lecture 1

Question 1

three greek works

Answer 1

botanikos, botane, boskein

Question 2

the scientific study of plants

Answer 2

botany

Question 3

– study dealing with naming and

classification

Answer 3

plant taxonomy and systematics

Question 4

study dealing with external form of plants

Answer 4

plant morphology

Question 5

study dealing with internal structures of plants

Answer 5

plant anatomy

Question 6

– study dealing with metabolism and plant

functions

Answer 6

plant physiology

Question 7

– study dealing with plant-plant and plant- environment interactions

Answer 7

plant ecology

Question 8

study dealing with heredity and variation

Answer 8

plant genetics

Question 9

study dealing with practical uses of

plants

Answer 9

ethnobotany

Question 10

– deals the events in the

formation of the embryo

Answer 10

plant embryology

Question 11

the study of fossil plants.

Answer 11

paleobotany

Question 12

study the different types of
disease of plants, their symptoms, causal agent
and methods of control.

Answer 12

plant pathology

Question 13

• study of the chemistry of plants.

Answer 13

phytochemistry

Question 14

study of lichens

Answer 14

lichenology

Question 15

study of bryophytes

Answer 15

bryology

Question 16

study of algae

Answer 16

algology

Question 17

study of pollen grains in relation to

taxonomy and evolution of plants

Answer 17

palynology

Question 18

• science which deals with the crop plants.

Answer 18

agronomy

Question 19

• deals with the study of flowering

and fruiting plants.

Answer 19

horticulture

Question 20

deals with the development of

improved varieties of plants.

Answer 20

plant breeding

Question 21

deals with the study of

medicinal plants.

Answer 21

pharmacognosy

Question 22

deals with the study of soils.

Answer 22

pedology

Question 23

grouped organisms based on one single structure

Answer 23

Aristotle

Question 24

wrote the book “Historia

Plantarum”

Answer 24

Theophrastus

Question 25

compiled the ‘Meteria Medica’, a book descrbing 600 species of
medicinal plants

Answer 25

Dioscorides

Question 26

wrote the book “Natural History” describing medicinal plants

Answer 26

Pliny

Question 27

grouped leafy plants into dicots and monocots

Answer 27

Albert Magnus

Question 28

wrote books about new schemes in classification of plants

Answer 28

Brunfels Bock Fuchs

Question 29

discovered the cell

Answer 29

Robert Hooke

Question 30

invented the microscope

Answer 30

Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

Question 31

devised the binomial system of plant nomenclature

Answer 31

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 32

Characteristics of plants

Answer 32

eukaryotic, multicellular, photosynthetic, and cell wall made of cellulose

Question 33

what composes the shoot system

Answer 33

flower, leaf, fruit, stem

Question 34

the root system

Answer 34

roots

Question 35

enumerate the scientific method

Answer 35

observation, formulation of hypothesis, experimentation, data gathering, data analysis, drawing of conclusion, publication of results