Lecture 2 - Crop Science Flashcards
Any organism belonging to the Kingdom Plantae, typically lacking of active
locomotion or obvious nervous system or sensory organs and has photosynthetic ability.
Plant
Domesticated/cultivated plants grown for profit, human food, or animal feed.
Crop
Two groups of science practitioners?
theoretical, academic, or basic scientist and applied scientist
How do we identify/classify plants? (1/3)
Taxonomic classification based on ___________ and other markers
morphology
How do we identify/classify plants? (2/3)
___________-based on environmental adaptation, growth habit, other observable features
descriptive
How do we identify/classify plants? (3/3)
classification based on _________ relationship
phylogenetic
5 agricultural classification
useful vs not useful, vary from place to place, differences in the primary usage, intensity of care, extent of cultivation
What is the most important and commonly used method of classifying plants which is based on descent or phylogenetic relationship of plants?
botanical method
Approximately more than __________ plant species have already been identified.
300,000
What is the study of plant classification?
taxonomy
True or False. Taxonomy is dynamic and changes as new knowledge becomes available.
True
Four divisions of phyla of the plant kingdom has been identified by ____________ in 1833.
Eichler
Four divisions of phyla of the plant kingdom identified by Eichler have since been expanded by modern taxonomists to ____ divisions
28
(1/4) Phyla including algae, bacteria, and fungi?
thallophyta
(2/4) Phyla including small green plants without true roots or flowers e.g. mosses?
bryophyta