Chapter 1.1 Introduction to Plant Biology

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Botany

Study of plants and their interactions with the environment

Plants are in the domain _____ and in the kingdom ______

Eukarya; Plantae

How many species of plants have been named so far?

320,000

True or False: Plants are autotrophic

True

Examples of plant sources in human society:

Food

Perfumes

Dyes

Beverages

Lumber

Paper

Clothing

Medicines

Coal and Oil

Alternate energy sources

Photosynthesis

Plants produce oxygen and glucose while they remove carbon dioxide in the air

Ethnobotany

Practical uses of plants and plant products

Agronomy

Study of crop plants

Phytochemistry

Study of chemical substances in plants

Paleobotany

Study of plant fossils

Plant Anatomy

Internal structure of plants

Plant Physiology

Plant function/metabolism

Plant Taxonomy

Describing, naming, and classifying plants ICBN

ICBN

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

Plant Systematics

Developing methods for classifying and naming plants

Plant Geography

Plant distributions

Plant Ecology

Interaction between plants and their environments

Plant Morphology

Form and structure of plants

Genetics

Science of Heredity

Potential development of better agricultural, medicinal, and other useful plants

Cell Biology

Cell structure and function