The Weird and Wonderful World of Plant Defenses Quiz

10 Preguntas

1. What are phytoalexins?
2. What is the primary purpose of thorns on a plant?
3. All plant defenses are always effective against all herbivores and pathogens.
4. Place the following types of plant defenses in order from physical to chemical, to mutualistic:
5. Order the following events in the defense response of a plant to herbivore attack, from earliest to latest:
6. Match the plant defense with the type of threat it defends against:
7. Match the plant with its unique defense mechanism:
8. All plants use the same chemical defenses to protect themselves.
9. Which of the following is an example of a plant using camouflage as a defense mechanism?
10. Some plants can communicate with each other through airborne chemicals to warn of herbivore attacks.