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Praxis Plant Science Botany

Subjects : praxis, botany
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified






2. By crops is dependent on the soils nutrient supply - the area of the root surface area and the root activity.






3. Is an equality in something visually attractive






4. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.






5. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.






6. Scarring on the blossom end of a tomato






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






8. Have a two - year growth cycle






9. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures






10. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.






11. Formation of buds taking place.






12. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.






13. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied






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






15. Come from effective components used to express a main idea through a consistent style






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






17. What do roots do for the plant






18. For each field should then be analyzed based on the soil productivity and management that is intended.






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






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






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






22. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.






23. Plants retain their leaces all year






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






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






26. The female portion of a flower






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






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






29. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant






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






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






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






33. Ripe ovaries or groups of ripened ovaries that contain seeds.






34. One of several major factors influencing soil characteristics.






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






36. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate






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






38. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year






39. Flowers with several simple pistils formed






40. Refers to plants with only male or female flower on a single plant such as hollies






41. A technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with an artificial medium that providing mechanical support.






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






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






44. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates






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






46. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the






47. A stem also has a part known as a ___ - which produces tissue that lengthens the stem






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






49. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter






50. Determine how long is an internodes length