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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. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Root hairs
Rhythm
Phloem
Back - siphoning
2. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Vascular system
Diffusion
Self - sterile
Stems
3. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
No - till
Surge flow
Fruits
Companion crops
4. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Companion crops
Residual
Ridge till
Tillage
5. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Parent material
Cotyledons
Respiration
Monoecious
6. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Varities
Fibrous roots
Residual
Cotyledons
7. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Surge flow
Evergreen
Root hairs
Annuals
8. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Specific epithet
Genus
Nitrogen fixation
Rhubarb
9. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Anther
Monocots
Mycoplasmas
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
10. 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.
Genus
Nodes
Colluvium
Catface
11. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Biennial
Blossom - end rot
Mycoplasmas
Monoecious
12. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Nutrient management plans
Back - siphoning
Stomata
Mass bulk/flow
13. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Cutin
Loess
Varities
Fruit cracking
14. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Active ingredients
Repetition
Monoecious
Respiration
15. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Flowers
Eolian
Pistil
Respiration
16. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Lacustrine
Simplicity
Balance
Binomial nomenclature
17. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Nutrient management plans
Hydroponics
Fibrous roots
Self - sterile
18. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Transpiration
Unity
Annuals
Decidious
19. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Leaves
Ethylene
Unity
Transpiration
20. Is change that is gradual
Colluvium
Transition
Back - siphoning
Nutrient management plans
21. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Diffusion
Self - sterile
Hydroponics
Rhubarb
22. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Nitrogen fixation
Cuticle
Stamen
Cross pollinization
23. Determine how long is an internodes length
Catface
Specific epithet
Temperature and light
Pistil
24. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Balance
Erosion
Diffusion
Perennials
25. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Mass bulk/flow
Multiple fruits.
Cultivars
Biennial
26. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Ethylene
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Cotyledons
Compaction
27. 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.
Vegetable
B horizon
Multiple fruits.
Flowers
28. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Natural enemies
Vegetable
Leaves
A horizon
29. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Rhythm
Bracts
Stigma
30. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Vascular system
Aggregate fruits
Specific epithet
Stamen
31. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Evergreen
Fruit
Respiration
Diffusion
32. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
B horizon
Blossom - end rot
Leaves
Sunscald
33. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Decidious
Stomata
Nitrogen fixation
Root hairs
34. The female portion of a flower
Yield potential
Integrated pest management
Pistil
Fruit cracking
35. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Active ingredients
Compaction
Specific epithet
Stamen
36. Formation of buds taking place.
Cutin
Ridge till
Tillage
Nodes
37. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Temperature and light
Fumigant
Transition
Dicots
38. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Focalization
No - till
Cotyledons
39. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Sunscald
Mulch - Till
Transpiration
Erosion
40. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Self - sterile
Taproots
Specific epithet
Aggregates
41. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Multiple fruits.
Sunscald
Natural enemies
Perennials
42. Plants retain their leaces all year
Evergreen
Mycoplasmas
Multiple fruits.
Phloem
43. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Spines
Fruit cracking
Fruits
Integrated pest management
44. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Self - fruitful
Vegetable
Loess
Active ingredients
45. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Bracts
Root hairs
Fruit
Catface
46. The system using two names to identify plants.
Binomial nomenclature
Lacustrine
Loess
Stomata
47. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Ethylene
Proportion
Evapotranspiration
Rhythm
48. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Evapotranspiration
Annuals
Multiple fruits.
Focalization
49. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Eolian
Biennial
Surge flow
Phloem
50. The male portion of a flower
Fruit cracking
Genus
Ethylene
Stamen