Basic Concepts to Understand Plants Flashcards
botany of drugs, spice, dye, and poisonous plants
pharmaceutical botany
scientific study of plants
botany
naming, describing, and classifying
taxonomy
Classification System (Linnean System)
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species
Taxonomy of a rice plant
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Class: Monocotyledonae
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Oryza
Species: sativa
3 domains of life
Eukaryota, Archaea, Bacteria
4 Kingdoms
Plantae, Animalia, Protista, Myceteae
Why do we study botany
Because of the oxygen from plants and the energy to do work
Plants convert radiant energy from the sun into chemical energy in the form of glucose-or sugar
Photosynthesis
Chemical formula of glucose
C6H12O6
In photosynthesis, water is both what
Product and the reactant
Source of sugar in russia
sugar beet
source of sugar in the philippines
sugar cane
flow of energy from one tropic level to the next
food chain
series of stages of the life of an organism
bio-cycles or life cycle
Food chain
Energy > Producer > Primary consumer > Secondary consumer > Tertiary consumer
Plants help bring rain through what
transpiration
Botanists have answered the following questions
How are plants constructed?
How do plants work?
How did plants get here?
Why are plants important?
Series of steps and used to investigate a natural occurrence
Scientific method
Steps of the scientific method
Observation > Question > Hypothesis > Experiment > Collect and analyze results > Conclusion > Communicate the results
Central concept of evolution
Natural selection
He proposed the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
Book of Charles Darwin on the theory of evolution
On the Origin of Species
process where organisms with favorable traits are more likely to reproduce and where they pass on these traits to the next generation
natural selection
