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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Have a two - year growth cycle
Fruit cracking
Decidious
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Biennial
2. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Vascular system
Rhubarb
Multiple fruits.
Active ingredients
3. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Sunscald
Varities
Cutin
4. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Phloem
Taproots
Seed
Binomial nomenclature
5. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Self - sterile
Cambium
Nitrogen fixation
Monoecious
6. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Ethylene
Fibrous roots
Fungi
Aggregates
7. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Stigma
Diffusion
Nitrogen fixation
Compaction
8. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
xylem
Tendils
Stigma
9. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Tillage
Active ingredients
Aggregates
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10. Leaf rust is a form of
Fungi
Self - sterile
Evapotranspiration
Catface
11. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Catface
Cross pollinization
A horizon
Mycoplasmas
12. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Rhubarb
Nitrogen fixation
Seed
Mulch - Till
13. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Constructed wetlands
Yield potential
Simplicity
Vegetable
14. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Natural enemies
Diffusion
Active ingredients
Integrated pest management
15. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Hydroponics
Fruit cracking
Phloem
Photosynthesis
16. The female portion of a flower
E horizon
Pistil
Stems
Anther
17. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Hydroponics
Nodes
Spines
Dioecious
18. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Root interception
Bracts
Proportion
Unity
19. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Loess
Stamen
Integrated pest management
Simplicity
20. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Plant hardiness
Parent material
Rhubarb
Compaction
21. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Cultivars
Cutin
Decidious
Vascular system
22. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Colluvium
Balance
Surge flow
Back - siphoning
23. Plants retain their leaces all year
Evergreen
Repetition
Varities
Aggregates
24. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Compaction
Parent material
Fumigant
Monocots
25. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Bracts
Balance
Vegetable
Genus
26. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Varities
Transpiration
Leaves
Evergreen
27. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Fumigant
A horizon
Specific epithet
Integrated pest management
28. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Focalization
Genus
B horizon
Fruit
29. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Hydroponics
Blossom - end rot
Sunscald
Stems
30. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
B horizon
Flowers
Decidious
Transition
31. Is change that is gradual
Root hairs
Integrated pest management
Focalization
Transition
32. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Parent material
Taproots
Fruits
Integrated pest management
33. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Cutin
Surge flow
Stomata
Vegetable
34. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Catface
Transpiration
Fruit
Dioecious
35. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Varities
Erosion
Seed
Tillage
36. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Erosion
Parent material
xylem
Repetition
37. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Yield potential
Mulch - Till
Photosynthesis
Multiple fruits.
38. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Genus
Temperature and light
Anther
Mass bulk/flow
39. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Perennials
Annuals
Fruit
Seed
40. Below the A horizon - the ___ horizon is usually light colored layer - with clay particles having been leached or removed. Contains organic matter as well as iron oxides and aluminum.
Surge flow
Seed
Photosynthesis
E horizon
41. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Transition
xylem
Hydroponics
Constructed wetlands
42. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Ridge till
Colluvium
Monoecious
Balance
43. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Loess
Rhythm
Mulch - Till
Anther
44. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Multiple fruits.
Cultivars
Cuticle
Spines
45. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Dicots
Nitrogen fixation
Anther
Mycoplasmas
46. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Taproots
Leaves
Photosynthesis
Aggregate fruits
47. Parent material that the wind transports
Annuals
Rhythm
Eolian
Temperature and light
48. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Sunscald
Lacustrine
Binomial nomenclature
Monoecious
49. Protect the plant
Spines
Surge flow
Respiration
Perennials
50. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Blossom - end rot
Stigma
Rhythm
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.