Wilford Weatherly was the third of the Weatherly brothers. He was an evolutionary plant ecologist who constantly wondered why certain plant characteristics fit together and why some combinations were never observed in nature. Below are a number of his "brain teasers" that you should have no difficulty figuring out. As was typical of Wilford, for each question below, there is a set of characters - some plant and some environmental. What we first need to know is would you expect to find characters together in the same plant or do the plant and environmental characters fit together? Answer with a "yes" or a "no". If not, why not? If so, do they represent a particular adaptive syndrome characteristic of a specific species or group of species from a particular environment? Can you identify the plant? Where is that environment? Answer only in the space available. Each question is worth 5 points. The exam is due at the end of the time specified for the final examination for this class.

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