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Praxis Plant Science Botany
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.
Insert ingredients
Fruits
Integrated pest management
Perennials
2. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Rhythm
Companion crops
Cutin
Bracts
3. Are those chemicals that control a target pest
Active ingredients
Seed
Phloem
Integrated pest management
4. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Self - sterile
Diffusion
Binomial nomenclature
Aggregate fruits
5. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Erosion
Cross pollinization
Spines
Companion crops
6. Pollinated from the same flower or other flowes on the same
Self - fruitful
Back - siphoning
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Cultivars
7. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Nutrient supply
Colluvium
Anther
Root interception
8. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Stems
Tillage
Fibrous roots
Genus
9. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Dicots
Tillage
Photosynthesis
Leaves
10. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Unity
Specific epithet
Yield potential
Integrated pest management
11. 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.
Pistil
Transpiration
Self - sterile
Genus
12. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Binomial nomenclature
Aggregate fruits
Eolian
Cultivars
13. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Mycoplasmas
Catface
Nodes
Surge flow
14. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Tendils
Vascular system
Nodes
Colluvium
15. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Self - fruitful
Nutrient supply
Fruit cracking
Compaction
16. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Tendils
Stigma
Yield potential
Hydroponics
17. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Rhubarb
Tendils
Aggregates
Integrated pest management
18. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Cotyledons
Nitrogen fixation
Nodes
Cutin
19. Have a two - year growth cycle
Natural enemies
Vegetable
Biennial
Fruit
20. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Compaction
Residual
Pistil
Parent material
21. A cluster or several flowers
Simplicity
Vascular system
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Multiple fruits.
22. The male portion of a flower
Loess
Aggregate fruits
Stamen
Multiple fruits.
23. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Decidious
Erosion
Blossom - end rot
Monoecious
24. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Annuals
Nutrient supply
No - till
Root interception
25. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Stems
Dioecious
Residual
Natural enemies
26. 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
Monocots
Stigma
Tendils
27. Is moving liquid pesticide mixture through a filling hose and into a water source
Spines
xylem
Back - siphoning
Fibrous roots
28. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Stems
Proportion
Cuticle
Genus
29. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Erosion
Genus
Ethylene
Decidious
30. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Specific epithet
Integrated pest management
No - till
xylem
31. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
xylem
Vascular system
Fumigant
Binomial nomenclature
32. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Blossom - end rot
Integrated pest management
Repetition
Cambium
33. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Constructed wetlands
Catface
Compaction
Fungi
34. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Stems
Evapotranspiration
Erosion
Repetition
35. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.
Evapotranspiration
Yield potential
Fibrous roots
Lacustrine
36. The system using two names to identify plants.
Binomial nomenclature
Annuals
Focalization
Surge flow
37. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Blossom - end rot
Buds
Evapotranspiration
Mass bulk/flow
38. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Unity
Surge flow
Anther
Cotyledons
39. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Seed
Spines
Stigma
Stomata
40. Leaf rust is a form of
Rhythm
Loess
Fungi
Mycoplasmas
41. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Evergreen
Lacustrine
Stomata
Multiple fruits.
42. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Rhubarb
Plant hardiness
Nodes
Nutrient supply
43. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Fruits
Cutin
Lacustrine
Stomata
44. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Biennial
Mycoplasmas
Tillage
A horizon
45. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
No - till
Temperature and light
Parent material
Compaction
46. 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.
Photosynthesis
Ethylene
Evergreen
Focalization
47. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Fungi
Ethylene
Pistil
Ridge till
48. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Anther
O horizon
A horizon
Self - sterile
49. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Vegetable
Balance
Phloem
Self - sterile
50. Determine how long is an internodes length
Spines
E horizon
Stomata
Temperature and light