A: topic 1

Question 1

Importance of botany

Answer 1

Forage, food industry, spices, poisoning

Animal nutrition

Food hygiene

• molds - multicellular growth
• other microfungal infections of foods ex Mycotoxicosis – microfungi producing toxic secondary metabolites—> disease in animals that can be considered unhealthy for human consumption

Inner medicine
- medicines

Pathology - different diseases
pathohistology - study the manifestations of disease in different tissues

Toxicology: general plant family descriptions to know its typical poisonous compounds ex

Plant biogeography: where to find the different plant

pharmacology: medicine, food safety(poisonous plants)

Textile industry
- clothes, rope

Forestry, furnitures
- ex pine has good wood

Recognize and identify plants

Question 2

1. 300BC
2. 50/90AD
3. 1665
4. 1686
5. 1727
6. 1753
7. 1774
8. 1800s
9. 1900s

Answer 2

1. • Theophrastus of Eresos – the father of botany

Poisonous plants, for medicinal use (volume IX)

2. • Pedanius Dioscorides: 5 volumes about medicinal plants and drugs
3. • Robert hook: micrographia, utseende av celler
4. – John Ray: basics of modern taxonomy
5. – Stephen Hales: basics of plant physiology, nutrient metabolism and respiration
6. – Carl von Linne: taxonomy: binominal nomenclature, species as basic unit
7. – Joseph Priestly: air fixation and gas release by plants
8. – description of photosynthesis by julius robert mayer ( said it prod energy) - exactly described in 1982
9. – more detailed mechanisms, plant ecology