Botany lec part 1

Study of ancient life of plants and its evolution & the evolution of plants in the geologic past.

• paleobotany

• ethnobotany

• plant genetics

• economic botany

Study of mosses & similar plants.

• agronomy

• bryology

• horticulture

• forestry

A sub discipline of systematics; deals with description, naming & classification of plants.

• plant systematics

• plant physiology

• plant taxonomy

• plant anatomy

A foxglove was reportedly used by an English housewife to treat dropsy (swelling of soft tissues due to accumulation of water) and systematically used by William Withering. What is the scientific name of foxglove?

• Digitalis purpurea

• Papaver somniferum

• Cinchona succirubra

• Salix spp

Salix spp. was derivatized to form what chemical?

Clue: it is widely used as anti-inflammatory drug.

• Morphine

• quinine

• acetyl salicylic acid

• caffeine

It is a study that deals with forms of living organisms and relationship with their structure.

• Anatomy

• taxonomy

• pharmacology

• morphology

The study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and their medicinal, religious and other uses.

• Paleobotany

• ethnobotany

• plant genetics

• economic botany

He discovered cells in living plant tissue and published "Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies" in 1665.

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Ernst Haeckel

• Pedanius Dioscorides

• Robert Hooke

He performed classic experiments with genetics (study of heredity) using pea plants.

• Ernst Haeckel

• Gregor Johann Mendel

• John William Harshberger

• Claudius Galen (Galenus)

A place where trees can grow very tall due to amount of precipitation and epiphytes such as mosses and ferns grow atop other plants to reach light.

• Temperate rainforest

• Temperate Deciduous rainforest

• Desert

• Temperate grassland