Indicate the response to each condition by drawing a straight seedling or one with the triple response.
Urry 12th Edition
Ch. 39 - Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals
Problema 7A plant mutant that shows normal gravitropic bending but does not store starch in its plastids would require a reevaluation of the role of
a. Statoliths
b. Auxin
c. Calcium
d. Differential growth
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Gravitropism
Statoliths
Auxin
If a long-day plant has a critical night length of 9 hours, which 24-hour cycle would prevent flowering?
a. 16 hours light/8 hours dark
b. 14 hours light/10 hours dark
c. 4 hours light/8 hours dark/4 hours light/8 hours dark
d. 8 hours light/8 hours dark/light flash/8 hours dark
How may a plant respond to severe heat stress?
a. By reorienting leaves to increase evaporative cooling
b. By creating air tubes for ventilation
c. By producing heat-shock proteins, which may protect the plant's proteins from denaturing
d. By increasing the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes, reducing their fluidity
The signaling molecule for flowering might be released earlier than usual in a long-day plant exposed to flashes of:
a. Far-red light during the night
b. Red light during the night
c. Red light followed by far-red light during the night.
d. Far-red light during the day