History of Systematics (f2f lecture) Flashcards
Earliest
Folk taxonomy
most dominant phylum in plant kingdom
flowering plants (angiosperms)
evolutionary process that produces new species from a single, rapidly diversifying lineage
Adaptive radiation
What is the heart of biology
conservation
Ancients
Folk taxonomy & early taxonomic studies
Early taxonomic studies are more on
exploratory
exploratory
just naming plants and animals
first to classify things
Aristotle
classifications by Aristotle
- invertebrates
- vertebrates
- blooded
- non-blooded
Father of Botany
Theophrastus
classification of Theophrastus is based on
growth forms
- annual, biennial, perennial
Theophrastus first used the terms __ and __ to group things
genus
species
wrote De Materia Medica
Pedanius Dioscorides
De materia medica was widely read for more than __ years
1,500 years
Father of Botanical Latin
Gaius Plinius Secundus
Gaius Plinius Secundus was called as
Pliny the elder
What did Pedanius Dioscorides write
De Materia Medica