Intro to Botany as a Science Flashcards
This is also known as plant science(s) or plant biology.
Botany
The term botany comes from what word?
Ancient Greek word (botane) which means “pasture”
What are the 7 characteristics of living things in plants?
1) Organization
2) Energy
3) Interaction with environment
4) Growth & Development
5) Reproduction
6) Heredity
7) Evolution
What characteristic is this?
Plants and other organisms are highly organized with cells as their basic building blocks.
Organization
What characteristic is this?
Plants and other organisms take in and use energy.
Energy
What characteristic is this?
Plants respond to stimuli in their environment.
Interaction with environment
What characteristic is this?
Plants undergo growth and development.
Growth and Development
What characteristic is this?
Plants form new individuals by asexual or sexual reproduction
Reproduction
What is this?
A closed trap and insect prey. After enzymes produced by the plant digest as much of the insect as is digestible, the trap will reopen.
Response to stimuli
What characteristic is this?
DNA molecules transmit genetic information from one generation to the next in plants.
Heredity
What characteristic is this?
Plants and other organisms evolve; populations change or adapt to survive in changing environments.
Evolution
It is a group of organisms with similar structural and functional characteristics.
In nature, they breed only with one another and have close common ancestry.
Species
It is a broad taxonomic category made up of related phyla.
Kingdom
A taxonomic category that includes one or more kingdoms.
Domain
What are the main categories of classification?
1) Domain
2) Kingdom
3) Phylum
4) Class
5) Order
6) Family
7) Genus
8) Species
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What are the 3 Domains?
Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya
What are the 6 Kingdoms?
1) Bacteria
2) Archaea
3) Protista
4) Plantae
5) Animalia
6) Fungi
What is the classification called?
Binomial System
Who is the Father of Botany?
Theophrastus - student of Aristotle
He provided important evidence on Greek and Roman knowledge of medicinal plants. He categorized plants based on their medicinal, culinary, or aromatic value.
Pedanius Dioscorides
He discovered cells in cork and a short time later in living plant tissue.
Robert Hooke
He published Species Plantarum, which included 6000 plant species.
Carl Linnaeus
He established the binomial nomenclature, which has been used in the naming of living things.
Carl Linnaeus
His scientific curiosity led him to study the therapeutic uses of Philippine plants, from which he extracted pharmalogical ingredients.
He was appointed head of the military pharmacy.
Leon Maria Guerrero
He is the author of taxonomic and morphological papers, many of which deal with orchids, including ‘Medicinal plants in the Philippines’ (Manila 1951).
Eduardo Quisimbing
He was one of the classically trained botanists in plant taxonomy and systematics in the Philippines.
Leonardo Co (1953-2010)
What are the 10 branches of Botany.
1) Plant Morphology
2) Plant Systematics
3) Plant Molecular Biology
4) Plant Cell Biology
5) Plant Genetics
6) Plant Physiology
7) Plant Ecology
8) Plant Pathology
9) Paleobotany
10) Economic Botany
What branch of Botany?
A study of evolution and development of leaves, roots, and stems with a focus on the tissues at the tips of stems where the cells have the ability to divide.
Plant Morphology
What branch of Botany?
The study of plant characteristics, especially for the purpose of discerning their evolutionary relationships and establishing differences. It concerns itself with scientific classification of species and other taxa.
Plant Systematics
What branch of Botany?
Structures and functions of important biological molecules (proteins, nucleic acids)
Plant Molecular Biology
What branch of Botany?
Structures, functions, and life processes of plant cells.
Plant Cell Biology
What branch of Botany?
Investigate the structure and behavior of genes in plants and plant heredity in order to develop crops that are resistant to diseases and pests.
Plant Genetics
What branch of Botany?
The study of the vital processes of plants, such as photosynthesis, respiration, and plant nutrition.
Plant Physiology
What branch of Botany?
Interrelationships among plants, and between plants and their environment.
Plant Ecology
What branch of Botany?
Studies the causes and control of plant diseases.
Plant Pathology
What branch of Botany?
Deals with the biology and evolution of plants by studying the fossil record in order to reconstruct the 600 million year history of plant life on this planet.
Paleobotany
What branch of Botany?
Study the economic impact of plants as they relate to human needs for food, clothing and shelter.
Economic Botany
What is the significance of Botany?
1) Feed the world
2) Understand the fundamental life processes
3) Utilize medicine and materials
4) Understand environmental changes
5) Maintain ecological, biodiversity, and ecosystem function.
