Bot 331 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

There are two types of nucleic acids: DNA and RNA. There is both DNA and RNA inside the nucleus, mitochondria and plastids. Is there both DNA and RNA in the cytosol? Explain your answer - Answer No, not both. DNA remains in the nucleus. RNA copies of genes are synthesized in the nucleus, but then moved out pores into the cytosol, where ribosomes (also containing RNA) bind RNA and use the RNA to direct synthesis of proteins. In the case of plastids and mitochondria, RNA copies of the organelle...

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BOT 331 Chapter 3 Water & Plant Cells Questions with Correct Answers

Which mutant has a greatly increased number of stem cells in the shoot apical mersistem? A mutant that has NO functional WUS. A mutant that has NO functional PIN protein. A mutant that has NO functional CLAVATA3. A mutant that has NO functional WOX5. - Answer A mutant that has NO functional CLAVATA3. Choose a tropism. State how the environmental cue is perceived AND explain how perception causes growth to be redirected towards or away from the cue. - Answer Phototropism occurs when a ...

BOT 331 Chapter 8: The Carbon Reactions Questions with Correct Answers

True/false, if false explain why Accessory pigments transfer excited electrons to the chlorophyll a molecules at the reaction center of PSII. - Answer False, accessory pigments transfer energy, but do not transfer electrons. Right, so the statement is False - electrons are NOT transferred True/false, if false explain why The flow of electrons through the ATP synthase is coupled to generating ATP. - Answer False, the flow of protons, NOT electrons, through the ATP synthase is coupled to gen...

what family are in solanaceae? - Correct Answer-tabacco, tomatoes eggplant, peppers, potato What plants are in the Asteraceae? - Correct Answer-Sunflower, dandelion, lettuce Brassicaceae - Correct Answer-Mustard family, cabbage, beet, cauliflower Lamiaceae - Correct Answer-Mint family (black sage) Theaceae - Correct Answer-tea family (green, white, and black tea) aquifoliaceae - Correct Answer-Holly Family (yerba mate) lauraceae - Correct Answer-Laurel Family (bay leaves) Po...

BOT 331 Exam 3 | with complete solution | Latest

How were the first cells discovered? - Answer by Robert Hooke when making sections of cork and looking at them under a microscope Why are both the bristlecone pine and the quaking aspen considered the "longest living" plant? - Answer they are a "population" or single organism aspen - bc they propagate themselves by having new shoots coming up from the roots and the older part dies off, if you consider it one organism rather than a population What is Arabidopsis thaliana and what ar...

Main components of plant structure - Answer Root and Shoot plasma membrane - Answer A selectively-permeable phospholipid bilayer forming the boundary of the cells Phospholipids - Answer a lipid consisting of a glycerol bound to two fatty acids and a phosphate group. integral proteins - Answer embedded in the membrane peripheral proteins - Answer bound to the surface of the membrane by ionic of h bond Anchored proteins - Answer bound to membrane via lipid molecule or fatty acid ...