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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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1. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Cuticle
Fibrous roots
Fruits
2. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
xylem
Vascular system
Phloem
Multiple fruits.
3. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Repetition
Annuals
Fruits
Aggregates
4. The system using two names to identify plants.
Bracts
Binomial nomenclature
Respiration
B horizon
5. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Integrated pest management
Photosynthesis
A horizon
Aggregate fruits
6. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Fruits
Natural enemies
Catface
Root interception
7. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Mycoplasmas
Natural enemies
Dicots
Transpiration
8. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Harrowing
Unity
Stomata
Erosion
9. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Specific epithet
Taproots
Repetition
Rhubarb
10. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Repetition
Taproots
Nutrient management plans
Decidious
11. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Dicots
Fruit cracking
Nodes
Constructed wetlands
12. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Cutin
Plant hardiness
Cultivars
Evapotranspiration
13. Parent material moved by gravity
Colluvium
Cuticle
Unity
Bracts
14. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Cultivars
Residual
Active ingredients
Nitrogen fixation
15. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Compaction
Active ingredients
Diffusion
A horizon
16. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Ethylene
E horizon
Vascular system
17. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Respiration
Varities
Dioecious
Cutin
18. Leaf rust is a form of
Perennials
Fibrous roots
Fungi
Diffusion
19. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Binomial nomenclature
Diffusion
Focalization
Vascular system
20. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Multiple fruits.
Lacustrine
Eolian
Sunscald
21. Have a two - year growth cycle
Varities
Aggregate fruits
Biennial
Mass bulk/flow
22. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Tillage
Compaction
Yield potential
Constructed wetlands
23. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Nodes
Self - sterile
Blossom - end rot
Repetition
24. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Hydroponics
Self - sterile
Yield potential
Perennials
25. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Cambium
Rhubarb
Constructed wetlands
Simplicity
26. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Bracts
Perennials
Anther
A horizon
27. The male portion of a flower
Stamen
Repetition
Phloem
Residual
28. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Unity
Anther
Root interception
Loess
29. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Bracts
Fruits
Ethylene
Insert ingredients
30. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Dicots
Integrated pest management
Genus
Nodes
31. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Anther
Balance
Back - siphoning
Fibrous roots
32. Is change that is gradual
Phloem
B horizon
Residual
Transition
33. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Monoecious
Balance
Specific epithet
Decidious
34. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Unity
Surge flow
Nodes
Annuals
35. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Self - sterile
O horizon
Pistil
Dicots
36. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
xylem
Anther
O horizon
Lacustrine
37. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Buds
Companion crops
Taproots
Perennials
38. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Nitrogen fixation
Bracts
Companion crops
Seed
39. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Genus
Self - sterile
Erosion
Catface
40. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Unity
Cross pollinization
Mass bulk/flow
Surge flow
41. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Sunscald
Residual
Cutin
Fruits
42. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Stigma
Mulch - Till
Fibrous roots
Hydroponics
43. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Cuticle
Nutrient supply
Pistil
Perennials
44. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Leaves
Evergreen
Root hairs
Self - sterile
45. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Root interception
Rhythm
Proportion
Temperature and light
46. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Vascular system
Fumigant
Respiration
Active ingredients
47. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Repetition
Mulch - Till
Simplicity
Focalization
48. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Dicots
Ridge till
Buds
Ethylene
49. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Fibrous roots
Leaves
Back - siphoning
Decidious
50. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Surge flow
Root hairs
Active ingredients
Aggregate fruits
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