Botany Laboratory activity 1 Flashcards
Flower-bearing plants
phanerogams
Non Flower-bearing plants
Cryptogams
Classified plants into herbs, subshrubs, shrubs, and trees
Theophrastus
Plants that flower or have seeds
Phanerogams
Plants that do not flower but reproduces through spores
Crytptogams
Classified plants into herbs, subshrubs, shrubs, and trees
Theophrastus
Described substantially the biological, medicinal, and agricultural aspects of plants
Caius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder)
Compiled his works in Materia Medica
Pedanios Dioscorides
How many plant species did Pedanius Dioscorides described in Materia Medica
600 species
Name of the plants introduced by Pedanius Dioscorides
Aloe, Anemone, Phaseolus, and Aristolochia
Main agendum of the botanist in Middle ages
Plant classification
Record of medicinal plants
herbals
What are the fungi cell walls primarily made of
Chitin
What are plant cells primarily made of
Cellulose
Two functions of microscope
Magnify and resolve details of your specimen
How do microscopes magnify objects
they have a two lens system that is capable of reflecting and refracting light which magnifies these objects
Father of Microscopy
Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek
Types of Microscopes
Simple Microscope
Compound Microscope
Light Microscope
Electron Microscope
Microscope that only utilizes one lens to magnify objects
Simple Microscope
Microscope that has a two lens system
Compound microscope
What are the lenses of a compound microscope
Objective lens and eye piece