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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. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Proportion
Genus
Phloem
Eolian
2. What do roots do for the plant
Cultivars
Mass bulk/flow
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Tendils
3. Parent material moved by gravity
Aggregate fruits
Bracts
Colluvium
Repetition
4. Parent material that the wind transports
Unity
Photosynthesis
Nutrient management plans
Eolian
5. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
xylem
Vascular system
Vegetable
Plant hardiness
6. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Phloem
Blossom - end rot
Yield potential
Parent material
7. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
B horizon
Respiration
Cultivars
Stomata
8. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Aggregate fruits
Constructed wetlands
Vegetable
Buds
9. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
A horizon
Specific epithet
Repetition
Aggregate fruits
10. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Fungi
Cross pollinization
Evapotranspiration
Loess
11. Are tiny leaf openings on the leaf surface - allows plants to release and take in gases - such as carbon dioxide - oxygen - and water vapor
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Focalization
Stomata
Cross pollinization
12. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Ethylene
Phloem
Bracts
Root hairs
13. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Erosion
Taproots
O horizon
Seed
14. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Dicots
Root hairs
Mulch - Till
Lacustrine
15. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Decidious
Back - siphoning
Plant hardiness
O horizon
16. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem
Yield potential
O horizon
Proportion
Cambium
17. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Mass bulk/flow
E horizon
Root interception
Cambium
18. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Integrated pest management
Stems
Flowers
Compaction
19. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Vegetable
xylem
Fruit
Fumigant
20. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Cuticle
Vascular system
Fruit cracking
Hydroponics
21. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Temperature and light
Tendils
Lacustrine
Unity
22. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Buds
Fruit cracking
Seed
Spines
23. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Cotyledons
Compaction
Self - sterile
Proportion
24. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Focalization
Aggregate fruits
Aggregates
xylem
25. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Ethylene
Vascular system
Blossom - end rot
Bracts
26. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Parent material
Fruit
Integrated pest management
Balance
27. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Specific epithet
Insert ingredients
Evapotranspiration
Spines
28. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Cuticle
Stamen
Surge flow
Compaction
29. Are the smallest known living organisms that may reporuce and live apart from other living organisms.
Mycoplasmas
Constructed wetlands
Insert ingredients
Compaction
30. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Perennials
Surge flow
Residual
Insert ingredients
31. The system using two names to identify plants.
Constructed wetlands
Stomata
Binomial nomenclature
Specific epithet
32. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Decidious
Specific epithet
Monocots
Fibrous roots
33. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Diffusion
Monocots
Fruit cracking
Aggregates
34. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Parent material
A horizon
Simplicity
Integrated pest management
35. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Cotyledons
Temperature and light
E horizon
Transpiration
36. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Stomata
Integrated pest management
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Cultivars
37. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Mass bulk/flow
Fruit
Loess
Back - siphoning
38. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Catface
Biennial
Unity
Back - siphoning
39. Determine how long is an internodes length
Temperature and light
Perennials
Erosion
Flowers
40. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Tillage
Stamen
Mulch - Till
Fruit cracking
41. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Cuticle
Buds
Varities
Pistil
42. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Fruit
Transpiration
Fumigant
A horizon
43. Leaf rust is a form of
Repetition
Proportion
Lacustrine
Fungi
44. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Unity
Taproots
Temperature and light
Root hairs
45. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Dicots
Cutin
Root hairs
Transition
46. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Seed
Buds
Active ingredients
Genus
47. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Binomial nomenclature
Transpiration
Cambium
Fibrous roots
48. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Flowers
Companion crops
Integrated pest management
A horizon
49. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Monoecious
Harrowing
Sunscald
Evapotranspiration
50. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies
Active ingredients
Dioecious
Cotyledons
Fungi