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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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botany
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Surge flow
Bracts
Evapotranspiration
Respiration
2. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Monocots
Nutrient supply
Decidious
Evergreen
3. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Genus
Balance
Stigma
Rhubarb
4. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
No - till
Compaction
Proportion
Colluvium
5. 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
Annuals
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Mulch - Till
6. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
B horizon
Yield potential
Nitrogen fixation
Catface
7. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Natural enemies
Monocots
Root hairs
Fruit
8. Have a two - year growth cycle
Cuticle
Cambium
Biennial
Fungi
9. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Fruit cracking
Plant hardiness
Photosynthesis
Stigma
10. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Stigma
Blossom - end rot
Focalization
Diffusion
11. Formation of buds taking place.
Vegetable
Nodes
Constructed wetlands
Cambium
12. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Annuals
Cotyledons
Rhubarb
Stigma
13. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Fumigant
E horizon
Balance
Seed
14. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Focalization
Simplicity
Cuticle
Temperature and light
15. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Companion crops
Aggregate fruits
Colluvium
Unity
16. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Bracts
Natural enemies
Cuticle
Companion crops
17. What do roots do for the plant
Root hairs
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Plant hardiness
Decidious
18. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Yield potential
Lacustrine
Fumigant
xylem
19. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Proportion
Residual
Annuals
Nutrient management plans
20. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Varities
Aggregate fruits
Self - sterile
Evergreen
21. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Repetition
Sunscald
Erosion
Balance
22. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Annuals
Flowers
Vascular system
Constructed wetlands
23. Plants retain their leaces all year
Aggregates
Diffusion
Evergreen
Mulch - Till
24. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Catface
Companion crops
Root interception
Sunscald
25. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Natural enemies
Photosynthesis
Specific epithet
Sunscald
26. The female portion of a flower
Decidious
Fungi
Pistil
Tillage
27. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Evapotranspiration
Fibrous roots
Stamen
Stems
28. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Annuals
Seed
Nutrient supply
Focalization
29. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Sunscald
Nitrogen fixation
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Bracts
30. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Decidious
Companion crops
Lacustrine
Fruit
31. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Aggregates
Stigma
Nutrient supply
Residual
32. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Cutin
Balance
Vegetable
Parent material
33. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Repetition
Evergreen
Buds
Fruits
34. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Ridge till
Fruit cracking
Stomata
Parent material
35. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Genus
Evapotranspiration
Proportion
Rhythm
36. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Cotyledons
xylem
Constructed wetlands
Temperature and light
37. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Harrowing
Catface
Cultivars
Mulch - Till
38. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Pistil
Perennials
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Integrated pest management
39. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Aggregate fruits
Nutrient management plans
Back - siphoning
Natural enemies
40. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Varities
Respiration
Dioecious
Annuals
41. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Hydroponics
Anther
Phloem
Cambium
42. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Residual
Mulch - Till
Harrowing
Eolian
43. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Buds
Evapotranspiration
Insert ingredients
Repetition
44. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Cambium
Tillage
Dicots
Hydroponics
45. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Aggregates
Cutin
Harrowing
Root hairs
46. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Photosynthesis
Parent material
Phloem
Seed
47. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
A horizon
Perennials
Stomata
Cambium
48. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Residual
Varities
Sunscald
Repetition
49. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Residual
Decidious
Pistil
Repetition
50. Determine how long is an internodes length
Tendils
Temperature and light
Fumigant
Aggregate fruits