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Definition of “horticulture.”
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the art and science of growing so-called garden crops such as flowers, vegetables, fruits, herbs, and trees
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Olericulture
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culture of vegetable crops
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Pomology
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culture of fruit crops
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floriculture
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production of flowers
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nursery crops
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trees shrubs, herbacous landscape plants
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succulents
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thick fleshy water storing leaves or stems
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vines
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climbing or trailing woody or herbacous plants
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liana
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climing or trailing woody plant (WOODY VINES)
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trees
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single axes
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shurbs
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several stems/axises
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xerophytes
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prefers dry sites
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glycophytes
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prefers fresh water *most crops
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shade plants
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prefers low intensity light
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acid loving plants
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prefers low ph soils
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what are some acid lovers?
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blueberries, hydranges, azalea *4.5-5.5
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halophytes
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prefers salty water or soils
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cool season crops
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peas lettuce, spinache, cole crops, cabbage proculi
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tender plants
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damage or killed by low temps
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hardy plants
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withstand winters low temps
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woody-hardy
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whole plant is winter hardy
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flower bud hardiness
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ability of flower buds to survive low temps (peach, ginko)
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Name the Swedish botanist who modernized plant classification
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Linneaus
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variety
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naturally occuring species of plants
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cultivar
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occurs cuz of humans doing shit
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Apical Meristem
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meristems at the tips of shoots and roots (horticulturally known as the growing point).
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cambium
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lateral meristems responsible for the increase in the girth of woody stems; actively dividing and expanding as a result of increase in stem diameter.
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Intercalary meristems
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(in grasses) isolated meristematic regions near the nodes. The mowing of lawns does not interfere with the growth of the grass plant from the growing points are not damaged by mowing.
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xylem
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the principal water-conducting tissue consisted of living and non-living cells.
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pholem
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the principal food-conducting tissue. They are made up of specialized cells called sieve elements.
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Cambium
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lateral meristems responsible for the increase in the girth of woody stems; actively dividing and expanding as a result of increase in stem diameter.
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Red Delicios or golden delicios
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Malus domestica 'Red Delicious'
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what is a sport
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mutated branch or spore used in fruit trees
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Pure lines
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homozygous inbred lines grown from seed
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hybrid cultivar
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a cultivar developed by hybridizing (crossing) two or more genertically diverse paretnal lines
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vacoule
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cavity that takes in waste
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mitocondria
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intercellular respiration and makes ATP
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crown
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the junction of stem at the ground level that connects the root (Crown in forestry refers to the branched top of a tree
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rhizome
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- horizontal underground stems
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comr
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fleshy short underground stems
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tuber
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underground stem swollen
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bulb
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modifieed leaves around the base (like onion)
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runner
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stolon w/ long internodes at the crown
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spurs
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stems of woody plant whose growht is restricted
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aggregate fruit
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overies are all fused together
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corolla
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petals are all connected laterallt
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multiple fruit
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all stacked latterally (overies)
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monoceius
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same plant producing male and female
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androceious
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male only
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gynocious
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female only
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andromonecouios
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male and perfect
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gynomenicous
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female and perfect
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trimonecious
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all of them! perfect, male and female
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growth
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irreverable increase in size
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morphogenisis
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Morphological and anatomical development
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differentiion
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physiological and biochemical specialization of plant tissues
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anabolism
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synthesis
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catabolism
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degredation
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