Lecture 1 Flashcards
Other term for Botany
Plant Biology
Father of Botany
Theophrastus
Plants that flower or have seeds
Phanerogams
Plants that do not flower but reproduces through spores
Crytptogams
Classified plants into herbs, subshrubs, shrubs, and trees
Theophrastus
Described substantially the biological, medicinal, and agricultural aspects of plants
Caius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder)
Compiled his works in Materia Medica
Pedanios Dioscorides
How many plant species did Pedanius Dioscorides described in Materia Medica
600 species
Name of the plants introduced by Pedanius Dioscorides
Aloe, Anemone, Phaseolus, and Aristolochia
Main agendum of the botanist in Middle ages
Plant classification
Record of medicinal plants
herbals
Allows scientists to extract novel compounds that are refined to produce new medicines
Bioprospecting
Enumerate the importance of plant to science and society
The main source of:
Food
Medicine
Fuel
Housing and construction materials
Accessories, clothing, and cosmetics
Contribute to the understanding of nature
Inspire arts and humanities
Improvement of urban ecology
Conservation of biodiversity
Buffer the changing of climate
Characteristics of life
Living things are composed of cells
Living things have different levels of organizations
Living things reproduce
Living organisms use energy
Living organisms respond to their environment
Living organisms grow and develop
Living organisms adapt to their environment
The most basic characterization of life
Living things are composed of cells
biological hierarchy of life
Living things have different levels of organizations
This characteristic is part of what is known as cell theory
Living things reproduce
Uses energy in the form of ATP
Living organisms use energy
Environments where organisms are part of are full of stimuli to which organisms respond
Living organisms respond to their environment
Replacement of old and dying cells in the body
Living organisms growth and develop
Sets of characteristics of plants
Multicellular eukaryotes
Photosynthesis - makes them autotrophs where they produce their own foods
The plant wall has cellulose
Two adult forms that alternate in producing each other
Have multicellular embryo
What are the fungi cell walls primarily made of
Chitin
What are plant cells primarily made of
Cellulose
Two functions of microscope
Magnify and resolve details of your specimen
How do microscopes magnify objects
they have a two lens system that is capable of reflecting and refracting light which magnifies these objects
Father of Microscopy
Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek