Botany UE Past Papers Questions.

A hedge specialist wanted to order seedlings from TANSEEDS for a good shade. What type of branching should be considered on his purchase order? State the reasons for that choice.

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Match the following statement by choosing a letter from B that carry the word or words that corresponding to the statements in list A.

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Write one or two words which stand for each of the following botanic statements

1. The type of determinate inflorescence where by the development of the terminal flower is followed by that of two opposite or sub-opposite lateral flowers
2. Flower aestivation where the petals overlap in a such a way that one margin of one petal overlap the margin of adjacent one.
3. A terminology indicating the attachment of the filament  to the back of the connective
4. Wood fiber characterized by cells with extremely thick walls plus simple pits
5. A fruit formed by involving the receptacle of the flower
6. The scientific study of diversity of organisms
7. The plant life of any given area
8. Modified parasitic roots which penetrate the tissue of the host plant to extract nutrients
9. A continued branching of more than teo branches of the same order
10. A phyllotaxy where there are three or more leaves at a node
11. A kind of corolla shapes forming a short narrow tube below but flattered above like a strap.
12. A kind of stamen the anthers are united together in a bundle or tube , the filaments remaining free.
13. A slightly raised area in the bark of a stem or root consisting of loosely arranged or unsuberized cells
14. A kind of corolla shapes consisting of five petals with comparatively long claws plus the limbs of petals at right angles to the claws.
15. A slender lateral branch that originate from the base of the stem then bends down into the ground and then strike roots and develop a bud which soon grows into a new plant.
16. Stems made up of soft tissues, green  with naked buds which are active throughout their life.
17. A name for plants with unbranched stems such as the stem of Cocos nucifera
18. A kind of aestivation where the petals are spirally arranged i.e two petals are external , two are internal and the other petal is partly external.
19. A kind of regular and polypetalous shape on which there are five petals with very short claws or none at all plus with limbs spreading regularly outwards
20. The name given to photosynthetic parenchyma

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1. Compared to artificial classification , give out only five justifications that natural classification have very high predictive value.
2. Use the fluid mosaic model to describe the structure of the plasma membrane in relation to the function and selectivity.

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1. With one good example on each mode , account for only five placentation modes in angiosperms
2. With two good examples on each case , give a detailed description of the exactly five appendages of the leaf

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