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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. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Colluvium
Transition
Natural enemies
Mass bulk/flow
2. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
Ethylene
A horizon
Vascular system
Hydroponics
3. Formation of buds taking place.
Tendils
Eolian
Nodes
Focalization
4. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Fruit cracking
Sunscald
Aggregate fruits
Nodes
5. Materials that are moved by streams and deposited into fresh water.
Fruits
Back - siphoning
Ethylene
Lacustrine
6. 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.
Catface
Tendils
Surge flow
O horizon
7. The system using two names to identify plants.
Fruits
Binomial nomenclature
Simplicity
Repetition
8. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Leaves
B horizon
Lacustrine
Nitrogen fixation
9. A tomato disorder marked by a black or leathery brown spot on the fruits bottom.
Integrated pest management
Self - fruitful
Blossom - end rot
Colluvium
10. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Flowers
Fruit
Vegetable
Leaves
11. The part of the system that moves the food is known as the
Cambium
Evergreen
Phloem
Fruit cracking
12. Support stems
Vascular system
Tendils
B horizon
Diffusion
13. Protect the plant
Flowers
Natural enemies
Spines
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
14. Are created when microbes from decomposed organic matter make compounds that make soil particles hold together.
Cutin
Aggregates
Ethylene
Cotyledons
15. Is a wind - moved material that is silt - sized or smaller
Loess
Aggregate fruits
Stigma
Respiration
16. In a tomato is from a fast uptake of water such as from sownpurs or excessive watering.
Lacustrine
Fruit cracking
Stomata
Leaves
17. Should be used when mixed plantings are made during marginal planting periods.
Mycoplasmas
Companion crops
Binomial nomenclature
Tillage
18. Have a two - year growth cycle
Dioecious
Biennial
No - till
Vegetable
19. The system that allows the lifeblood or water - nutrients and food through the plant
Vascular system
Colluvium
Fruit cracking
Sunscald
20. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Sunscald
Parent material
Cutin
Aggregate fruits
21. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Harrowing
Mass bulk/flow
Fibrous roots
Nutrient management plans
22. Parent material that the wind transports
Evergreen
Vascular system
Mass bulk/flow
Eolian
23. Are brightly colored forms in which leaves may be modified
Cuticle
Anther
Diffusion
Bracts
24. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
Root interception
Self - sterile
Simplicity
Insert ingredients
25. The system that moves water and minerals is called a
Flowers
Focalization
Colluvium
xylem
26. What do roots do for the plant
Ridge till
Lacustrine
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Yield potential
27. Cannot be fertilized by their own pollen
Dicots
Yield potential
Self - sterile
Cuticle
28. Is change that is gradual
Active ingredients
Transition
Eolian
Seed
29. Leaf rust is a form of
Respiration
Binomial nomenclature
Yield potential
Fungi
30. 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.
Focalization
Monoecious
Monocots
E horizon
31. When light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into plant food.
Yield potential
Photosynthesis
Root interception
Annuals
32. How water is used in plants to carry nutrients
Plant hardiness
Taproots
Fumigant
Transpiration
33. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Fruits
Multiple fruits.
Cotyledons
Proportion
34. A protective layer outside the surface of a leaf.
Active ingredients
Ridge till
Anther
Cuticle
35. Are flowers and shoots not yet developed
Buds
Back - siphoning
A horizon
Stems
36. One of several conservation tillage types used to cover 30 percent or more of pasture with crop residue.
Dioecious
Diffusion
No - till
Integrated pest management
37. Refer in botanical use as the edible parts of plant - other than the flower
Vegetable
Pistil
Spines
Repetition
38. Are a man made means of treating water through natural processes using plants - animals - microorganisms and the environment itself.
Diffusion
Monoecious
Constructed wetlands
No - till
39. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Diffusion
Dicots
Monoecious
Loess
40. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Dicots
Stomata
Stems
Annuals
41. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Simplicity
Anther
Constructed wetlands
Fumigant
42. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Mulch - Till
Root hairs
Annuals
Aggregate fruits
43. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Cultivars
Decidious
Seed
Ridge till
44. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Compaction
Monocots
Mulch - Till
Varities
45. Plants retain their leaces all year
Multiple fruits.
Nitrogen fixation
Evergreen
Compaction
46. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Perennials
Rhubarb
Residual
Nutrient supply
47. Are plants that may live multiple years and may form flowers and seeds every year
Vascular system
Residual
Perennials
Parent material
48. A process in which nitrogen gas in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia.
Rhythm
No - till
Hydroponics
Nitrogen fixation
49. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Root hairs
Active ingredients
Vegetable
Anther
50. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Sunscald
Aggregate fruits
Specific epithet