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Biology
Undergraduate 1
11/11/2008

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Plankton
Definition
single celled organism that grow in water
Term

What is the smallest flowering plant?

What is the largest?

Definition

Wolffia punctata: plant body 0.04 inches

Redwoods of Clifornia: 367.8 feet tall

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What is the oldest living plant?

Definition

The Bristle Cone Pine

records show one that is well over 4,000 years old

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Carl Linneaus
Definition
Father of Classifying plants
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Theo Frastus
Definition
Father or Botany
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What is the New World and the Old World
Definition

New World: North America and South America

Old World:Eastern Hemisphere, Asia,Europ,Afric, etc.

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Baobob Tree
Definition
multipurpose plant found in the savanna areas of Africa (equatorial Africa)
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Centuryplant
Definition
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Mulberry:
Definition
  • important multipurpose plant of the Orient
  •  Bark was used as a primitive paper.  Produced a yellow dye. 
  • Silkworms feed on its leaves and production of silk closely related to this plant.
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Banksia Serata
Definition

Found in Australia; first plant to be reaised by seed in Britain

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What were the driving forces for New World explorations?
Definition
Spices
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4 Theories of Plant Geography
Definition
  1. Plant distirbution with great portions of gegraphical range lost through various phenmeno such as glaciation
  2. long-distance dispersal;
  3. continental drift
  4. plants carried great distances anciently by man
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Old world vs. New World cottons

Definition

Old world cottons

9 (diploid) can be used New world cottons (tetraploid) can not.

 

**Best type to use has 26 chromosomes (pairs)

Term

Inventionism

Definition

society discovered uses

Ex)willow:Egyptians discovered if they chewed to reduce fever

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Diffusionism
Definition
information and plant transported to different locations
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Cotton
Definition
  • Wild cotton has fuzz:no use to man
  • Domesticated cottons have fuzz and "lint":able to be spun
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Wheat and grass constitute for ___ of human energy

Definition
40%
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Monoculture
Definition
one culture of plant is being grown; all mature at the same time; easily destroyed by infestation and disease
Term

What is the number one most cultivated plant?

Definition
Wheat
Term

Chromosomes

Definition
  • Diploid=2
  • Tetraploid=4
  • Hexaploid=6
  • Octaploid=8
Term

Where is rice grown?

Definition
  1. Hill rice
  2. swamp rice
  3. floating rice

**rice likes to be grown in wet conditions

Term
Corn
Definition
  • if we went extinct so would it
  • transgenic plants due to so much modifacation
  • kernals don't leave paernt plant
  • originated in new world (not wheat)
  • hybrid is bigger
Term
Which crop is usually made by imbreeding?
Definition
corn
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Why is corn annual?
Definition
it gives crops then its done
Term
The potato famine is an example of what?
Definition
Monoculture: only one crop was being grown and disease took out all of it
Term
Bell Pepper is native where?
Definition
Latin America
Term
Contraceptives pills were made from _____ at one point
Definition
yams
Term

What is not a true bean?

Definition
Kastor bean
Term

Sweet Potatoe orginated in which world?

Definition
New world
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Yuca
Definition

is poisonous but people have found ways to make it ok to eat

Term
Kudzu
Definition
originated from Japan very invasive
Term
Tracheid
Definition
no protoplast
Term
Vessel Element
Definition

Series of cells going end-to-end; thick walls; very good for water movement

Term
Fiber
Definition
good for structure; bad for movement
Term

Apomixes

Definition
asexual reproduction; seed is produced with out gamete union
Term
What are some invasive plants?
Definition
  • Aloe tree
  • water hyassin (aquatic)
  • mellaluka (damaged everglades)
  • brazilian pepper
  • Kudzu
Term

Dredging

Definition
pulling up invasive plants mostly used in water; most plants regenerate from broken stems
Term
Examples of Connifer woods
Definition

pines,firs,spruces,bald cyprus

Term
Connifers
Definition
Xylem composed of tracheids,vessels, and fibers as well as ray cells
Term
What are some examples of Dicots?
Definition
oaks,elms,ashes,birches,walnut, mahagony
Term
What is the Dicot cell type?
Definition
Tracheids,vessels,fibers, as well as ray cells
Term

Softwoods

Definition

specific gravity of 0.41 or less

 

*usually conifers

Term

Hardwoods

Definition
specific gravit of 0.42 or more
Term
Heartwood
Definition
inner wood; darker in color
Term
Sapwood
Definition
outer wood of tree
Term

Dendrochology

Definition
using wood to dtermine past climates
Term
What is Biological control?
Definition

using methods in nature to control

Ex) using snakes to eat rats

 

** It only works if it targets the species you want it to and not other ones

Term
What is used to oberve the years production of xylem in trees?
Definition

spring wood and summer wood

Term
What is an example of a terrible invasive plant brought from the Old World to the New World?
Definition
cactus
Term
What is an example of biological control of water hyassin?
Definition
weevel
Term
What is an example of Ampomixes?
Definition

Dandelions

Term

Weeds usually result from what?

Definition
human activity
Term
Complex Ecosystem
Definition

diversified; alot of variety makes it more stable

Term
Simple Ecosystem
Definition
not stable, no diversity, easier to wipe something out
Term
What is normally found in the Mexico and is used as a New World halluciginic?
Definition
Peyote
Term
Ergot
Definition
fungus that grows on bread,rye, barly, flour: can cause gangrene and strong hallucinations
Term
Opium
Definition
latex serum thats used in producing the drug like morphine and codine
Term
Penny Royal
Definition
tea for abortion (very dangerous)
Term
Digitalis (Fox Glove)
Definition
extract used for heart disease; not for normal hearts; caused investigation into folk remedies
Term
Acrid Oil
Definition
from chaulmoogra tree used to help combat leprosy
Term

Fly Agaric Mushroom

Definition
may be one of mans oldest hallucinogens
Term
Nutmeg
Definition
psudo-hallucinogen
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Witches
Definition
came from the practise of hiding the fact that people were using hallucinogens
Term
Almost all hallucinaginic plants are...
Definition
poisonous
Term
Marijuana
Definition
  • Originated in the Old World
  • most popular
  • lacks nitrogen
  • male plant is shorter and lighter in color than female
Term
Most of hallucaginics are found where?
Definition
New World
Term
Mariculture
Definition
the culture of marine algea
Term
Genetics vs. Environment
Definition

**a plant grows successfully due to both**

 

Genetics:says a plant can make it in a certain environment

 

Environment: grows due to proper sunlight, soil, and water

Term
Latex vs. Resin
Definition

latex: milky (opium)

resin: clear; sticky (sap)

Term
Peas (Legumes)
Definition

Edibles: peas,beans,soybeans,lentils

 

Poisons: Precatory,wisteria,locoweed

Term
Tomatoe
Definition

Edibles:tomatoe, potato,egg plant, chilli pepper

 

Poisons:Belladonna,nightshade, henbane, tobacco

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Carrot
Definition

Edibles: Parsnip,dill, celery

 

Poisons:Hemlock (socrates), Water Hemlock (most poisonous)

Term
Buttercup
Definition
mostly poisonous: monkshood (Romeo and Juliet),larkspur
Term
Edible Fungi
Definition
truffels,morels (grown underground)
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