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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Plant Crimes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the binomial name of the Ghost Orchid?
(a) Dendrophylax serpentilingua.
(b) Dendrophylax helorrhiza.
(c) Dendrophylax lindenii.
(d) Dendrophylax porrectus.

2. What refers to a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived?
(a) Zygote.
(b) Clone.
(c) Offspring.
(d) Parent.

3. What orchid hunter sent a telegram saying that the ship he was on had caught fire and was lost, yet Frederick Sander insisted he move on?
(a) Albert Millican.
(b) William Micholitz.
(c) Benedict Roezl.
(d) Tom Hart Dyke.

4. What did Laroche do at the nursery he took Susan to visit in Cloning the Ghost?
(a) Sold some orchids.
(b) Took back some plants.
(c) Burned all the plants.
(d) Drowned the plants.

5. What is a venomous pit viper species found in the southeastern United States which is the heaviest (though not longest) venomous snake in the Americas and the largest rattlesnake?
(a) Rock Rattlesnake.
(b) Diamondback Rattlesnake.
(c) Sidewinder.
(d) Pacific Rattlesnake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alligators have remained largely unchanged for how many years?

2. John Laroche claimed his plan was to teach the Seminoles everything he knows about what?

3. Who got into an altercation with Fuchs, accusing him of being favored by the judges and telling the others that Fuchs had tried to bribe him when he was a judge?

4. The Fakahatchee Strand is 25 miles south of where?

5. What is the only way to reach the Fakahatchee Strand?

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