Basic Terms

Question 1

What is Botany

Answer 1

study of plants

Question 2

The Greeks words where Botany is derived from

Answer 2

Botanikos, Botane, Boskein

Question 3

Botanikos

Answer 3

Botanical

Question 4

Botane

Answer 4

Plants or herbs

Question 5

Boskein

Answer 5

To feed

Question 6

Plants provide majority of what?

Answer 6

Food, Energy Chain, medicine, and Oxygen

Question 7

Botany/ plant biology also studies what in relationship to non-living environment

Answer 7

the interrelationships of plants with other organisms and with non-living physical environment

Question 8

Disciplines of Botany

Answer 8

Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Plant Biochemistry, Plant Cell Biology, Plant Anatomy, Plant Morphology, and Plant Physiology

Question 9

Plant Molecular Biology

Answer 9

Biological Molecules

Question 10

Plant Biochemistry

Answer 10

Chemical interaction within plants

Question 11

Plant Cell Biology

Answer 11

Life processes of a plant

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Plant Anatomy

Answer 12

Microscopic plant structure (Cell wall and tissue)

Question 13

Plant Morphology

Answer 13

Structure of the plant (Leaves, Roots, Stems)

Question 14

Plant Physiology

Answer 14

Processes (Photosynthesis, Mineral nutrition)

Question 15

Father of Botany

Answer 15

Theophrastus

Question 16

What book did Theophrastus write

Answer 16

Historia Plantarum and On the Cause of plants

Question 17

Father of Pharmacy

Answer 17

Plenadius Dioscorides

Question 18

What book did Plenadius Dioscorides wrote ?

Answer 18

De Materia Medica

Question 19

How many volumes does de materia Medica have

Answer 19

5 volumes

Question 20

Meaning of De Materia Medica in english

Answer 20

on Medical Material

Question 21

Volumes of De Materia Medica

Answer 21

Aromatics, Animal to herbs, (roots, seed, herbs), root and herbs, (Vines, Wine, Minerals)

Question 22

Measured uptake of water of a tree

Answer 22

Johannes van Helmont

Question 23

Discovered the Microscope

Answer 23

Robert Hooke

Question 24

Discovered the Cell

Answer 24

Antton Von Leeuwenhoek

Question 25

Published Historia Plantarum

Answer 25

John Roy

Question 26

Rudolf Cameranius

Answer 26

De Sexu Plantarum Espistola

Question 27

Stephen Hales

Answer 27

Vegetable staticks

Question 28

Father of Taxonomy

Answer 28

Carolus Linneus

Question 29

experience and observation on different kinds of air

Answer 29

Joseph Priestly

Question 30

Fixed air

Answer 30

carbon dioxide

Question 31

diphologisticated air

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Oxygen

Question 32

Year when chloroplast was discovered

Answer 32

1818

Question 33

year when photosynthesis was first validated by Mayer

Answer 33

1840

Question 34

Date where mechanism of photosynthesis was discovered

Answer 34

1862

Question 35

Discoveries in early 20th century

Answer 35

Nitrogen fixation, Nitrification, Ammonification

Question 36

Types of Chlorophyll

Answer 36

Chlorophyll A and Chlorophyll B

Question 37

Chlorophyll A

Answer 37

Principal Pigment (for Photosynthesis)

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Chlorophyll B

Answer 38

Accessory pigment (for absorbing and passing on energy to Chlorophyll A)

Question 39

Theophrastus ( date )

Answer 39

4 Century BCE

Question 40

Pedanius Dioscorides ( date )

Answer 40

60 AD

Question 41

Johannes Van Helmont ( date )

Answer 41

1640

Question 42

Robert Hooke ( date )

Answer 42

1665

Question 43

Anton Von Leeuwenhoek ( date )

Answer 43

1674

Question 44

John Roy ( date )

Answer 44

1684

Question 45

Rudolf Cameranius ( date )

Answer 45

1694

Question 46

Stephen Hales ( date )

Answer 46

1727

Question 47

Carolus Linnaeus ( date )

Answer 47

1758

Question 48

Joseph Priestly ( date )

Answer 48

Later part of 18th Century

Question 49

Date of discovery of two types of chlorophyll

Answer 49

1903