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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Orchid Fever.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water?
(a) Bog.
(b) Tundra.
(c) Fen.
(d) Swamp.

2. What type of orchid produces a series of adjacent shoots which grow to a certain size, bloom and then stop growing, to be then replaced?
(a) Tripodial.
(b) Monopodial.
(c) Autopodial.
(d) Sympodial.

3. To what order does the Ghost Orchid belong?
(a) Asparagales.
(b) Alismatales.
(c) Petrosaviales.
(d) Pandanales.

4. When was Susan Orlean born?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1951.

5. What refers to any of a class of angiosperm plants having a single cotyledon in the seed?
(a) Monocot.
(b) Eudicot.
(c) Austrobaileyale.
(d) Magnoliid.

Short Answer Questions

1. The scent of the blooming Ghost Orchid is fruity, resembling what?

2. What refers to a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived?

3. What is the binomial name of the Ghost Orchid?

4. What refers to a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales?

5. Where was Susan Orlean born?

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