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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. Have a two - year growth cycle






2. The only vegetable used as a fruit






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Are those chemicals that control a target pest






10. Leaf rust is a form of






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






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






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






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






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






16. The female portion of a flower






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






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






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






20. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






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






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






23. Plants retain their leaces all year






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






25. Is an equality in something visually attractive






26. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






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






28. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened






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






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






31. Is change that is gradual






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






33. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.






34. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






47. Parent material that the wind transports






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






49. Protect the plant






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