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WSU Biology 106 Exam 1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2024) 100 Questions
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WSU Biology 106 Exam 1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2024) 100 Questions Most species extinction can be traced to what four major threats? - Correct Answer ✅Climate change, habitat destruction, over harvesting, and the introduction of species.Name three functions of the root? - Correct Answer ✅Anchors the plant, absorbs minerals and water, and stores organic nutrients.
What part of the root system is responsible for absorbing the majority of minerals and water? - Correct Answer ✅The root
hair.
What two components create the stem? - Correct Answer ✅Internodes and nodes.
What are nodes? - Correct Answer ✅The points where leaves attach to the stem.
What are internodes? - Correct Answer ✅The stem segment
between nodes. WSU Biology 106 Exam 1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2024) 100 Questions What are auxiliary buds? - Correct Answer ✅Structures that
can form lateral shoots (branches).
What is a terminal bud? - Correct Answer ✅Structure located at the tip of the stem, responsible for elongation.
What is a leaf? - Correct Answer ✅A component of the shoot system that is responsible for most photosynthesis.
What are the two main parts of a leaf? - Correct Answer ✅Blade and petiole.
What is a petiole? - Correct Answer ✅A stalk, joins leaf blade to node of stem.
What are the three main types of tissue systems? - Correct Answer ✅Dermal, vascular, and ground. WSU Biology 106 Exam 1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2024) 100 Questions What is the purpose of the dermal system? - Correct Answer ✅T o provide a protective cover of the plant.
What are two components of the dermal tissue system? - Correct Answer ✅The epidermis and the periderm.
What is the epidermis? - Correct Answer ✅An outer layer of
tightly packed cells.
What is the periderm? - Correct Answer ✅A layer that replaces the epidermis in old, woody plants.
What is the purpose of the vascular system and what are the two main components? - Correct Answer ✅T o transport materials between roots and shoots; xylem and phloem.
What is xylem? - Correct Answer ✅Vascular tissue that conducts water and dissolved minerals upwards from the root
to the shoot.
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