Your botany instructor likes to tell nerdy jokes, like this: "I wanted to buy a pink Toyota Corolla, but the dealer only had a green Calyx available." Impress your instructor with a clever response to this joke.
A. "Oh, I would have chosen the blue Receptacle."
B. "Those are great cars, but the pinecone tires don't roll very well."
C. "Me too! But I could only afford the yellow Androecium."
D. "The factory must have run out of class A genes."
Clarify Question
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
What type of thinking is required?
Gather Content
What do you already know about flower anatomy? What other information is related to the question?
Choose Answer
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Reflect on Process
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
C. "Me too! But I could only afford the yellow Androecium."
Clarify Question
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
· This question is asking you to connect the similarities that are present in the parts of a flower.
What type of thinking is required?
· Apply level:
o You are being asked to take what you already know and apply it to the use of the terms that describe flower anatomy.
Gather Content
What do you already know about flower anatomy? What other information is related to the question?
· The corolla is the entire whorl of petals in a flower.
· A Calyx is the term for the entire whorl of sepals.
· An Androecium is the entire whorl of stamens.
Choose Answer
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
· The androecium is the most similar structure to the corolla and calyx, since all three involve smaller structures that are arranged in a whorl. The receptacle is the stem from which the flower parts arise, so that is morphologically very different. Class A genes are only partially responsible for petal production, and since they are genetic rather than morphological, thy are the least related item.
Reflect on Process
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
· Apply level:
o Answering this question correctly depended on your ability to use your knowledge of flower structure in a new situation. If you got an incorrect answer, did you remember that sepals, petals, and stamen are arranged in whorls, or that a receptacle is found at the base of a flower? Did you have trouble extending the similarities in the structures of a flower to determine the correct answer?
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