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Individual ferns are capable of producing significantly more spores that individual moss plants. Which adaptation is most directly related to this capability?
If a male and female flower are on the same plant, that plant would be considered:
If all fungi that perform decomposition in an environment die, which group of organisms should benefit most, due to reduced competition?
A geologist asks you to look at some ocean sediment, knowing this "dirt" contains the remains of dead protists whose hard shells have fossilized. You mix the sediment with water and examine it under the microscope. The "shells" or "tests" you observe will most likely belong to which group(s)?
Place these flowering plant life cycle steps
Joe Student is looking through a microscope at a sample of planktonic life filtered from the Gulf of Mexico. He discovers a single-celled organism with no pigmentation, but with a glassy-looking and porous shell or skeleton. Through the pores, tiny extensions of cytoplasm extend out in all directions, stiffened by thin rods. Joe is correct in thinking he is observing a member of the____________________.
The genetic recombination that occurs during conjugation in the ciliate Paramecium most directly involves
Looking under the microscope, you see hyphae that are coenocytic. What are you likely to see (select all that apply)?
Which of the following would describe the gametophyte generation in a plant?
_________ are plants with specific genes from other organisms (from viruses to humans) inserted into the genome.A. transgenicB. polyploid plantsC. hybrid plantsD. heirloom plantsE. somatic hybrid plants
In the ferns and horsetails, dispersal to new locations occurs through__________
In the fungi, the process that directly produces the zygote stage is called
The plant-pollinator relationship is often cited as an example of "coevolution." If a pollinator locates a flower on the basis of its color (and receives a reward of nectar), then you would predict that, over time,
An individual fern sporophyte is able to produce far more spores than an individual moss sporophyte because, unlike the moss, the fern sporophyte has
Which essential organelle, which is present in all other Eukaryotes, is functionally absent in the parabasilids and diplomonads?
Most fungi spend the majority of their life cycle as
Which of the following specialized leaves are found in plants living in arid environments?A. Reproductive LeavesB. Both Window Leaves and Succulent LeavesC. Window LeavesD. Succulent LeavesE. Flowerpot Leaves
This group of organisms have pairs of flagella located in perpendicular grooves, and includes Karenia brevis, a common cause of red-tides on the Gulf coast.
True or False: Anthocyanins are water-soluble pigments found in vacuoles.
If you need to produce somatic hybrids, you could form them by combiningA. 2 parenchyma cells from the same plantB. egg and sperm nucleiC. 2 parenchyma cells from different plantsD. egg and polar nucleiE. none of the above