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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. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Unity
Active ingredients
Natural enemies
Constructed wetlands
2. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Self - sterile
Residual
Proportion
Stigma
3. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Mass bulk/flow
Aggregate fruits
Plant hardiness
Perennials
4. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Harrowing
Rhubarb
Companion crops
Seed
5. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Diffusion
Harrowing
Fruit
A horizon
6. A cluster or several flowers
Respiration
Cutin
Multiple fruits.
Fumigant
7. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Nodes
Buds
Loess
Cotyledons
8. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Binomial nomenclature
Stems
Stigma
Plant hardiness
9. The male portion of a flower
Integrated pest management
Monocots
Seed
Stamen
10. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
E horizon
Compaction
A horizon
Buds
11. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Multiple fruits.
Stamen
Root hairs
Cuticle
12. Plants retain their leaces all year
Insert ingredients
Simplicity
Cambium
Evergreen
13. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Cross pollinization
Specific epithet
Yield potential
Hydroponics
14. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Specific epithet
Pistil
Rhubarb
Self - sterile
15. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Sunscald
Diffusion
Fruits
Phloem
16. 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.
Rhubarb
Nodes
E horizon
Simplicity
17. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Bracts
Buds
Specific epithet
Phloem
18. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Loess
Vegetable
Fruits
Monoecious
19. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Harrowing
Parent material
Mulch - Till
Unity
20. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Compaction
No - till
Stigma
Simplicity
21. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Nutrient supply
O horizon
Focalization
Mulch - Till
22. Have a two - year growth cycle
Biennial
Nutrient management plans
Root hairs
Phloem
23. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Fungi
Cutin
Cultivars
Fumigant
24. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Monocots
Aggregates
Blossom - end rot
Photosynthesis
25. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Diffusion
Tendils
Flowers
Rhythm
26. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Vascular system
Tillage
Dicots
Respiration
27. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
Simplicity
xylem
Yield potential
Root hairs
28. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Aggregates
Seed
Respiration
Stomata
29. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Insert ingredients
Aggregate fruits
Constructed wetlands
Compaction
30. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Fibrous roots
Phloem
Respiration
Self - fruitful
31. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Ethylene
Colluvium
Genus
O horizon
32. Leaf rust is a form of
Monocots
Seed
Mulch - Till
Fungi
33. Protect the plant
Nitrogen fixation
Annuals
Spines
Cross pollinization
34. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Harrowing
Multiple fruits.
Active ingredients
Yield potential
35. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Cuticle
Dioecious
Biennial
Evergreen
36. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Evergreen
Integrated pest management
Cross pollinization
Stigma
37. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Catface
xylem
Photosynthesis
Loess
38. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
O horizon
Cultivars
Evapotranspiration
Integrated pest management
39. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Unity
Specific epithet
Blossom - end rot
Harrowing
40. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Fruits
Focalization
Balance
Stomata
41. The female portion of a flower
Seed
Evapotranspiration
Pistil
Active ingredients
42. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Varities
Diffusion
Cotyledons
Repetition
43. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Ethylene
Dicots
Self - sterile
Simplicity
44. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Constructed wetlands
Transpiration
Erosion
Cross pollinization
45. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Unity
Varities
Integrated pest management
E horizon
46. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Evapotranspiration
Tillage
Respiration
Perennials
47. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Perennials
Root interception
Vegetable
A horizon
48. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Taproots
Tillage
Rhythm
Mycoplasmas
49. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Phloem
A horizon
Aggregates
Rhubarb
50. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Biennial
Fruit
Vegetable
Eolian