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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. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Self - sterile
Erosion
Back - siphoning
Respiration
2. Leaf rust is a form of
Monocots
Fungi
Mycoplasmas
Sunscald
3. The system using two names to identify plants.
Cutin
Evergreen
Nutrient supply
Binomial nomenclature
4. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Mycoplasmas
Buds
Cross pollinization
O horizon
5. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Focalization
Catface
Balance
Erosion
6. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Loess
Residual
Decidious
Stomata
7. 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.
E horizon
Evapotranspiration
Respiration
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
8. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Simplicity
Balance
Perennials
Hydroponics
9. Parent material that the wind transports
Eolian
Balance
Mass bulk/flow
Decidious
10. Occurs when pollen is carried from one plant to another
Cross pollinization
Pistil
Evergreen
Proportion
11. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Yield potential
Annuals
No - till
Dioecious
12. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Nitrogen fixation
Varities
Specific epithet
Perennials
13. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Evapotranspiration
Taproots
Colluvium
Cuticle
14. Formation of buds taking place.
Repetition
Nodes
Loess
Vegetable
15. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.
Diffusion
Integrated pest management
Nutrient supply
Cutin
16. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Eolian
Leaves
Colluvium
Evapotranspiration
17. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Stigma
Loess
Vegetable
Blossom - end rot
18. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Constructed wetlands
Respiration
Unity
Natural enemies
19. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Root hairs
Ethylene
Monocots
Annuals
20. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Self - fruitful
Ridge till
Cultivars
Varities
21. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Constructed wetlands
Insert ingredients
Sunscald
Buds
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
Temperature and light
Blossom - end rot
Stomata
Compaction
23. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Phloem
Evergreen
Mass bulk/flow
Cross pollinization
24. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Companion crops
No - till
Catface
Fruits
25. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Cutin
Stamen
Taproots
Mycoplasmas
26. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Evapotranspiration
Monoecious
Ethylene
B horizon
27. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Fruits
Specific epithet
Repetition
Taproots
28. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Vegetable
Root interception
Erosion
29. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Fumigant
Photosynthesis
Transition
Yield potential
30. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Anther
Constructed wetlands
Tillage
Parent material
31. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Back - siphoning
Compaction
Evapotranspiration
Cambium
32. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Leaves
Vegetable
Cultivars
Evergreen
33. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Natural enemies
Taproots
Aggregate fruits
Stems
34. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Cuticle
Transpiration
No - till
Monocots
35. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Flowers
Rhubarb
Proportion
Residual
36. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Cuticle
Bracts
Integrated pest management
Cutin
37. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Cuticle
Multiple fruits.
Nodes
Dioecious
38. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Seed
Fruit
Plant hardiness
Aggregates
39. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Phloem
Back - siphoning
Nutrient management plans
E horizon
40. 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
Tendils
Sunscald
Fruit cracking
41. The female portion of a flower
No - till
Simplicity
Pistil
Stigma
42. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
xylem
Multiple fruits.
Flowers
Repetition
43. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Vascular system
Yield potential
Dicots
Simplicity
44. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Cuticle
Rhythm
Rhubarb
Stomata
45. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Mulch - Till
Decidious
Self - sterile
Residual
46. The male portion of a flower
Transition
Stamen
Taproots
Pistil
47. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Integrated pest management
Hydroponics
Repetition
Simplicity
48. Plants retain their leaces all year
Buds
Mass bulk/flow
Evergreen
Sunscald
49. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Tillage
Insert ingredients
Lacustrine
Mycoplasmas
50. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Simplicity
Compaction
Multiple fruits.
Root interception