Grasses old world

Question 1

What is special about the grass family that makes it important to humans?

Answer 1

The seed/grain of the grass has nutrition
hardy- can grown under a wide variety of conditions

Question 2

Some grasses are annual, what type and why is it important?

Answer 2

Grasses we eat (wheat) and we get a lot of nutrition from the seed.

Question 3

What is the grass family name?

Answer 3

Poaceae

Question 4

How is Poaceae the most economically important family of plants?

Answer 4

food
forage
building materials- bamboo
sugar- sugarcane
fuel-
horticultural/ornamental

Question 5

What is rhizomatous?

Answer 5

a bud that grows horizontally and connect with another to produce more

Question 6

What is Inflorescences?

Answer 6

A cluster of flowers

Question 7

Caryopsis is?

Answer 7

The fruit/grain of a grass

Question 8

What are the two different forms of wheat?

Answer 8

Triticum Turgidum- Durum wheat (pasta)
Triticum activum- Bread wheat

Question 9

what is intentional hybridization and who did it?

Answer 9

Breeding intentionally to help with pests, hardier plants, and change protein and stretch content. Today humans do this

Question 10

What is accidental hybridization and who did it?

Answer 10

It is unconscious selection and old world humans did it

Question 11

How are we harvesting grain?

Answer 11

Flour mills and it collects the flour when it falls

Question 12

what is the endosperm in ground wheat?

Answer 12

endosperm in ground wheat is the stretch

Question 13

what is the embryo (germ) in ground wheat?

Answer 13

the protein aka the gluten

Question 14

what is the bran in ground wheat?

Answer 14

bran is the fiber

Question 15

what changes hard and soft wheat presence?

Answer 15

The arrangement of the protein

Question 16

What is monocot?

Answer 16

flowering plants with one seed leaf or a cotyledon emerging from their embryo

Question 17

What is dicot?

Answer 17

having two cotyledons, or seed leaves, within the seed

Question 18

What is Cotyledon?

Question 19

Which has a higher protein content, hard or soft wheat?

Answer 19

Hard

Question 20

Out of all the wheat which has the highest protein %, what has the lowest?
a: whole wheat
b durum
c: hard wheat
d: all purpose
e: soft wheat
f: cake

Answer 20

a: whole wheat
f: cake

Question 21

Out of all the wheat which has the highest carbohydrate %, what has the lowest?
a: whole wheat
b durum
c: hard wheat
d: all purpose
e: soft wheat
f: cake

Answer 21

f: cake
a: whole wheat

Question 22

Why are vitamins lost when we eat wheat even though the original one has a lot of vitamins?

Answer 22

Because most of the vitamins are in the embryo. We add them back artificially

Question 23

How is rice different from wheat?

Answer 23

Rice is semi aquatic

Question 24

What plant feeds more people in the world than any other plant?

Answer 24

Rice

Question 25

What are the two independent domestications of rice?

Answer 25

Oryza sativa (asian rice)
Oryza glaberrima (African rice)

Question 26

what does sativa mean?

Answer 26

a cultivated plant

Question 27

What are the two main Oryza sativa (asian rice)?

Answer 27

Var. indica (north India and longer)
Var. Japonica (eastern china and Short grain rice)