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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Balance
Fibrous roots
Diffusion
Active ingredients
2. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Perennials
Eolian
Balance
Fruit
3. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Back - siphoning
Cuticle
Residual
Binomial nomenclature
4. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Spines
Simplicity
Nodes
Stigma
5. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Nodes
Hydroponics
Tillage
Ethylene
6. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Natural enemies
Ridge till
Aggregates
Anther
7. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Parent material
Transition
Self - fruitful
Cultivars
8. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
xylem
Seed
Ridge till
Cuticle
9. 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.
Erosion
Focalization
Cotyledons
Hydroponics
10. 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.
Companion crops
O horizon
Annuals
Respiration
11. Formation of buds taking place.
Hydroponics
Harrowing
Nodes
Balance
12. Is change that is gradual
Spines
Transition
Fruit cracking
Colluvium
13. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Cross pollinization
Root hairs
Cotyledons
Seed
14. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Respiration
Simplicity
Companion crops
Phloem
15. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Cambium
Transition
Stamen
Rhubarb
16. The female portion of a flower
Cambium
Pistil
Aggregates
Eolian
17. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Sunscald
Constructed wetlands
Catface
Transpiration
18. A cluster or several flowers
Multiple fruits.
Harrowing
Buds
Stigma
19. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
A horizon
Vascular system
Rhubarb
Dioecious
20. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Fruit cracking
Balance
Cultivars
Diffusion
21. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Compaction
Specific epithet
Fungi
Mass bulk/flow
22. Support stems
Fibrous roots
Decidious
Eolian
Tendils
23. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Catface
Repetition
Rhubarb
Tendils
24. Have a two - year growth cycle
Cotyledons
Tillage
Biennial
Lacustrine
25. 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.
E horizon
B horizon
Erosion
Parent material
26. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Root interception
Temperature and light
Monoecious
27. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Decidious
Unity
Nutrient supply
xylem
28. The system using two names to identify plants.
Binomial nomenclature
Monoecious
Harrowing
Aggregate fruits
29. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Specific epithet
Vegetable
O horizon
30. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Insert ingredients
Spines
Ridge till
Cultivars
31. Parent material moved by gravity
Repetition
Erosion
Biennial
Colluvium
32. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Fibrous roots
Mulch - Till
O horizon
Multiple fruits.
33. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Mycoplasmas
Colluvium
Phloem
Fruits
34. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Nutrient supply
Nutrient management plans
Root hairs
Transpiration
35. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Erosion
Sunscald
Buds
Hydroponics
36. Plants retain their leaces all year
Evergreen
Rhubarb
Vegetable
Blossom - end rot
37. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Cutin
Erosion
Self - sterile
Proportion
38. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Root hairs
Balance
Dicots
Blossom - end rot
39. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Rhythm
Erosion
Pistil
Nodes
40. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Harrowing
Transition
E horizon
Fumigant
41. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Ethylene
Nitrogen fixation
Constructed wetlands
Self - fruitful
42. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Fungi
Bracts
Vegetable
Stems
43. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Diffusion
Vascular system
Evapotranspiration
Phloem
44. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Cambium
Nitrogen fixation
Lacustrine
Cultivars
45. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Mycoplasmas
Seed
Cross pollinization
Cultivars
46. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Self - fruitful
Unity
Stigma
O horizon
47. Leaf rust is a form of
Eolian
Surge flow
Mycoplasmas
Fungi
48. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Root interception
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Constructed wetlands
Active ingredients
49. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Genus
Self - fruitful
Fumigant
Integrated pest management
50. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Catface
Fruit
Monocots
Colluvium