intro plant science

exam 1 practice

agronomy​​

The science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land restoration on an extensive scale.

olericulture​​

A discipline of horticulture concerned with the production and marketing of plants or plant parts valued for culinary use as vegetables

horticulture​​

The art and science of the development, sustainable production, marketing, and use of high-value, intensively cultivated food and ornamental plants

floriculture

Discipline of horticulture concerned with the production and marketing of plants valued for their flowers.

pomology

Production and marketing of plants or plant parts valued for their culinary use as fruits, including nuts; propagated by cuttings and grafting (asexual propagation).

horticulture 

The production of plants within a greenhouse might best fall under what category?

6

Approximately how many total years are required to earn a Master of Science degree after high school graduation?

2+

A perennial plant completes its lifecycle in how many years?

False

The hypocotyl is located above the cotyledons.

floriculture 

Marketing plants for their use as flowers is called

2

Approximately how many total years are require to earn an Associate of Applied Science degree after high school graduation?

false

Biennial plants only reproduce asexually.

false

If you grafted a branch of a Fuji apple onto a Red Delicious apple tree, there would be exchange of DNA between the two.

morphology

When looking at an apple tree, its shape and structure are referred to as the _______.

The arrow points to the

radicle

hypocotyl

What does letter “d” represent?

A perennial plant

continues growing year to year

Oryza sativa

Which of these is written correctly for rice

 

endosperm

The food for the developing plant as it germinates is called the

Lenticels

Small openings in the bark of a tree or on the surface of an apple

Anther

Pollen is produced on the

imperfect

A flower with a missing stamen or pistil is said to be

leaf

The blade is part of the

asexual​​

 If you cut off a plant petiole and blade for planting, you are performing what type of propagation?

sexual​​

Bees and birds visiting different flowers are part of what type of plant propagation?

Land grant universitie

 What is being described by this statement?

_____________were established in 1862 to focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science, military science and engineering (though "without excluding ... classical studies")

node

A growing point along the stem is called the

leaf blade​​

The portion of a leaf that does not include the petiole is called the_______________

true​​

The petioles of some plants are edible.

lenticels

Small openings in the bark of a tree or on the surface of an apple

transfer of pollen from anthers to stigmas of different flowers

Color or fragrant flowers attracts insects and birds for

stomata

These are small openings in leaves allowing gas exchange

fibrous

The two basic root types are taproot and 

stigma, ovary, style

These three parts make up the pistil

a.

Which letter corresponds to the apical bud?

zygote

When the pollen reaches the ovum or egg cell, a ______forms.

trifoliate

This leaf’s shape is best described as 

incomple

A/an ________flower is missing at least one of the four main structure: sepals, petal, stamen, and pistils.

petiole

What is the name of the leaf part indicated by the heart?