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- 3. The science of ag that relates to the cultivation of gardens or orchards- including growing veggies, fruits, flowers, and shrubs and trees.
- 6. The male element that carries the spores in the fertilization of the egg nucleus in the ovule of a flower. The pollen is borne by the anthers and is usually a yellowish, dustlike mass of separate grains.
- 7. System of naming used to classify a group, such as the botanical names of plants.
- 9. Sprouting of a seed and beginning of plant growth.
- 12. Plants living one year or less. During this time, the plant grows, flowers, produces seeds, and dies.
- 13. The capacity of soil or rock for transmitting a fluid. The degree of permeability depends upon the size and shape of the pores, the size, and shape of their interconnections, and the extent of the latter.
- 14. Plant having a single cotyledon or seed leaf, such as corn.
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- 1. The female element of a flower; composed of stigma, style, and ovary.
- 2. The first leaf to be developed by the embryo in plant seeds, also called the seed leaf.
- 4. Process by which green plants, using chlorophyll and the energy of sunlight, produce carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide, and release oxygen
- 5. Plant whose seeds have two cotyledons or seed leaves, such as beans.
- 6. A plant that lives for more than two years.
- 8. The cultivation of plants for their flowers.
- 10. The specialization of agriculture concerned with the theory and practice of field–crop production and soil management. The scientific management of land.
- 11. Not woody, dying back to the ground each year, such as rhubarb and asparagus (applied to a plant or stems).