Men and Women of Botany (General)

Question 1

“Father of Botany”
student of aristotle

Answer 1

Theophrastus

Question 2

2 Major works of Theophrastus

Answer 2

• Historia Plantarum/ Inquiry into Plants
• On the Causes of Plants

Question 3

Greek physician and pharmacologist

Answer 3

Pedanius Dioscorides

Question 4

whose work is De Materia Medica

Answer 4

Pedanius Dioscorides

Question 5

book describing drugs and their uses

Answer 5

pharmacopoeia

Question 6

german father of botany
physician
published De Historia Stirpium

Answer 6

Leonhart Fuchs

Question 7

german father of botany
theologian
Herbarum vivae eicones

Answer 7

Otto Brunfels

Question 8

Hieronymus Brock/ Tragus

Answer 8

physician and lutheran minister
created his own system of plant classification

Question 9

New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Brock

Answer 9

illustrations of ~ 700 plants

Question 10

physician and botanist
wrote Dispensatorium
one of the fathers of pharmacgnostics

Answer 10

Valerius Cordus

Question 11

robert hooke

Answer 11

discovered the cells
coined it as cellulae

Question 12

published Species Plantarum

Answer 12

Carl Von Linne/ Carolus Linnaeus

Question 13

hierarchical classification of plant species

Answer 13

Species Plantarum

Question 14

published Principles of Scientific Botany

Answer 14

Matthias Schleiden

Question 15

microscopist and an early plant anatomist who co founded cell theory

Answer 15

Matthias Schleiden

Question 16

Robert brown described the

Answer 16

significance of cell nucleus

Question 17

books: plant anatomy and anatomy of seed plant

Answer 17

Katherine Esau

Question 18

discovered and identified auxin

Answer 18

Kenneth V. Thimann

Question 19

pioneered techniques of micorpropagation

Answer 19

Frederick Campion Steward

Question 20

Plant tissue culture

Answer 20

collection of techniques used to maintain or grow plant cells, tissues or organs under sterile conditions on Nutrient culture medium