I’ve accidentally written two questions months apart to try and understand one answer. I was tempted to bin one, but then decided it could serve as a good reminder of how things can be spun differently. And maybe I’ll even remember the answer!
Questions
Known by the names girlfriend kiss and labios de puta, those both coming from its bright red leaves that look like lips, ‘Palicourea elata’ is a Latin American species found in which flowering plant family that also contains the genera ‘Coffea’ and ‘Cinchona’?
RUBIACEAE
Official flower of the city of Shanghai, the Yulan is also known as the lilytree. In which genus can it be found, this being mentioned in the Abel Meeropol poem “Strange Fruit”?
MAGNOLIA
Fermentation is a form of what two-word process that occurs in certain organisms such as yeasts? An example is alcoholic fermentation where pyruvate, the end product of glycolysis, is converted into ethanol and carbon dioxide.
ANAEROBIC RESPIRATION
Also found in parasitic fungi, what is the name of the structure that allows mistletoe to attach to its host and absorb nutrients?
HAUSTORIUM
Commonly known as dodder, which parasitic plant has been given names like strangleweed, wizard’s net and witch’s hair that give a flavour of how it wraps itself around its host? Using haustoria to extract nutrients from suitable plants, it has been used in traditional Chinese medicine.
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CUSCUTA
Vacuoles found in plant cells are surrounded by a membrane that is known by what word, the first part of it being taken from a Greek term meaning ‘stretched’ or ‘strained’?
TONOPLAST
Naturally occurring auxins such as IAA are synthesized in actively growing regions of the plant. A derivative of an organic compound made up of a benzene ring fused to a pyrrole ring, for what does IAA stand for, usually having a 3 inserted between the I and first A?
INDOLEACETIC ACID / INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID
The synthetic auxins indolebutyric acid and naphthaleneacetic acid are sold in preparations of what type of hormones? An example of a gardening product that uses these in liquid form is Dip ‘N Grow.
ROOTING HORMONES
A term coming from Greek words that mean ‘tension’ and ‘formed’, what name is given to the membrane of vacuoles that can be found in plant cells?
TONOPLAST
Sharing the name of a barn owl from the “Guardians of Ga’Hoole”, which rose with bright pink petals was sung about in “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” and mentioned in Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale”?
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EGLANTINE