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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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1. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season






2. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen






3. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year






4. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.






5. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.






6. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.






7. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients






8. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth






9. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source






10. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified






11. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same






12. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.






13. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator






14. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.






15. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a






16. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant






17. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor






18. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






19. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another






20. Support stems






21. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.






22. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.






23. Is change that is gradual






24. Is where the formation of pollen takes place






25. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.






26. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






27. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter






28. 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.






29. Parent material that the wind transports






30. Plants retain their leaces all year






31. What do roots do for the plant






32. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.






33. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported






34. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.






35. Formation of buds taking place.






36. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.






37. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






38. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






39. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.






40. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.






41. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






42. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.






43. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.






44. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.






45. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients






46. Parent material moved by gravity






47. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.






48. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.






49. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem






50. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.






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