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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. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Cuticle
Evergreen
Phloem
Annuals
2. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Vascular system
Balance
Monocots
Simplicity
3. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Vascular system
Fibrous roots
Compaction
xylem
4. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Evapotranspiration
Fibrous roots
Fungi
Aggregate fruits
5. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Taproots
Root hairs
Stems
Fungi
6. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Temperature and light
Constructed wetlands
Rhythm
Lacustrine
7. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Sunscald
Root hairs
Aggregates
Residual
8. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Active ingredients
Transpiration
Fruits
Harrowing
9. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Seed
Surge flow
Genus
Erosion
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
Monoecious
Bracts
Vegetable
11. Is change that is gradual
Balance
Self - sterile
Transition
Fruit cracking
12. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Fruits
Lacustrine
Compaction
Dioecious
13. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Cultivars
Back - siphoning
Diffusion
Self - sterile
14. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Parent material
Simplicity
Companion crops
Dioecious
15. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Perennials
Anther
Cotyledons
Colluvium
16. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Nutrient management plans
Insert ingredients
Tillage
Cross pollinization
17. Formation of buds taking place.
Self - sterile
Nodes
Monoecious
xylem
18. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
A horizon
Root hairs
Stigma
Unity
19. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Cambium
Natural enemies
No - till
Plant hardiness
20. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Proportion
Sunscald
Biennial
Diffusion
21. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Respiration
Self - sterile
Cutin
Anther
22. Plants retain their leaces all year
Evergreen
Self - fruitful
Taproots
Genus
23. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Self - sterile
Catface
Fungi
Cultivars
24. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Temperature and light
Root interception
Mulch - Till
xylem
25. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Bracts
Decidious
Dicots
Surge flow
26. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Mycoplasmas
Leaves
Unity
Ethylene
27. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Anther
Unity
Pistil
Dioecious
28. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
A horizon
E horizon
Cutin
Proportion
29. Protect the plant
Ridge till
Rhythm
Phloem
Spines
30. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Specific epithet
Decidious
Mass bulk/flow
Self - fruitful
31. Parent material that the wind transports
Photosynthesis
xylem
Lacustrine
Eolian
32. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Eolian
Active ingredients
Root interception
Balance
33. 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.
Insert ingredients
Nodes
Focalization
Dicots
34. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Pistil
Vegetable
Anther
Seed
35. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Cross pollinization
Tendils
Colluvium
Stigma
36. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Unity
Focalization
Genus
Aggregate fruits
37. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Lacustrine
Blossom - end rot
Erosion
Cutin
38. The system using two names to identify plants.
Binomial nomenclature
Ethylene
Pistil
Varities
39. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Mulch - Till
Constructed wetlands
Self - fruitful
Binomial nomenclature
40. Have a two - year growth cycle
Tendils
Stigma
Biennial
Aggregates
41. 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.
O horizon
Fruit cracking
Stomata
Back - siphoning
42. What do roots do for the plant
Phloem
Decidious
Catface
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
43. 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.
B horizon
Focalization
Evapotranspiration
E horizon
44. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Insert ingredients
Transpiration
Monoecious
Annuals
45. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Pistil
Nitrogen fixation
Diffusion
Compaction
46. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Fumigant
Spines
Leaves
Dioecious
47. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Ridge till
Colluvium
Focalization
Stomata
48. Support stems
Proportion
Perennials
Lacustrine
Tendils
49. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Cutin
Insert ingredients
Cotyledons
Nutrient management plans
50. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Phloem
Ethylene
E horizon
Nutrient supply