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Botany Quiz 1

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Future of Plants
1. New Hybrid Plants
2. Plants repelling insects
3. Plants trapping insects with sticky hairs
4. Plants thriving in dry and salty soil
5. Plants with green glue; bind and stabilize soil
Plant Uses
Food
Certain animals owe their existence to plants
Spices and condiments
Perfume and dyes
Clothing, textile fabrics, bedding
Fossils fuels (coal and oil)
Medicines and drugs
Antibiotics
Methane Gas
Botany
study of plants
Botanikos
botanical
Botane
plant
Boskein
to feed
Plant Genetics
inheritance patterns
Plant Physiology
plant function (transpiration)
Plant Taxonomy
Classification
Plant Geography
plant distributions
Plant Ecology
interactions of plants with animals and the abiotic environment
Autecology
plant population (one species)
Plant Cytology
cells
Plant Anatomy
internal structure
Synecology
plant communities (2 or more species)
Phycology
algae
Mycology
fungi
Bacteriology
microbes
Pteridology
ferns
Bryology
moss and liverworts
Paleobiology
plant fossils
Taxonomy
study of plant classifications
Classification def and involves
putting objects into groups
1. nomenclature - naming
2. describing
3. ID similar species
Systematics
study of the biodiversity, history of organisms and evolutionary relationships between them
Linnaeus
-father of plant taxonomy
-credited with binomial system and classification hierarchy
Taxan
Greek taxa
Numus
organisation of principles
def- taxonomic unit of classification
Species
smallest unit within classification unit
Species Characteristics
1. same ancestry
2. identical structure and behaviors
3. interbreed freely
4. reproductive structures similar
Binomial system
genus and species
ex Quercus alba - white oak
Major Taxonomic Scheme
domain
kingdom
phylum
class
order
family
genus
species
Domains
Archaebacteria- bacteria in extreme envrionments
Eubacteria- bacteria in moderate environments
Eukarya- all other kingdoms
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdom
monera
Eukarya Kingdoms
Proista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia
plant morphology
external from and structure
nomenclature
naming
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