Exam 1

Traits of all plants: _________, starch as primary food source, cell wall with cellulose, presence of carotenoids (yellow-orange-red pigments).

presence of chlorophyll A and B

Traits of all plants: presence of chlorophyll A and B, __________, cell wall with cellulose, presence of carotenoids (yellow-orange-red pigments).

starch as primary food source

Traits of all plants: presence of chlorophyll A and B, starch as primary food source, __________, presence of carotenoids (yellow-orange-red pigments).

cell wall with cellulose

Traits of all plants: presence of chlorophyll A and B, starch as primary food source, cell wall with cellulose, ____________

presence of carotenoids (yellow-orange-red pigments)

Plants are producers and:

consumers

Botany was born when plants were no longer used just for producing food. Rather:

people became interested in internal plant structures and non-practical functions

anatomy

plant internal structures

physiology

function

taxononomy

naming, classifying, describing, identifying

systematics

grouping plants using DNA, genetics

synecology

study of whole plant & animal communities

Why Latin? _________, historical, precise/accurate, dead language/permanent/never-

internationally referenced

Why Latin? Internationally referenced, __________, precise/accurate, dead language/permanent/never-changing

historical

Why Latin? Internationally referenced, historical, _____, dead language/permanent/never-changing

precise/accurate

Why Latin? Internationally referenced, historical, precise/accurate, _________

dead language/permanent/never-changing

Common names give no clues to plant:

family, relationships

Common names can be descriptive in a _______ way

language-specific

Some plants have ______ common names

no or multiple

Common names are simply ______ than scientific names

easier to remember

Scientific names are ____, ____, and ____

unique; specific; stable

Common names can provide clues into:

poison, edible or not, season, invasiveness, palatability, morphology

Family suffix

-aceae

Order suffix

-ales

1753

Linnaeus

In 1753, Linnaeus published:

Species Plantarum

~1850

Charles Darwin

Nomenclature rules: _________, epithet lowercase, genus first/epithet second, italicized or u

genus capitalized

Nomenclature rules: genus capitalized, __________, genus first/epithet second, italicized or underlined

epithet lowercase

Nomenclature rules: genus capitalized, epithet lowercase, ________, italicized or underlined

genus first/epithet second

Nomenclature rules: genus capitalized, epithet lowercase, genus first/epithet second, __________

italicized or underlined

Around 1850, Charles Darwin and others introduced _______ into taxonomic classification

evolution

In 1753, Linnaeus developed a:

binomial nomenclature naming system for plants

In the present day, the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group:

uses molecular data using cladistics to classify plants

Species are the:

basic unit of scientific nomenclature

Order acrostic

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