Tree BiologyFinal Review

2010

Dancing Elves

FNH Jeopardy Categories

• Conifers

• Trees of New York

• Form and Function

• How plants make Love

• Miscellaneous

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Miscellaneous--100

• Element recently found to replace phosphorus in Lake Mona, California.

• What is Arsenic?

Miscellaneous--200

• Genetic Techniques used to silence the enzyme Polyphenol Oxidase and keep apples fresh looking longer.

• What is RNA interference?

Miscellaneous--300

• One of two wood species that are important in the production of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey.

• What are Quercus alba and Fraxinus americana?

Miscellaneous--400

• Concept used to describe an organisms found in the wrong place and time; e.g., Osage Orange and Kentucky Coffee Tree

• What is an Ecological Anachronism?

Miscellaneous--500

• The Italian tree, Castagno dei Cento Cavalli is known as this in English

• What is the Chestnut of 100 Horses?

Miscellaneous--600

• The oldest known tree now belongs to this conifer at nearly 6000 years old.

• What is Picea abies (Norway Spruce)?

Miscellaneous--700

• The bark of Cinchona corymbosa contains this anti-malarial chemical

• What is Quinine ?

Miscellaneous--800

• These fall pigments are most brilliant when environmental conditions are sunny and cool

• What are Anthocyanins?

Miscellaneous--900

• This term is used to describe groups of organisms that have multiple evolutionary origins as is with woody growth in trees.

• What is Polyphyletic?

Miscellaneous--1000

• This southern tree genus is polygamomonoeciouswith opposite palmately compound leaves.

• What is Aesculus?

Conifers--100

• Genus of conifer with needles in clusters of 2, 3, or 5.

• What is Pinus?

Conifers--200

• Wetland conifer with flattened branches, woody cones, and striated bark.

• What is Thuja occidentalis?

Conifers--300

• Needles sharp, angled in cross-section, that fall quickly from tree when cut and moved inside are typical of this genus

• What is Picea?

Conifers--400

• Crushed needles of this Picea are pungent and have given this white species another name of Cat-Piss Tree

• What is Picea glauca?

Conifers--500

• Insect Juvenile Hormone was accidentally discovered by the use of North American paper products of this conifer

• What is Abies balsamea?

Conifers--600

• Also known for its decay resistant wood, this conifer has bluish cones used to flavor gin.

• What is Juniperus?

Conifers--700

• One of several deciduous conifers that have been mentioned in class

• What are American tamarack or larch, dawn redwood, ginkgo, and bald cypress?

Conifers--800

• These water conducting cells allow conifers to survive embolisms in winter.

• What are Tracheids?

Conifers--900

• The fine venation in the leaves of this primitive conifer have earned the species another common name of Maidenhair Tree, but don’t plant a stinky maiden of this species.

• What is Ginkgo biloba?

Conifers--1000

• The genus name of Douglas Fir means false hemlock.

• What is Pseudotsuga?

How Plants Make Love--100

• A plant species with separate male and female flowers on the same plant has this condition.

• What is Monoecy?

How Plants Make Love--200

• This understory tree species changes its sexuality, but usually produces more female flowers on less vigorous trees

• What is Acer pensylvanicum?

How Plants Make Love--300

• Provide a name for an insect-pollinated tree found in natural forests of Central New York.

• What Liriodendron tulipifera, Prunus serotina, Tilia americana, Cornus sp., Robinia pseudoacacia, etc.?

How Plants Make Love--400

• Name for chemical rejection of pollen of the same plant on the stigma.

• What are self-incompatibility?

How Plants Make Love--500

• Group of flowering plants with the most unusual pollination systems that generally rely on a single species of pollinator.

• What are Orchids?

How Plants Make Love--600

• This Keystone genus of flowering trees has some that strangle, but all have a tight association with small wasps as pollinators.

• What is Ficus?

How Plants Make Love--700

• Term used to describe flowers were the stamens mature prior to the stigma

• What is Protandry?

How Plants Make Love--800

• Trait that give rise to seedless fruits means “virgin birth”

• Whatis Parthenocarpy?

How Plants Make Love--900

• These two climax tree species have very small seeds which allows them to find the specialize microhabitat for germination

• What Tsuga canadensis and Betula alleghaniensis?

How Plants Make Love--1000

• This small fat deposit on seeds of Australian Quinine, and many temperate forest plants attracts ants

• What is an eliaosome?

Trees of New York--100

• What is Quercus?

• Genus of this fruit bearing group?

Trees of New York--200

• What is opposite

for Cornus?

• Orientation of leaves

you expect here

Trees of New York--300

• What is Ulmus?

Trees of New York--400

• What is Juglans?

Trees of New York--500• What is Fraxinus americana?

Trees of New York--600

• What is Hamamelis virginiana?

Trees of New York--700

• What is sycamore

—Platanus occidentalis?

Trees of New York--800

• What is

Liriodendron tulipifera?

Trees of New York--900

• What is Sambucus canadensis?

Trees of New York--1000

• What is Fagus grandifolia?

Form & Function--100

• These openings on the lower surface of tree leaves become less numerous in times of high atmospheric CO2.

• What are Stoma?

Form & Function--200

• This growth shape-form is common in conifers at high latitudes

• What is Pyramidal?

Form & Function--300

• This mutualism is instrumental for trees to acquire phosphorus and water

• What is mycorrhizae?

Form & Function--400

• Name of important process performed by anaerobic bacteria in legume roots.

• What is Nitrogen Fixation?

Form & Function--500

• This pigment is found in roots of legumes and facilitates the survival of anaerobic bacteria.

• What is leghemoglobin?

Form & Function--600

• Term used to describe live birth as red mangrove seeds that germinate while still on the plant.

• What is Vivipary?

Form & Function--700

• Concept used to explain transpiration in plants.

• What is the Cohesion-Tension Model?

Form & Function--800

• This new plant growth technology allows trees to grow faster and have a higher survival rate when transplanted.

• What is Root Production Method?

Form & Function--900

• Raised, flared roots, that help stabilize large tropical trees.

• What are buttressed roots?

Form & Function--1000

• This molecule limits growth and photosynthesis near the top of the tallest Giant Redwoods.

• What is Water?

FINAL JEOPARDY

This non-leguminous woody genus

was used to help fertilize

agricultural plots in South America by the Incas.