The study of plants Flashcards
Science in Latin?
Scientia = Knowledge
The nature of science should be:
Empirical, Objective, Repeatable, Predictable, Falsifiable
It is a way of knowing the scientific orientations and a perspective about plant life
Botany
Any scientific research intends to come up with?
Logical differences
Is an intellectual tool that most scientists use to arrive at a certain truth with a certain phenomenon
Scientific method
Is a set of steps that help us search what is the truth
Scientific method
Designing a _____ is a crucial step in scientific method
Scientific experiment
In _____, treatments should be controlled, it must have a controlled set-up, includes a dependent variable, and includes an experimental variable
Scientific experiment
Is an English mathematician and biostatistician who introduced the tool ‘fusion distribution’ that is widely used in the study of Botany
Pearson
What are the unifying principles of life?
Highly organized, Can acquire materials for energy, Ability to respond, Capable of reproduction, Can grow and develop, and Have certain adaptation to survive
It is defined as the sum of all chemical reactions
Metabolism
It requires energy to make complex molecules into singular ones
Catabolism or energy-yielding metabolism
It requires energy to grow and build simple molecules into a complex one
Anabolism or biosynthetic metabolism
A kind of metabolism that is the breaking down of materials
Catabolism
A kind of metabolism that is the building up of materials
Anabolism
Male and female in one individual
Monoecious
Male and female in separate individuals
Dioecious
It is the irreversible change in size
Growth
It is the progression from earlier to later stages of maturation, indeterminate growth, morphogenesis, and differentiation
Development
It is a process by which species become modified over time
Natural selection
Only plants possess this type of cell wall
Cellulosic cell wall
Organisms that can do photosynthesis
Photoautotrophs
The characteristics that make a plant a plant
Unifying principles of life/plant, Photoautotrophs, Cellulosic cell wall, Transport of materials, Sedentary, and Mechanism to avoid dessication
The ______ is defined by the cell wall shape, genetic development, and physiological function
Plant body
What are the three common tissue systems in all plant organisms?
Dermal, Vascular, and Ground tissue
Plants are the only organisms that possess a cellulosic cell wall, true or false?
True
It is the main collector of solar energy
Plants
The process of water evaporating to the leaf is called?
Transpiration
The steps of scientific method
- Observation
- Formulating a problem
- Proposing a hypothesis
- Experimentation or testing
- Analysis of results
- Stating the conclusion
- Writing the results and reporting them
Meristems is derived from what greek word?
Merizein = to divide
