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Nursery and Landscape #4: Plant Propagation

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Practice of growing plants from seeds (sexual) OR from vegetative parts (asexual).

a)
propagation
b)
thinning
c)
turning the soil
d)
frost burn
2.

A reproductive process involving two plants OR the male and female parts of the same plant and results in the formation of flowers, fruits, and seeds.

a)
cuttings
b)
vegetative propagation
c)
sexual reproduction, or pollination
d)
asexual reproduction
3.

What part of the plant produces a new plant when sexual propagation techniques are used?

a)
budding
b)
roots, stolons, or bulbs
c)
seeds
d)
cuttings
4.

An asexual reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to the parent, similar to cloning. New plants grow from vegetative parts such as roots, stems, and leaves, but NOT from seeds.

a)
pollination
b)
pesticide resistance
c)
vegetative propagation
d)
bioaccumulation
5.
Separating an existing plant into two or more smaller plants.
a)
budding
b)
grafting
c)
cutting
d)
division
6.
The most popular form of plant propagtion in the landscape industry: you remove a part of an existing plant and force roots to grow from that part. Sometimes a rooting hormone is added to the cut branch's tip.
a)
division
b)
grafting
c)
budding
d)
cutting
7.

Plant propagation method used to unite a small cutting from one plant into the growing cambium of a different rootstock with more resilient characteristics. 

Ex: a shoot is removed from a sweet-tasting blood orange tree (which is NOT cold hardy) and placed in the growing cambium of an osage orange (which IS cold hardy).  The resulting tree has sweet blood oranges and IS cold hardy enough to grow here in North Florida!

Most popular form of vegetative propagation in the citrus industry.v

a)
air layering
b)

grafting, or cleft grafting

c)
budding
d)
cutting
8.
A tool used for make grafting cuts by joining two different plant tissues.
a)
grafting knife
b)
soil knife
c)
pruning saw
d)
loppers
9.

The ________________________________ of a plant with desirable characteristics like cold-hardiness or disease-resistance is cut off a few inches above the root.

Then a cutting from a tree lacking those characteristics is inserted into the rootstock's growing cambium.

a)
rootstock
b)
leaf
c)
flower
d)
root
10.

The small branch or bud that is cut from a tree you would like to graft into the cambium of a superior rootsock.

a)
cutting, or scion
b)
flower
c)
leaf
d)
root
11.

A specialized method of grafting where a single bud with a slice of it's bark (scion) is inserted into the bark of a different tree/plant. 

(If the cut you make in the rootstock's bark is shaped like a "T", this method can also be called "T-budding".)

a)
bud-grafting
b)
grafting
c)
division
d)
cutting
12.
A type of propagation in which the stem is girdled, the cut is dusted in rooting hormone, and the dusted cut is covered with moss. New roots grow at the cut, then later the branch or stem is removed and planted.
a)
grafting
b)
budding
c)
cutting
d)
air layering
13.

Using small groups of cells from a plant to make new plants in a sterile agar plate.

a)
division
b)
cutting
c)
grafting
d)
tissue culture
14.
Which is NOT a kind of asexual propagation?
a)
pollination
b)
budding
c)
grafting
d)
cutting
15.

Asexual plant reproduction is the same as vegetative propagation.

a)
True
b)
False
16.
What is the most common form of vegetative (asexual) propagation in the nursery industry?
a)
division
b)
seeds
c)
cuttings
d)
tissue culture
17.

What asexual propagation technique requires removing a shoot from the desired plant and placing it in the growing cambium of another?

a)
Grafting
b)
Division
c)
Layering
d)
Cutting
18.

What grafting technique is accomplished by uniting a bud and rootstock by cutting into the bark of the rootstock?

a)

Bud Grafting

b)
Cutting
c)

Division

d)
Layering
19.

Which method of asexual plant reproduction involves using a small part of a plant to grow another in a sterile environment?

a)
Layering
b)
Grafting
c)
Tissue culture
d)
Seed propagation
20.

Which asexual plant propagation technique involves separating the main part of the plant into smaller peices?

a)
Division
b)
Grafting
c)
Layering
d)
Cutting
21.

Which asexual propagation technique is shown?

a)
Grafting
b)
Air layering
c)
Division
d)
Cutting
22.

What form of propagation is illustrated?

a)

tissue culture

b)

air layering

c)

division

d)

grafting