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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. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Seed
Fruit
Pistil
Aggregate fruits
2. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Cross pollinization
Cuticle
B horizon
Tendils
3. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Compaction
Surge flow
Multiple fruits.
Cotyledons
4. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Photosynthesis
Natural enemies
Harrowing
Pistil
5. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Specific epithet
Eolian
Taproots
Cambium
6. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Nutrient supply
Residual
Phloem
Insert ingredients
7. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Cutin
Dicots
Pistil
Varities
8. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Simplicity
Hydroponics
Companion crops
Parent material
9. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Active ingredients
Cuticle
Seed
Lacustrine
10. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Phloem
Cuticle
Biennial
Cutin
11. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Fumigant
Taproots
Lacustrine
Compaction
12. Leaf rust is a form of
Rhubarb
Pistil
Blossom - end rot
Fungi
13. Refers to the first name used in binomial nomenclature. Capitalized word that refers to a plant cluster that has similarities that can be recognized easily.
Aggregate fruits
Multiple fruits.
Genus
Erosion
14. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Insert ingredients
Back - siphoning
Cambium
Varities
15. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Dioecious
Fruits
Compaction
Stomata
16. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Hydroponics
Fungi
Fibrous roots
A horizon
17. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Insert ingredients
Unity
Sunscald
Cuticle
18. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Annuals
Flowers
Transition
Specific epithet
19. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Parent material
Binomial nomenclature
Vascular system
Harrowing
20. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Focalization
Cultivars
Monocots
Root interception
21. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Proportion
Blossom - end rot
Ethylene
Active ingredients
22. Determine how long is an internodes length
Temperature and light
Active ingredients
Evergreen
B horizon
23. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
E horizon
Temperature and light
Blossom - end rot
Loess
24. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Self - fruitful
Surge flow
Cross pollinization
Tillage
25. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Dioecious
Dicots
Mycoplasmas
Respiration
26. The system using two names to identify plants.
A horizon
Binomial nomenclature
Evapotranspiration
Repetition
27. 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.
Varities
Simplicity
Tendils
O horizon
28. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Self - fruitful
A horizon
Fruits
Repetition
29. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Catface
Varities
Mulch - Till
Flowers
30. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Lacustrine
Sunscald
Harrowing
Temperature and light
31. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Focalization
Buds
Loess
Unity
32. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Repetition
Aggregates
Leaves
O horizon
33. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Natural enemies
Evapotranspiration
Perennials
Rhythm
34. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Nitrogen fixation
Root interception
Back - siphoning
Residual
35. The only vegetable used as a fruit
No - till
Cuticle
Phloem
Rhubarb
36. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Rhythm
Bracts
Monocots
Leaves
37. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
Perennials
xylem
Evergreen
Stems
38. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Binomial nomenclature
Compaction
Anther
Proportion
39. Have a two - year growth cycle
Residual
No - till
Biennial
Plant hardiness
40. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
No - till
Yield potential
Tillage
Fruit cracking
41. Is change that is gradual
Photosynthesis
Back - siphoning
Transition
Fungi
42. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Phloem
Spines
Annuals
Lacustrine
43. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Aggregates
Ethylene
Companion crops
Surge flow
44. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Root interception
Mycoplasmas
Flowers
Colluvium
45. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Harrowing
Root hairs
Cutin
Insert ingredients
46. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Self - fruitful
Cross pollinization
Tillage
Active ingredients
47. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Unity
Nodes
Respiration
Photosynthesis
48. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Ethylene
Evapotranspiration
Mass bulk/flow
Cultivars
49. 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.
Fruit
Residual
Focalization
Nutrient management plans
50. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Nutrient supply
Biennial
Temperature and light
No - till