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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A cluster or several flowers
Multiple fruits.
Aggregate fruits
Vegetable
Cultivars
2. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Tillage
Tendils
Companion crops
Nutrient supply
3. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Balance
Nodes
Companion crops
B horizon
4. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Leaves
Loess
Binomial nomenclature
5. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Spines
Cambium
Loess
xylem
6. Parent material that the wind transports
Eolian
Cuticle
Flowers
Aggregate fruits
7. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
Transition
Rhubarb
Decidious
xylem
8. Leaf rust is a form of
Focalization
Photosynthesis
Fungi
Taproots
9. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Self - sterile
Root hairs
Phloem
Cambium
10. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Fumigant
Repetition
Colluvium
Constructed wetlands
11. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Fruits
Harrowing
Bracts
Loess
12. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Nitrogen fixation
Mass bulk/flow
Monoecious
Self - sterile
13. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Lacustrine
Proportion
Active ingredients
Loess
14. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Nitrogen fixation
Varities
Back - siphoning
Tillage
15. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Harrowing
Tillage
Vascular system
Taproots
16. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Annuals
Cultivars
Evergreen
Flowers
17. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Dicots
Ridge till
Surge flow
Colluvium
18. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Decidious
Root interception
Bracts
Photosynthesis
19. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Buds
A horizon
Mass bulk/flow
Binomial nomenclature
20. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Unity
Leaves
Seed
Aggregate fruits
21. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Respiration
Biennial
Stigma
Photosynthesis
22. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Fibrous roots
Focalization
Stomata
Compaction
23. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
No - till
Ridge till
Stomata
Vegetable
24. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Yield potential
Respiration
Mulch - Till
Fumigant
25. Protect the plant
Flowers
Spines
Cross pollinization
Fruit
26. The female portion of a flower
Sunscald
Pistil
Cotyledons
E horizon
27. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Transition
Parent material
Multiple fruits.
Fruits
28. The male portion of a flower
Vegetable
Stamen
Cuticle
Cross pollinization
29. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Mulch - Till
Rhythm
Simplicity
Blossom - end rot
30. The system using two names to identify plants.
B horizon
Anther
Dicots
Binomial nomenclature
31. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Plant hardiness
Vascular system
Natural enemies
Dicots
32. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Tillage
Insert ingredients
Rhubarb
Loess
33. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Cultivars
Monoecious
Spines
Simplicity
34. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Diffusion
Parent material
Monoecious
Transition
35. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Dioecious
Blossom - end rot
Cross pollinization
B horizon
36. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Fibrous roots
Self - sterile
Mulch - Till
Fruit
37. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Cambium
Mass bulk/flow
Decidious
Seed
38. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Erosion
Integrated pest management
Root hairs
Fruits
39. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Active ingredients
Dicots
Aggregate fruits
Residual
40. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Blossom - end rot
Rhythm
Harrowing
B horizon
41. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Evergreen
Integrated pest management
Fruit cracking
Yield potential
42. Plants retain their leaces all year
Nutrient supply
Spines
Evergreen
Leaves
43. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Catface
Root hairs
Stomata
Ethylene
44. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
E horizon
Integrated pest management
Transpiration
Vascular system
45. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Simplicity
Aggregates
Surge flow
Leaves
46. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Cuticle
Insert ingredients
A horizon
Specific epithet
47. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Cotyledons
Stems
Diffusion
Self - fruitful
48. Determine how long is an internodes length
Temperature and light
Fumigant
Transition
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
49. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Fungi
Nodes
Sunscald
Nutrient management plans
50. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Phloem
Decidious
Stems
Biennial