A.1 - Importance and short history of Botany Flashcards
1
Q
Why are plants studied?
A
- Foods
- Medicines
- Poisons
2
Q
Botany can be applied to which scientific areas?
A
- Animal Nutrition
- Toxicology
- Pharmacology
- Internal Medicine
- Food Hygiene
- Pathology
3
Q
Who is regarded as the ‘father of Botany’?
What did he do?
A
- Theophrastus of Eresos
- Wrote Historia Plantarum around 300BC
4
Q
Who wrote a book in 70 AD exploring medicinal and poisonous plants?
A
Pedanius Dioscorides
5
Q
Who first studied plants under the microscope? When?
A
Robert Hook, 1665
6
Q
Who wrote a book that was considered to be the basics of modern plant taxonomy? When?
A
John Ray, 1686
7
Q
What did Stephen Hales write? When?
A
- Vegetable Statistics
- Subject: Plant Physiology and Nutrient Metabolism
- 1727
8
Q
Who was considered the father of Taxonomy? What did he write? When?
A
- Carl von Linne
- Species Plantarum, 1753
- Defined binomial nomenclature for plants
9
Q
What did Joseph Priestly Observe? When?
A
- Plants could ‘fix air’ and release gases
- 1774
10
Q
Who first described photosynthesis? When?
A
- Julius Robert Mayer
- 1845
11
Q
When did Veterinary Botany become recognised as an educational course?
A
1857
