Introduction

Question 1

Name the five things that makes plant science important

Answer 1

\:Origins of drugs
ecological /environmental
agriculture and forestry
Health
New technology like biotech

Question 2

define ethnobotany

Answer 2

the study of the relatonship between plants and people (drugs)

Question 3

What percentage of drugs are are ethnobotanically derived?

Answer 3

25%

Question 4

How many drugs trace back to an origin of natural plants?

Answer 4

68%

Question 5

approximately how many years ago were crops domesticated?

Answer 5

5-8000 years ago

Question 6

What book did jared diamond write, and what did he say about ancient farming?

Answer 6

Guns, Germs, and Steel

the world was transformed by farmer power after crops “evolved”

Question 7

what two plants combined together to form wheat, and what actually happened?

Answer 7

crossed eichorn and wild grass

increased the poidy number of the hybrid. producing wheat

Question 8

What are the three main threats to biodiversity?

Answer 8

1. conversion of natural areas and loss of diversity to habitat loss
2. Invasive species
3. global warming

Question 9

give some examples of invasive species

Answer 9

Purple loosetrife, wild parsnip

Question 10

define”el nino”

Answer 10

The warming of the oceans

Question 11

What is the first and only genetically engineered viable plant crop?

Answer 11

canola

Question 12

What are two ways that biofuels can be made

Answer 12

pyrolysis and fermentation

Question 13

when did popularity of natural plant remedies rise?

Answer 13

the 90s

Question 14

define anxiolytic plants?

Answer 14

plants that are used to treat anxiety

Question 15

list some ethnobotanically derived drugs

Answer 15

curare, digoxin, quinine

Question 16

what traditonaly used chinese plant was adopted by the WHO for treatmetn of malaria?

Answer 16

artemesinin

Question 17

what is a taxol?

Answer 17

prevents tubulin assembly and is used for treatment of breast cancer and ovarian cancer

Question 18

what did peter facchini do?

Answer 18

characterized the last genes of morphine, so that you can grow morphine from yeast

Question 19

What did scientists do to keep fruit from ripening?

Answer 19

an ethylene biosynthesis gene inserted in the antisense direction

Question 20

what compound was used to make corn stalks stronger?

Answer 20

oxalate oxidase