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Practice Questions for Guaranteed Success
What is Horticulture? - answer-the culture of plants for food, comfort, and
beauty
What is the importance of plants? - answer-food supply, medicine, oxygen,
fossil fuel, industrial products, and aesthetic benefits
what are the five major needs of plants? - answer-light, water, air, soil,
nutrients
Thigmotropism - answer-A directional growth of a plant in response to touch.
What is dormancy in plants? - answer-the temporary suspension of visible
plant growth functions in order to protect themselves
Senescence - answer-biological aging, precedes cell death
abscission - answer-the act of cutting; the natural separation of a leaf or other
part of a plant (leaf defoliation)
Flowering - answer-attract pollinators, resulting in seed formation and
perpetuation of the species
, What is plant taxonomy? - answer-describing, naming, and classifying plants
What is plant morphology? - answer-The study of the form and structure of
plants
what kind of stems are there? - answer-woody & herbaceous
What types of fruit are there? - answer-fleshy & dry
What is a bud scale scar? - answer-begins growth in the spring; represents one
years growth
What is an axillary bud? - answer-a structure that has the potential to form a
lateral shoot, or branch
What is the node of a plant stem? - answer-point of leaf attachment
What is the Internode of the plant? - answer-located between the nodes
Seed Germination - answer-a process by which a seed embryo develops into a
seedling