 33%
446. How can you tell if a track is from a mam- B. 73%
mal that is related to a cat? C. 13%
A. It has claw marks D. 100%
B. It has no claw marks
451. What species is a hardwood used for
C. It has webbing structural timbers, flooring and furniture?
D. none of above A. Frasier fir
447. What is deforestation? B. Loblolly pine
A. Clearing Earth’s forests on a massive C. Longleaf pine

scale D. White Oak
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1. Which SAE Record heading would be used D. Type of enterprise
by Hannah if she has an entrepreneurship
2. The tree with a fan-shaped leaf that Joan
type Supervised Agricultural Experience?
noticed in front of the bank is most likely
A. Hypothesis a:
B. Review of literature A. ginkgo
C. Training agreement B. Chinese dogwood.

C. southern red oak. 9. What does a “3 point contact” mean when

D. zelkova climbing on the ladder?

A. using two hands and a foot
3. Where can a horticulturist work?
A. Greenhouse or nursery production and B. using two feet and a hand
management C. using two hands and a foot or two feet
B. Food Sevice and a hand
C. Business Management D. Using two feet and an elbow
D. Building & Construction
10. What type of Supervised Agricultural Ex-
4. When is it best to Harvest Peaches? perience would involve researching the ef-
A. May-September fect of various planting times on the yields
of radishes?
B. July Only
C. May only A. analytical
D. August-March B. placement
5. WHat tacky material is used to wrap wire C. experimental

A. floral foam D. school based enterprise
B. floral tape
11. Which of the following is provided by land-
C. flroal picks scape horticulture?
D. floral wire A. Tax benefits
6. Which deciduous tree produces white B. Aesthetics
bracts after the leaves appear?
C. Medicine
A. Ginkgo
D. Fruits
B. Chinese dogwood
C. Southern red oak 12. What is the genus name for all dog-
D. Zelkova woods?
7. The plant process by which all food is man- A. Quercus

ufactured is: B. Acer
A. absorption
C. Cornus
B. photosynthesis
D. Ilex
C. respiration
D. translocation 13. The perennial flowering vine Amy planted
in her garden is most likely a:
8. Conditioning the soil includes:
A. Japanese pachysandra.
A. adding fertilizer and lime
B. grading the slope B. clematis.
C. selecting quality grass seeds C. Gerber daisy.

D. sowing grass seeds D. coneflower.

14. Marigolds and other warm-season plants 20. Nutrients that a plant needs in large
grow BEST during: amounts
A. early spring A. Micro Nutrients
B. late fall B. Fertilizer
C. midsummer C. Soil
D. midwinter D. Macro Nutrients
21. What are you allowed to cut with
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15. This type of SAE involves planning and con-
pruners?
ducting an agricultural experiment using
the scientific process or scientific method. A. Branches or leaves on a plant
A. Entrepreneurship B. Clothing
C. Fingers
B. Improvement
D. Hair
C. Exploratory
D. Experimental 22. Container-grown plants need to have their
roots untangled or cut before they are:
16. Botany is the study of A. decayed
A. Plants B. planted
B. Animals C. pruned
C. Insects D. dried
D. Bottles 23. have no separate subcellular units. Ex-
amples include bacteria and blue-green al-
17. form flowers used in floral designs have: gae.
A. florets on tall spikes A. organelle
B. flowers on end of stems B. eukaryotic
C. small sprays of flowers C. cytoplasm
D. unique shapes or colors D. prokaryotic
18. Nursery production involves: 24. Pores in the leaf’s surface are
A. Maintaining golf courses A. stomata
B. Growing fruit B. stomates
C. Growing plants for a sale C. stigmas

D. Both a and b
D. Seeding turf
25. Which cool-season grass grows from rhi-
19. All of the following are environmental val- zomes and has fine-textured, medium-to
ues of horticulture except: dark-green leaves?
A. Cleans air A. Bermuda
B. Provides jobs B. Centipede
C. Prevents erosion C. Kentucky bluegrass
D. Provides shade D. St. Augustine

26. Callie is propagating her African violet by 31. Who wrote the FFA Creed?
taking leaf cuttings. She is confident that A. E.M. Tiffany
leaf cuttings will work because she is us-

ing: B. Henry Groseclose
A. axillary buds C. John Deere
B. herbaceous plants D. George Washington
C. stem tissue 32. Which flowers does a floral designer use

to establis the width and height of an ar-
D. woody plants
rangement?
27. Which stepladder type should be avoided A. Bird of paradise
when working near electrical power
B. carnations
sources? -
C. Chrysanthemums
A. Wood
D. Snapdragons
B. Aluminum
C. Fiberglass 33. The primary function of fruit is to:
D. All types A. Absorb water and nutrients from soil

B. Carry, nourish and protect seeds
28. The scientific study of plants, including
C. Connect roots to leaves
their physiology, structure, genetics, ecol-
ogy, distribution, classification, and eco- D. Manufacture food for the plant
nomic importance.
34. The part of biology that deals with plants
A. Botany
A. annual
B. Agronomy
B. forestry
C. Forestry
C. biennial
D. Horticulture
D. botany
29. Which officer position is stationed by the 35. Floriculture is the study of:
flag?
A. bedding and garden plants
A. President
B. foliage plants
B. Vice-President
C. potted flowering plants
C. Reporter
D. all of the above
D. Treasurer
36. What must happen for a plant to grow
30. Which warm-season grass grows from seeds?
stolons and has medium-textured light
A. nectar must move from one flower to
green leaves?
another
A. Centipede
B. an animal must eat the flower
B. Kentucky bluegrass
C. pollen must move from flower to
C. Perennial ryegrass flower
D. Zoysia D. none of above

37. If the scientific name is Ficus benjamina, 43. What is one thing soil is not made up of?
what plant is it? A. Organic material
A. peace lily B. Living decomposers
B. weeping fig C. Air
C. english ivy D. Nurtients
D. impatiens
44. Field-grown, container, and pot-in-pot
38. Placing the desires and welfare of oth- plants should be watered in the morning
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ers above oneself is a leadership quality for:
called: A. maximum absorption.
A. enthusiasm B. minimum absorption.
B. parliamentary procedure C. more water pressure.
C. tact D. less water pressure.
D. unselfishness
45. The leaves on a gladiolus plant are:
39. What is a term for planting, harvesting, A. shaped like palm trees.
processing and marketing fruits and nuts
B. shaped like swords.
A. Pomology
C. variegated green and yellow.
B. Floriculture
D. velvety textured and quilted.
C. Olericulture
D. Apple 46. The proper time of the year to plant warm-
season lawn grasses is:
40. What type flower has ONLY male or ONLY A. fall
female flower parts?
B. spring
A. Asexual
C. summer
B. Complete
D. winter
C. Incomplete
D. Pretty 47. This type of SAE deals with planning, im-
plementing, operating and assuming finan-
41. Why is soil important to plants? cial risks in an agricultural business or
A. Plants extract water from the soil farming activity.
B. Plants extract nutrients from the soil A. Placement
C. Plants anchor themselves in the soil B. Entrepreneurship
D. All of the above C. Improvement
D. Supplementary
42. Which is an example of a physical haz-
ard? 48. Celery is an example of that plant what?
A. Spilled disinfectant A. roots
B. Bodily fluids B. Stem
C. Animal bite C. Flower
D. Chemical fumes D. none of above

49. The main expense for using plugging to es- 54. What type of immersion SAE is Mark com-
tablish a lawn is: pleting by building and maintaining the
compost units at the school?

A. Fertilizer
A. school-based enterprise
B. labor
B. entrepreneurship
C. pesticides
C. invention
D. seeds D. research
50. A group of cells of similar structure that 55. What is the genus name for all hollies?
performs a specific function is referred to A. Quercus
as
B. Acer
A. Proteins C. Cornus
B. Vacuoles D. Ilex
C. Tissues 56. a garden center employee usually works
D. Lipids in a environment
A. unpleasant
51. A shallow circular transparent dish with
B. unclean
flat lid, that has wet paper and solution
containing the seeds that should be grown. C. clean
A. Rag-doll method D. volatile
B. Seed box method 57. The study of plants and plant processes
C. Petri dish method A. Entomology

B. Pomology
D. Floating in water method
C. Zeriscaping
52. what should you do to prepare for a job D. Botany
interview
58. Trevor sees a tropical plant at the mall that
A. all of them has thin red bands along the margin. What
B. anticipate questions the interviewer plant does he see?
will ask you A. Jade plant
C. write down several things you do well B. Aglaonema
D. find out about the interviewing com- C. False aralia
pany D. Red-edged dracaena
53. What does every paragraph of the FFA 59. The government agency that is responsi-
Creed begin with? ble for enforcing safety regulations in the
workplace is
A. I believe
A. CDC
B. I imagine B. FAA
C. I farm C. DOT
D. I am D. OSHA

60. The edge of a leaf is the: C. Produce food

A. Margin D. Food for the bees
B. Midrib
66. Which of the following sectors of the econ-
C. Terminal bud omy are NOT affected by horticulture?
D. Veins A. mining
61. When Eric develops the watering part of B. plant production
his maintenance schedule for his new land-
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C. sales and marketing
scape, he should water often enough to:
D. research
A. have water runoff
B. keep roots dry 67. A method where tube of wet paper con-
taining the seeds that should be grown.
C. keep water standing
A. Rag-doll method
D. prevent wilting
B. seed box method
62. What is the best running-type grass for
C. Petri dish method
Malik to plant in a shady area of his
lawn? D. floating in water method
A. Tall fescue 68. An example of an Entrepreneurship SAE is
B. Bent grass
C. Creeping red fescue A. Cutting grass
D. Bahia grass B. Observing a greenhouse manager
63. The science and practice of growing, har- C. Planting a garden
vesting, storing, designing, and marketing D. Starting your own produce company
flowering plant is:
69. When placing a ladder against a platform
A. floriculture
or roof, the top of the ladder should ex-
B. pomology tend above the point where the ladder
C. olericulture touches the platform or roof by at least
D. horticulture
A. 2 ft
64. Which procedure should Thomas use to re-
move dead or diseased branches from his B. 3 ft
nursery plants? C. 4 ft
A. Fertilize D. 5 ft
B. Landscape
70. Which division of horticulture focuses on
C. Prune grasses, annuals, shrubs, and trees.
D. Transplant A. pomology
65. What is the main purpose of flowers? B. landscape and nursery
A. Make people happy C. floriculture
B. Produce Seeds D. olericulture

71. If Jordan thinks it is time to close the meet- 77. Which of the following is NOT provided by
ing, she moves to: lawns?
A. Aesthetics

A. adjourn
B. amend B. Windbreak
C. refer to a committee C. Environmental value
D. suspend the rules D. Resource protection
72. National blue and Corn gold are the: 78. How many points of contact should you
have when using a ladder
A. FFA Emblem
A. 4 points of contact
B. FFA Colors
B. 3 points of contact
C. FFA Motto
C. 2 points of contact
D. FFA Slogan D. 1 points of contact
73. Soil should be mounded to form a circle 79. Jack helps set up the community gardens
around newly planted shrubs and trees to: beds as a part of his SAE. What type of
A. catch and hold water SAE does he have?
B. mulch and prevent weeds A. Placement
C. provide support for plants B. Research
D. spread roots of plants C. School-Based
D. Service Learning
74. Which type of garden saves the MOST
space for the most plants? 80. *The production and use of plants to beau-
A. Vertical tify the environment.
A. nursery/ landscape
B. Flat Bed
B. floriculture
C. Container
C. pomology
D. Raised bed
D. none of above
75. The major energy input for the earth comes
from the 81. if you become a greenhouse employee,
what is one of your job responsibilities
A. Moon
A. aerate the soil
B. Equator
B. produce out-of season plants
C. Sun C. work with customers
D. Clouds D. maintain the grass
76. Low moisture-holding capacity is a charac- 82. What term describes money or services
teristics of that a person owes?
A. clay A. Assets
B. silt B. Inventory
C. sand C. Liabilities
D. none D. Net worth

83. Which of the following is NOT an environ- 89. The “balance” landscape design principle
mental factor impacted by plants? is demonstrated by:
A. animal life A. Installing equal plants on each side of
B. tides a door.
C. run-off B. Installing foundation plantings and pri-
D. erosion vacy fences
C. Installing plants to block a view.
84. The cultivation of trees and shrubs.
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A. Arboriculture D. none of above
B. Agriculture
90. Which plants are grown for their foliage?
C. Horticulture
A. Croton and parlor palm
D. Floriculture
B. Gloxinia and amaryllis
85. is the seed’s capability of growing and
developing. C. Snapdragon and gladiolus
A. seed viability D. Zinnia and peony

B. seed stability
91. Michele is computerizing the production
C. seed probability records for a local nursery operation. This
D. germination rates is an example of what type of Supervised
Agricultural Experience?
86. Which branch of horticulture produces
fruits and nuts? A. analytical
A. Olericulture B. entrepreneurship
B. Pomology C. improvement
C. Fruitology D. placement
D. Agronomy
92. Plant production provides for how many
87. Computerizing production records for a lo- American jobs?
cal nursery operation is which type of
SAE? A. More than 5.5 million
A. analytical B. More than 7 million
B. entrepreneurship C. More than 1.3 million
C. improvement D. More than 1.9 million
D. placement
93. Which flowers have long stalks or spikes
88. Medicinal horticulture is NOT used for with florets?
which of the following?
A. Amaryllis and zinnia
A. Veterinary practices
B. Therapeutic practice B. Ginkgo and croton
C. Acupuncture C. Peony and fuchsia

D. Preventative medicine D. Snapdragon and gladiolus

94. The inner part of an ovary that contains an C. Vermiculite

egg is the: D. Volcanic Rock

A. ovule
100. The part of a flower that develops into a
B. seed fruit is the:
C. stamen A. Anther
D. none of above B. Filament
95. What area of horticulture is concerned C. Ovary
with growing, selling, designing, and ar- D. Petal
ranging flowers
101. The flower that has a large lily-type
A. Nursery production flower on a 1’ to 2’ stem is:
B. Landscaping A. amaryllis
C. Turfgrass management B. evergreen candytuft.
D. Floriculture C. gladiolus.
96. , the economic system of the United States, D. snapdragon.
allows people to do business with a mini- 102. Propagating nursery plants using a scion
mum of government interference and rootstock is known as:
A. Sole proprietorship A. cutting
B. Incorporation B. grafting
C. Capitalism C. layering
D. Free enterprise D. budding
97. Which of the following was listed as a ca- 103. Which pH reading is acid?
reer in the field of research? A. 3.5
A. Irrigation analyst B. 7
B. Landscape service C. 8
C. Quality control inspector D. 9.5
D. Food processing
104. #22 gauge wire is used for wiring:
98. A shrub that has scale-like or awl-like nee- A. boutonnieres
dles is most likely a: B. corsages
A. Chinese fringe. C. bows
B. gold mop. D. heavy flower
C. Nellie R. Stevens.
105. Grown on approximately 1% of the
D. helleri available US Cropland
99. Pedro likes to add compost to condition his A. Fruit
soil. What is compost? B. Vegetables
A. Clayey Soil C. Trees
B. Decayed organic matter D. Shrubs

106. What is the texture of soils that have C. create focal point
about equal parts of sand, clay, and silt? D. establish outline
A. clayey
112. A warm-season grass that has coarse
B. loamy textured medium-to-dark green leaves
C. sandy and grows from stolons is:
D. silty A. Annual Ryegrass
107. What is interveinal chlorosis? B. Fine Fescue
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A. Yellowing of leaves between green C. Kentucky Bluegrass
veins D. St. Augustinegrass
B. Darkening of leaves between green
113. A person who must be skilled in checking
veins
horticultural products for diseases, insects,
C. Small developing leaves and quality is a/an:
D. Removal of veins in a leaf A. accountant
108. A(n) is a special ruler used to create B. inspector
perfectly scale drawings. C. sales representative
A. anthropologist’s scale D. teacher
B. architect’s ruler
114. In this method, seeds are put in a con-
C. architect’s scale tainer of water for 15 minutes.
D. special ruler A. Rag-doll method
109. Pesticide used to kill undesirable plants, B. Seedbox method
which are commonly referred to as weed C. Petri dish method
is known as
A. Fungicide
115. What type of work does Thomas do as a
B. Herbicide
landscape nursery worker?
C. Insecticide
A. Design landscape plans
D. None of the Above
B. Install the plants
110. Which type of employee cares for the C. Keep financial records
land area and plants surrounding a busi-
ness, industry, church or school? D. Plan and design the outdoor environ-
ment
A. Garden Center
B. Golf Course 116. Jones Landscape Company needs to in-
stall materials at a job site. Which draw-
C. Grounds Maintenance ing will employees likely use on the job?
D. Nursery A. functional
111. form flowers are used in floral design to: B. preliminary
A. add mass C. final
B. cover frame D. none of above

117. How big should the gap between garden C. Aseptic

rows and boxes?
D. Septic

A. 4 ft
B. 3 inches 123. Where is the FFA National Convention
held?
C. 10 ft
A. Indiana
D. 2 ft
B. Kentucky
118. Plants produce which of the following?
C. North Carolina
A. neon
B. sulfur D. Missouri
C. carbon dioxide 124. Soil for container plant production should

D. oxygen be:
119. What is a greenhouse? A. porous

A. A house made of glass and the glass B. clayey
traps heat from sunlight. C. nonporous
B. A house that stays warm inside.
D. sandy
C. A house that people grow plants, fruits,
and vegetables in. 125. What is the genus name for all oaks?
D. All of the above A. Quercus
120. Multiple Choice from Item BankWhich is B. Acer
the best growing media if an inorganic me-
C. Cornus
dia is desired?
A. Leaf mold D. Ilex
B. Perlite 126. Which plant has a serrated or toothed

C. Sawdust leaves, and blooms in the fall season?
D. Wood shavings A. Christmas cactus
121. Which of the following is not an economic B. Peperomia
value of horticulture? C. Thanksgiving cactus
A. Increases values of homes through
D. Wax plant
landscaping
B. Cleans air 127. About 74% of all U.S. households par-
C. Provides jobs ticipated in lawn and garden activities in
2016.
D. Produces food
A. Yes
122. reactions form oxides of parent ma-
terial by reaction with oxygen. B. No
A. Hydrolysis C. Maybe
B. Oxidation D. none of above

128. What is not a type of soil? B. create outline

A. Sand C. establish width
B. Dirt D. fill empty spaces
C. Loam 134. If in a landscape drawing 1” equals 3
D. Clay feet, how many feet would a line that is
4.0” long represent?
129. stargazer and calla lillies are used in ar-
A. 7
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rangements as:
A. line flowers B. 6
C. 12
B. mass flowers
D. 15
C. form flowers
D. filler flowers 135. The planting, harvesting, storing, pro-
cessing, and marketing of vegetable crops
130. The area of horticulture that includes
A. Horticulture
growing and harvesting flowers and mak-
ing and selling flower arrangements is: B. Olericulture
A. agronomy C. Floriculture
B. floriculture D. Pomology
C. forestry 136. What type of immersion SAE woudl have
D. pomology an entry recorded as engaging local stake-
holders?
131. Neil is sexually propagating some plants.
A. Placement
Which plant parts will he use?
B. Experimental
A. leaves
C. Service Learning
B. roots
D. Entreprenuership
C. seeds
D. stems 137. Installing a corner planting to draw the
eyes of the viewer to that place demon-
132. The low temperature for the day in Al- strates this design principle:
berta is-7 degrees. Later the same day A. balance
the temperature reaches a high of 21 de-
grees. How many degrees did the temper- B. focalization
ature change during the day? C. rhythm and line
A. 32 D. unity
B. 28 138. An immersion SAE that requires records
C. 21 of items bought & sold is:
D. 14 A. research
133. Foliages such as sprengeri ferns are used B. ownership/entrepreneurship

in floral design to: C. service based learning
A. add mass D. placement/internship

139. Because azaleas produce flowers on B. 4 inches

wood grown the previous growing season, C. 12 inches
the shrubs shoud be pruned in the late:

D. 24 inches
A. Fall
B. spring 145. In the mountains, Naomi saw an ever-
green tree with flat needles 1/2 inch long
C. summer
with 2 white bands on the underside of the
D. winter needle. What tree did she see?
140. What is a good choice for pencil hardness A. Canadian hemlock
when drawing landscape designs? B. Chinese dogwood
A. HB-2H C. Ginkgo
B. 2B-B D. Zelkova
C. 2B-HB
146. Plant roots take water from the soil
D. HB-B through the process of:
141. Find the area of petunia garden that mea- A. absorption
sures 5.75 ft by 3.0 ft. B. photosynthesis
A. 8.75 ft C. reproduction
B. 17.5 ft D. respiration
C. 17.25 ft
147. roots grow in a circular motion and
D. 34.5 ft strangle the stem/trunk.
142. Zoey prefers to use a soilless horticul- A. dancing
tural mix for her greenhouse because the B. lassowing
mix:
C. grinning
A. Comes from the garden
D. girdling
B. Has a lot of weight
C. Cheap 148. MOST cool-season grasses grow very lit-
tle during the hottest months of summer.
D. Sterile
What is this conditioncalled?
143. a balled and burlapped plant should be A. dead
picked up and carried by the:
B. dormant
A. Buds
C. turgid
B. Dead flowers
D. wilted
C. Limbs
149. Which pH reading is alkaline?
D. Root ball
A. 1
144. Jenny needs to construct some beds to
use for rooting azalea cuttings. How deep B. 3
should the rooting media be? C. 6
A. 1 inch D. 9

150. Dwarf Yaupon, Helleri Holly and Dwarf C. floriculture

Burford Holly are all in the genus called: D. olericulture
A. Ilex
156. Which of the following is not one of the
B. Maple four distinct processes of chemical weath-
C. Pinus ering?
D. Querkus A. exfoliation
B. hydrolysis
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151. Which of the following special purpose
footwear should you wear to avoid a C. hydration
buildup of static electricity? D. dissolution
A. Metatarsal guards
157. Fruits, nuts and vegetable production are
B. Safety toe shoes classified as which of the following bene-
C. Electrically conductive shoes fits of the horticulture industry?
D. Foundry shoes A. Aesthetic value
B. Recreational value
152. It is the process of seeds developing into
new plants. C. Food production
A. Germination D. Therapeutic value
B. Plants 158. The general rule for root pruning is 10”

of circle diameter for each 1” of plant stem
C. Plants shoot
diameter. What diameter circle should be
D. Seeds made for a plant that has a 3” diameter
stem?
153. Which SAE record heading would be used
by Hannah is she has an entrepreneurship A. 3”
type SAE? B. 5”
A. hypothesis C. 10”
B. review of literature D. 30”
C. training agreement 159. Serving as FFA Treasurer can help Juan
D. type of enterprise gain experience that he might later use in
an horticulture organization to:
154. Annual plants complete their life cycle in:
A. cook steaks
A. 2 years
B. keep financial records
B. 1 year
C. write minutes of meetings
C. 1 month
D. write news reports
D. ten years
160. What type of SAE would involve re-
155. Which division of horticulture focuses on searching the effect of various planting
flowering plants? times on the yields of radishes?
A. pomology A. Analytical
B. landscape and nursery B. Placement

C. Experimental C. placement
D. School-based Enterprise D. school-based enterprise

161. What type of immersion Supervised Agri- 166. Trees that keep their functional leaves
cultural Experience would have an entry throughout the year are:
recorded as engaging local stakeholders?
A. auxins
A. placement
B. deciduous
B. experimental
C. service learning C. evergreen
D. entrepreneurship D. inhibitors
162. Andrew selects a unique azalea plant. 167. Finish the Statement:If there is a rule,
The propagation method that he uses to there is a
rapidly increase the number of identical
A. answer
plants is:
B. reason
A. grafting
B. leaf cuttings C. problem
C. seeding D. issue
D. tissue culture 168. Which shrub has a red-to-pink feathery
flower 1” in length?
163. when plants rest and grow very little
A. floriculture A. chinese fringe
B. deciduous B. Nellie R. Stevens

C. agronomy C. gold mop
D. dormant D. japanese andromeda
164. A speech about Hereford cattle given at 169. Fertilizers that dissolve in water and are
the annual meeting of purebred Angus cat- applied as a liquid solution are
tle breeders would be inappropriate be-
cause of the: A. Inorganic
A. audience B. Organic
B. length of speech C. Soluble
C. location D. Insoluble
D. speaker
170. Which is a characteristic of sandy tex-
165. An immersion SAE that involves the stu- tured soils?
dent working for an industry and gaining A. High moisture-holding capacity
knowledge through experience is which
SAE? B. High nutrient-holding capacity
A. research C. Low moisture-holding capacity
B. ownership D. Small packed together soil particles

171. If no more than one half the total leaf 176. Which of the following is responsible for
surface should be removed, and the rec- the creation of large-scale windbreaks?
comended mowing height is 2 1/2” what A. trees
is the max height the grass should be be-
fore it’s mowed B. grass
C. bushes
A. 2 1/2”
D. flowers
B. 4”
177. A Hogarth curve floral design is shaped
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C. 5”
like a/an:
D. 8”
A. fan
172. Which is the BEST inorganic growing me- B. inverted T
dia?
C. oval
A. Bark
D. s
B. compost
178. What is the career title of a person who
C. Peat moss designs landscapes inside a mall?
D. Vermiculite A. Landscape designer
173. Phosphorus is needed in large amounts B. Interiorscape designer

by the plant to C. Floral designer
A. have dark green leaves D. Landscape technician
B. stimulate flower and seed develop- 179. Which is the first type of landscape plan
ment that uses free form shapes to show plants
C. Prevent dead stem tips and buildings to help the designer with the
layout?
D. Assist in translocation
A. functional
174. The type of pruning a landscape mainte- B. preliminary
nance worker uses to cut old branches back
C. final
to the ground is:
D. none of above
A. heading back.
B. renewal. 180. The open portion of the soil that holds air
or water is
C. root
A. parent material
D. thinning
B. field capacity
175. Water enters and exits the guard cells C. pore spaces
by: D. bedrock
A. osmosis
181. is the reaction between a compound
B. photosynthesis and water to form a more soluble product.
C. diffusion A. chemical reaction
D. active transport B. hydration

C. degredation 187. Cuttings, layering, division, grafting, and

D. hydrolysis tissue culture are all methods of what?

A. Sexual propagation
182. Increasing the appearance, comfort and
value of your home is which type of SAE? B. Asexual propagation
A. analytical C. Trisexual propagation
B. entrepreneurshp D. Vegetables
C. improvement
188. What type of work does Aaron do as he
D. experimental works in landscape maintenance?
183. Installing a corner planting to attract the A. Cares for the landscape
viewer’s attention to that place demon-
B. Designs, installs, and contracts the
strates the design principle of:
landscape
A. balance
C. Designs landscape plans
B. focalization of interest
D. Installs landscape plants
C. rhythm and line
D. unity 189. What is a perennial that produces a
long-lasting colorful flower often used by
184. When flowers look too big for contain- florists?
ers, the design principle the floral designer
failed to follow is: A. Christmas cactus
A. balance B. Wax plant
B. focal point C. Gerber daisy
C. repetition D. Nerve plant
D. Rhythm
190. Which of the following does not make up
185. Which type of root system causes plants soil texture?
to be easier to transplant? A. clay
A. Fibrous
B. organic matter
B. Long
C. sand
C. Sharp
D. silt
D. Tap
191. This type of SAE involves placing stu-
186. Prior to the FFA meeting, Emma makes
dents in jobs outside the regular classroom
a list of things that will be done during
hours. They may be paid or unpaid (volun-
the business meeting. Which is she prepar-
teer) work.
ing?
A. Agenda A. Exploratory
B. Committee report B. Placement

C. Minutes C. Entrepreneurship
D. Treasurer’s report D. Improvement

192. What type Supervised Agricultural Expe- 197. This refers to the resources that are used
rience is Jose doing if he visits a wholesale in farm production
nursery and shadows employees to learn A. Farm Inputs
about careers?
B. Land Preparation
A. Analytical
C. Plant Care
B. Entrepreneurship
D. Harvesting
C. Exploratory
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198. A ground cover type that grows in an out-
D. Supplementary ward direction but does NOT re-root.
193. Which grass is used on golf greens and A. vining

requires fans to keep the greens cool? B. spreading
A. tall fescue C. trailing
B. bentgrass D. grass/sod
C. St. Augustine 199. Malik wabts to plant a running type of
D. Bahia grass in a shady area in his lawn. What
should he plant?
194. Two examples of Ornamental Horticul- A. Tall Fescue
ture include B. Bentgrass
A. Olericulture and Pomology C. Creeping Red Fescue
B. Floriculture and Landscape Horticul- D. Bahai
ture
200. The scientific name for an azalea is:
C. Pomology and vegetative growing
A. Cornus florida.
D. none of above
B. Ficus benjamina.
195. is a complex organic molecule that C. Rhododendron kiusianum.
traps light energy for conversion through D. Saintpaulia ionantha.
photosynthesis into chemical energy
A. cytoplasm 201. when Gene makes a floral design, the
flowers he uses to add mass are:
B. endoplasmic reticulum
A. Baby’s breath
C. chlorophyll
B. Carnations
D. ribosomes C. Gladious
196. Which division of horticulture focuses on D. orchids
tree grown fruits?
202. What year was FFA established?
A. pomology A. 1928
B. viticulture B. 1929
C. floriculture C. 1930
D. forestry D. 1954

203. What should you do immediately after C. maintenance employee

applying chemicals or fertilizer? D. golf course employee

A. Wash your hands
209. Carl keeps accurate records including
B. Eat Lunch
amounts of items bought and sold for his
C. Water your plants SAE. What type of SAE is Carl working
D. none of above on?
A. analytical
204. The female part of the flower is called
what? B. entrepreneurship
A. Pistil C. improvement
B. Stamen D. placement
C. Petal 210. The term for an undeveloped shoot or
D. none of above flower is:
205. A deciduous tree: A. Stamen
A. Dies each year in the winter B. Bud
B. Drops its functional leaves in the dor- C. Node
mant season D. Margin
C. Keeps its functional leaves in the dor-
mant season 211. Shears should not go into your
D. Remains green all year A. Pocket

B. Bag
206. A plant that completes its life cycle in two
years is a(n): C. House
A. annual D. All of the above
B. biennial 212. When the plant roots or the entire plant
C. perennial may be cut into sections to make two or
more plants from the original, what type
D. none of above
of asexual propagation is that?
207. The type of floral design flowers that A. Separation
have tall spikes with florets along the
stem such as gladiolus are: B. Layering
A. Filler C. Grafting
B. Form D. Division
C. Line 213. Who created the naming system for
D. Mass plants?
A. Gregor Mendel
208. what job in horticulture prepares
seedbeds for the replanting of forests B. Carl Linnaeus
A. nursery employee C. Bill Nye The Science Guy
B. garden center employee D. Albert Einstein

214. When was the Smith Hughes Act 220. A plant that lives more than two years
passed?
A. zoology
A. 1955
B. botany
B. 1930
C. perennial
C. 1917
D. 1928 D. forestry
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215. The part of the plant which grows in the 221. if you were interested in creating and de-
ground. veloping better varieties of plants, what
A. leaf is a good career for you
B. stem A. teacher
C. root B. researcher
D. seed C. marketing specialist
216. Pruning a fruit tree is which SAE? D. stock broker
A. analytical
222. Hydroponics means growing food in
B. experimental
?
C. placement
A. Water
D. supplementary
B. Specially formulated soil
217. Which state ranks first in wholesale sale
of floriculture and olericulture crops? C. Special chemicals
A. California D. none of above

B. Florida
223. “Protection against accidents and break-
C. Texas age” is
D. Illinois A. Accident Protection
218. A part-time job at a florist is which type B. Safety
of SAE?
C. Workplace Correctness
A. anyalytical
B. improvement D. Prevention
C. placement 224. An SAE that identifies a problem that

D. supplementary cannot be solved by experiments, and in-
volves designing a plan to investigate and
219. What should you do first if you get cut or analyze the problem is:
injured?
A. analytical
A. Put a band aid on it
B. Wash your hands B. entrepreneurship
C. Tell the teacher C. experimental

D. None of these D. exploratory

225. Even though the parent material my have C. rasping and sucking
been present for many centuries, soils D. sponging
without well-developed horizons are clas-

sified as 231. The leadership trait that gives the energy
to do a job and the inspiration to encour-
A. Undeveloped Soils
age others is called:
B. Old Soils
A. courage
C. Incomplete Soils B. enthusiasm
D. Young Soils C. honesty
226. Current liabilities are debts that are: D. tact
A. due in the next ten years 232. The floral design shaped like an L is:
B. due in the next seven years A. Diagonal
C. due this year B. Horizontal
D. past due. C. Right angle
D. Triangular
227. The area you entertain guests is consid-
ered the area. 233. What is grafting?
A. public A. Growing plant from seed
B. family living B. Growing one part of a plant on a part
of another plant
C. private living
C. Dividing a plant
D. service
D. Growing from a bulb
228. What should be the shape of the bottom
234. What does the word horticulture mean?
of a hole used to plant a bare-root tree?
A. farm development
A. Dome
B. plant growing
B. Flat
C. garden cultivation
C. Pointed
D. plant science
D. Square
235. Who is responsible for displaying and
229. Three primary nutrients selling bedding plants?
A. Magnesium, Sulfur, Potassium A. Garden center employee
B. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Calcium B. Greenskeeper
C. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium C. Landscape designer
D. Nitrogen, Calcium, Potassium D. Lawn maintenance employer
236. The primary function of a flower is
230. Melanie finds aphids on her plant. She
is most concerned the aphids will damage A. to look nice
her plants by: B. produce sugars
A. chewing C. reproduction
B. piercing and sucking D. store food

237. Who would be responsible for displaying 243. What is the primary reason for pruning
and selling bedding plants? nursery plants?
A. Garden center employee A. Produce desired shape
B. Greenskeeper B. Rejuvenate plant
C. Landscape designer C. Remove dead flowers
D. Lawn maintenance employer D. Thin branches
238. The cultivation of flowers 244. Advantages of Asexual vegetative prop-
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agation
A. Olericulture
A. All off spring are true to type (identical
B. Viticulture
to the parent) and produce.
C. Floriculture
B. True
D. Horticulture
C. Mostly smaller seeds
239. The science and practice of growing, har- D. False
vesting, storing, processing and marketing
vegetables is: 245. Which branch primarily focuses on plant
and soil interaction?
A. floriculture
A. Floriculture
B. pomology
B. Horticulture
C. olericulture
C. Agronomy
D. horticulture
D. Turfgrass Management
240. plant is limp because it doesn’t have
246. Production and cultivation of fruit and nut
enough moisture
crops refers to which of the following?
A. agronomy
A. Floriculture
B. botany B. Olericulture
C. wilted C. Cut flowers
D. evergreen D. Pomology
241. The production, transportation, and use 247. The planting, harvesting, storing, pro-
of flowers and foliage plants. cessing, and marketing of fruit and nut
A. Pomology crops
B. Olericulture A. Pomology
C. Floriculture B. Horticulture
D. Horticulture C. Floriculture
D. Olericulture
242. the growing and using of plants for their
beauty 248. Filler flowers used in floral designs have:
A. pomology A. flowers on the stems ends
B. landscape horticulture B. small sprays of flowers
C. olericulture C. tall spikes with florets
D. ornamental horticulture D. unique colors or shapes

249. Fran stops watering container-grown 255. Who funds the Cooperative Extension
nursery stock when: Service in each state?

A. she gets tired A. The federal government
B. water stands in the pot B. State government
C. water runs over the top of the pot C. Local community organizations/charities
D. water runs through the bottom of the
pot D. The land grant university in each state
250. Horticulture includes the production of
plants for food, comfort and 256. When compared to the amount of oxygen
produced in the process of photosynthesis,
A. Technology the amount of oxygen used in plant respi-
B. Beauty ration is:
C. Style A. about the same
D. none of above B. less
251. The byproduct of photosynthesis is: C. more
A. Carbon Dioxide D. much more
B. Nitrogen
257. Plant production generates how much in
C. Oxygen the United States?
D. Water A. More than $70 billion
252. A place where plants are propagated and B. More than $350 billion
grown to usable size
C. More than $150 billion
A. Conservatorium
D. More than $500 billion
B. Nursery
C. National Park 258. What surrounds the stomates and regu-
D. Apiary lates the open and close of the stomates?
A. Guard Cells
253. Newly planted trees should be stalked
to: B. Epidermis
A. Hold plant straight C. Apex
B. Hold water D. Chlorplasts
C. Prevent soil erosion
259. Indoor Christmas-season plants with
D. provide mulch bracts or modified leaves that are red,
254. What two areas of horticulture make up pink, or white on different plants. What
ornamental horticulture? is the name of these plants?
A. Landscape and Floriculture A. Poinsettia

B. Floriculture and Forestry B. Spider plant
C. Forestry and Viticulture C. Florist chrysanthemum
D. none of above D. Geranium

260. Coffee, Rubber, Tea crops falls under 266. A of pH 7.0 is:
A. Cash Crop A. Acidic
B. Medicinal Crop B. Basic
C. Plantation Crops C. Neutral
D. Spice Crops D. Odd
261. Refers to the work performed by farm 267. The green color of leaves is caused by
workers in exchange for salary. the:
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A. Interest A. Chloroplasts
B. Labor B. Epidermis
C. Gross Income C. Guard cells
D. Net Income D. Margin
262. A plant requiring 6+ hours of sun a day 268. Aaron is working in landscape mainte-
would be condidered to need nance. What does he do?
A. full shade A. Cares for the landscape.
B. partial sun / partial shade B. Designs, installs and contracts the

landscape.
C. full sun
C. Designs landscape plans.
D. none of above
D. Installs landscape plants.
263. This focuses on developing and maintain-
269. Which of the following is responsible for
ing healthy plants, so they become less
recycling raw materials?
susceptible to problems.
A. Air
A. Farm Inputs
B. Plants
B. Land Preparation
C. Soil
C. Plant Care
D. Animal life
D. Harvesting
270. Which type of tree was the partridge sit-
264. Which of the following is NOT a way gar- ting in, according to the popular Christmas
den plants impact the environment? song?
A. Cleaning the air A. Pear
B. Absorbing carbon dioxide B. Apple
C. Releasing fragrance C. Oak
D. Eliminating pests D. Maple
265. What does a biennial plant do in it second 271. The “unity” landscape design principle is
year of life? demonstrated by:
A. it starts growing A. foundation plantings
B. it just dies randomly B. maintaining size relationships
C. it starts flowering C. privacy fences
D. none of the above D. repeating plant species

272. While the pH of most commercial horti- B. planted in the center of the container
culture soilless mixes is neutral, the pH of C. planted near the edge of the container
bark, peat moss, and sphagnum moss is:

D. root pruned
A. acid
B. alkaline 278. * The area of horticulture associated with
producing, transporting and using cut flow-
C. basic ers, potted plants, and annual bedding
D. neutral plants.
273. What is a turgid? A. Floriculture
A. a type of soil to use on plants B. Forestry
B. a type of flower C. Landscape
C. a plants that doesn’t have enough D. Design
moisture
279. What is a bedding plant that has large 6”
D. a plant that is swollen or filled with colorful flowers?
moisture
A. Zinnia
274. What is the volume of a cubic plant con- B. Japanese pachysandra
tainer that sides all equal 5” in length?
C. Madagascar periwinkle
A. 15
D. Kalanchoe
B. 25
280. Caroline is careful to use tissue culture
C. 125
in laboratory conditions that are aseptic.
D. 150 Therefore, the laboratory environment is:
275. The horticulture industry allows produc- A. dirty
ers to market their products: B. humid
A. Only during holidays C. pretty
B. Only during summer months D. sterile
C. Globally
281. The term that comes from a Latin word
D. Only in North Carolina that means “garden cultivation” and in-
cludes fruits, vegetables and ornamental
276. Which one is responsible for maintaining
plants is:
fairway and greens turf as well as sand
traps and irrigation? A. Agronomy
A. florist B. Horticulture
B. garden center employee C. Floriculture
C. golf course employee D. Zoology
D. greenhouse worker 282. Which of the following is NOT true for
277. If Susan is planting one nursery plant per the benefits of plants/landscaping?
container, the plant should be: A. acts as windbreakers
A. cut back to the media B. provides a home for wildlife

C. increases carbon dioxide levels 288. The area with the garbage cans is consid-
D. increases property value ered the area.
283. Angela has a part time job working after A. public

school and on Saturdays at a local florist. B. family living
In what type of SAE is Angela participating
in C. private living
A. analytical D. service
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B. improvement
289. It is the equivalent value of the product
C. placement sold.
D. supplementary
A. Interest
284. Are you allowed to borrow tools to take B. Labor
home?
A. Yes C. Gross Income
B. No D. Net Income
C. Maybe
290. What does a landscape architect do?
D. none of above
A. Cares for plants after they are in-
285. Which medium-evergreen shrub has stalled.
yellowish-green new leaves, and 1/2” to
1” long and 1/2” to 1/4” wide medium- B. Constructs pools, fences and drive-
green mature leaves? ways.
A. Grape Ivy C. Installs landscape plants.

B. Japanese Boxwood D. Plans and designs the outdoor environ-
C. Thorny Elaeagnus ments.
D. Warneckii Dracena
291. Modified leaves that show color
286. The last step in the landscape project de- A. Evergreen
velopment is:
A. bill the customer for the work done B. Annual
B. Determine the need or objective. C. Needles

C. develop a maintenance schedule D. Bracts
D. Select maintenance contractor.
292. What kind of shoes must you wear to hor-
287. The part of the plant that transports wa- ticulture?
ter and nutrients up from the roots to the
stems and leaves is called the: A. close-toed with good tread
A. phloem B. any funky/cute sandals
B. cambia C. doesn’t matter as long as you have
C. xylem shoes on
D. bark D. house shoes

293. Which horticulture division includes veg- 299. What is the release of water vapor from
etable production? leaves of plants to cool plants down?

A. floriculture A. Transpiration
B. forestry B. Photosynthesis
C. olericulture C. Respiration
D. turfgrass D. Translocation
294. Which plant is used for its variegated 300. The young plant surrounded by a protec-
green and yellowish-white leaves? tive covering is called a
A. Arrowhead vine A. seed
B. Evergreen candytuft B. stigma
C. Snapdragon C. style
D. Zinnia D. sepal
295. What occurs when sperm enters the 301. Candytuft is a bedding plant about 6” to
ovule to combine with the egg? 12” tall an has:
A. fertlization A. dark blue 1” fruit
B. pollination B. orange 3” flowers
C. stem cutting C. red 2” flowers
D. tuber D. white 1” flowers
296. looses leaves during dormant season 302. When indicating or measuring pH, the
A. deciduous lower the pH number, the:
B. turgid A. less acid
C. evergreen B. more acidic
D. wilted C. more alkaline

D. more neutral
297. The term horticulture literally means
A. The culture of a garden 303. What is a deficiency symptom?
B. The storing of plants A. Gives dark green color
C. The selling of plants B. Necessary to develop cell proteins
D. none of above C. Slow and Dwarfed Plant Growth

D. Older leaves are purplish
298. What happens to plants during their dor-
mant stage? 304. Cutting down a tree is called
A. die A. Felling
B. grow abundantly B. Knelling
C. they start flowering C. Dropping
D. none of the above D. Chopping

305. When planning a vertical garden what is 310. Which is true of the amount of detail
most important to pay attention to? in the landscape functional design as com-
pared to the final landscape plan?
A. Sun
A. less
B. water
B. more
C. soil
C. one-half
D. temperature
D. same
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306. The lower portion of a graft is known as
what? 311. An example of a pomology career would
be
A. Rootstock
A. Lawn care
B. Lowerstock
B. Florist
C. Understock
C. veterinarian
D. Scion
D. Pecan Farmer
307. The beginning of the food chain for all liv-
ing things on Earth is caused by the biolog- 312. conducts food and metabolites from
ical process known as: the leaves to the stem, flowers, roots, and
storage organs.
A. Root hairs
A. Phloem
B. Structure
B. Xylem
C. Leaves
C. Parenchyma Tissue
D. Photosynthesis
D. Cork tissue
308. What type of immersion SAE is Belle com-
pleting by growing and selling red worms 313. Which medium-evergreen shrub has
used to produce compost? yellowish-green new leaves, and “ to 1”
long and “ to “ wide medium-green ma-
A. entrepreneurship
ture leaves?
B. service learning
A. Grape ivy
C. placement
B. Japanese boxwood
D. invention
C. Thorny elaeagnus
309. o conduct official business using well- D. Warneckii dracena
defined rules and procedures so that all
members can participate, the organization 314. What do we call the tiny pores on the un-
uses: derside of the leaf?
A. consensus A. Buds
B. harrassment B. Stamens
C. parliamentary procedure C. Cuticle
D. threats D. Stomates

315. The following are potential safety haz- C. develop a maintenance schedule
ards in the greenhouse
D. select a maintenance contractor

A. water hoses
B. fertilizer 321. What are the three parts of agriculture
education?
C. electrical outlets
A. Classroom/Lab, CDE, SAE
D. All of the above
B. Classroom/Lab, FFA, SAE
316. Compared to entry level jobs, profes-
sional careers usually require special li- C. Classroom, SAE, Agricscience
censes and: D. Lab, Classroom, FFA
A. less educatio
B. more manual labor 322. Rory is studying the pH scale. What num-
ber represents neutral?
C. more outside work
A. 3
D. more paperwork
B. 5
317. Erosion control is most difficult to control
in what type of growing environment? C. 7
A. PNP D. 9
B. Container
323. Using a socket pot to hold a potted plant
C. Field-grown is what type of production?
D. Cold frame A. Pot-in-pot
318. Applying half of the material in one di- B. Container
rection and the other half at a 90 degree
C. Field-grown
angle from the first pass is used when:
A. Sodding D. Greenhouse
B. Sprigging 324. The green pigment in vegetables is called

C. Sowing what?
D. Plugging A. Flavones
319. How long does a perennial plant typically B. Carotene
live? C. Chlorophyll
A. 1 year
D. Anthocyanin
B. 6 months
C. 2 years 325. Part of a plant is removed to grow an-
other plant for propagation
D. beyond 2 years
A. cutting
320. The LAST step in the landscape project de-
velopment process is to: B. planting
A. bill the customer for work done C. transplanting
B. determine the need or objective D. dividing

326. An aquarium or botanical garden is an ex- C. respiration

ample of: D. transpiration
A. Horticultural Therapy
332. A tropical plant with a glossy, green, scal-
B. Zoological Horticulture loped leaf that has a long-lasting flower is
C. Plant Propagation Environment most likely a/an:
D. Landscape and Nursery A. Christmas cactus.
B. wax plant.
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327. As a garden center worker, Julie should:
A. be a high school dropout C. emerald-ripple peperomia.
B. be unfriendly to customers D. kalanchoe.

C. enjoy working with people and plants 333. Which of the following is NOT a benefit
D. expect to work in an air conditioned of trees?
area A. Pollution reduction
328. Which country was the first to use the B. Shade
tradition of a Christmas tree? C. Color
A. England D. Shelter
B. Germany
334. Plants remove which of the following
C. United States from the atmosphere?
D. Netherlands A. Oxygen
329. The most effective way for animal sci- B. Helium
ence students to develop leadership quali- C. Carbon dioxide
ties is through:
D. Argon
A. participation in FFA activities
B. studying animal science 335. Which is MOST interested in reducing the
carbon footprint
C. trips to livestock farms
A. Garden center salesperson
D. watching videos
B. Golf course attendant
330. From the time a seed is planted until the C. Green industry employee
time that a seed is produced is known as
D. Park ranger
A. Growth Cycle
B. Dormancy 336. William examines a landscape functional
diagram and a final landscape plan. He no-
C. Life Cycle tices that the amount of detail in the final
D. Plant Cycle landscape plan is:
331. Water loss from the leaf surface through A. less

evaporation is the plant process called: B. more
A. absorption C. same
B. photosynthesis D. none of above

337. What type of garden needs a profes- C. Long Leaf Pine

sional architect to help you plan it?
D. Short Leaf Pine

A. Raised bed
B. Container 343. What can Sammy do to cause his nursery
plants to grow more compact?
C. Rooftop
A. Lime
D. Flat bed
B. Prune
338. Why is a wilted plant limp?
C. Transplant
A. it does not have enough moisture
D. Water
B. filled with moisture
C. it got knocked over 344. When planting a tree/shrub/perennial
D. a certain breed of bird likes to stand you must dig the hole depth as the root
on it ball
A. same
339. The pH test on a soil sample determines
the: B. deeper
A. acidity or alkalinity. C. shallower
B. air and water movement. D. none of above
C. amount of nitrogen.
345. On a financial statement, net worth is:
D. salinity or salt content.
A. current assets minus current liabilities
340. The process of moving synthesized and
B. current liabilities plus current assets
absorbed food and nutrients within the
plant is: C. total assets minus total liabilities
A. photosynthesis D. total assets plus total liabilities
B. respiration
346. Disadvantages of sexual (Seed) propaga-
C. reproduction tion
D. translocation A. they are all long and large
341. When making a cutting you should al- B. Most seeds are very slow and germi-
ways cut nate
A. above the node C. True
B. below the node D. False
C. on the node
347. A ground cover type that travels UP ob-
D. anywhere
jects.
342. Deciduous is a biological term used to de- A. vining
scribe certain plants. As an example of a
deciduous tree is a: B. spreading
A. Southern Red Oak C. trailing
B. Red cedar D. grass/sod

348. The terms annual, biennial and perennial C. Biannual

describe plant
D. none of above
A. Leaf loss
B. Life cycle 354. Part of plants that holds into the soil.
C. Production practices A. roots
D. Root type B. stem
349. Garden Centers are retail outlets that sell C. flower
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A. Biology kits D. branch
B. Plants and garden supplies
355. * Raising livestock, cultivating the soil,
C. Fruits and Nuts and producing row crops, including some
D. none of above fruits and vegetables.
350. Suzy needs to help the designer get an A. Landscape

idea of the general layout of the property. B. Agriculture
Which plan does she need?
C. Forestry
A. construction diagram
D. none of above
B. Contractor plan.
C. final plan 356. The cultivation, processing and marketing
D. functional diagram of flowers, ornamental plants, vegetables,
fruits and nuts is:
351. What are the structural framework of the
A. floriculture
leaf?
A. Veins B. pomology
B. Midrib C. olericulture
C. Apex D. horticulture
D. Blade
357. The scientific study of plants.
352. Renee needs about 1, 000 petunia plants. A. Pomology
If the seed germination rate is 50%, what
is the minimum number of seeds she should B. Botany
sow? C. xylem
A. 50
D. horticulture
B. 1, 000
C. 1, 200 358. Which of the following was NOT listed as
a career in the plant production industry?
D. 2, 000
A. Quality control inspector
353. A plant that comes back year after year
is considered B. Herdsmen
A. Annual C. Landscape service
B. Perennial D. Food production

359. The landscape designer who uses plants 365. Line flowers used in floral designs have:
with only a few different colors or shapes A. florets blooming on tall spikes
is demonstrating the landscape design

principle of: B. flowers on the end of stems
A. balance C. small sprays of flowers
B. focalization D. unique colors or shapes
C. proportion 366. are stems that grow horizontally

D. simplicity above ground.
A. Bulbs
360. The seed endosperm provides
B. Rhizomes
A. protection to the embryo
C. Tubers
B. food for the embryo
D. Stolons
C. an attractant
367. The ability of a seed to germinate is
D. pollination for the flower
known as:
361. A growing method for seedlings that can A. Inert
grow in a multiple seedlings in one flat.
B. Viable
A. Rag-doll method
C. Grading
B. Seedbox method
D. Debris
C. Petri dish method
368. Within the research immersion SAE,
which of the following applies the scien-
362. The culture of flowers tific method?
A. Landscape Horticulture A. experimental
B. Pomology B. analysis
C. Olericulture C. invention
D. Floriculture D. none of above
363. Area of horticulture that involves the pro- 369. The purpose of a speech that gives knowl-
duction of vegetable crops edge or information to the audience is to:
A. Floriculture A. Entertain
B. Olericulture B. Express anger
C. Pomology C. inform
D. Landscape Horticulture D. persuade
364. Mass flowers used in floral designs have: 370. A warm-season grass that grows from
both stolons and rhizomes and has fine-
A. flowers on the end of stems textured leaves that vary in color from
B. small sprays of flowers light green to dark green is:
C. tall spikes with florets A. Annual Ryegrass
D. unique shapes or colors B. Bermuda

C. Kentucky Bluegrass 376. Jesus spent several days landscaping his

home to help the appearance and to in-
D. Tall Fescue
crease the comfort and value. What is he
371. Soils do not provide which of the follow- doing?
ing? A. analytical
A. Stability B. experimental
B. Oxygen C. improvement
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D. placement
C. Nutrients
D. Water 377. Which type of landscape plan will likely
be changed several times to include clients
372. The science and practice of growing, har- wishes
vesting, storing, processing and marketing A. bubble diagram
tree grown fruits is: B. construction plan
A. pomology C. final plan
B. olericulture D. preliminary design
C. horticulture 378. Use the tool for the job.
D. Viticulture A. Correct
B. Biggest
373. When a floral design looks too small for
the area where it is used, the design prin- C. Smallest
ciple the floral designer failed to follow is: D. none of above
A. Accent 379. Plants produce
B. Rythm A. Oxygen
C. Scale B. Air
D. Unity C. Nitrogen
D. Pollution
374. When are you allowed to throw tools?
380. What does PPE stand for?
A. Never A. Personal Party Equipment
B. Sometimes B. Personal Protective Equipment
C. Always C. Purple People Eater
D. none of above D. Purposeful Protection Equipment
375. The most desirable soil for non-container 381. Which grass should a homeowner in
outdoor plant production is: western NC plant if the grass needs to tol-
erate high use or wear?
A. clay
A. Centipede grass
B. loam B. Kentucky Bluegrass
C. sand C. St. Augustine grass
D. silt D. Zoysia grass

382. The leadership quality that causes animal A. placement

science workers to be willing to proceed B. service learning
under difficult conditions is:

C. entrepreneurship
A. Courage
D. school-based enterprise
B. Integrity
C. Public Speaking 388. the growing, harvesting, storing, pro-
cessing, and marketing of vegetables
D. Tact
A. olericulture
383. Which is a flowering plant that has flow- B. landscape horticulture
ers from 3” to 6” in diameter?
C. pomology
A. American arborvitae
D. horticulture
B. Evergreen candytuft
C. Peony 389. Disregarding Sales tax, how much will
you save when you buy a $ 12.00 plant
D. Sycamore that is on sale for 20 % off?
384. If a plant is turgid, it is: A. $ 0.48
A. Drowned and dropping B. $ 1.20
B. Pale green or yellow C. $ 2.40
C. Swollen with moisture D. $ 3.60
D. Wilted from lack of water 390. Which shrub has dark green 1” needle-
385. If no more than one half the total leaf like foliage?
surface should be removed and the recom- A. compacta holly
mended mowing height is 1”, grass should B. indian hawthorn
be mowed before its height reaches:
C. japanese yew
A. 1”
D. french hydrangea
B. 2”
C. 3” 391. Process of creating new plants
D. 4” A. Germination
B. Propagation
386. If you work for the Cincinnati Reds mow-
ing grass, what branch of agriculture are C. Fertilization
you participating in? D. Pollination
A. Turfgrass Management 392. The germination rate represents the num-
B. Ornamental Horticulture ber of plants that:
C. Landscape and Nursery A. are planted from seed
D. Floriculture B. begin growth after being started from
seed
387. What type of immersion SAE benefits an
organization, group, or individuals other C. are in the greenhouse
than the FFA chapter? D. are seeds incased in the fruit of a plant

393. Plants grown for their visual appeal are B. Landscape

called C. pomology
A. Olericulture
D. Olericulture
B. plant propagation
399. Which of the following is NOT an exam-
C. Botany
ple of PPE?
D. Ornamentals
A. Boots
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394. refers to roots arising from an un- B. Long Sleeve Shirt
usual place; roots growing from stems or
leaves C. Baseball cap
A. adverse D. Safety Glasses
B. secondary 400. The beginning of the food chain for all liv-
C. phloem ing things is the process of photosynthesis
which takes place in plant:
D. adventitious
A. Flowers
395. Alex believes that Jessica is discussion a
motion that is not debatable. To correct B. Leaves
this mistake, Alex should: C. Roots
A. call for a division D. Stems
B. move to adjourn
401. Content and composition of the speech
C. move to amend are determined:
D. rise to a point of order A. after the speech is given
396. Which soil particles are the smallest? B. before the speech is given
A. clay C. during the questioning time
B. rocks D. during the oral speech
C. sand
402. In which stage of growth do plants rest
D. silt or grow very little?
397. An immersion SAE that is a chance to use A. dormant
the knowledge & skills gained from school B. indeterminate
to address real needs in the world is:
C. juvenile
A. research
D. reproductive
B. service based learning
C. school based enterprise 403. The most commonly used method to start
a lawn is:
D. placement/internship
A. Plugging
398. *The area of horticulture that involves
B. Seeding
the planting, harvesting, storing, process-
ing and marketing of fruit ad nut crops. C. Sodding
A. Flolriculture D. Sprigging

404. The protects the undeveloped plant C. evergreen candytuft.

(embryo) against injury and from drying
D. Dutch iris.
out.

A. flower 410. The science of growing fruit
B. cotyledon A. Landscape/Nursery
C. environment (soil) B. Pomology
D. seed coat C. Olericulture
405. line flowers are used in floral design to: D. Floriculture
A. Add mass and weight
411. The traditional nursery method of grow-
B. establish height and width ing plants in the field is what type of pro-
C. draw attention to accent area duction?
D. fill empty spaces A. Pot-in-pot
406. Small deciduous trees that flower all sum- B. Container
mer and into early fall with a flower color C. Field-grown
that may be white, pink, red, or purple.
What is the plant? D. Cold frame
A. Crepe myrtle 412. AFTER GERMINATION, SEEDLINGS MUST
B. Evergreen euonymus RECEIVE
C. Prayer plant A. NO LIGHT
D. Red maple B. LOW LIGHT
407. Of these materials, which is the best for C. BRIGHT LIGHT
use in an organic growing media? D. none of above
A. bark
B. perlite 413. What percent of the world’s water is in
the oceans?
C. Styrofoam beads
A. 67.6
D. vermiculite
B. 97.6
408. The gas form of an insecticide is a
C. 87.6
A. Wettable powder
D. 77.6
B. Fumigant
C. Granular 414. You should avoid adding to reduce the
chance of girdling roots when planting a
D. Concentrate
tree/shrub.
409. The tall bedding plant with clusters of col- A. fertilizers
orful flowers at the end of the stem that
Sherilee planted is most likely a/an: B. soil amendments
A. snapdragon C. root stimulators
B. astilbe D. pest controls

415. Which of the following careers is respon- C. Pomology

sible for the installation of landscapes?
D. Olericulture
A. Landscape architects
B. Landscape contracting 421. Should you eat while outside on the
farm?
C. Landscape maintenance
A. Yes
D. none of above
B. No
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416. When planning a speech, the speaker
C. Maybe
should consider the purpose, the occasion,
and the D. none of above
A. Audience
422. Perlite and vermiculite are most likely ex-
B. Cost of clothes amples of:
C. Fee for speaking A. hydroponics
D. Temperature B. organic growing media
417. Which foliage plant has yellow and or- C. soil growing media
ange in its leaves? D. soilless growing media
A. Amaryllis
423. An interior plant that is about 4 feet tall
B. croton
and looks similar to a little pine or cedar
C. peony tree with dark green leaves. It is a/an:
D. snapdragn A. Eastern White Pine
418. Which of the following is NOT a branch B. Norfolk Island Pine
of horticulture? C. Fraiser Fir
A. Agriculture
D. Eastern Redbud
B. Pomology
C. Floriculture 424. Two warm-season grasses that do not
grow well in “high-traffic” areas are:
D. Olericulture
A. Bermuda and Tall Fescue
419. On a financial statement, items that can B. Centipede and St. Augustine
be quickly converted to cash or that will
be sold within 12 months are: C. Kentucky Bluegrass and Tall Fescue
A. current assets D. Perennial and Annual Ryegrass
B. current liabilities
425. Safety Colors-The color red indicates
C. equity what?
D. net worth A. Danger
420. Using plants for their beauty B. warning
A. Ornamental Horticulture C. Caution
B. Animal Science D. Safety

426. The process of breaking, scratching, or 431. Mortgages that are not due this year are
softening the seed coat so that water can entered on a financial statement as:
enter and initiate germination is called:

A. current assets
A. initiation B. current liabilities
B. scarification C. non-current assets
C. forcing D. non-current liabilities
D. sprouting 432. Which of the following is not a soil parti-
cle?
427. If Shanice plants a shrub with small,
glossy entire margined leaves, she most A. Sand
likely is planting a: B. Clay
A. Japanese boxwood. C. Silt
B. helleri holly. D. Rock
C. gold mop. 433. Which large evergreen shrub has white,
D. Japanese andromeda. pink, or red 1 “-2” flowers in October and
November?
428. What should you do if you are unsure A. Cape jasmine
about something? B. Chinese dogwood
A. Ask Questions C. Japanese yew
B. Use Common Sense D. Sasanqua camellia
C. Don’t touch it and wait for the teacher 434. The leadership quality that means reli-
to help you able support for an individual, group, or
D. All of these cause is:
A. enthusiasm
429. Everyone is familiar with the mistletoe
tradition. What color are the berries of B. loyalty
the plant? C. tact
A. Red D. unselfishness
B. White 435. What does NRCS stand for?
C. Blue A. National Rural Conservatory Service
D. No berries B. Natural Resource Conservation Ser-
vice
430. What information would you find on a
C. North Richmond Conservation Service
MSDS?
D. National Reservation of Conserving
A. Product Identification Soil
B. Health Hazard Data
436. Which of the following is not a rule in the
C. Storage and Handling precautions Greenhouse?
D. All of the above A. Remove tripping hazards

B. Only use chemicals for the intended 442. The primary function of plant seeds is:
purpose
A. Absorption
C. Wear the appropriate PPE’s
B. Photosynthesis
D. Chemicals can be stored at your sta-
tion. C. Plant identification
437. The leaves on a plume asparagus fern D. Sexual reproduction

are:
443. Which is most directly related to reducing
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A. dark green and feather-like.
the carbon footprint?
B. shaped like a sword.
A. Garden center salesperson
C. shaped like palm trees.
B. Golf course superintendent
D. variegated in green and white.
C. Green industry employee
438. Soil does NOT provide which of the fol-
lowing? D. Park ranger
A. Stability
444. Which deciduous tree has bright, yellow
B. Oxygen 3” fan-shaped leaves on 3” petioles and
C. Nutrients also has foul-smelling berries with seeds?
D. Water A. Ginkgo
439. Which medium evergreen shrub has B. Live Oak
yellowish-green leaves, and 1/2” to 1”
C. Sasanqua Camellia
long and 1/4” to 1/2” wide medium
green mature leaves? D. Sycamore
A. Grape ivy
445. What area of horticulture is concerned
B. Japanese boxwood with providing commercial source of
C. Thorny elaeangus plants?
D. Warneckii dracena A. Nursery Production
440. A plant that completes its life cycle in two B. Pomology
years
C. Turf grass management
A. forestry
D. Floriculture
B. turgid
C. perennial 446. Victor joins a new variety of pecan tree
D. biennial to some rootstock he has grown from
seeds. Which propagation method does he
441. producing and using plants to make out- use?
door environments more appealing
A. grafting
A. landscape horticulture
B. pomology B. hardwood cuttings
C. horticulture C. layering
D. floriculture D. softwood cuttings

447. Where should tools be returned? 453. Most flowers, shrubs, and lawn grasses
A. Tool Shed grow best in a pH ranging from:

A. 1.0 to 2.5
B. Greenhouse
B. 3.0 to 5.0
C. Barn
C. 5.5 to 7.0
D. Classroom
D. 7.5 to 9.0
448. The front yard is considered the area.
454. The purpose of a speech that convinces
A. public people to believe or to do something is to:
B. family living A. Entertain
C. private living B. Inform
D. service C. Introduce
449. When storing seeds, it is important to: D. Persuade
A. keep seeds in a cool, dry place 455. What are the official FFA colors?
B. maintain temperatures at 70◦ F A. National Blue and Corn Gold
C. provide humidity above 50◦ F B. National Blue and Corn Yellow
D. place seeds in a plastic zip-lock bag C. Navy Blue and Corn Gold
D. Blue and Gols
450. Which of the following is NOT included as
a plant? 456. Find the perimeter of a square shaped
rose garden with sides measuring 6.5 ft
A. Lawns
each.
B. Plastic
A. 13.0 ft
C. Bushes
B. 19.5 ft
D. Gardens C. 42.25 ft
451. Carl keeps accurate records including D. 26.0 ft
amounts of items bought and sold for his
SAE. What type of SAE is this? 457. Which plant type has NO soil around the
roots.
A. analytical
A. container grown
B. entrepreneurship
B. balled and burlapped
C. improvement C. bare root
D. placement D. none of above
452. Which part of biology deals with plants? 458. A soil report will include:
A. oncologists A. cost of lime
B. gardener B. suggested fertilizer rate
C. Botany C. cost of fertilizer
D. horticulture D. recommend planting time

459. Growing pumpkins to sell is an example C. 1.0 inch

if what type of Immersion SAE.
D. 1 1/4 inches
A. Foundational
B. Placement 465. What is the first degree in FFA for high
school members?
C. Ownership
A. Greenhand
D. School-based Enterprise
B. American
460. The tree with a fan shaped leaf that Joan
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noticed in front of the bank is MOST LIKELY C. State
a: D. Discovery
A. Japanese Yew
466. Advantages of sexual (Seed) Propaga-
B. Ginkgo tion
C. Norway Spruce A. to make multiples of them in days
D. Gold Mop
B. to produce many in a short amount of
461. Which country is one of the world’s top time
producers of fruits and nuts? C. Produce large numbers in a large
A. Canada amount of time
B. Austrailia D. more in an hour than in a day
C. United Arab Emirates
467. The greatest percent of the wholesale
D. United States floriculture market is attributed to:
462. What happens when concrete gets wet? A. Flowering potted plants
A. It gets slippery B. Foliage plants
B. It melts C. Cut flowers
C. Nothing happens D. Bedding plants
468. What are the two main types of roots?
463. Which describes the loss in value of ma-
chinery or buildings due to age, use, or A. Tap and tape
change in market demands? B. Tap and Fibrous
A. assets C. Long and short
B. depreciation D. none of above
C. inventory
469. Which is the best growing media if an in-
D. profit
organic media is desired?
464. On the map 1/4 inch equals 12 miles. If A. leaf mold
a road on the map is 60 miles long, how
long is the line to draw this road? B. perlite
A. 1/4 inch C. sawdust
B. 1/2 inch D. wood shavings

470. Jodi examines a preliminary design and C. New Farmer Associations

a functional design. She observes that the
D. New Farmers of America
amount of detail in the functional diagram

is: 476. Marigolds and other warm-season plants
A. more grow best during:
B. less A. early spring
C. same B. midsummer
D. none of above C. late fall
471. Becky needs to cut some rose srems from D. midwinter
her bed of roses. What tool should she
use? 477. Pomology is:
A. Axe A. The production of pom poms
B. Chain saw B. The industry of cut flowers
C. Pole pruner C. The science of vegetables
D. Pruning shears D. The production of fruit and nut crops
472. Which deciduous shrub produces large
blue, pink, or white “snowball” flowers? 478. When applying the waste hierarchy to
workplace waste disposal, which is the
A. Compacta holly first and top option?
B. Indian hawthorn A. Prepare for re-use
C. Japanese yew
B. Recycle
D. French hydrangea
C. Prevention
473. The part of the horticulture industry most D. Disposal
associated with growing, maintaining, and
processing grapes is: 479. In North Carolina, a tree that has no
A. floriculture leaves in the winter is:
B. olericulture A. deciduous
C. pomology B. evergreen
D. viticulture C. herbaceous
474. Because trees live many years, they are: D. turgid
A. annuals
480. Hannah is hardening off some tomatoes
B. biennials started in the greenhouse. Which is she
C. perennials reducing to harden off her plants?
D. semiannuals A. fertilizer and air
475. The NFA stood for: B. humidity and water

A. National Farmers of America C. lime and phosphate
B. New Farmers of American D. soil and fertilizer

481. What does MSDS stand for? 487. You can tell where a terminal bud was
A. Material Safety Data Sheet located by it’s:
B. Modern Safety Day Special A. lateral buds
C. Medium Small Data Stuff B. leaf scar
D. Made Something Doing Something C. bud scale scars
482. Net worth is the same as: D. xylem
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A. current assets 488. Small, deciduous tree with heart-shaped
B. equity leaves, three-to five-inch long brown
C. inventory bean-type pods, and pink-purple colored
seasonal flowers is an:
D. total liabilities
A. ajuga
483. The science most associated with the
B. japanese maple
study of plants grown for food or beau-
tification is: C. eastern redbud
A. agronomy D. red oak
B. forestry
489. The turf play area is 3 feet longer than
C. horticulture it is wide and has an area of 550 square
D. physics feet. How many feet long is the turfed
play area?
484. Which of the following is NOT a type of
pesticide? A. 20
A. Insecticide B. 22
B. Herbicide C. 25
C. Fungicide D. 28
D. Plant Propagation
490. Clayey textured soils are characterized
485. which of these jobs requires college edu- by:
cation A. being loose and single grain.
A. greenhouse employee
B. having high moisture-holding capacity.
B. national park employee
C. having large soil particles.
C. farm management consulting
D. having low moisture-holding capacity.
D. garden shop owner
486. The drawing that employees of Jones 491. A place that specializes in starting plants,
Landscape Company will use to install ma- shrubs and ornamental trees which can be
terials at a jobsite is most likely the: transplanted to landscape areas is called a
A. bubble diagram. A. Nursery

B. final plan. B. Vineyard
C. functional plan. C. Orchard
D. preliminary design. D. Farm

492. During a business meeting, Romero 497. What can Vijay add to his soilless mix at
moved to enter a float in the homecoming planting to add weight and keep his gallon
parade. Before action can be taken, the nursery stock from blowing over?

motion must be:
A. bark
A. amended
B. peat moss
B. defeated
C. perlite
C. referred to a committee
D. vermiculite
D. seconded
498. keeps leaves and remains green year
493. Which tropical plant has a flower similar
round
to a lily?
A. turgid
A. Amaryllis
B. evergreen
B. Croton
C. Snapdragon C. deciduous
D. Zinnia D. agronomy
494. The beginning of the food chain for all liv- 499. Within the research immersion SAE which
ing things is the process of photosynthesis. of the following involves using a design
Most photosynthesis takes place in plant: process to develop a product that solves a
problem?
A. flowers
A. experimental
B. leaves
C. roots B. analysis
D. stems C. invention
D. none of above
495. Compared to other layers of a typical soil
profile, the amount of organic matter in 500. The science and art of growing plants for
the O horizon is: use and beauty; an important segment of
A. about the same the agriculture industry
B. less A. Horticulture
C. more B. Olericulture
D. none C. Landscape Hort
496. A large deciduous tree that has greenish- D. none of above
yellow flowers in early spring before it
has leaves and 2” to 3” winged samara 501. What is the leaf stalk or part that con-
fruit is the: nects the leaf to the stem?
A. Japanese yew. A. Midrib

B. Norway maple. B. Apex
C. Norway spruce. C. Petiole
D. Savannah holly. D. Blade

502. Someone who propagates and cares for C. semi-circle

plants is:
D. triangle
A. Greenhouse worker
B. Landscape designer 508. What is a plant that is used in the
landscape for their colorful greenery or
C. Floral designer leaves?
D. Lawn maintenance worker
A. Herbaceous Perennial
503. Which of the following is NOT provided
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B. Biennial
to plants by soil?
C. Tree
A. stability
D. Foliage Plant
B. nutrients
C. run-off 509. Which is the most likely effect of adding
D. oxygen perlite to the growing media?
A. decreases drainage
504. Is Turf Grass Management the establish-
ment and care of a grass surface in a res- B. increases drainage
idential, business, sports-facility, or park C. increases weight
setting?
D. makes media acidic
A. Yes
B. No 510. Horticulture is the cultivation of which of
C. Maybe the following?
D. none of above A. Gardens

B. Golf Courses
505. What holly has 1-3 terminal spines and
reaches heights of 15’-25’? C. Forests
A. Compacta D. Deserts
B. Nellie R. Stevens
511. The most expensive method of establish-
C. Carissa ing a lawn is:
D. Helleri A. plugging
506. is a complex polysaccharide carbohy- B. seeding
drate. The form of food commonly stored
C. sodding
by plants.
A. ribosome D. sprigging
B. lipid 512. Carrots are an example of which part of
C. protein the plant?
D. starch A. roots
507. A fan floral design is shaped like a: B. stem

A. circle C. flower
B. quarter moon D. leaves

513. Something tangible of value that a per- C. Hand Shear

son owns is: D. Pole Pruner

A. a liability.
519. Which large deciduous tree has 6” long
B. Ban asset. and 4” wide medium-green leaves with 3
C. equity to 5 pointed lobes and 1”-1 “ fuzzy round
fruit?
D. .net worth
A. Clematis
514. Plants with which root system are easier B. Snapdragon
to transplant?
C. London plane tree
A. fibrous
D. Wintergreen barberry
B. long
520. The person planting hanging baskets can
C. sharp
plant 40 hanging baskets of petunias in
D. tap one hour. How many hanging baskets can
he plants in 90 minutes?
515. Uneek is making leaf cuttings. She must
be certain that she cuts the leaf: A. 45
A. margin B. 60
B. petiole C. 150
C. stomate D. 360
D. vein 521. A cool-season grass that has coarse-

textured, medium-green leaves and bunch-
516. How many areas of the horticulture in- type growth is:
dustry are there?
A. bermuda grass
A. 1
B. centipede grass
B. 5 C. St. Augustine grass
C. 3 D. tall fescue
D. 7
522. What form of documentation would Alex
517. Aside from economic value, what is a need as he starts his internship with a
value associated with ornamental horticul- county’s soil scientist?
ture? A. peer reviews of his publication
A. High-quality food B. scholarship application
B. Pharmaceutical proteins C. business plan
C. Psychological well-being D. training plan
D. Superior lumber 523. The most important step prior to using
any pesticide is to
518. Which pruning tool should Sarah use to
remove 1/4” diameter growth from her A. Mix it correctly
azaleas? B. Read the label directions
A. Axe C. Determine the formulation
B. Chainsaw D. Properly store it

524. The Purpose of the SAE is to C. viable seeds

A. volunteer in your community. D. Noxious weeds
B. gain work experience and life skills in
530. What should be used to determine if
agriculture.
amendments are needed in native soil?
C. pass this class.
A. Aeration
D. communicate to people.
B. Fertilizing
525. Any material added to the soil to support
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C. Treatment
nutrient
D. Soil test
A. Fertilizer
B. Pesticide 531. An immersion SAE that is a student-led
C. Seeds business that offers goods or services to
people in the community is:
D. Seedlings
A. placement/internship
526. Chris is interested in producing the most
B. research
new plants in the shortest time period.
What is the best propagation method for C. service based learning
him to accomplish his goal? D. school-based enterprise
A. budding
532. Which of the following is NOT correct
B. cutting
about asexual reproduction?
C. grafting
A. Less time required to produce a plant
D. tissue culture
B. Plants are genetically identical
527. What part of the plant attracts bees to C. Less expensive
aid in pollination?
D. Only way for some plants to reproduce
A. Petals
B. Sepals 533. The part of biology that deals with ani-
mals
C. Stamen
D. none of above A. horticulture
B. zoology
528. When measuring pH, the higher the soil
pH number, the: C. agronomy
A. less alkaline D. deciduous
B. more acidic 534. It is the value that remains after all the
C. more alkaline expenses have been deducted from the
D. more neutral gross income or sales.
A. Interest
529. Suzy has weeds that are hard to control
in her lawn. These are examples of: B. Labor
A. Debris C. Gross Income
B. Inert material D. Net Income

535. After fertilization, this part of a plant 540. Which is an itemized list of things owned
eventually becomes the fruit. by a business?
A. Equity

A. seed
B. ovary B. Inventory
C. sepel C. Liabilities
D. Net worth
D. petal
541. Which division of horticulture focuses on
536. What type of shoes need to be worn in vegetables?
the greenhouse?
A. olericulture
A. Sandals B. pomology
B. Closed Toe C. agronomy
C. Flip Flops D. floriculture
D. Slides 542. The use of horticultural plants and meth-
ods as therapeutic tools with disabled and
537. A plant that has spikes with florets and is disadvantaged people
used to make floral arrangements is a/an:
A. Allopathy
A. arrowhead vine.
B. Homeopathy
B. gladiolus.
C. Horticultural Therapy
C. parlor palm. D. Naturopathy
D. zinnia.
543. Elements needed by a plant to promote
538. If a 10” azalea pot takes up 1 square healthy tissue, processes, and growth.
foot of bench space in a greenhouse, how A. Nutrients
many Geraniums planted in 10” Azalea B. Soil
pots be placed on a bench that measures
C. Water
6 ft wide and 17 ft long?
D. Sunlight
A. 23
544. A tree with the scientific name Acer pal-
B. 46
matum. What is the plant’s common
C. 102 name?
D. 204 A. Japanese Maple
B. Sugar Maple
539. An immersion SAE that asks “why” or
“how” something occurs, followed by a C. Red Maple
collection of data, and analysis of data to D. Red Oak
answer the question is:
545. What is the first line of the FFA Motto?
A. analysis A. Living to Serve
B. entrepreneurship B. Earning to Live
C. experimental C. Learning to Do
D. invention D. Doing to Learn

546. Which branches involve the principles of B. 96

horticulture and placement of plants? C. 144
A. Floriculture, Landscape Design
D. 192
B. Landscape Design, Interiorscaping
552. what is a sexual propagation?
C. Interiorscaping, Floriculture
D. Floriculture, Agronomy A. growing plants from roots
B. growining plants from seeds
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547. Snapdragons and Foxglove are used in ar-
rangements as: C. growing plants from water
A. line flowers D. none of above
B. mass flowers 553. Because roses produce flowers on wood
C. form flowers produced the same growing season, the
plants should be pruned in the:
D. filer forms
A. early spring.
548. Aesthetics is all about:
B. early summer.
A. increasing yield
C. late spring.
B. increasing production
D. late summer.
C. producing plants that are pleasing in
appearance 554. Seedlings that receive too little light will
D. none of the above have:
A. Brighter Flower colors
549. *The area of horticulture that involves
the planting, harvesting. Storing, process- B. Dark green leaves
ing and marketing of vegetable crops. C. Short thick stems
A. Pomology D. Tall Slender Stems
B. Olericulture
555. Which type of immersion SAE requires a
C. Floriculture
research plan to include all safety require-
D. Landscape ments?
550. Voice, stage presence, power of expres- A. Placement
sion, response to questions, and general B. Experimental
effect are factors used to evaluate the:
C. Service Learning
A. Audience
D. School-based Enterprise
B. Judges
C. Oral delivery 556. The first step in making a floral arrange-
ment is to:
D. Written speech
A. Attach foam to container
551. The total perimeter of the square garden
B. cut flower stems
bed is 48 feet. What is the total area of
the bed in square feet? C. establish outline
A. 12 D. select design shape

557. Tamicka uses a commercial blend of horti- B. amend

culture soil because she can depend on the
C. appeal
pH of the product being:

D. argue
A. acidic
B. alkaline 563. filler materials used in floral design may
C. basic be:
D. neutral A. Baby’s breath
558. Which of the following is NOT an environ- B. daisies

mental benefit of plants? C. gladiolus
A. Provide shade D. open roses
B. Increase erosion
564. What do deciduous plants do during the
C. Provide cooler temperatures
dormant season?
D. Filter air
A. they die
559. Mass flowers are used in floral designs B. they lose their leaves
to add mass and to:
C. retain their leaves
A. create the accent or focal point
B. draw attention to the focal point D. all of the above
C. fill empty spaces and hide frame 565. The scientific name is made up what?
D. outline shape and size. A. Genus and Species
560. What is the highest FFA degree one can B. Genus and Phenotype
receive?
C. First and Last Name
A. State FFA Degree
D. Species and Family
B. Chapter FFA Degree
C. Greenhand FFA Degree 566. Chilling seeds to stimulate winter condi-
tions before germination is known as:
D. American FFA Degree
A. scarification
561. The plant part that attracts insects for
pollination is the: B. stratification
A. Flower C. budding
B. Leaf D. amending
C. Root
567. Field-grown, container, and PNP plants
D. Stem should be watered in the morning for:
562. Caroline moved to sell candy to raise A. maximum absorption
money for scholarships. Adam wants to
B. minimum absorption
sell flowers. To change the motion, Adam
moves to: C. more water pressure
A. adjourn D. less water pressure

568. is the growing, harvesting, storing, 574. What percent is 5 of 7?

processing, and marketing of vegetables. A. 14 %
A. Horticulture B. 35 %
B. Olericulture C. 71 %
C. Pomology D. 140 %
D. Landscape Horticulture
575. Which of the following is NOT a form of
569. What is a potential source of danger propagation?
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called? A. pruning
A. Accident B. cuttings
B. Hazard C. grafting
C. Right-to-know D. tissue culture
D. Materials safety data sheet
576. Lemon leaf and gerber daisies are used in
570. The first step in the landscape project arrangements are:
maintenance process is: A. line flowers
A. bill customer for work done B. mass flowers
B. Determine the need or objective. C. form flowers
C. purchase lawnmower D. filler flowers
D. subcontract pest control
577. High moisture holding capacity is a char-
571. We planted 500 Zinnia seeds in 1020 acteristic of
flats. If we have a 85% germination rate A. sand
how many Zinnias will we need to trans-
plant to containers? B. silt
A. 325 C. clay
B. 425 D. perlite
C. 485 578. Why should you be careful when pulling

D. 500 weeds?
A. They can have thorns
572. Mulch should be placed to the stem.
B. They might bite
A. directly next to
C. They can run away
B. 1 inch away
D. They can be poisonous
C. 2-3 inches
D. never be near 579. when choosing a career in horticulture
you should
573. What is the genus name for all maples? A. select a job with variety
A. Quercus B. select a job with opportunity for pro-
B. Acer motion
C. Cornus C. consider the job responsibilities
D. Ilex D. all of them

580. is used when there are multiple lay- C. southern red oak.
ers or steps to draw of the landscape plan. D. zelkova

A. sketchbook
586. plant is filled with moisture
B. trace paper
A. hortifculture
C. scale
B. zoology
D. CAD
C. evrgreen
581. If DeShawn bought a tropical that has D. turgid
a thick, rounded leaf, he most likely pur-
chased a/an: 587. *The culture of plants for food, comfort,
A. jade plant and beautification purposes.
B. aglaonema A. Horticulture
C. false aralia B. Forestry
D. red-edged dracaena. C. Floriculture

D. Agriculture
582. Which type of garden takes up less
space? 588. A person who cultivates and markets sod
A. Flat bed is a:
B. Container A. Field crop technician
C. Raised beds B. Nursery manager
D. Rooftop C. Turfgrass producer

D. greenhouse manager
583. When a plant first begins growing from
a seed, the stage of growth is: 589. What is the genus name for all box-
A. dormant woods?
B. juvenile A. buxus
C. mature B. ilex
D. reproductive C. acer
D. quercus
584. Which of these causes more plant dis-
ease? 590. the culture of plants for food, comfort,
A. Fungi and beauty
B. Bacteria A. horticulture
C. Algae B. pomology
D. Virus C. floriculture
D. olericulture
585. What shade tree did Sandy most likely
see with deep-green leaves having a 591. Area of horticulture that involves fruit
toothed or serrated margin? and nut production
A. ginkgo A. Pomology
B. Chinese dogwood. B. Olericulture

C. Floricultre C. third
D. Horticulture D. last
592. Trees that keep their functional leaves 598. A beef cattle farmer using people, re-
throughout the year are called: sources, and processes to reach a goal is:
A. Auxins A. Managing
B. Deciduous B. Owning
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C. Evergreen
C. Planning
D. Inhibitors
D. Selling
593. The openings or stomates in the lower
leaf surface are opened and closed by the: 599. Which cool-season grass is used on golf
greens but requires cooling fans on the
A. Guard cells greens during the hot weather of summer
B. Lateral buds in the South?
C. Margins A. Tall Fescue
D. Xylem B. Bentgrass
594. The study and cultivation of grape vines. C. St. Augustine
A. Olericulture D. Bahia grass
B. Viticulture
600. Wire with a higher gauge number is:
C. Floriculture
A. thinner
D. Horticulture
B. thicker
595. A tree that has no leaves in the winter is C. shorter
considered:
D. longer
A. Deciduous
B. Evergreen 601. is the science and practice of grow-
ing, processing and marketing fruits, veg-
C. Herbaceous
etables, and ornamental plants.
D. Turgid
A. Science
596. Which is the best inorganic growing me- B. Horticulture
dia?
C. Marketing
A. bark
D. Agriculture
B. compost
C. peat moss 602. When carrying hand shears, you should
D. vermiculite carry them with the blade
A. facing down
597. When is baby’s breath addes to a floral
design B. facing straight up
A. first C. facing towards your body
B. second D. open

603. Which SAE record heading would be used 609. Which crop accounted for the greatest
if you have an entrepreneurship SAE? percentage of total nursery production
sales?

A. Hypothesis
B. Review of literature A. Broadleaf evergreens
C. training agreement B. Deciduous shrubs
D. type of enterprise C. Deciduous trees
604. The upper portion of a graft is known as D. Ground covers
what?
610. During a business meeting, Romero
A. Understock
moved to enter a float in the homecoming
B. Upperstock parade. Before action can take place, the
C. Rootstock motion has to be:
D. Scion A. amended
605. What does GMO stand for? B. defeated

A. Genetically Modified Organism C. referred to a committee
B. Generically Modified Organism D. seconded
C. Genetic Magnification Organization
611. An installation of plants decorating the
D. Global Microbe Organization inside of a building
606. What is the percentage of solid soil par- A. Landscaping
ticles in an ideal soil?
B. Interiorscaping
A. 5
C. Interior Design
B. 20
C. 50 D. Land Design
D. 90 612. Hazards associated with specific chemi-

cals are described in the
607. A tropical plant with palm-like leaves is
A. croton. A. Material Safety Data Sheets
B. live oak. B. OSHA Pathogen Standard
C. parlor palm C. Hazard Communication Standard
D. Savannah holly. D. OPIM Guidelines
608. Which oak tree has dark-green large
613. Nursery plants that are produced by cut-
leaves with a round base and 3 to 5 lobes
tings are propagated:
with bristle tips?
A. sexually.
A. Live
B. Pin B. by seed.
C. Southern Red C. asexually.
D. Water D. by amending.

614. Which type of immersion Supervised Agri- B. emblem

cultural Experience requires a research
C. motto
plan to include all safety requirements?
D. pledge
A. placement
B. experimental 620. Lettuce is an example of which part of
C. service learning the plant?
D. school based enterprise A. leaves
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B. stem
615. Producing and using plants to beautify
the environment C. roots
A. Floriculture D. none of above
B. Landscape horticulture
621. Various numbers of taps of the gavel
C. Olericulture have different meanings, but overall the
D. Floral production gavel is the symbol of:
A. authority
616. What type of nursery structure uses ma-
nure or hay as a source of heat? B. FFA
A. Shade house C. Voting
B. Hotbed D. weakness
C. PNP
622. A soil test report will include:
D. cold frame
A. cost of fertilizer
617. Which of the following is NOT considered
B. cost of lime
a recreational value for plants?
C. recommended planting time
A. Crop production
B. sports D. suggested fertilizer rate
C. gardening 623. The part of a net worth statement that

D. lawns shows all debts is:
A. current liabilities
618. Pesticide used to control insects is known
as: B. debt-to-equity ratio
A. Fungicide C. inventory
B. Herbicide D. total liabilities
C. Insecticide
624. Which of the following is a common in-
D. None of the above door plant?
619. The eagle is an important part of FFA tra- A. Fern
dition because it symbolizes the national
B. Corn
scope of the FFA. Students most likely will
find an eagle in the FFA: C. Hibiscus
A. colors D. Sorghum

625. The process by which the surface of the 630. Candytuft is a bedding plant about 6” to
earth gets worn down is described by 12” inches tall and has:
which of the following? A. dark blue 1” fruit.

A. Run-off B. orange 3” flowers.
B. Phytoremediation C. red 2” flowers.
C. Decay D. white 1” flowers.
D. erosion 631. Cash and things owned by the individual

or the business for which a financial state-
626. Insects with toothed jaws that bite and ment is prepared are listed as:
tear their food have what type of mouth A. assets
parts?
B. equity
A. Chewing C. liabilities
B. Grinding D. working capital
C. Compound 632. Another name of the landscape industry
D. Piercing is the industry.
A. Planting
627. Michele is computerizing the production
B. Green
records for a local nursery operation. This
is an example of what type of SAE? C. Blue
A. Analytical D. Construction
B. entrepreneurship 633. Fruit with leather skin, juicy and high in

vitamin C.
C. improvement
A. tropical
D. placement
B. citrus
628. When cleaning the greenhouse, you C. vine
should D. melon
A. Sweep all the dirt and debris from the 634. Which characteristics of sandy textured
floor in your area soils?
B. Make sure the tables are organized A. small packed together soil particles
C. Put all materials back in their desig- B. high moisture-holding capacity
nated area C. high nutrients-holding capacity
D. All of the above D. low moisture-holding capacity
629. When were girls allowed to join the FFA? 635. Which is best for cutting limbs and trees
larger than 3” in diameter?
A. 1989
A. Chain saw
B. 1969 B. Hedge shears
C. 1999 C. Lopping shears
D. 2009 D. Power pole pruner

636. what is division C. keep financial records

A. Separation of a plant into an individual D. Plan and design the outdoor environ-
clump making sure it has a growth point ment.
leaf and root
642. What is the FFA Salute?
B. None of the above
A. I believe in the future of agriculture
C. All of these
B. The Pledge of Allegiance
D. A Separation of the two that makes it
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one C. The National Anthem
D. America the Beautiful
637. Which is part of a stem?
A. Anther 643. If a fertilizer formula contains the follow-
ing label, 24-8-16. How many pounds of
B. Filament
Potassium are we applying if we broad-
C. Leaf scar cast 500 pounds on our pasture?
D. Root cap A. 120
638. The best tool for Becky to remove 1/4”- B. 40
1/2” rose stems from her bed of roses is C. 80
a/an:
D. 240
A. axe
644. Pedro adds compost to condition his soil.
B. chain saw
What is compost?
C. pole pruner
A. clayey soil
D. pruning shear
B. decayed organic matter
639. A soil test report with a pH of 7.2 is: C. vermiculite
A. extremely acid D. volcanic rock
B. extremely alkaline
645. Which is a lightweight, inorganic mica
C. mildly acid mineral capable of absorbing a large
D. mildly alkaline amount of water in growing media?
A. bark
640. Propagating nursery plants using a piece
of stem or root is known as: B. compost
A. cutting C. leaf mold
B. grafting D. vermiculite
C. layering 646. Plants that complete their life cycles in
D. budding two years are:
641. Thomas is a landscape nursery worker. A. Annuals

The type of work he does is: B. Bennials
A. Design landscape plans. C. Centennials
B. Install the plants. D. Perenials

647. The related products and services sector 653. The procedure Cathy uses to shape her
of the horticulture industry provides how container-grown nursery stock and re-
many jobs? move dead and diseased limbs is:

A. More than 100, 000 A. chemical pruning.
B. More than 10 million B. disbudding.
C. More than 250, 000 C. hand pruning.
D. More than 750, 000 D. liming
648. Which of the following careers is respon- 654. What type of SAE is Jose doing if he visits
sible for the daily care of landscapes? a wholesale nursery and shadows employ-
ees to learn about careers?
A. Landscape architects
A. analytical
B. Landscape contracting
B. entrepreneurship
C. Landscape maintenance
C. exploratory
D. none of above
D. supplementary
649. The “rhythm and line” landscape design
principle is illustrated by: 655. Safety is the responsibility of?
A. foundation plantings A. Everyone
B. Repeating colors. B. Owner of the facility

C. Veterinary Technician
C. Repeating plant species.
D. Veterinarian
D. none of above
656. Filler flowers are used in floral design
650. Vegetative growth is the growth of:
for:
A. flowers and fruits
A. add mass and draw attention
B. fruits and roots B. draw attention to focal point
C. leaves, stems, and roots C. establish height, width, and hide ties
D. roots, seeds and flowers D. fill empty spaces and hide ties
651. Insects with this type of mouthpart are 657. Zoey uses a soilless horticultural mix for
most likely to damage plants by carrying her greenhouse because it:
and spreading diseases.
A. comes from the garden
A. Chewing
B. has a lot of weight
B. Sponging
C. is cheap
C. Piercing and sucking
D. is sterile
D. Siphoning
658. Applying the engineering design process
652. Specimen plants generally are to create a new product or service.
A. used alone A. Experimental
B. usually expensive B. Analytical
C. often large trees/floor plants C. Placement
D. All of the above D. Invention

659. What warm-season grass, produced by how many pounds of Nitrogen would the
stolons and rhizomes, grows best in the consumer have purchased?
eastern and coastal Piedmont areas? A. 10
A. Red Fescue B. 6
B. Tall Fescue C. 4
C. Zoysia D. 20
D. Kentucky bluegrass
665. Which plant has feather-like foliage
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660. The procedure for growing container A. Fortune tea olive
stock that Bill uses to shape his azalea B. Plume asparagus fern
plants in the nursery is:
C. Southern red oak
A. fertilizing.
D. Sycamore
B. liming
666. The term horticulture is derived from two
C. pruning
Latin words hortus, meaning ‘garden’, and
D. transplanting meaning ‘cultivation
661. What type of immersion SAE is Monica A. futura
completing by working at a local garden B. cultura
center?
C. cultivar
A. analytical D. flora
B. placement
667. A crescent floral arrangment is shaped
C. service learning like a:
D. entrepreneurship A. circle
662. Each year he horticulture industry puts B. fan
over 25 billion dollars in the economy at C. quarter moon
this level”
D. triangle
A. County
668. The science of soil management and crop
B. State
production.
C. National A. Botany
D. World B. Agronomy
663. What do you do if a tool breaks? C. Forestry
A. Tell the teacher D. Horticulture
B. Hide it somewhere 669. What type of garden needs wind-
C. Stop using it breaks?
D. Throw it at someone A. Vertical
B. Raised bed
664. A 10-6-4 formula of fertilizer to feed
azaleas was purchased at the co-op. If the C. rooftop
consumer bought a 100# of this fertilizer, D. container

670. What type bud is on the side of a stem? C. layering

A. Apical D. budding

B. Lateral
676. a plant that completes its life cycle in one
C. Lentical year
D. Terminal A. annual
671. Which plant has florets on a stalk and is B. deciduous
used in floral designs? C. biennial
A. Cape jasmine D. horticulture
B. Hetzi holly
677. Which of the following describes aesthet-
C. Japanese flowering cherry ics?
D. Snapdragon
A. curative
672. What type of nursery structure protects B. efficiency
plants from adverse weather conditions
C. beauty
when covered in white plastic?
D. hobby
A. Shade house
B. hotbeds 678. is the science that deals with the mi-
C. PNP croscopic structure of plant or animal tis-
sues.
D. Shed
A. Histology
673. Which comes from a Latin word meaning B. Morphology
“garden cultivation” and includes vegeta-
bles, fruits and ornamental plants? C. Cytology
A. agronomy D. Hypocotyl
B. forestry 679. Plants that take three or more years to
C. horticulture complete their life cycle are:
D. zoology A. annuals
674. Marcy mixes perlite in her soilless mix. B. biennials

What is perlite? C. millenniums
A. Bark from a pecan tree D. perennials
B. Dead plant material
680. What Brian learns while serving as FFA
C. Natural volcanic rock Chapter Secretary could be used after
D. Product of seaweed graduation in horticulture organizations
to:
675. Forcing roots to develop while the plant
A. count money.
is still connected to the parent plant prior
to separation is known as: B. prepare budgets.
A. cutting C. preside over meetings.
B. grafting D. write minutes of meetings.

681. When Robert makes a floral design, C. sugar

which flowers does he use to make the out- D. water
line of the arrangement?
A. Bird of paradise 687. If the seed mixture in a deer plot formula
says it has 25% Omega Ryegrass in the
B. Chrysanthemums mixture, how many pounds of Omega Rye-
C. Gladious grass seed are in a 50# bag of the deer
D. Orchids plot mix?
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A. 25#
682. The cultivation of flowers, which includes
the production, distribution, and process- B. 12.5#
ing of flowering and foliage plants C. 50#
A. Floriculture D. 6.25#
B. Horticulture
688. The green pigment in plants is due to the
C. Design by flower presence of
D. none of above A. chlorophyll
683. Janet uses stem cuttings to propagate B. Chlorine
her prize-winning azaleas. What is the C. Chlorophyta
best time of day for Janet to take the cut-
D. chromatophores
tings from her azaleas?
A. early evening 689. Butting two strips of grass together in a
brick pattern is used when
B. early morning
A. sodding
C. late afternoon
B. sprigging
D. mid-day
C. sowing
684. A leaflike part that protects a flower bud
D. Plugging
is a
A. sepal 690. * A place which specializes in growing
and caring for plants, shrubs and ornamen-
B. ovary
tal trees that can later be transported to
C. reproduce landscape areas.
D. none of above A. Nursery
685. The growing of flowers or foliage plants B. House
A. Floriculture C. Temple
B. Landscape horticulture D. Fort
C. Floral production 691. Olericulture deals with growing
D. Olericulture A. Vegetables
686. The main product of photosynthesis is: B. Fruits
A. carbon dioxide C. Nuts
B. nitrogen D. Hibiscus

1.22 Micropropagation 349
692. After the egg in the ovule is fertilized, it B. root

becomes a C. flower

A. seed D. fruit
1.22 Micropropagation
1. In Micropropagation, Which stage the ini- 3. In micropropagation, what is the term
tiation and establishment of culture is used for the plant that has desirable fea-
achieved tures?
A. Stage I A. Broth plant
B. Stage II B. Plant X
C. Stage III C. Parent plant
D. Stage IV D. Stock plant
2. In Plant Tissue Culture, Totipotency means 4. Micropropagation is widely used in

A. Flowering in culture medium and in floriculture.
B. Development of Organ from Tissue un- A. Wilderness

der medium B. Deforestation
C. Development of fruit C. Sustainability
D. None D. Agriculture
1.23 Plant breeding

1. Sonalika and kalyan sona are high yielding B. Monoecious
varieties of C. Protogyny
A. Rice D. Cleistogamy
B. Wheat
4. Law of homologous series of variation
C. Maize states that character found in one species
D. Sugar cane also occur in other
A. Unrelated species
2. Nobel prize for green revolution was given
to B. related species
A. .M.S. Swaminathan C. related genus
B. Borlaug D. unrelated genus
C. Thomson 5. The quickest method of plant breeding is
D. Johannesberg A. introduction
3. Mechanisms that promote cross pollina- B. Selection
tion in maize is C. Hybridisation
A. Dioecious D. Mutation Breeding

1.23 Plant breeding 350
6. The new varieties of plants are produced 12. The source of dwarfing gene sd1 in rice is
by A. IR 8
A. Introduction and mutation B. Dee-gee-woo-gen
B. Selection and hybridisation C. ADT 27
C. Mutation and Selection D. Peta
D. Selection and Introduction
13. Nobilisation of cane refers to
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7. A technique of micropropagation is A. S. spontaneum
A. Multiple root production B. S.indicum
B. Somatic embryogenesis C. S. officianarum
C. Growth of micro organisms on culture D. S.barberi
medium
D. Multiple shoot production and embryo 14. Why is bagging done?
rescue A. To avoid cross pollination
8. Triple fusion leads to formation of B. To avoid self pollination
A. Embryo C. To achieve desired pollination
B. PMC D. To prevent contamination from foreign

pollen
C. Endosperm
D. MMC 15. Who is the father of Green Revolution in
India?
9. Pure line breed refers to A. Satyendra Nath Bose
A. heterozygosity only B. Srinivasa Ramanujan
B. homozygosity only C. M.S. Swaminathan
C. homozygosity and self assortment D. Vikram Sarabhai
D. heterozygosity and linkage
16. The centre of origin for Coffee and Sesame
10. Which of the following is example for Of- is
ten cross pollinated crop? A. Hindusthan
A. Sorghum B. Abyssinian
B. Almond C. Mexican
C. Banana D. China
D. Cherry
17. The entire collection (of plants/seeds) hav-
11. Identify the bacterial disease from the fol- ing all the diverse alleles for all genes in a
lowing given crop is called
A. Turnip Mosaic disease A. Protoplasm
B. Black rot of crucifers B. Collection of variability
C. red rot of sugar cane C. Germplasm collection
D. rusts D. Plant collection

18. Agriculture accounts for per cent of In- C. Kalyan Sona

dia’s GDP D. Jaya Ratna

A. 62
24. In which of the following states did the
B. 30 Green revolution in India first introduced?
C. 33 A. Uttarakhand
D. 70 B. Uttar Pradesh
19. Who proposed the centres of Origin the- C. Punjab
ory? D. Karnataka
A. Mendel
25. Johanssen pureline theory was on the ba-
B. Hopkins sis of studies on
C. Vilmorin A. Phaseolus vulgaris
D. Vavilov B. Pisum sativum
20. Plant breeding is the of plants in order C. Lablab purpureus

to create desired plant types. D. Vigna mungo
A. Breeding 26. The term centres of origin was coined by
B. Manipulation A. Harlan de wet
C. Crossing B. Vavilov
D. none of above C. Zhukovosky
21. A scientist wants to study the viral effects D. Johanssen
on plants. Which of the following part of
27. The centre of origin for Maize is
the plant should be excluded?
A. Hindusthan
A. pith
B. Abyssinian
B. shoot apex
C. Mexican
C. phloem
D. China
D. cortex
28. Who discovered the unit factors of inher-
22. What does GDP stands for? itance by doing series of plant hybridisa-
A. General Disorder of Pancreas tion experiments in 1866?
B. Gross Domestic Product A. John Hopkins
C. Good Domestic Price B. Muller
D. Goods Delay Price C. Mendel
D. Hardy
23. The noble-laureate that successfully
crossed and produced the semi dwarf 29. A pureline is the progeny of a single self
wheat hybrid is: fertilised
A. Norman E Borulag A. heterozygous line
B. M.S. Swaminathan B. homozygous plant

C. heterozygous plant C. Selection

D. homozygous line D. Genetic engineering
30. In , resistance to yellow mosaic virus 36. An objective of plant breeding is

and powdery mildew were induced by mu- A. To produce low yielding crop
tations
B. To decrease responsiveness to fertilis-
A. Mung bean ers in crops
B. Brassica
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C. To produce disease and insect resis-
C. Cauliflower tance crops
D. Wheat D. None of the above
31. Polyploidy is induced through 37. Medicago sativa is a

A. Irradiation A. Normally self pollinated crop
B. Mutagenic chemicals B. Normally Cross pollinated crop
C. Ethylene C. Often cross pollinated crop
D. Colchicine D. both a & b
38. In 700B.C. Assyrians and Babylonians

32. Somatic hybridisation is achieved through
hand pollinated
A. Grafting
A. Maize
B. Conjugation
B. Wheat
C. Protoplast fusion
C. Date palms
D. Recombinant DNA technology
D. Coconut
33. Bagging is done to 39. ‘Fairchild’ is the first artificial hybrid of
A. Avoid cross pollination A. Carnations and Sweet William
B. Avoid self pollination B. Daisy and Rose
C. Achieve desired pollination C. Sunflower and Rose
D. Prevent contamination from foreign D. Rose and Chrysanthemum
pollen
40. Breeding for disease resistance requires
34. Example of often cross pollinated crop is
A. a good source of resistance
A. Maize
B. Planned hybridisation
B. Rice
C. Diseases test
C. Pearl millet
D. all of these
D. Sorghum
41. In homomorphic system of Self incompati-
35. NP-4, kalyan sona and s-227 wheat vari- bility, incompatibility due to phenotype of
eties have developed through pollen is termed as
A. r-ray irradiation A. Gametopyhtic SI
B. Multiple crossing B. Sporohytic SI

C. Distyly 48. The region of domestication for Asian rice

D. Tristyly is river

A. Balsas
42. How many steps are there in plant breed-
ing B. Yangtze
A. 5 C. Niger
B. 6 D. Indus
C. 4 49. Concept of Progeny testing was introduced
D. 2 by
43. The main nodal agency for plant introduc- A. Van der Plank
tion in India is B. Vimorin
A. IPGRI C. M.S. Swaminathan
B. CRRI D. Thomas Fairchild
C. NBPGR
50. The botanical name of Sugarcane is:
D. DRR
A. Oryza sativum
44. Himgiri is a hybrid variety of
B. Saccharum barberi
A. Chilli
C. Pisum Sativum
B. Cauliflower
D. Triticum
C. Cowpea
D. Wheat 51. Pusa komal is resistant to
A. Bacterial blight
45. Thale Cress is an example of
B. Black rot and Curl
A. Inbreeding
C. White rust
B. Hybrid breeding
C. Genetic engineering D. Hill burnt
D. none of above 52. Which of the following is NOT a normally

self pollinated crop?
46. Polyploidy can be induced using
A. Barley
A. Harmones
B. Wheat
B. GAA
C. Ragi
C. IAA
D. Colchicines D. Cotton
47. Backrossing involves crossing 53. Saccharum barberi is grown in

A. Parent and parent A. North india
B. Hybrid and hybrid B. South india
C. Parent and hybrid C. West india
D. none of above D. None of the above

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54. Which of the following crop is not part of B. Wheat

High-Yielding Varieties Programme? C. Jowar
A. Rice D. Pulses
1.24 Plant pathology

1. Banana Bunchytop virus is transmitted by 6. What is a pure culture?
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A. Aphids A. a mixed group of colonies
B. Whitefly B. a group of few dis-similar bacteria
C. Thrips C. a colony of single bacterium
D. Green Leafhopper D. only one bacterium
2. Examples of pathogens from the virus 7. In which phase of growth curve, the cells
group undergoing division is equal to the number
A. Ralstonia of cell death?
B. Erwinia A. lag phase
C. TMV B. log phase
D. CVPD C. stationary phase

D. decline phase
3. In which technique, the ‘L rod’ is used?
A. streak plate method 8. What is the shape of Bacillus cereus
B. spread plate method A. Diplococci
C. serial dilution method B. Spirochetes
D. pour plate method C. Coccobacilli

D. Single rods
4. Viruses are pathogens that cannot live
without their host, this term is called 9. Indian Cassava Mosaic virus is transmitted
A. Abandoned Mandatory by
B. Facultative Parasite A. Aphids
C. Obligate Saprophyte B. Whitefly
D. Facultative Saprophyte C. Thrips

D. Green Leafhopper
5. The most effective and widespread spread
of bacteria is 10. Plant pathogen includes
A. Carried irrigation water A. fungi
B. Active movement with flagella B. bacteria
C. Water splash C. viruses
D. Carried by the wind D. all the above

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11. Tomato spotted wilt virus is transmitted 17. Pasteurization is heating every particle of
by milk to 0c to 30 minutes.

A. Aphids A. 73
B. Whitefly B. 63
C. Thrips C. 53
D. Green Leafhopper D. 103
12. Bhendi Yellow Vein Mosaic virus is trans- 18. Pick up the odd one.
mitted by A. Amphitrichous
A. Aphids B. Ammonotrichus
B. Whitefly C. Lophotrichous
C. Thrips D. Peritrichous
D. Leafhopper 19. Find out the advantage of turbidostat de-
vice?
13. Plant Pathology is the study of
A. open culture device
A. Disease
B. photoelectric device
B. disorder
C. no need for current supply
C. Insect attack
D. cell density increases
D. all the above
20. In Resazurin quality test for milk
14. Rice tungro virus is transmitted by colour indicates excellent quality milk
A. Aphids A. Blue
B. Whitefly B. Pink
C. Thrips C. Purple
D. Green Leafhopper D. White
15. Plant expression in response to pathogen 21. Translocation of viruses in plant tissues be-
infection is called? tween cells via
A. Stomata
A. Sign
B. Lignin
B. Symptoms
C. Guard cells
C. Pathogens
D. Plasmoligands
D. Mother
22. Mention the different sources of potable
16. Bacterial ooze is an example of water
A. Signs A. ground water
B. symptoms B. snow pack water
C. both C. spring water
D. none D. all of these

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23. Among the following, in which culture tech- 26. Which is not a disease caused by bacteria
nique the chance of contamination is mini- is
mum?
A. Spotting
A. batch culture
B. mosaic
B. fed-batch culture
C. Wilted
C. continuous culture
D. Rotten
D. discontinuous culture
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24. Which plant pathogen structure is delicate, 27. Pathogen can survive in
threadlike filaments called hyphae A. Crop residue
A. fungi B. weeds
B. nematodes
C. seeds
C. algae
D. all of these
D. virus
28. Water purification can be done using
25. What is the other name for fermenter?
A. Oxidation pond A. sugar
B. bioreactor B. salt
C. biosensor C. vinegar
D. Oximeter D. liquid chlorine bleach.
1.25 Plant diseases

1. Why do plants infected with TMV have B. Photosynthesis
stunted growth?
C. Magnesum
A. TMV kills new cells
D. none of above
B. TMV causes water loss, causing the
plant to shrink 4. Which of the following are ways to iden-
C. The plant is unable to photosynthesise tify plant diseases?
A. Using a gardening manual
D. none of above B. Take infected plant to be tested in a lab
2. Some glucose is used by plants to produce C. Using monoclonal testing kits
Cellulose, this is used to
D. All of the above
A. build cell membranes
B. strengthen cell walls 5. Why do mint plants smell minty?
C. make the nucleus A. Antibacterial chemicals
D. make ribosomes B. Poisons
3. What is needed to make chlorophyll? C. Pathogens
A. Magnesium D. none of above

6. What benefit does lignin provide? 12. As well as Glucose what is the second
A. It is waterproof product of photosynthesis?
A. Nitrates

B. It strengthens the cell membrane
B. Toffee
C. It is antibacterial
C. Oxygen
D. none of above
D. Nitrogen
7. Viral diseases can be transferred from
plant to plant by: 13. What is meningitis?
A. vegetative propagation A. an infection of the heart

B. an infection of the coverings around
B. mites, nematodes, and thrips
the brain and spinal cord
C. hands and tools
C. an infection of the dura mater
D. all of these D. a sickness of the mind
8. What are the facultative parasites most 14. What is the result of nitrate deficiency in
likely to attack stressed plants? a plant
A. fungi A. Cellulose walls are strengthened
B. epiphyte B. Increased growth
C. galls C. Yellowing of the leaves
D. moss D. Stunted growth, older leave may go
yellow
9. What is waterproof and indigestible?
A. Layer of dead skin 15. Which of the following indicates a plant
has a disease?
B. Leaves falling of
A. Stunted growth
C. Waxy cuticle
B. Spots on leaves
D. Cellulose cell wall
C. Decay or rot
10. When a plant responds to a pathogen by D. All of the above
signalling all infected cells to induce apop-
tosis. 16. What is stunted growth caused by?
A. Water deficiency
A. Hypersensitive response
B. Nitrate deficiency
B. Systemic Acquired response
C. Magnesium deficiency
C. Barrier Defenses
D. CO2 deficiency
D. Cytokine Storm
17. What is the function of a physical de-
11. Plants also need nitrates to make proteins. fence?
They obtain these from
A. Prevent entry and spread of a
A. The air as nitrate ions pathogen
B. The soil as nitrate ions B. Kill a pathogen
C. The air as nitrogen C. Deter a pathogen
D. The soil as nitrogen D. none of above

18. Farmers will often spray plants with pes- 24. What are magnesium Ions needed for?
ticides, why? A. Protein Synthesis
A. Reduce the spread of pathogens. B. Making Chlorophyll
B. So other people don’t eat them C. Communists
C. So children don’t pick at the plant
D. none of above
D. So the pathogens can spread
25. Which of these does not cause plant dis-
19. Which disease is correctly paired with the
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eases
cause of the disease?
A. viruses
A. athlete’s foot-fungi
B. fungi
B. malaria-viruses
C. mineral deficiencies
C. influenza-bacteria
D. ladybirds
D. pneumonia-protists
26. How do plants use nitrate ions that are ab-
20. Some plants have thorns-what type of de- sorbed from the soil.
fence mechanism is this?
A. To make fats
A. Physical
B. To make sugars
B. Chemical
C. To make proteins
C. Mechanical
D. To make starch
D. none of above
27. Which of the following is a Virus?
21. How does Callose prevent the spread of
pathogens? A. TMV
A. Blocks the xylem B. Black Spot
B. Blocks the sieve plates in the xylem C. Crown Gall
C. Blocks the sieve plates in the phloem D. Those dodgy adverts on putlocker
D. Causes abscission 28. What is the meaning of the term c hloro-
22. An organism that carries and transmits sis?
pathogens to humans and other animals. A. Stunted growth
A. virus B. Chlorophyll
B. vector C. Yellowing of the plant
C. toxin D. Nitrate deficiency
D. pathogen
29. The term for red, itchy patches of skin on
23. Some glucose is used by plants to produce the bottom of the feet and between the
Proteins examples of proteins are toes
A. Starch and Fatty Acids A. tinea pedis
B. Chlorophyll and Starch B. nail ringworm
C. Starch and Enzymes C. scalp ringworm
D. Enzymes and Chlorophyll D. honeycomb ringworm

30. A substance that kills cells or interferes 36. What is the name of a growth that blocks
with their function. the xylem?

A. virus A. Callose
B. vector B. Lignin
C. toxin C. Tylose
D. pathogen D. none of above
31. Which protist causes malaria? 37. Which of the following is a mechanical
A. plasmodium plant defence?
B. anopheles A. Producing antibodies
C. trypanosoma B. Thorns and spikes
D. chagas C. Tough waxy cuticles
32. When a plant responds to a pathogen by D. Dead leaves

signalling other parts of the plant to pre- 38. Antibiotics can be used to treat what type
pare for infection by the pathogen. of infection?
A. Hypersensitive response A. Fungal
B. Systemic Acquired response B. Viral
C. Barrier Defenses
C. Bacterial
D. Cytokine Storm
D. none of above
33. Which plants are vunerable to black siga-
39. Black sigatoka is an example of a
toka?
A. Virus
A. Potato
B. Banana B. Protist
C. Tomato C. Bacteria
D. Papaya D. Fungus
34. Tannins are an example of what type of 40. What prevents water from collecting on
defence? the surface?
A. Physical A. Leaves falling of
B. Passive Chemical B. Layer of dead skin
C. Active Chemical C. Waxy cuticle
D. none of above D. cellulose Cell wall
35. What has sharp mouths that helps it feed 41. Stomatal closure is an example of what
on phloem? type of defence?
A. Vector A. Physical
B. The stem B. Passive Chemical
C. Aphids C. Active Chemical
D. Water D. none of above

42. How is rose black spot spread? 48. which one is a plant disease
A. By spores A. TMV
B. By aphids B. Rose Black Spot
C. By pollinating bees C. all of the above
D. By Seeds D. none of above
43. Which of the following is a physical plant 49. HIV is transmitted by
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defence? A. sharing food
A. Producing antibacterial substances B. sweat
B. Thorns and spikes C. mosquito bites
C. Tough waxy cuticles D. exchanging bodily fluids
D. Mimicry
50. HIV stands for
44. Which nutrients are required in relatively A. Human Infections Vaccine
large amounts for plant growth?
B. Human Immunodeficiency Virus
A. manganese, iron, and copper
C. Human Immune Virus
B. nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and
D. Human Inflammatory Vaccine
calcium
C. zinc, sulfur, and boron 51. What is chlorosis caused by?
D. all of these A. Water deficiency
B. Nitrate deficiency
45. What is the result of magnesium deficiency
in a plant C. Magnesium deficiency
A. Cellulose walls are strengthened D. CO2 deficiency
B. Increased growth 52. What can insects do to a plant?
C. Yellowing of the leaves A. Turn Leaves Yellow
D. Stunted growth B. Stunt growth
46. How identify a plant disease C. Damage the stem and leaves
A. Dirt on leaves D. Drop Leaves Early
B. A dry leaf 53. Which isn’t a plant pathogen?
C. Spots on leaves A. TMV
D. A green leaf B. Black spot
47. What is meant by the term stunted C. Aphids
growth? D. Poisons
A. A plant grows too quickly and dies 54. A piece of genetic material surrounded by
B. Increased growth a protein coat.
C. Reduced growth A. virus
D. None of the above B. vector

1.26 Plant propagation 361
C. toxin A. Physical
D. pathogen B. Chemical

55. Addition of lignin to cell walls is an exam- C. Mechanical
ple of what type of defence? D. none of above
A. Physical 57. Which of the following is a chemical plant
B. Passive Chemical defence?
C. Active Chemical A. Producing antibacterial substances
D. none of above B. Thorns and spikes
56. Plants have cellulose walls-what type of C. Layers of dead cells

defence mechanism is this? D. Mimicry
1.26 Plant propagation

1. What word means reproduction? 5. What does stalk mean?
A. Germination A. root
B. Propagation B. stem
C. Fertilization C. fiber
D. Pollination D. plant
2. It is a type of grafting that is done by mak- 6. or are formed at the base of some
ing a wedge cut in the scion plant and mak- trees like mimosa, sassafras, and some
ing a cut in the middle of the stock. plums when the trees are cut.
A. Tube Grafting A. Tillers, suckers
B. Splice Grafting B. Tillers, stolons
C. Whip & Tongue Grafting C. Rhizomes, suckers
D. Cleft Grafting D. Branches, stolons
3. When a bee helps pollinate flowers, it is 7. The female part of a flower is called the
assisting in and the male part of a flower is called the:
A. asexual reproduction A. pistil, stamen
B. sexual reproduction B. stem, root
C. vegetative propogation C. petal, seed
D. fragmentation D. cone, sepal
4. What is perlite used for? 8. With cuttings, a portion of a plant is re-
A. A good soil medium moved and made to form
B. Absorption of water A. Roots
C. Improve drainage B. Leaves
D. All of the above C. Stems

D. Flowers B. Stolons
9. an underground stem that has fleshy, col- C. Cuttings

orless leaves D. Grafting
A. tuber
15. Hydroponics converted to use organic fer-
B. bulb tilizers.
C. root A. Aeroponics
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D. gourd
B. Aquaponics
10. It’s important to keep the cut end of a cut- C. Organoponics
ting until rooted.
D. None of these
A. Moist
B. Dry 16. What does propagation mean?
C. In a sunny location A. Adding biomass to a plant
D. 75 degrees B. Making new plants
11. Benefit of aeroponics C. Plants producing new roots
A. Excellent aeration D. none of above
B. Used on a commercial scale 17. The stalk that attaches the lead blade to
C. Creates mini-ecosy the node?
D. All of these are benefits of aeroponics A. node
12. What do we call the process of increasing B. internode

the numbers of a species, or perpetuation C. petiole
of a species?
D. cotelydon
A. Propagation
B. Sexually 18. Removing the entire basal plate of a true
bulb in order to encourage the formation
C. Asexually of offsets is called:
D. Germination A. scooping
13. Basic composition of plant tissue culture B. separation
medium include I. iron II. vitamins III.
C. scoring
macronutrients IV. micronutrients
D. scaling
A. I, II and III
B. I, II and IV 19. Stem cuttings taken in fall or early winter
C. II, III and IV when the plant is dormant are called:
D. All of the above. A. softwood
B. hardwood
14. A portion of an attached shoot is partially
buried underground where roots develop. C. herbaceous
A. Layering D. semi-hardwood

20. Plants grown in containers of nutrient so- 26. Asexual reproduction produces plants that
lution is what type of hydroponics? are the parents.

A. Static Solution Culture A. Identical to
B. Medium Culture B. Not at all like
C. Irrigation Method Culture C. Somewhat like
D. Aquaponocs D. none of above
21. Used for watering seedlings arranged in 27. Crocus and gladiolus are propagated from:
mass.
A. rhiomes
A. Hose
B. stolons
B. crowbar
C. corms
C. Trowel
D. Wheelbarrow D. tubers
22. A tool with a wooden or metal handle in 28. A broad scoop attached to the handle. It is
which a long blade is attached. used to dig, lift, and throw loose matter.
A. Bolo A. Axe
B. Fork B. Fork
C. Shovel C. Trowel
D. Crowbar D. Shovel
23. Blackberries, rabbit eye blueberries, , 29. Fiber obtained from the husk of a coconut.
and many grasses also produce tillers.
A. Rockwool
A. Raspberries
B. Perlite
B. Strawberries
C. Vermiculte
C. Pomegranates
D. Coir
D. Grapes
30. House plants and shrubs are commonly
24. The symbiotic cultivation of plants & fish propagated by
in a recirculating environment.
A. Cuttings
A. Hydroponics
B. Layering
B. Aeroponics
C. Aquaponics C. Grafting
D. None of these D. Stolons
25. Which is not a part of the seed? 31. What is propagation?

A. Embryo A. To drop the number of plants
B. Seed Coat B. To shrink the number of plants
C. Epidermis C. To increase the number of plants
D. Endosperm D. To decrease the number of plants

32. What does imbibition mean? 38. Strawberries produce stems called
A. Respiration is always occuring that grow horizontally along the soil sur-
face.
B. Some seeds will need light
A. Stolons
C. The absorption of water
B. Rhizomes
D. Temperature has reached a favorable
level for germination. C. Tubers
D. Radicles
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33. The process of growing plants in an air or
mist environment.
39. A plant propagation technique in which
A. Aquaponics only the stem tip is buried.
B. Aeroponics
A. Simple Layering
C. Hydroponics
B. Compound Layering
D. None of these
C. Tip Layering
34. is the best time to take cuttings. D. none of above
A. Early morning
B. Early afternoon 40. How to propagate a durian (Musing King)
tree that will produces fruits in short pe-
C. Early evening riod of time & have a strong root system?
D. Any time it’s dark A. Seed
35. A tool resembling a table fork but much B. Stem cutting
bigger in size.
C. Grafting
A. Axe
D. Air layering
B. Fork
C. Trowel 41. The part of the Irish potato plant responsi-
D. Crowbar ble for vegetative reproduction is:
A. ROOT
36. A tuber bud is known as a
B. STEM
A. node
C. LEAF
B. flower
C. eye D. FRUIT
D. root 42. Rhizomes have swellings that develop

buds that turn into new plants. These are
37. Asexual reproduction may be used to main-
called
tain specimens.
A. Desirable A. eyes
B. Unwanted B. buds
C. Dead C. nodes
D. none of above D. cats

43. What are the two types of vegetative 48. It has the same procedure with the simple
propagation? layering that is used for a plant with long
stems that can be bent every few inches

A. Sexual plant propagation
to produce several roots.
B. asexual plant propagation
A. Simple Layering
C. Plant propagation by grafting and B. Compound Layering
grafting.
C. Tip Layering
D. Both items A and B are correct.
D. none of above
44. Consists of small, round, baked spheres of 49. Cuttings from roses and spring-flowering
clay. pH neutral and provide no nutrient shrubs should be made in , when the
value. shoot is still growing.
A. Vermiculite A. Midsummer
B. Expanded Clay B. Midspring
C. Polystyrene Packing Peanuts C. Midwinter
D. Diahydro D. Midautumn
45. In sexual reproduction, the offspring re- 50. Some plants, like cultivated banana, do
ceives percent of the genetic material not produce
of each parent. A. Seed
A. 25 B. Fruit
B. 50 C. Leaves
C. 75 D. Purple monkeys
D. 100 51. Sexual plant propagation uses for pro-

ducing new plants.
46. It is a horticultural technique whereby tis- A. Leaves
sues of plants are joined so as to continue
their growth together. B. Stems
A. Cutting C. Seeds
D. Roots
B. Layering
C. Grafting 52. Rooting Hormone is place at the base of
cuttings in order to
D. none of above
A. induce rotting
47. Which of the following is NOT an asexual B. keeps cuttings moist
propagation method?
C. induce rooting
A. Leaf cutting D. keeps cuttings fresh
B. Stem cutting
53. In general, the rooting medium for cuttings
C. Grafting should
D. Planting A. Be sterile and low in fertility

B. Be sterile and high in fertility 59. Nutrient solution constantly flows past
roots is what category of hydroponics?
C. None of these answers are correct
A. Static Solution Culture
D. none of above
B. Medium Culture
54. What is medium? C. Aeroponics
A. Soil D. Aquaculture
B. Size
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60. It is done by growing roots from a stem of
C. Dirt a plant that is still attached to the parent
plant.
D. Shape
A. Cutting
55. Iris, Bermuda grass and johnsongrass pro- B. Layering
duce underground stems called
C. Grafting
A. Rhizomes D. none of above
B. Tubers
61. Figs, raspberries, blackberries, and many
C. Stolons ornamentals can be propagated by
D. Substems A. Layering
B. Stolons
56. A tool with a curved blade used for loosen-
ing the ground and taking up small plants. C. Cuttings
A. Axe D. Grafting
B. Fork 62. It is simply done by cutting a part of the

parent plant and planting the cut part in a
C. Trowel
separate container or pot.
D. Crowbar A. Cutting
57. Stem cuttings should have leaves re- B. Layering
tained at the terminal end. C. Grafting
A. 3-4 D. none of above
B. 1-2 63. In , a shoot or scion is removed from
C. 5-6 the desired plant and placed on another
plant.
D. 7-8
A. Grafting
58. What is the passage about? B. Budding
A. Using stem to propagate C. Layering
B. Growing plant by cutting D. Cuttings
C. The number of plant propagation 64. Which of the following is not propagated
D. Propagation by stem cutting and air by seed normally?
layering A. Vegetables

B. Trees 70. Which is an example of asexual plant re-

production?
C. Annuals

A. Tissue Culture
D. Bedding Plants
B. Grafting
65. Temperature, moisture and seed viability C. Cuttings
are factors that affect
D. All of the Above
A. Germination Rates
71. an example of artificial vegetative propa-
B. Hardwood cuttings gation is
C. Softwood cuttings A. a cutting
D. Tree Grafts B. runners
C. layering
66. In , a bud is removed from the desired
D. rhizomes
plant and placed on the stock.
A. Roses 72. In , clumps of plants can be dug and cut
apart to form new plants.
B. Bananas
A. Division
C. Tomatoes
B. Grafting
D. Blackberries C. Rooting
67. Orchids and other plants that are difficult D. Cuttings
to propagate are commonly grown by: 73. Asexual propagation is
A. budding A. reproduction of plants by seed
B. layering B. propagating sexually
C. seed propagation C. reproduction of plants by using other
plant parts
D. tissue culture
68. What does separate mean?
74. an underground stem is
A. grow A. grafting
B. make B. cutting
C. divide C. tuber
D. attach D. flower
75. Which type of asexual propagation will
69. Which of the following plant parts is not
normally not work on woody type
used in asexual propagation?
plants?
A. stems
A. Stem cuttings
B. roots B. Leaf cuttings
C. leaves C. Layering
D. seeds D. Root cuttings

76. What is the form of natural vegetative 78. What is an example of sexual plant repro-
propagation that occurs when a plant duction?
droops and the drooping stems form roots A. Seed Dispersal
and new plants?
B. Cuttings
A. rhizomes
B. cutting C. Separation/Division
C. runners D. Cloning
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D. Layering 79. Propagation by is the most common
77. A can hasten rooting, increase the num- method of asexual or vegetative reproduc-
ber of roots, and obtain uniform rooting. tion.
A. rooting hormone A. Cutting

B. hot day B. Division
C. fertilizer C. Grafting
D. cold day D. Layering

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