Bicd120: Worksheet 4

TA: amy tran

Email: amt001@ucsd.edu
OH: by appointment
1. Why does plants with odd # ploidy sterile?

2. What will happen to a triploid plant if you treat it with a little colchicine?

3. who was the scientist that tried to make a tetraploid by crossing a raddish with
cabbage? Did he succeed?

4. Between the 2 seeds, which has a transposable element that excise early in
development?

5. if there is no ATP production, what would accumulate in the chloroplast of C3

plants?

6. if there is no NADPH production, what would accumulate in the chloroplast of C4

plants? What will it lack?

7. how does a non-autonomous element transpose?

8. can a plant with an autonomous element or in other words have tranposons still
express WT trait?

9. what are 3 characteristics that all transposons share? How are transposons
different?

10. what is the point of having TIR and TSD?

11. when transposons excise, it results in an extra _________, which makes the DNA
longer or possibly cause a ___________.

12. what moves sugar from leaves to roots? Why to the roots?

13. if sugar accumulate in the source cell but does not diffuse into the phloem, what
will happen to the plant?

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 Bicd120: Worksheet 4
TA: amy tran
Email: amt001@ucsd.edu
OH: by appointment
14. meristem
type Promotes what kind of Found where?
growth?
Apical

Lateral

15. what are the functions of xylem?

16.
Condition name

stamen + carpel

without stamen

without carpel

if both staminate or carpellate are in

the same plant =

if both staminate or carpellate are in

the different plant

17. how do you get sepals, petals, petals, sepals? Answer by drawing the ABC model
with all components of the label.

18. how do you get a flower with all four whorls of petals?

19. if a flower misses a stigma, what flower organs will it lack? Think of what gene
must have been mutated since there is no stigma.