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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Is an equality in something visually attractive






2. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.






3. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower






4. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






5. Are those chemicals that control a target pest






6. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.






7. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.






8. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.






9. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the






10. The female portion of a flower






11. Determine how long is an internodes length






12. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






13. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same






14. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.






15. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






16. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.






17. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil






18. Plants retain their leaces all year






19. Is change that is gradual






20. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened






21. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant






22. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.






23. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients






24. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant






25. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style






26. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash






27. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans






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.






29. Parent material moved by gravity






30. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures






31. The system that moves water and minerals is called a






32. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.






33. 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.






34. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season






35. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported






36. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms






37. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.






38. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.






39. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






40. The male portion of a flower






41. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.






42. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a






43. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






44. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.






45. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






46. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller






47. Parent material that the wind transports






48. Below the E horizon - the ___ horizon is where fine material has accumulated to create a dense layer in the soil. May be enriched with calcium carbonate in the form of a layer or nodule.






49. Leaf rust is a form of






50. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem