Chapter 1.1- Introduction to Plant Biology UCF

What is botany?

The study of plants and their interactions with their environment.

Interest in plants was practical because it was centered around?

The production of food, fibers, fuel and medicine

An intellectual interest arose and this led to?

Plant study becoming a science

Science involves the?

the observation, recording, organization, and classification of information.

Plants are in what domain?

Eukarya

Plants are in what kingdom?

Plantae

How many species of plants have been named so far?

320,000

What do plants provide?

They fill our terrestrial ecosystem and provide food and shelter for animals.

Plant cells contain chloroplasts, which conduct photosynthesis and are thus??

autotrophic

Planes are the sources of multiple products of human society:

food, perfumes, dyes, beverages, lumber, paper, clothing, medicine, coal and oil and alternate energy sources

Plants convert the sun's energy into energy that is?

usable to plants and to animals.

Photosynthesis

Plants produce oxygen and remove carbon dioxide in the air we breathe

What is ethnobotany?

Practical uses of plants and plant products

What is agronomy?

study of crop plants

What is phytochemistry?

Study of chemical substances in plants

What is paleobotany?

Study of plant fossils

What is plant anatomy?

internal structure of plants

What is plant physiology?

plant function

What is plant taxonomy?

describing, naming and classifying plants

What is plant systematics?

Developing methods for classifying and naming plants

What is plant geography?

plant distributions

What is plant ecology?

Interaction between plants and their environments

What is plant morphology?

form and structure of plants

Genetics leads to?

Potential development of better agricultural, medicinal and other useful plants

What is cell biology?

Cell structure and function