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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. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Proportion
Decidious
Nutrient management plans
Bracts
2. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Root hairs
Leaves
Fungi
Mass bulk/flow
3. The system using two names to identify plants.
Genus
Yield potential
Binomial nomenclature
No - till
4. Is a hormone for plants and growth regulator
Mulch - Till
Vegetable
Ethylene
Unity
5. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Yield potential
Stems
Blossom - end rot
Vegetable
6. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Cambium
Annuals
Lacustrine
Rhythm
7. A cluster or several flowers
Vegetable
Multiple fruits.
Dioecious
Varities
8. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Phloem
Natural enemies
Residual
E horizon
9. The male portion of a flower
Stamen
Tendils
Decidious
Self - sterile
10. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Specific epithet
Annuals
Loess
Cutin
11. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Varities
Buds
Back - siphoning
Residual
12. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
Insert ingredients
Biennial
xylem
Yield potential
13. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
O horizon
Sunscald
Stems
Integrated pest management
14. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Varities
Vascular system
Cultivars
Self - sterile
15. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Rhythm
Rhubarb
Vascular system
Nitrogen fixation
16. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style
Self - fruitful
Unity
Aggregate fruits
Proportion
17. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Stigma
Tendils
Active ingredients
Evergreen
18. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Repetition
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Active ingredients
Fumigant
19. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.
Stomata
Stems
Parent material
Monocots
20. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Erosion
Photosynthesis
Decidious
O horizon
21. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Photosynthesis
Colluvium
Nutrient supply
Vegetable
22. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Plant hardiness
Cultivars
Annuals
Diffusion
23. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Transition
O horizon
Integrated pest management
Taproots
24. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Fibrous roots
Root hairs
Root interception
Parent material
25. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato
Unity
Evergreen
Spines
Catface
26. Is a cyclic irrigation application that delivers water to land during a series of on and off time spans known as hydraulic surges.
Anther
Catface
Root interception
Surge flow
27. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Cutin
Mulch - Till
Dicots
Lacustrine
28. The female portion of a flower
Nodes
Buds
Surge flow
Pistil
29. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Photosynthesis
Rhubarb
Harrowing
Aggregates
30. 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
Spines
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Binomial nomenclature
31. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Catface
Bracts
A horizon
Monocots
32. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
A horizon
Parent material
Mass bulk/flow
Plant hardiness
33. Repeated features such as plants. These features have like shape - form - texture - and color.
Dicots
Repetition
Mycoplasmas
Insert ingredients
34. Is breaking soil out of clods and breaking in finer clumps. Do this after you plow.
Stigma
Nitrogen fixation
Mulch - Till
Harrowing
35. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Integrated pest management
Specific epithet
Flowers
Phloem
36. 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.
Pistil
Erosion
B horizon
Sunscald
37. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Compaction
Leaves
Photosynthesis
Evergreen
38. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Multiple fruits.
Ridge till
Self - fruitful
Nutrient supply
39. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Perennials
Plant hardiness
No - till
Nitrogen fixation
40. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Biennial
Harrowing
Root interception
Cutin
41. Protect the plant
Spines
Blossom - end rot
Mass bulk/flow
Surge flow
42. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.
Binomial nomenclature
Diffusion
Nutrient supply
Hydroponics
43. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Aggregates
Tillage
Plant hardiness
Bracts
44. Plants retain their leaces all year
Evergreen
Rhythm
Root hairs
Repetition
45. Reducing a design to its simplest and most functional form.
Simplicity
Colluvium
Plant hardiness
Seed
46. Have a two - year growth cycle
Anther
Biennial
Root hairs
A horizon
47. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Monoecious
Temperature and light
Nitrogen fixation
Self - sterile
48. The loss of water by plants from both evaporation and transpiration.
Companion crops
Simplicity
Buds
Evapotranspiration
49. 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.
Compaction
Genus
No - till
Blossom - end rot
50. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Vegetable
Insert ingredients
Monoecious
Cutin