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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.






2. The only vegetable used as a fruit






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






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






5. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year






6. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






7. Have numerous roots that are branched out.






8. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.






9. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.






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






11. What do roots do for the plant






12. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






13. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.






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






15. The female portion of a flower






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






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






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






19. Determine how long is an internodes length






20. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves






21. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.






22. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied






23. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side






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






25. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






26. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.






27. 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.






28. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth






29. Is change that is gradual






30. Parent material that the wind transports






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






32. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.






33. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






34. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter






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






36. Is an equality in something visually attractive






37. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems






38. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






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






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






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






42. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies






43. The system using two names to identify plants.






44. Support stems






45. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.






46. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.






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






48. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.






49. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another






50. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.