MODULE 1 Flashcards
Greek word for Botany
Botane
What does “Botane” mean?
plant/ grass
one of the oldest surviving medical record made by the Egyptians
Ebers Papyrus
he studied the “nature” of plants
Aristotle
1st man to became familiar with wide range of biological facts
Aristotle
he is a student of Aristotle
Theophrastus
Real name of Theophrastus
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Honhenheim
he is the father of botany
Theophrastus
he wrote the HISTORY OF PLANTS
Theophrastus
He is the father of Botanical Illustrations
Crateuas
Made the first illustrated herbals and oldest treaties on Pharmacology
Crateuas
Real name of Pliny the Elder
Calus Plinius Secundus
He wrote the NATURAL HISTORY
Pliny the Elder
First to use the word “stamen”
Pliny the Elder
Studied the medicinal values of plants
Pedanios Dioscorides
He wrote the De Materia Medica
Pedanios Dioscorides
Description of medicinal properties of about 600 plant species
De Materia Medica
Description of the biological, medicinal, and agricultural aspects of plants
Natural history
chief botanical books containing descriptions and drawing/ wood-cut illustrations of plants
herbals
German Fathers of Botany
Heironymous Bock,
Leonhard Fuchs,
and Otto Brunfels
He began the transition from medieval, the modern scientific botany thru his books and his own system of classifying plants
Heironymous Bock
he wrote the PLANT BOOK
Heironymous Bock
Classification of about 700 plant by arranging it by their relation or resemblance
Plant Book
he wrote the NOTABLE COMMENTARIES ON THE HISTORY OF PLANTS
Leonhard Fuchs
Description of 497 plants and illustrated over 500 superb woodcuts based on first-hand observation
Leonhard Fuchs
he wrote the LIFE-LIKE IMAGES IN IMITATION OF NATURE
Otto Brunfels
collection of original, detailed and realistic representation of plants.
Herbarium of Life-like Images in Imitation of Nature
he wrote the PHYTOPINAX
Gaspard Bauhin
description and classification of plants by drawing comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linneaus
Phytopinax
Description and classification of about 6000 plant species using traditional grouping
Illustrated Exposition of Plants
he wrote the DE PLANTIS LIBRI XVI
Andrea Cesalpino
real name of Carolus Linneaus
Carl von Linne
father of modern taxonomy
Carolus Linneaus
he wrote the SPECIES OF PLANTS
carolus Linneaus
classification of all plants known at that time according to the binomial system
The Species of Plants
real name of A.L De Jussieu
Antoine Laurent de Juisseu
he wrote the GENERA OF PLANTS ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR ETC.
A.L de Juisseu
real name of Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin
Introduced the scientific theory of natural selection
Charles Darwin
real name of Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel
he is the father of Genetics
Gregor Mendel
his experiment lead to the recognition of the mathematical pattern of inheritance from one generation to the next
Mendel’s law of inheritance
Pipol in the Ancient Period/ Scientists in the Ancient Period
Aristotle Theophratus Crateuas Pliny the Elder Pedanios Dioscorides
Medieval- Renaissance Scientists
Heironymous Bock
Leonhard Fuchs
Otto Brunfels
Gaspar Bauhin
Modern, 18th century scientists
Andrea Cesalpino
Carolus Linnaeus
A.L de Juisseu
Modern, 19th century scientists
Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel
concerned with the plant not as a static structure to be cut up, picked apart, and described.
Modern Botany
A period where primitive men can distinguish edible from poisonous plants through a system of trail and error
Ancient Period
they pioneered the definite expression of Plant Science’s problems and principles for practical reasons
The Greeks
they explore plants primarily for their curative qualities focusing on plant classification
Medieval - Renaissance Period or the 16th and 17th century botanists
the period where it led to the discovery of thousands of new plants and facts of plant life divorced from superstition
18th century
the theory of organic evolution prepared the way for a natural system of classification wherein plants related to one another through a common ancestry is grouped together.
19th century
Importance of Plants
- fundamental source of food
- provide shelther and fuel
- can be made into clothing, accessories and cosmetics
- serve aesthetic purposes to the environment
- help conserve biodiversity
- serves as a buffer to climate change
- can be used and developed into medicines
Characteristics of Plants
- highly organized
- take in and use energy
- respond to stimuli
- grow and develop
- reproduce
- adopt to their environment
stimuli that respond to light
phototropism
stimuli that respond away to light
negative phototropism
stimuli that respond to water
hydrotropism
stimuli that respond to gravity
geotropism
stimuli that respond to light
thigmotropism
changes a plant undergoes in order to survive certain environment
adaptation
adaptation that occurs over a long period of time
evolution
study of the nomenclature of living things
taxonomy
study of the forms and structures of living things
morphology
study of the mechanisms and structure of living things
physiology
study of the distribution and abundance of plants
plant ecology
study of the geographic distribution
phytogeography
study of the biology and evolution of plants
paleobotany
study of the interaction of people and plants
economic botany
study of the management resources from forest lands
forestry
study of mode and action of drugs
pharmacology
study of the cultivation of plants and livestock
agriculture
study of soil
soil science
the technology of producing and using of plants
agronomy
study of garden cultivation
horticulture
study of the cause and control of plant diseases
plant pathology
