Botany 201 Practice for Exam II
Botany 201 Practice - Exam II
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1) A single International Code for Botanical Nomenclature was not in place until:

  1. 1753
  2. 1930
  3. 1910
  4. 1813
  5. 1966
2) A parenthetical authority indicates:

  1. The name was published before 1753
  2. Two authors are responsible for the name
  3. There has been a change since original publication
  4. One author is paying tribute to another
  5. The name was not effectively published
3) A(n) __________ will mature to form a fruit, whereas a seed represents a mature ___________.

  1. egg, carpel
  2. carpel, pericarp
  3. ovary, ovule
  4. locule, ovary
  5. ovule, septum
4) Match Botanist with activity: J. C. Willis

  1. First defined the angiosperm life cycle
  2. Dictionary to Flowering Plants and Ferns - 1973
  3. Species Plantarum - 1753
  4. Believed that the Hamameliidae are archaic
  5. Believed that the Magnoliidae are archaic
5) Match Botanist with activity: C. Bessey

  1. First defined the angiosperm life cycle
  2. Dictionary to Flowering Plants and Ferns - 1973
  3. Species Plantarum - 1753
  4. Believed that the Hamameliidae are archaic
  5. Believed that the Magnoliidae are archaic
6) Match Botanist with activity: A. Engler

  1. First defined the angiosperm life cycle
  2. Dictionary to Flowering Plants and Ferns - 1973
  3. Species Plantarum - 1753
  4. Believed that the Hamameliidae are archaic
  5. Believed that the Magnoliidae are archaic
7) Match Botanist with activity: C. Linnaeus

  1. First defined the angiosperm life cycle
  2. Dictionary to Flowering Plants and Ferns - 1973
  3. Species Plantarum - 1753
  4. Believed that the Hamameliidae are archaic
  5. Believed that the Magnoliidae are archaic
8) Match Family with capsule dehiscence tendency: denticidal

  1. Papaveraceae
  2. Caryophyllaceae
  3. Winteraceae
  4. Polygonaceae
  5. Lauraceae
9) Match Family with capsule dehiscence tendency: poricidal

  1. Lauraceae
  2. Caryophyllaceae
  3. Winteraceae
  4. Polygonaceae
  5. Papaveraceae
10) Match term with definition: anthesis

  1. pollinated by insects
  2. plant adapted to high-salt conditions
  3. flower open and fully expanded
  4. diploid nutritive tissue
  5. fusion of unlike parts
11) Match term with definition: perisperm

  1. pollinated by insects
  2. plant adapted to high-salt conditions
  3. flower open and fully expanded
  4. diploid nutritive tissue
  5. fusion of unlike parts
12) Match term with definition: entomophilous

  1. pollinated by insects
  2. plant adapted to high-salt conditions
  3. flower open and fully expanded
  4. diploid nutritive tissue
  5. fusion of unlike parts
13) Match term with definition: adnation

  1. pollinated by insects
  2. plant adapted to high-salt conditions
  3. flower open and fully expanded
  4. diploid nutritive tissue
  5. fusion of unlike parts
14) Match term with definition: halophyte

  1. pollinated by insects
  2. plant adapted to high-salt conditions
  3. flower open and fully expanded
  4. diploid nutritive tissue
  5. fusion of unlike parts
15) Match features with associated taxa: epigyny

  1. Polygonaceae
  2. Thalictrum
  3. Cactaceae
  4. Ficus
  5. Caryophyllaceae
16) Match features with associated taxa: ocrea

  1. Polygonaceae
  2. Thalictrum
  3. Cactaceae
  4. Ficus
  5. Caryophyllaceae
17) Match features with associated taxa: free-central placentation

  1. Polygonaceae
  2. Thalictrum
  3. Cactaceae
  4. Ficus
  5. Caryophyllaceae
18) Match features with associated taxa: anemophily

  1. Polygonaceae
  2. Thalictrum
  3. Cactaceae
  4. Ficus
  5. Caryophyllaceae
19) Match features with associated taxa: synconium

  1. Polygonaceae
  2. Thalictrum
  3. Cactaceae
  4. Ficus
  5. Caryophyllaceae
20) According to the International Code for Botanical Nomenclature which of the following is required for EFFECTIVE publication of a name:

  1. Designation of a name
  2. Description (native language)
  3. Diagnosis (Latin)
  4. Designation of a Type Specimen
  5. Publication in a broadly distributed journal
21) Identify the Subclass: Mostly herbaceous, with basal or free-central placentation, perisperm and a peripheral embryo.

  1. Magnoliidae
  2. Hamamelidae
  3. Caryophyllidae
22) Identify the Subclass: Mostly woody, syncarpous, and apetalous.

  1. Magnoliidae
  2. Hamamelidae
  3. Caryophyllidae
23) Identify the Family: Mostly herbs with swollen nodes, opposite leaves and a syncarpous, multiovulate gynoecium:

  1. Caryophyllaceae
  2. Papaveraceae
  3. Polygonaceae
  4. Amaranthaceae
  5. Moraceae
24) Identify the Family: Mostly herbs with swollen nodes, alternate leaves, and a syncarpous, uniovulate gynoecium:

  1. Caryophyllaceae
  2. Papaveraceae
  3. Polygonaceae
  4. Cactaceae
  5. Moraceae
25) Identify the Family: Herbs, trees, and shrubs with incomplete syncarpy - considered by Cronquest to represent a 'basal element' of the Caryophyllidae:

  1. Cactaceae
  2. Polygonaceae
  3. Phytolaccaceae
  4. Chenopodiaceae
  5. Amaranthaceae
26) Identify the Family: Woody plants with a circular stipule scar and imperfect flowers:

  1. Magnoliaceae
  2. Moraceae
  3. Fagaceae
  4. Juglandaceae
  5. Urticaceae
27) Identify the Family: Fruit fully enclosed by connate involucral bracts:

  1. Papaveraceae
  2. Cannabaceae
  3. Amaranthaceae
  4. Juglandaceae
  5. Moraceae
28) Identify the Family: Woody plants with a circular stipule scar and perfect flowers:

  1. Magnoliaceae
  2. Moraceae
  3. Fagaceae
  4. Juglandaceae
  5. Urticaceae
29) Identify the Family: Flowers often solitary with archaic androperianth (actinomorphic - many parted, no connation, weak calyx/corolla differentiation) and specialized gynoecium (epigynous):

  1. Cactaceae
  2. Winteraceae
  3. Fagaceae
  4. Lauraceae
  5. Amaranthaceae
30) Identify the Family: Fruit subtended by connate involucral bracts:

  1. Winteraceae
  2. Fagaceae
  3. Juglandaceae
  4. Magnoliaceae
  5. Caryophyllaceae
31) Identify the Family: Gynoecium of a single flower composed of separate carpels:

  1. Ranunculaceae
  2. Caryophyllaceae
  3. Chenopodiaceae
  4. Papaveraceae
  5. Cactaceae
32) Identify the Family: Dioecious, herbaceous, anemophilous plants:

  1. Juglandaceae
  2. Caryophyllaceae
  3. Cannabaceae
  4. Papaveraceae
  5. Cactaceae
33) Identify the Family: Succulent herbs of the western hemisphere, usually leafless at maturity:

  1. Winteraceae
  2. Caryophyllaceae
  3. Urticaceae
  4. Papaveraceae
  5. Cactaceae
34) Identify the Family: Aquatic, herbaceous perennials of the Magnoliidae that might reflect phyletic linkage between Classes of the Magnoliophyta:

  1. Ranunculaceae
  2. Magnoliaceae
  3. Winteraceae
  4. Papaveraceae
  5. Nymphaeaceae
35) Identify the Family: Gynoecia of separate flowers connate at maturity:

  1. Nymphaeaceae
  2. Moraceae
  3. Fagaceae
  4. Polygonaceae
  5. Urticaceae
36) Identify the Family: Herbaceous plants with unisexual flowers and stinging hairs:

  1. Papaveraceae
  2. Chenopodiaceae
  3. Ranunculaceae
  4. Urticaceae
  5. Caryophyllaceae
37) Identify the Family: Fruit a capsule:

  1. Ranunculaceae
  2. Cactaceae
  3. Papaveraceae
  4. Winteraceae
  5. Cannabaceae
38) Identify the Family: Woody perennials of the southern hemisphere, lacking vessel elements in the xylem:

  1. Papaveraceae
  2. Juglandaceae
  3. Fagaceae
  4. Winteraceae
  5. Magnoliaceae
39) Select, from the following options, the most archaic condition, i.e., the structural configuration of the early angiosperms:

  1. simple leaves
  2. compound leaves
  3. no leaves
40) Select, from the following options, the most archaic condition, i.e., the structural configuration of the early angiosperms:

  1. opposite leaves
  2. alternate leaves
  3. whorled leaves
41) Select, from the following options, the most archaic condition, i.e., the structural configuration of the early angiosperms:

  1. polypetaly
  2. sympetaly
  3. epipetaly
  4. apetaly
  5. synsepaly
42) Select, from the following options, the most archaic condition, i.e., the structural configuration of the early angiosperms:

  1. epigyny
  2. hypogyny
  3. perigyny
  4. digyny
43) Select, from the following options, the most archaic condition, i.e., the structural configuration of the early angiosperms:

  1. parietal placentation
  2. marginal placentation
  3. axile placentation
  4. free-central placentation
  5. basal placentation
44) Select, from the following options, the most archaic condition, i.e., the structural configuration of the early angiosperms:

  1. zygomorphy
  2. actinomorphy
  3. monomorphy
  4. xeromorphy
  5. halomorphy
45) Of those families surveyed to date, which of those listed below includes only two genera:

  1. Cactaceae
  2. Magnoliaceae
  3. Chenopodiaceae
  4. Cannabaceae
  5. Fagaceae
46) The terms caducous and fugacious refer to:

  1. Levels of connation
  2. Placentation patterns
  3. Early loss
  4. Gynoecium position relative to the androperianth
  5. Pubescence
47) The term 'accrescent' refers to:

  1. Early loss
  2. Capsule dehiscence
  3. Continued development/expansion
  4. Withering
  5. Deviated septa
48) The 'Principal of Priority' (International Code for Botanical Nomenclature) extends back in time to:

  1. 1440
  2. 1930
  3. 1910
  4. 1813
  5. 1753
49) The nomenclatural type that was designated by the author as the type specimen is known as the:

  1. neotype
  2. lectotype
  3. holotype
  4. isotype
  5. paratype
50) The nomenclatural type that was not designated by the author as the type specimen is known as the:

  1. neotype
  2. lectotype
  3. holotype
  4. isotype
  5. paratype
51) Which family of the Magnoliidae provides us with Guacamole and Root Beer?

  1. Lauraceae
  2. Papaveraceae
  3. Winteraceae
  4. Nymphaeaceae
  5. Ranunculaceae
52) Which family of the Magnoliidae shows a syncarpous gynoecium:

  1. Ranunculaceae
  2. Magnoliaceae
  3. Winteraceae
  4. Papaveraceae
  5. Fagaceae
53) Where would you look to see if there is an herbarium in Houston?

  1. Index Herbariorum
  2. Gray Herbarium Index
  3. Index Kewensis
54) Where would you look to determine the date of publication for a Rose species native to China?

  1. Index Herbariorum
  2. Gray Herbarium Index
  3. Index Kewensis
55) Where would you look to find betalains:

  1. Lauraceae
  2. Papaveraceae
  3. Chenopodiaceae
  4. Juglandaceae
  5. Ranunculaceae
56) Which element of the Hamamelidae is a significant cash crop in Texas:

  1. Ficus
  2. Artocarpus
  3. Urtica
  4. Carya
  5. Fagus
57) The following sequence of taxonomic names represents which sequence of ranks in the taxonomic hierarchy: Magnoliidae, Liliopsida, Liriodendron, Ranunculaceae, Papaverales

  1. genus, family, order, class, division
  2. species, family, subclass, variety, tribe
  3. subclass, class, genus, family, order
  4. family, order, class, genus, subclass
  5. order, family, genus, class, subclass
58) The ______________ is unique to the Magnoliophyta.

  1. xylem
  2. seed
  3. pollen grain
  4. gametophyte
  5. fruit
59) Epiphytic element of the Cactaceae that includes species distributed beyond the 'native' family range (New World):

  1. Pereskia
  2. Opuntia
  3. Rhipsalis
  4. Lophophora
  5. Dianthus
60) Archaic (within the Family) shrubs of South American with photosynthetic leaves and areoles:

  1. Pereskia
  2. Opuntia
  3. Rhipsalis
  4. Lophophora
  5. Dianthus
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