Answer ONE of the following two questions and indicate wheth…
Answer ONE of the following two questions and indicate whether you answered A or B. (If you answer both, I will grade the first only). A. What might be an advantage of being evergreen in interior Alaska under an increasingly warm climate? How could you test this? B. What is the difference between freeze-avoidance and freeze-tolerance strategies? Lowbush cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea, first image) is a short understory plant covered by snow in winter. Which would you expect lowbush cranberry to have? Why? Prickly rose (Rosa acicularis, second image) is tall enough to be above the snow for at least part of the winter. Which would you expect prickly rose to have? Why?
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Based on what you know about the light-dependent reactions (and ignoring the carbon fixation half of the equation), what resource(s) limit the rate at which plants can photosynthesize? Under what kinds of conditions would you expect plants to photosynthesize the fastest?
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Look at these cross-sections of a leaf (both images are of the same species). The dark spots in the second image indicate the presence of starch. Is this a monocot or a eudicot? Explain how you know this based on structures visible in the images.
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