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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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botany
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Rhubarb
Eolian
Varities
Fumigant
2. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Nutrient management plans
Balance
Monocots
Constructed wetlands
3. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Constructed wetlands
Fumigant
Yield potential
Vegetable
4. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Proportion
Aggregate fruits
Fibrous roots
Rhythm
5. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Photosynthesis
Self - sterile
Transition
Fumigant
6. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Stigma
Perennials
Fruit
Multiple fruits.
7. Determine how long is an internodes length
Compaction
Temperature and light
Stems
Annuals
8. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Cotyledons
Respiration
Yield potential
Stems
9. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Plant hardiness
Proportion
Repetition
Fibrous roots
10. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Cuticle
Phloem
Yield potential
Ridge till
11. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Mulch - Till
Ridge till
Nutrient management plans
Fibrous roots
12. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Nutrient supply
Surge flow
Seed
Rhythm
13. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Leaves
Nodes
Fruit cracking
Taproots
14. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Vascular system
Cotyledons
Self - fruitful
Residual
15. Parent material that the wind transports
Stomata
xylem
Eolian
Mass bulk/flow
16. Formation of buds taking place.
Nodes
Compaction
Hydroponics
Monocots
17. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Anther
Biennial
Stems
Hydroponics
18. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Fruit
Insert ingredients
E horizon
Cultivars
19. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
A horizon
Back - siphoning
Natural enemies
Respiration
20. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Nodes
Insert ingredients
Evergreen
Fruits
21. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Nutrient management plans
Leaves
A horizon
Self - sterile
22. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Cambium
Balance
Taproots
Nitrogen fixation
23. The system using two names to identify plants.
E horizon
Binomial nomenclature
Stems
Temperature and light
24. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Decidious
Dioecious
Flowers
Rhubarb
25. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Residual
Erosion
Sunscald
Specific epithet
26. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Seed
Natural enemies
Leaves
Evapotranspiration
27. What do roots do for the plant
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Active ingredients
O horizon
Transition
28. Is leading a visual observation toward a certain feature by planting the feature at a vanishing point that is between radial or approaching straight lines.
Ethylene
Mass bulk/flow
Vegetable
Focalization
29. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Leaves
Seed
Unity
Natural enemies
30. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Cutin
Fibrous roots
Evergreen
Colluvium
31. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Respiration
xylem
Integrated pest management
Cotyledons
32. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Stamen
Binomial nomenclature
Blossom - end rot
Self - sterile
33. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Focalization
Stigma
Nitrogen fixation
Cotyledons
34. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Cotyledons
Bracts
Self - fruitful
Buds
35. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Multiple fruits.
Back - siphoning
Stigma
Loess
36. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Fungi
Companion crops
Vegetable
Ridge till
37. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Hydroponics
Self - sterile
Yield potential
No - till
38. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Cotyledons
Cambium
Stigma
Pistil
39. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Cotyledons
Colluvium
Transpiration
Aggregate fruits
40. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Back - siphoning
Rhubarb
Balance
Bracts
41. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Spines
Cultivars
Transpiration
Fruit cracking
42. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Nodes
Cross pollinization
Leaves
Fruit
43. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
E horizon
Monocots
Stamen
Plant hardiness
44. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Balance
Bracts
Perennials
Mulch - Till
45. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Pistil
Nutrient supply
Evergreen
Cuticle
46. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Back - siphoning
Mass bulk/flow
Annuals
Cutin
47. The ___ horizon tops the profile and contains mostly organic matter - with a decomposed vegetation structure that enriches the soil with nutrients and helps it retain moisture.
O horizon
Vegetable
Stems
Loess
48. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Parent material
Nutrient supply
Multiple fruits.
Cultivars
49. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Tillage
Fruit
E horizon
Mass bulk/flow
50. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Repetition
Unity
Active ingredients
Surge flow