Seed Development Quiz

Which type of plants have male and female flowers on the same plant?

What type of plants have female and male flowers on separate plants?

What percentage of angiosperm pollination relies on animal pollinators?

Which type of flowers are generally brightly colored and have lines or other distinctive markings?

Which type of flowers smell like rotten meat?

Which type of flowers are often bright red or yellow and attract hummingbirds and sunbirds?

Which part of the flower is responsible for attracting pollinators?

What is the male part of the flower called?

What is the female part of the flower called?

What is the term for a cluster of flowers arranged on a floral axis?

What is the term for flowers that contain both male and female organs?

What is the term for plants that produce only male or only female flowers?

Which cells in the plant body are capable of dividing and specializing, enabling plants to regenerate lost parts?

What is the process called when detached stem and/or root tissues can regenerate an entire new plant with full structure and function?

What is the term for the concept that every cell in a plant has the inherent genetic ability to reproduce the entire plant?

What is a group of plants derived from the same parent plant by asexual propagation called?

What is the advantage of asexual reproduction in plant propagation settings?

What is the disadvantage of asexual reproduction in terms of genetic diversity?

Which part of the seed is responsible for anchoring the embryo in soil and beginning water uptake?

What is the term for the uptake of water into the seed that initiates seed germination?

Which type of germination involves the hypocotyl elongating and forming a hook that pulls the cotyledons above ground?

What are the general requirements for seed germination?

What is the difference between primary dormancy and secondary dormancy?

Which type of fruit develops from a single carpel or pistil?

Which of the following is a characteristic of apomixis?

What is parthenocarpy?

What is the advantage of sexual reproduction in a natural environment?

What is self-pollination?

What is self-incompatibility?

What is heterosis or hybrid vigor?

Which type of flowers are often brightly colored, mostly blue or yellow, and have lines or other distinctive markings that function as landing platforms and nectar guides?

What is the term for the nutritive tissue in seeds that provides energy to the developing embryo and germinating seed?

Which type of flowers produce female and male flowers on separate plants, forcing cross-pollination?

What is the term for the process in angiosperms where one sperm fuses with the egg cell to form a zygote, and another sperm fuses with two polar nuclei to form endosperm?

Which type of flowers have a strong, yeasty, spicy, or fruity odor, and are often white or dull in color?

What is the term for the advantage of sexual reproduction in a natural environment?

Which part of the flower attracts pollinators and provides a landing strip?

What is the term for a cluster of flowers arranged on a floral axis?

What is the term for flowers that contain both male and female floral organs?

What is the term for plants that produce only male or only female flowers?

What is the term for plants with separate male and female flowers on the same plant?

What is the term for plants that produce flowers lacking one or more floral organs?

Which type of asexual reproduction involves the regeneration of an entire new plant with full structure and function from detached stem and/or root tissues?

What is the term for a group of organisms descended by mitosis from a common ancestor?

Which method of asexual plant propagation involves the production of adventitious roots from a stem and requires the cells near the wound to dedifferentiate and create a new meristematic region?

Which method of asexual plant propagation involves the roots being produced on a branch or stem, and works well for plants that are not easy to propagate by cuttings?

Which method of asexual plant propagation involves segments of different plants being connected and induced to grow together as one plant?

Which method of asexual plant propagation involves growing and maintaining plants in a disease-free status in test tubes, and relies on the totipotency of plant cells?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a simple fruit?

Which of the following is a characteristic of an aggregate fruit?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a multiple fruit?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a drupe fruit?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a pome fruit?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a dehiscent fruit?

Which of the following is a mechanism to ensure self-pollination in plants?

What is the term for a breeding system that induces cross pollination by having male flower parts shed pollen before female flower parts are receptive?

What is the term for a mechanism that prevents self-pollination in some plants, even though the flowers are perfect, pollen is viable, and stigma is receptive?

What is the term for a breeding system that induces cross pollination by having flowers with different lengths of stamens or carpels?

What is the term for the process of repeated self pollination of a hybrid to produce homozygosity?

What is the term for a seedling population created by crossing inbred (homozygous) lines?