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Botany + Taxonomy > Basic Concepts to Understand Plants > Flashcards

Basic Concepts to Understand Plants Flashcards

1
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botany of drugs, spice, dye, and poisonous plants

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pharmaceutical botany

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2
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scientific study of plants

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botany

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3
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naming, describing, and classifying

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taxonomy

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Classification System (Linnean System)

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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species

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5
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Taxonomy of a rice plant

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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Class: Monocotyledonae
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Oryza
Species: sativa

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6
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3 domains of life

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Eukaryota, Archaea, Bacteria

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4 Kingdoms

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Plantae, Animalia, Protista, Myceteae

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Why do we study botany

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Because of the oxygen from plants and the energy to do work

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Plants convert radiant energy from the sun into chemical energy in the form of glucose-or sugar

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Photosynthesis

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10
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Chemical formula of glucose

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C6H12O6

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11
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In photosynthesis, water is both what

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Product and the reactant

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12
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Source of sugar in russia

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sugar beet

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13
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source of sugar in the philippines

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sugar cane

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14
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flow of energy from one tropic level to the next

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food chain

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15
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series of stages of the life of an organism

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bio-cycles or life cycle

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16
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Food chain

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Energy > Producer > Primary consumer > Secondary consumer > Tertiary consumer

17
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Plants help bring rain through what

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transpiration

18
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Botanists have answered the following questions

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How are plants constructed?
How do plants work?
How did plants get here?
Why are plants important?

19
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Series of steps and used to investigate a natural occurrence

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Scientific method

20
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Steps of the scientific method

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Observation > Question > Hypothesis > Experiment > Collect and analyze results > Conclusion > Communicate the results

21
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Central concept of evolution

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Natural selection

22
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He proposed the theory of evolution

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Charles Darwin

23
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Book of Charles Darwin on the theory of evolution

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On the Origin of Species

24
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process where organisms with favorable traits are more likely to reproduce and where they pass on these traits to the next generation

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natural selection

25
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life on earth began

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3.5 billion years ago

26
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closely related to plantae.

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protists

27
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early plants resembled what

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green algae

28
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how many plant species are there

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288,000

29
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three types of adaptations

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structural, behavioral, and physiological

30
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simplest form of protein

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amino acid

31
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Father of Taxonomy and invented the taxonomical nomenclature

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Carolus Linnaeus

32
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2 denomination that make up the nomenclature of plants

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Generic name and Specific nam

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