Exam 2  Updated Spring 2011

Plant classification Lecture 6

Text 123-134

Ch. 9 (but skip box 9.1 on Life Cycles)

 

  9 questions
Flowers Lab 4

Text  Ch. 5 (but skip "Meiosis" p. 78-81)

Lecture 7

  3 questions

1 short answer (8 points)

 
Leaves and Fruit Lab 5 and 6

Text Ch 6, Ch.3 p.35-47

Lecture 7

 7 questions
Herbal medicine Text Ch. 19 & 20 (Focus is on Ch. 19)

Lecture 8

  20 questions
Poisonous and allergy plants Lecture 9

Text Ch. 21

 2 questions
Deserts Lecture 10 5 question

Lecture 6: Classification

1. What is taxonomy?

2. Explain the three domain system of life.

3, In the domain Eukarya, give an example of an organism in each of the 4 kingdoms.

4. Plant kingdom: Give characteristics of Bryophytes, Pterophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms

5. Put the following into Family , Genus, species:

                    Pinaceae Pseudotsuga menziesii

Lab 4: Flowers

1. What are the 4 whorls of a flower?

2.  How does a monocot flower differ from a dicot flower?

3.  Why are flowers pollinated?

4.  How does pollination differ from fertilization?

5. Do all flowers have both male and female parts?

6. Explain self-pollination vs. cross-pollination

 

Labs 5 and 6: Leaves and fruit

1. What is a fruit?

2.  What is the function of a fruit's seeds and the flesh ovary wall?

3.  What is the function of leaves, stems, roots?

4.  What is a compound leave vs. a simple leave?

5. Can you recognize a node and internode?

6. What is an alternate, opposite, and whorled leaf arrangement?

 

Lecture 8: Herbal Medicine

1.  Give some of the history of herbal medicine use.

   a.  Ancient Egypt

   b.  Early North America

2.  What was the first plant drug isolated by chemists?

3.  What is phase 1, 2 and 3 of clinical drug testing in  the U.S.?

4.  What is the placebo effect?

5. How would you recognize an alkaloid?

6. What is cancer?

7.  Who is the father of cancer prevention and what did he do?

8.  How are herbal drugs regulated in the U. S.?

9.  What is the difference between and herbal remedy and a prescription drug?

Lecture 9: Poisonous and allergy plants

1.  What functions do poisons serve in plants?

2. What is an allergy?

3. What can be done to decrease plant allergies in Phoenix?

Lecture 10: Deserts

1.  Give 2 reasons why deserts of the world form where they do.

2.  Why does the Sonoran desert have the most abundant plant and animal life of the 4 deserts of N. America?

3.  What are the 3 lifestyle strategies that plants have that allow them to survive in the desert?