2018 Master Gardener Botany Quiz

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Master Gardener Botany Quiz

Test your knowledge of botany with our comprehensive Master Gardener Botany Quiz! Designed for garden enthusiasts, this quiz covers a wide variety of topics including plant biology, botanical terminology, and growth processes.

Challenge yourself and discover:

How well you understand plant classifications
The differences between monocots and dicots
The functions of plant tissues

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by GardeningGuru321

Dahlia hortensis 'Kidd's Climax' belongs to a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native to Mexico. A member of the Asteraceae, and are dicotyledonous plants. Related species include the sunflower, daisy, chrysanthemum, and zinnia. The name Dahlia hortensis 'Kidd's Climax' gives us the following information in order...

Species, genus, cultivar

Cultivar, genus species

Genus, species, cultivar

Plants that are in the gymnosperm class of plants reproduce using a flower, with the resulting seed being born in a fruit

True

False

You buy the latest cultivar of plant because you just love the color, it is a color unlike anything you have seen in this species before. I was really expensive so your plan is to collect seeds from it so that you can have 15 more just like it next year. Will this work?

Yes

____________________________ moves water up from the roots out to the leaves of a tree. __________________________ moves sugars produce during photosynthesis downward towards the roots

Phloem, zylem

Zylem, phloem

The tissue within the stem where growth occurs is known as the _________________________

Bark

Cambium

Zylem

Phloem

The bud at the end of a stem is known as the ________________________bud, it contains the hormone auxin that tells it to keep growing upward towards the light. If this bud is removed through pruning the __________________________ buds will begin to grow

Terminal, axillary

Axillary, terminal

We can determine how much a tree grew in a particular season by ________________________________.

Looking at the distance between the nodes

Finding the bud scale scar

Measuring the height of the stem

______________________________ is the process by which trees lose water from their leaves into the atmosphere, this process helps to move water from the roots, up through the zylem towards the leaves.

Photosynthesis

Respiration

Transpiration

Precipitation

2018 Master Gardener Botany Quiz

Master Gardener Botany Quiz

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