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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. Plants that live their entire life cycle n one growing season
Aggregate fruits
Annuals
Unity
Yield potential
2. An embryo then develops inside a tissue that is protective and both layers are known as a
Fumigant
Seed
A horizon
Loess
3. Below the A horizon - the ___ horizon is usually light colored layer - with clay particles having been leached or removed. Contains organic matter as well as iron oxides and aluminum.
Lacustrine
Cutin
Varities
E horizon
4. Refers to a plant froup with male and female plants occuring on the same plant such as corn and squash
Dioecious
No - till
Anther
Monoecious
5. The only vegetable used as a fruit
Fruit
Stems
Cross pollinization
Rhubarb
6. The growing of roots into new soil that contacts available nutrients
O horizon
Proportion
Root interception
Stigma
7. Are inactive parts of pesticide used for diluting a pesticide or to make it safer - easier to mix - measure - apply or more effective.
Perennials
Cross pollinization
Insert ingredients
Sunscald
8. Provide food for plants. absorb sunlight and transform it into food.
Tillage
Proportion
Residual
Leaves
9. When soil detaches from a portion of the soil profile or the surface of the soil
Seed
Erosion
Fruits
Cross pollinization
10. Materials developing or weathering in place and are not transported
Dioecious
Residual
Multiple fruits.
Aggregate fruits
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
Constructed wetlands
Leaves
Cultivars
Stomata
12. Increases organic matter and disburses aggregates
Colluvium
Root hairs
Monoecious
Tillage
13. Is where the formation of pollen takes place
Stamen
Unity
Colluvium
Anther
14. Below the O horizon - the __ horizon is where the mineral soil begins. It combines organic matter with weathered products.
A horizon
Rhubarb
Natural enemies
Fumigant
15. Which holds and captures pollen - and the style.
Stigma
Tillage
Back - siphoning
Stems
16. Are groups of plants developing new characteristics that occur naturally though hybridization.
Ridge till
Transition
Dicots
Varities
17. A condition in which wind or heat take too much water from a plant
Harrowing
Cotyledons
Perennials
Sunscald
18. Trunks for a plant. support leaves - fruits - and flowers. May also take in nutrients and store food.
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Cotyledons
Specific epithet
Stems
19. A cluster or several flowers
Take nutrients and water for the plant and store food for the plant. serves an anchor for plant.
Ridge till
Biennial
Multiple fruits.
20. Is an equality in something visually attractive
Back - siphoning
O horizon
Balance
Biennial
21. Are organisms that can kill or reduce the ability to reporduce in other organisms
Spines
Nitrogen fixation
Fibrous roots
Natural enemies
22. This name is not always capitalized - in botany refers to a group of plants that can interbreed only among themselves
Specific epithet
Phloem
Aggregates
Varities
23. In design comes from elements creating a feeling of motion that can lead the eyes of a viewer through or beyond the area designed.
Rhythm
B horizon
Proportion
Tendils
24. Are the first leaves to appear after seeds germinate
Cotyledons
B horizon
Evapotranspiration
Tillage
25. Are new of hybrid plants in which hybridization has been manipulated by humans
Cultivars
Anther
Fruit
No - till
26. Support stems
B horizon
Companion crops
Tendils
Fruit cracking
27. Flowers with several simple pistils formed
Cambium
Evergreen
Aggregate fruits
Hydroponics
28. Contain a strong primary root along with roots that branch out on the side
Eolian
Biennial
E horizon
Taproots
29. The waxy substance that makes up cuticles.
Multiple fruits.
Cutin
Harrowing
Proportion
30. Help decrease the amount of excessive nutrients that can enter the water from storm runoff.
Monoecious
Constructed wetlands
Nutrient management plans
Dioecious
31. As in the sense of a plant part - is a structure that produces seeds.
Evergreen
E horizon
Cross pollinization
Flowers
32. Is a reference to the size of portions of the design in relation to one another.
E horizon
Vascular system
Evergreen
Proportion
33. Always develop from a flower and has at least one ovary that has ripened
Transition
Fruit
Simplicity
Hydroponics
34. Is movement of nutrients to the surfaces of roots through water movement in the soil.
Mass bulk/flow
Aggregate fruits
Balance
Root hairs
35. The opposite of photosynthesis - uses food and oxygen to change chemical energy into heat for plants.
Respiration
Biennial
Lacustrine
Vegetable
36. Are plants grouped because of its ability to grow in girth
Mycoplasmas
Proportion
Aggregate fruits
Dicots
37. Pesticide is a capor or gas or it forms a cloud of vapor and gas when applied
Fumigant
Vascular system
Active ingredients
Constructed wetlands
38. Examples os plants classified by growth patterns - have conducting rubes throughout their stems
Nutrient management plans
Monocots
Taproots
Multiple fruits.
39. The soils should be avoided because it pushes aggregates together - causing them to eventually break down
Compaction
Aggregate fruits
Eolian
Spines
40. The female portion of a flower
Cambium
Natural enemies
Sunscald
Pistil
41. 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.
Perennials
Focalization
Plant hardiness
Colluvium
42. Soil is undisturbed from harvest to planting - in strips up to 1/3 of the row width.
Insert ingredients
Flowers
Dioecious
Ridge till
43. Full width tilage involving one or more trips during the soil surface is tilled. Done before or during planting.
Mulch - Till
Transition
xylem
Leaves
44. Increase the roots capacity to absorb to water and nutrients
Root hairs
Self - fruitful
Unity
Taproots
45. Is change that is gradual
Rhubarb
Companion crops
Transition
Proportion
46. Uses a variety of combinations to control pest - generally one that does the least harm to the pest of the environment.
Rhythm
Integrated pest management
Colluvium
Self - sterile
47. Have numerous roots that are branched out.
Evergreen
Fibrous roots
Proportion
Tendils
48. Refers to the movement through the soil of molecules.
Sunscald
Transition
Binomial nomenclature
Diffusion
49. Refers to how well a plant can survive cold temperatures
Cotyledons
Plant hardiness
Parent material
Colluvium
50. Refers to woody plants that lse leaves or needle each winter
Respiration
Decidious
Constructed wetlands
Rhubarb