| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Bacteria involved in nitrogen fixation | Bacteriod | 100%
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| Calcium deficiency typical example | Blossom end rot | 100%
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| Macronutrients | Calcium | 100%
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| Growth in Thompson Seedless grapes, stimulation of barley malting in the beer-brewing industry, increasing sugar yield in sugarcane, Reduce stem length/lodging in wheat, Pix (mepiquat chloride) reduces production of gibberellin in the plant, used in floral crops to control the size of container-grown ornamental plants | Commercial GA uses | 100%
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| Promotes shoot cell division, regulates auxin action and distribution, delays leaf senescence, promotes nutrient movement, involved in the formation of N-fixing nodules in legumes | Cytokinin | 100%
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| Phytohormone responsible for green revolution due to GA adjustments resulting in semidwarf varieties that put more energy into seed production instead of stem growth, resulting in sturdier plants, important in seed germination | Gibberellin | 100%
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| Macronutrients | Magnesium | 100%
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| Regulation of auxin action and distribution | Morphogenesis | 100%
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| Macronutrients | Nitrogen | 100%
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| Signal that initiates nodulation on the plant | Nod factor | 100%
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| Nitrogenase enzyme is highly sensitive to inhibition by this gas | Oxygen | 100%
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| Macronutrients | Phosphorus | 100%
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| Functional plant unit that includes a node, internode, leaf, and apical meristem | Phytomer | 100%
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| Group of similar cells working together | Plant tissue | 100%
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| Macronutrients | Potassium | 100%
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| Macronutrients | Sulfur | 100%
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| Time frame of N2 fixation after Nod factor recognition | 10 to 21 days | 0%
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| Induction and maintenance of dormancy in seeds, induction of storage protein synthesis in seeds, stomatal closure, promotion of root growth and inhibition of shoot growth under water deficit stress, promotes leaf senescence | ABA | 0%
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| Regulation of the distribution of fixed carbon into various metabolic pathways | Allocation | 0%
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| Promotes stem growth while inhibiting root growth, tropism, regulation of developmental effects | Auxin | 0%
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| Remobilization of nutrients | Benefit of senescence | 0%
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| What approaches do plants use to regulate the concentration of active hormones within a tissue | Biosynthesis | 0%
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| Micronutrients | Boron | 0%
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| Cell elongation, nucleic acid synthesis, hormone responses, membrane function, pollen germination/tube growth | Boron | 0%
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| Balanced auxin:cytokinin ratio leads to | Callus production | 0%
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| Breakdown of no longer needed hormones | Catabolism | 0%
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| Micronutrients | Chlorine | 0%
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| Osmoticum, Essential for oxygen evolving complex of PSII, Activation of tonoplast, regulation of stomatal aperture, may be required for cell division, | Chlorine | 0%
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| What approaches do plants use to regulate the concentration of active hormones within a tissue | Compartmentation | 0%
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| Micronutrients | Copper | 0%
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| Redox reactions, copper proteins, carbohydrate/lipid/nitrogen metabolism, lignification, pollen formation and fertilization | Copper | 0%
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| 3 protection mechanisms employed to keep the concentration of O2 in check to prevent from inhibiting N fixation | Cytochrome complex | 0%
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| Ability of cells to change in form and function during plants growth and development | Differentiation | 0%
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| Promotes ripening of climacteric fruits, induces lateral cell expansion, inhibits growth, breaks seed and bud dormancy in some species, promotes elongation growth of submerged aquatic species, induces the formation of roots and root hairs, maintains the hooks of dark-grown seedlings, enhances rate of leaf senescence, acts on the abscission layer | Ethylene | 0%
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| Enzyme that is involved in cell growth/expansion | Expanisn | 0%
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| Specialized membrane proteins that enable plants to absorb essential nutrients | High affinity transporters | 0%
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| Micronutrients | Iron | 0%
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| Redox system proteins, protein synthesis, chloroplast development, photosynthesis, respiration, | Iron | 0%
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| 3 protection mechanisms employed to keep the concentration of O2 in check to prevent from inhibiting N fixation | Leghemoglobin | 0%
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| Micronutrients | Manganese | 0%
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| Enzyme activation, oxygen evolving complex, photosynthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, lipid metabolism | Manganese | 0%
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| Regeneration of intermediates in the C3 photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle, meets energy needs of the cell | Metabolic utilization | 0%
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| What approaches do plants use to regulate the concentration of active hormones within a tissue | Modulation | 0%
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| Plant essential nutrient that is involved with the breakdown of nitrogen using nitrogenase | Molybdenum | 0%
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| Micronutrients | Molybdenum | 0%
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| Redox reactions, nitrate reductase, nitrogenase, xanthineoxidase/dehydrogenase | Molybdenum | 0%
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| Micronutrients | Nickel | 0%
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| Ni-containing enzymes (urease, hydrogenase) | Nickel | 0%
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| 3 protection mechanisms employed to keep the concentration of O2 in check to prevent from inhibiting N fixation | Oxygen permeability barrier | 0%
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| Differential distribution of photosynthates within the plant | Partitioning | 0%
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| Sucrose formation from triose phosphate formed by photosynthesis, sucrose movement across a few cell layers to the vicinity of the sieve elements, apoplastic/symplastic loading | Phloem loading | 0%
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| Compounds released in strategy 2 for iron uptake | Phytosiderophore | 0%
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| Synthesized by the embryo, released into the endosperm by the scutellum, diffuse to the aleurone layer, synthesizing alpha-amylase and other hydrolases into the endosperm, starch and other macromolecules broken down, absorbed by the scutellum and transported to growing embryo | Role of GA in seed germination | 0%
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| High auxin:cytokinin ratio leads to | Root growth | 0%
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| Low auxin:cytokinin ratio leads to | Shoot growth | 0%
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| What approaches do plants use to regulate the concentration of active hormones within a tissue | Transport | 0%
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| Micronutrients | Zinc | 0%
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| Enzyme component, enzyme activation, protein synthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, auxin metabolism, DNA replication and gene expression | Zinc | 0%
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