Introduction to Botany Flashcards
Study of plants and plant-like organisms
Botany
Botanikas
Botanical
Boskein
To feed
Botane
Plant or herb
What language did Botanique originate from?
French
4 main components why plants is important?
Energy chains, Oxygen, Food, and Medicine.
Relationship with other organisms and with moving physical environment.
Plant biology
Biological molecules, proteins or DNA.
Plant molecular biology
Chemical interactions within plants
Plant Biochemistry
Life processes of plant cells
Plant cell biology
Microscopic plant structure cells and tissues
Plant anatomy
Structures of plants, including evolution and development
Plant morphology
Processes such as photosynthesis and mineral nutrition to understand plants functions
Plant physiology
“Father of Botany”
Theoprastus
Theosprastus wrote what books?
Historia Plantarum and on the causes of plants
When did study of botany started?
4th century B.C.E
“Father of Pharmacognosy”
Pedanius Dioscorides
What book did Pedanius Dioscorides wrote?
De Materia Medica
measured the uptake of water in a tree (1640)
Johannes Van Helmont
He wrote micrographia and discovered microscope
Robert Hooke (1665)
He founded cell and called it living cell.
Anton Van Leeuwenheok (1674)
He wrote De Sexu Plantarum Epistola
Rudolf Camerarius (1694)
Discovered vegetable staticks (nutrition and respiration of plants)
Stephen Hales (1727)
“Father of Taxonomy”
Carolus Linneus (1758)
What is 4 component of taxonomy?
Nomenclature, classificiation, identification, and description
He experimented and observed different kinds of air
Joseph Priestley (18th century)
When was chlorophyll discovered?
1818
When was the process of photosynthesis eluciated by Mayer?
1840
When was green cells only in the prescence of light, mechanism of chlorophyll was discovered?
1862
When was the process of nitrogen, fixation, nitrification, and ammonification was discovered?
Early 20th century
When was two types of chlorophyll discovered?
1903
Involves in photosynthesis
Principal pigment (Chorophyll A)
Absorbs energy and pass energy to chlorophyll A
Accessory pigment (Chlorophyll B)