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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. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Dicots
Sunscald
Stigma
Mulch - Till
2. Leaf rust is a form of
Plant hardiness
Fungi
Yield potential
Tendils
3. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
A horizon
Monoecious
Spines
Self - sterile
4. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Plant hardiness
Binomial nomenclature
Proportion
Cuticle
5. What do roots do for the plant
Fumigant
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Stamen
Rhythm
6. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Vegetable
Unity
Vascular system
Aggregate fruits
7. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Aggregate fruits
Perennials
Spines
Evapotranspiration
8. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Stems
E horizon
Active ingredients
Unity
9. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Companion crops
O horizon
Rhythm
Rhubarb
10. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Nitrogen fixation
Nodes
Loess
Natural enemies
11. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Stigma
Pistil
Aggregate fruits
Repetition
12. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
xylem
Cotyledons
Transpiration
Tillage
13. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Cutin
Leaves
Specific epithet
14. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Simplicity
Repetition
Vegetable
Rhubarb
15. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Root interception
Cambium
Stomata
Vascular system
16. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Cambium
Taproots
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Erosion
17. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Self - fruitful
Rhubarb
Anther
Cultivars
18. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
xylem
Cuticle
Active ingredients
Transition
19. 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.
Self - sterile
E horizon
Root hairs
Surge flow
20. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Phloem
Bracts
Spines
Rhubarb
21. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Nutrient supply
Mycoplasmas
Fruits
Dioecious
22. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Transition
Cross pollinization
Lacustrine
Evergreen
23. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Hydroponics
Yield potential
Mass bulk/flow
B horizon
24. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Loess
Vascular system
Fruit
Aggregates
25. A cluster or several flowers
Multiple fruits.
Stigma
Diffusion
Self - fruitful
26. The system using two names to identify plants.
Stems
B horizon
Residual
Binomial nomenclature
27. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
No - till
Respiration
Surge flow
Integrated pest management
28. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Taproots
Transpiration
Stamen
Stigma
29. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Self - sterile
Dicots
Unity
Phloem
30. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Cross pollinization
Phloem
Catface
Cultivars
31. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Proportion
Lacustrine
Companion crops
Flowers
32. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Photosynthesis
Temperature and light
Erosion
Cultivars
33. Formation of buds taking place.
Pistil
Mulch - Till
Nodes
Buds
34. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Vegetable
Blossom - end rot
Fibrous roots
Hydroponics
35. 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
Eolian
Flowers
Root hairs
36. 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
Diffusion
Seed
Evapotranspiration
37. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Insert ingredients
Mass bulk/flow
Balance
Anther
38. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Cutin
Stems
Back - siphoning
Blossom - end rot
39. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Taproots
Mulch - Till
Loess
Anther
40. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Nodes
Annuals
Self - fruitful
Dicots
41. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Flowers
O horizon
Erosion
Cutin
42. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Mycoplasmas
Cutin
Insert ingredients
Stomata
43. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Phloem
Mycoplasmas
Compaction
No - till
44. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
O horizon
Fungi
Seed
Root hairs
45. Plants retain their leaces all year
Yield potential
Blossom - end rot
Catface
Evergreen
46. The male portion of a flower
Evapotranspiration
Parent material
O horizon
Stamen
47. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Leaves
Rhubarb
No - till
Monocots
48. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Balance
Multiple fruits.
Root hairs
Repetition
49. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
xylem
Loess
Simplicity
Decidious
50. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Back - siphoning
Constructed wetlands
Root interception
Phloem