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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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1. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Leaves
Natural enemies
Mulch - Till
Phloem
2. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Cutin
Temperature and light
Mass bulk/flow
3. Determine how long is an internodes length
Seed
Temperature and light
Self - sterile
Self - fruitful
4. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Cuticle
Yield potential
Loess
Self - fruitful
5. 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.
Diffusion
Stamen
B horizon
Evergreen
6. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
xylem
Taproots
Cuticle
O horizon
7. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Nodes
Dioecious
Perennials
Sunscald
8. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Proportion
Diffusion
Lacustrine
Eolian
9. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Eolian
Fungi
Binomial nomenclature
Monoecious
10. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Compaction
B horizon
Flowers
Ridge till
11. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Surge flow
Catface
Active ingredients
Root hairs
12. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Monocots
Temperature and light
Ethylene
Cuticle
13. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Biennial
Dioecious
Fungi
Fumigant
14. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Vascular system
Sunscald
Surge flow
Evapotranspiration
15. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Respiration
Taproots
Tendils
Stems
16. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Fumigant
Erosion
Monoecious
Phloem
17. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Binomial nomenclature
Lacustrine
A horizon
Nutrient management plans
18. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Annuals
Buds
Dioecious
Decidious
19. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Specific epithet
Constructed wetlands
Back - siphoning
Multiple fruits.
20. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Dioecious
Cutin
Rhubarb
Nodes
21. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Seed
Stems
Companion crops
Harrowing
22. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Pistil
Surge flow
Focalization
Proportion
23. Is change that is gradual
Cambium
Nutrient management plans
Taproots
Transition
24. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Temperature and light
Fruits
Transpiration
Cuticle
25. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
Rhythm
Photosynthesis
Proportion
Natural enemies
26. 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.
Spines
Multiple fruits.
Seed
Genus
27. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Nutrient supply
Fruit cracking
Balance
Insert ingredients
28. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Vegetable
Root interception
Insert ingredients
Constructed wetlands
29. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Sunscald
Fruits
Blossom - end rot
Taproots
30. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Integrated pest management
Simplicity
Fungi
Eolian
31. What do roots do for the plant
A horizon
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Aggregate fruits
Stigma
32. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Self - sterile
Root hairs
Integrated pest management
Leaves
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.
xylem
Evapotranspiration
Root hairs
Focalization
34. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Cutin
Vegetable
Nutrient management plans
Stems
35. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Hydroponics
Multiple fruits.
Cross pollinization
Unity
36. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Specific epithet
Surge flow
Lacustrine
Fibrous roots
37. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Perennials
Stems
Plant hardiness
Nutrient supply
38. Have a two - year growth cycle
A horizon
Stamen
Biennial
Constructed wetlands
39. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Vegetable
Transpiration
Varities
Flowers
40. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Anther
Proportion
Cutin
Sunscald
41. Leaf rust is a form of
Evapotranspiration
Proportion
Photosynthesis
Fungi
42. Protect the plant
Residual
Spines
Pistil
Bracts
43. 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.
Stamen
Cutin
O horizon
Evergreen
44. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Nutrient management plans
Mulch - Till
Integrated pest management
Self - sterile
45. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Root hairs
Tillage
Genus
Cutin
46. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
No - till
Respiration
Lacustrine
Colluvium
47. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Plant hardiness
Tillage
Nitrogen fixation
Stigma
48. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Cotyledons
Nodes
Photosynthesis
xylem
49. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Varities
Blossom - end rot
Bracts
Nodes
50. Parent material that the wind transports
Taproots
Stomata
Eolian
Monoecious