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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. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
No - till
Loess
B horizon
Cotyledons
2. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Bracts
Rhubarb
Spines
Stigma
3. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Companion crops
O horizon
Fruit cracking
Seed
4. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Cross pollinization
Lacustrine
Flowers
Mycoplasmas
5. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Aggregates
Perennials
Plant hardiness
Mycoplasmas
6. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Binomial nomenclature
Buds
Cultivars
Companion crops
7. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Vegetable
Stigma
xylem
Fibrous roots
8. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Mycoplasmas
Harrowing
Loess
Cultivars
9. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Erosion
Cutin
Hydroponics
Rhythm
10. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Cross pollinization
Vegetable
Lacustrine
Perennials
11. What do roots do for the plant
Surge flow
Lacustrine
Rhubarb
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
12. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Cutin
Spines
Transition
Cotyledons
13. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Cultivars
Vegetable
Fruit cracking
Tendils
14. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Transition
Vascular system
Harrowing
Ridge till
15. The female portion of a flower
Pistil
Genus
Aggregates
Biennial
16. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Natural enemies
Hydroponics
Spines
Pistil
17. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Monoecious
xylem
Rhubarb
Aggregates
18. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Monoecious
Insert ingredients
Repetition
Natural enemies
19. Determine how long is an internodes length
Cultivars
Temperature and light
Colluvium
Loess
20. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Specific epithet
Bracts
Temperature and light
Perennials
21. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Varities
Colluvium
Perennials
Transition
22. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Fruits
Genus
Fumigant
E horizon
23. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Fungi
Fumigant
Vegetable
Taproots
24. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Simplicity
Integrated pest management
Back - siphoning
Ridge till
25. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Transpiration
Taproots
Unity
Nodes
26. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Fibrous roots
Transpiration
Root hairs
Yield potential
27. 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.
Evapotranspiration
Leaves
Repetition
Genus
28. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Lacustrine
Tillage
Cross pollinization
Dicots
29. Is change that is gradual
Transition
Repetition
Taproots
Fruit
30. Parent material that the wind transports
Eolian
Fungi
Colluvium
Transition
31. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
A horizon
Residual
Dioecious
Ethylene
32. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Photosynthesis
Cutin
Stomata
Nutrient management plans
33. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Fruit
Erosion
Ethylene
Self - sterile
34. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Colluvium
Decidious
Fruits
Unity
35. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Blossom - end rot
B horizon
Fibrous roots
Root hairs
36. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Insert ingredients
Balance
A horizon
Stomata
37. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
B horizon
Cutin
Monocots
Fruit cracking
38. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Genus
Anther
Parent material
Erosion
39. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Fungi
Stigma
Vascular system
Pistil
40. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Phloem
Sunscald
Mycoplasmas
Stigma
41. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Compaction
Dicots
Cambium
Transpiration
42. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Dioecious
Vegetable
A horizon
Repetition
43. The system using two names to identify plants.
Simplicity
Vascular system
Binomial nomenclature
Mycoplasmas
44. Support stems
Tendils
Transition
Ethylene
No - till
45. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Integrated pest management
Cotyledons
Plant hardiness
Flowers
46. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Monoecious
Fruit cracking
Rhythm
Eolian
47. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Yield potential
Natural enemies
Rhubarb
Nitrogen fixation
48. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Natural enemies
Colluvium
Cuticle
Fruits
49. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Cuticle
Cross pollinization
Phloem
Taproots
50. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Temperature and light
Decidious
Proportion
Perennials