Chapter 9 Plants Continued Flashcards
Coffey is now the what largest export
What are plants caffeine is found in
12th
Kola,holly,chocolate,tea
Oisin ivy has what in it
Urishol
Why are they called Econ dart compounds
Not required for plant growth
What is extracted from chrysanthemum, what kind of secondary compound is it, and what does t do
Pyrethrin
Terpenoids
Insecticide
What do we need carotene to make and what two plants is it found in? It protects against cancer by being an
Pigment retinoic acid
Tomato orange
Antioxidant
How is rubber extracted ?
What was rubber used for and by who ?
1/2 of all rubber production comes from?
Rubber can be synthesized from ?
Tapping the tree
Indians of central and South America to make balls
Europeans late 1700’s
Mid-1800’s British collected seeds and made rubber plantations in Africa and Asia
Rubber trees grown in South-Eastern Asia
Oil
Who first used aspirin
Who purified salicylic acid
What was discovered in 1850
Who marketed aspirin and when
Greeks and North American Indians
German chemist in 1826
Conversion of salicylic acid to acetylsalicylic acid was just as effective but easier ones tomach
Bauer chemical company 1890
When did herbal medicine disappear
1930
Cinnamon comes from ?
Where does black pepper,cloves,mace come from?
Finger and turmeric come from?
Bark of tree in Sri Lanka and India
Islands of the Indian Ocean
Southern China stems of each plant
What did new world contribute to spices?
Vanilla comes from where ?
Allspice comes from where?
What is most important spice from americas ?
What terpenoids do they contain
What do they do?
When were they domesticated ?
Vanilla allspice chili peppers
Seed pods of orchid in Central America
Dried and ground berries of plant related to clove
Chili pepper
Capsicum
Repels mammals but doesn’t affect birds who disperse seeds
In South America 6000 years ago
What did Mediterranean and European region supply to spices
Mint rosemary oregano and thyme
What does ricin do
Causes red blood cells to clot
