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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.






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






3. Plants retain their leaces all year






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






5. Determine how long is an internodes length






6. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans






7. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.






8. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.






9. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients






10. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.






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






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






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






14. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves






15. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.






16. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.






17. 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.






18. Is an equality in something visually attractive






19. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil






20. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






21. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.






22. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.






23. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






24. 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.






25. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.






26. The system using two names to identify plants.






27. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms






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






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






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






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






32. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower






33. Is where the formation of pollen takes place






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






35. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened






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






37. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed






38. The only vegetable used as a fruit






39. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






40. What do roots do for the plant






41. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.






42. Have a two - year growth cycle






43. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems






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






45. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






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






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






48. The female portion of a flower






49. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down






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