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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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1. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Surge flow
Cambium
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Focalization
2. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Integrated pest management
Flowers
Stomata
Rhubarb
3. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Simplicity
Stems
Decidious
Seed
4. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Cultivars
Annuals
Cuticle
Insert ingredients
5. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Anther
Balance
No - till
Eolian
6. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Cuticle
Stamen
Cross pollinization
Loess
7. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Specific epithet
Back - siphoning
Nodes
Balance
8. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Colluvium
Proportion
Erosion
Dicots
9. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Fumigant
Ridge till
Nodes
Transition
10. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Seed
Leaves
Hydroponics
Simplicity
11. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Ridge till
Repetition
Decidious
Fruits
12. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Compaction
Specific epithet
Parent material
Flowers
13. What do roots do for the plant
Stigma
Proportion
Compaction
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
14. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Focalization
Surge flow
Companion crops
Fruit cracking
15. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Cross pollinization
Monocots
Nodes
Nutrient management plans
16. 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.
Surge flow
Flowers
Phloem
Genus
17. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Balance
Plant hardiness
Vascular system
Ridge till
18. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
xylem
Root hairs
Taproots
Bracts
19. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Stomata
Evergreen
Diffusion
Taproots
20. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Plant hardiness
Temperature and light
Simplicity
xylem
21. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Respiration
Self - fruitful
Fruit
Monocots
22. Is leading a visual observation toward a certain feature by planting the feature at a vanishing point that is between radial or approaching straight lines.
Cultivars
Focalization
Perennials
Multiple fruits.
23. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
E horizon
Fibrous roots
Compaction
Balance
24. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Dioecious
Catface
Mulch - Till
xylem
25. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Balance
Simplicity
Dicots
Respiration
26. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Self - fruitful
Hydroponics
Leaves
Genus
27. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Fruit
Fumigant
Respiration
Biennial
28. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Respiration
Fruit
Stomata
Yield potential
29. Plants retain their leaces all year
Nodes
Respiration
Stomata
Evergreen
30. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Seed
Binomial nomenclature
Multiple fruits.
Flowers
31. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Biennial
Loess
Transition
Pistil
32. Parent material that the wind transports
Specific epithet
Eolian
Stamen
Seed
33. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Natural enemies
Active ingredients
Nutrient supply
B horizon
34. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Colluvium
Fruit cracking
Natural enemies
Back - siphoning
35. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Nodes
Sunscald
Cotyledons
Annuals
36. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Simplicity
Nutrient supply
Stomata
Integrated pest management
37. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Sunscald
Varities
A horizon
Integrated pest management
38. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Unity
Hydroponics
Mycoplasmas
Multiple fruits.
39. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Respiration
Root interception
Aggregates
Genus
40. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Tendils
Integrated pest management
Anther
Residual
41. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Nutrient management plans
xylem
Specific epithet
Aggregate fruits
42. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Cutin
Flowers
Transpiration
Ridge till
43. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Cambium
Simplicity
Unity
Tendils
44. 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.
E horizon
B horizon
Residual
Seed
45. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Repetition
Natural enemies
Cuticle
Focalization
46. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Proportion
Cambium
Companion crops
Fungi
47. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Companion crops
O horizon
Tendils
Bracts
48. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Cultivars
Insert ingredients
Monocots
Pistil
49. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Balance
Surge flow
Blossom - end rot
B horizon
50. The ___ horizon tops the profile and contains mostly organic matter - with a decomposed vegetation structure that enriches the soil with nutrients and helps it retain moisture.
Colluvium
O horizon
Erosion
Monoecious