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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






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






3. Protect the plant






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






5. The system using two names to identify plants.






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






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






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






9. The female portion of a flower






10. Parent material moved by gravity






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






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






13. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.






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






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






16. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






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






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






19. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






20. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






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






22. Plants retain their leaces all year






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






24. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






25. Are those chemicals that control a target pest






26. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






27. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.






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






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






30. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.






31. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.






32. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.






33. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.






34. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source






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






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






37. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients






38. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






39. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.






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






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






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






43. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.






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






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






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






47. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.






48. Formation of buds taking place.






49. Parent material that the wind transports






50. Have a two - year growth cycle