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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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1. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower






2. 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.






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






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






5. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.






6. Support stems






7. What do roots do for the plant






8. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified






9. Is change that is gradual






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






11. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.






12. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.






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






14. Plants retain their leaces all year






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






16. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.






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






18. Parent material moved by gravity






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






20. 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.






21. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






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






23. The female portion of a flower






24. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down






25. Parent material that the wind transports






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






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






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






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






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






31. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.






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






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






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






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






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






37. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






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






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






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






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






42. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported






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






44. Formation of buds taking place.






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






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






47. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






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






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






50. Determine how long is an internodes length