Propagation Week 1

Question 1

Plant Propagation

Answer 1

Multiplying plants which are most useful to promote man’s well-being and preserving their essential genetic characteristics.

Question 2

Theophrastus

Answer 2

(370 BC) Wrote Enquiry into Plants

Propagation of seeds for food crops and herbs.

Made the first mention of “cuttings” “A piece torn off” –already roots/ suckers taken from parent plant.

Question 3

Romans

Answer 3

First to use glass (mica) to germinate seeds (first green houses)

Grafting (roses) sealed grafting using clay, chalk, sand, straw, and cattle manure

Layering: used for propagating vines

Question 4

Ancient Chinese

Answer 4

Pioneers of grafting by Budding (wild peony) . Also, air layering

Question 5

Victorians

Answer 5

Rooted cuttings in small pots nested in large pots under a bell glass (became a fad)

Question 6

Asexual (vegetative) Propagation

Answer 6

Off spring produced is genetically identical to parent plant (cloning)

Reproduce plants with no viable seed.
Bypass “juvenility” in woody plants.

Helpful to skip to phase creating flowers and fruit

Question 7

What are the two major type of plant propagation?

Answer 7

Sexual and Asexual

Question 8

Sexual Propagation

Answer 8

Genetic variation from parent plant

Helps prevent monocultures

Question 9

Monoculture

Answer 9

A large scale production of an agricultural commodity based on one cultivar or one clone. Narrow genetic base.

Question 10

Juvenility

Answer 10

An early stage in the life of a plant before it matures and produces flowers and fruits.

Question 11

Name the 3 plant classes

Answer 11

Ferns, Gymnosperm, Angiosperm

Question 12

Ferns

Answer 12

Have vascular tissue but don’t reproduce by seed. Sexually produce by spores not seed

Question 13

Gymnosperm

Answer 13

a class of plants with vascular tissue that reproduce by seed and produce cones.
seeds are housed in cones. "Naked seed" not enclosed by fruit but naked on scales of cone.

Question 14

Angiosperms

Answer 14

A class of plants with vascular tissue that reproduce by seed and produce flowers and fruits.

Question 15

Subclasses of Angiosperm

Answer 15

Monocot and Dicot

Question 16

Monocot

Answer 16

One seed leaf
Flower parts in multiples of 3
Parallel veins (blade of grass)

Question 17

Dicot

Answer 17

Two seed leaves
Flower parts in multiples of 4 or 5
Network of veins

Question 18

What classification type commonly ends with “aceae”

Answer 18

Family

Question 19

Botanical Nomenclature

Answer 19

System for naming plants (Latin)

Question 20

Binomial

Answer 20

A name having two parts

Genus + specific epithet

Question 21

Genus

Answer 21

A level of plant classification more narrow than family and broader than species; it is always written in italics with the first letter capitalized.

Question 22

Specific epithet

Answer 22

the second part of a plant’s scientific species name that is always written in italics and lowercase letter; it is usually a Latin adjective.

Question 23

Hybrid

Answer 23

plant results from the cross of plants in a different species or genus

Question 24

Species

Answer 24

Name (scientific name) of the plant is a binomial

A group of plants which freely reproduce sexually with other members of that group

Question 25

Variety

Answer 25

A level of classification within a species that refers to a naturally occurring variation that can self-perpetuate via sexual propagation without the interference of man.

Question 26

Cultivar

Answer 26

"Cultivated variety" A level of classification within a species that refers to a variation that originates and/or is maintained in cultivation by asexual propagation via man's interference. (asexual propagation)