Chp 1 Plant Science

Broccoli and cauliflower are eaten as immature hypocotyls

False

What letter is adjacent to a corm?

b

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

2

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

6

Olericulture

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

Floriculture

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

What is being described by this statement? ________________ were established in 1862 to focus on the teaching of practical agriculture, science, military science and engineering

Land grant universities

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

Agronomy

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

The petioles of some plants are edible

True

This image is labeled correctly

True

Which letter is adjacent to a bulb?

a

Which of these contains a ripened ovary and is classified as a fruit

all are fruits

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

asexual

What is circled in the picture?

bracts

What letter is adjacent to a rhizome?

e

Which letter is adjacent to a petiole?

f not pictured

Which letter is adjacent to a tap root?

f not pictured

If you are interested in growing flowers and vegetables in greenhouses, what major would be best?

horticulture

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

leaf blade

A growing point along the stem is called the

node

What words are most closely related

scientific methods and treatment

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

sexual