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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Self - fruitful
Stigma
Varities
Parent material
2. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Decidious
Genus
Temperature and light
Dioecious
3. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Fruits
Constructed wetlands
Back - siphoning
Nutrient supply
4. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Taproots
Lacustrine
Surge flow
Harrowing
5. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Harrowing
Respiration
Spines
Leaves
6. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Catface
Surge flow
xylem
A horizon
7. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Specific epithet
Surge flow
Dioecious
Root hairs
8. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Cuticle
Stomata
Back - siphoning
Varities
9. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Stigma
Mulch - Till
Leaves
Decidious
10. The male portion of a flower
Transition
Stamen
Flowers
Stomata
11. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Respiration
Decidious
Fibrous roots
Harrowing
12. Refers to the first name used in binomial nomenclature. Capitalized word that refers to a plant cluster that has similarities that can be recognized easily.
Fumigant
Natural enemies
Constructed wetlands
Genus
13. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Leaves
No - till
Cross pollinization
Fruit
14. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Stems
Mass bulk/flow
Varities
Vegetable
15. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Ethylene
Rhubarb
E horizon
Evapotranspiration
16. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Insert ingredients
Fruit
Rhythm
Constructed wetlands
17. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Diffusion
Nutrient supply
Cutin
Mycoplasmas
18. The system using two names to identify plants.
Bracts
Binomial nomenclature
Transpiration
Nutrient supply
19. Leaf rust is a form of
B horizon
Fungi
Phloem
Genus
20. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Self - sterile
Nutrient supply
Parent material
Focalization
21. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Anther
Perennials
Fibrous roots
Hydroponics
22. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Dicots
Self - sterile
Plant hardiness
Specific epithet
23. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Balance
Tendils
Dicots
Compaction
24. Plants retain their leaces all year
Repetition
Stomata
Evergreen
Rhubarb
25. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Erosion
Parent material
Integrated pest management
Blossom - end rot
26. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Nutrient management plans
Varities
Transpiration
Parent material
27. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Varities
No - till
Aggregate fruits
Cuticle
28. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Biennial
Stamen
Residual
Bracts
29. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Vascular system
Decidious
Genus
Yield potential
30. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Sunscald
Fruits
xylem
Vascular system
31. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Perennials
Compaction
Fruit
Multiple fruits.
32. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Cultivars
Annuals
Rhythm
Blossom - end rot
33. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Specific epithet
Plant hardiness
Residual
Natural enemies
34. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Fumigant
Aggregates
Hydroponics
O horizon
35. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Natural enemies
Balance
Parent material
Fibrous roots
36. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Root interception
Ridge till
Vascular system
Unity
37. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Taproots
Simplicity
Root interception
Buds
38. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Cuticle
Temperature and light
Stems
Proportion
39. Determine how long is an internodes length
Dicots
Natural enemies
Fibrous roots
Temperature and light
40. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Fruits
Residual
Blossom - end rot
Nutrient management plans
41. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
O horizon
Focalization
Root hairs
Natural enemies
42. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Erosion
O horizon
Nitrogen fixation
Varities
43. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
xylem
Mulch - Till
Cross pollinization
Aggregates
44. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Bracts
Transpiration
Integrated pest management
Transition
45. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Simplicity
Surge flow
Fungi
Phloem
46. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Mycoplasmas
Balance
Dicots
Catface
47. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Eolian
Nutrient management plans
Phloem
B horizon
48. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Aggregates
Genus
Cotyledons
Fibrous roots
49. Parent material moved by gravity
Colluvium
Pistil
Monoecious
Insert ingredients
50. Formation of buds taking place.
E horizon
Nodes
Monocots
Nitrogen fixation