Botany Sample test questions

These questions will be similar to the ones on Test 4 (Chapters 8, 14, 24 & 19).
1). How many times during its life does a biennial plant flower?
    a) once      b) twice     c) many times     d) never

2). What is an inflorescence? _______________________________________


3). Which type of inflorescence has flowers that form a flat surface?
    a) catkins    b) umbels   c) raceme     d) corymb


4). The fleshy tissue of a fruit is called the _____carp.


5). A Strawberry is an example of a:
    a) drupe      b) berry     c) multiple fruit     d) aggregate fruit

6). An olive is an example of a:  
    a) drupe      b) berry     c) multiple fruit     d) aggregate fruit

7).  A cucumber is an example of a:
    a) drupe      b) berry     c) multiple fruit     d) aggregate fruit


8).  What type of fruit does an orchid produce? _______________________


9).  Roughly how long have humans been farming? ________________


10). Roughly how old is our species (Homo sapiens)?
     a) 10,000 years          b) 150,000 years
     c) 1 million years       d) 6 million years


11). Wheat was first domesticated in:
     a) China       b) Peru      c) Middle East      d) Mexico


12). When was the "green revolution"? ____________________


13). Give an example of a self-pollinating crop: ____________________


14). What does "protoplast fusion" mean? ___________________________

     __________________________________________________________________


15). What is one problem with GM crops? __________________________________


16). What is a disadvantage of asexual propagation of crops?
    
     ____________________________________________________________________ 


17). Spices such as cinnamon and camphor are in the ____ family
     a) laurel      b) mustard      c) spurge      d)  nightshade


18). Which two pain killers are produced from poppies? ____________________


19). Cabbage and broccoli are in the _________________  family


20). Which family of plants includes mint, sage and basil? _________________


21). Explain what is meant by "crop rotation":

     _______________________________________________________________________


22). Cucurbitaceae is commonly called the ___ family.
     a) mustard      b) spurge     c) cucumber     d) pumpkin


23).  "Fly agaric" is the common name for the genus __1__ which is a __2__
      a) Armillaria ; ascomycete        b) Amanita ; ascomycete
      c) Armillaria ; basidiomycete     d) Amanita ; basidiomycete


24).  Peanuts infected by the fungus __________________ contain chemicals
      called aflatoxins which increase the risk of ____________ cancer


25).   What genus of fungus is used to make soy sauce ?  ____________________


26).  Compare how the spores are dispersed in the genus Phallus and Pilobolus:

       Phallus: ____________________________________________________________

       Pilobolus: __________________________________________________________


27).   What is meant by "plasmogamy"? _______________________________________


28).   Which genus of fungus is used to make tofu?
      a) Saccharomyces  b) Rhizopus  c) Aspergillus  d) Entomophthora

29).  Roughly how many species are in the phylum Ascomycota?
      a) 1,000      b) 60,000      c) 10,000      d) 30,000


30).  What is the genus and phylum of truffles, that are collected in woods
      using either pigs or dogs ?  
      Genus: ____________________       Phylum: __________________________