Activity 1

Question 1

What does plant and other green organisms do?

Answer 1

they have a capacity to produce oxygen and remove the large amounts of carbon dioxide given off by all living organisms as they respire

Question 2

What is greenhouse effect?

Answer 2

is a heat that is trapped close to the surface of the Earth by “greenhouse gasses”. Heat trapping gasses can be a blanket wrapped around the Earth

Question 3

Greenhouse effect has?

Answer 3

carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides

Question 4

What is plant?

Answer 4

a source of products

Question 5

What are the things that produced by plants?

Answer 5

condiments (spices), luxuries (perfume)

Question 6

Where does medicine and drugs came from?

Answer 6

they came from plants, fungi, or bacteria

Question 7

What is the role of microscopic organisms?

Answer 7

they play a vital role in recycling the wastes of animal and plant and aid in the building of healthy soils

Question 8

What is methane gas?

Answer 8

a substitution for natural gas

produced from animal manures and decomposed plants

Question 9

What is Energy Policy Act of 2005?

Answer 9

mandates the annual renewable fuel production

Question 10

What is Cellulosic Ethanol?

Answer 10

derived from inedible plant fiber, such as wood chips or switchgrass

Question 11

Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?

Answer 11

the one who invented the microscope

Question 12

What is Dendrochronology?

Answer 12

study of climate change and past events

deals with determining past climates by examining the width and other features of tree rings

Question 13

What is algae?

Answer 13

they not only produce oxygen, but also utilize the waste of carbon dioxide produced by respiration and also produces food

Question 14

What is closed system?

Answer 14

a self-supporting arrangement

Question 15

What is botany?

Answer 15

study of plants

Question 16

Greek word of botany?

Answer 16

botanikos (botanical)
botane (plant or herb)
boskein (to feed)

Question 17

French word of botany?

Answer 17

botanique (botanical)

Question 18

Scientists who study plants called?

Answer 18

botanists

Question 19

What is scientific procedure?

Answer 19

process of experimentation, and the verifying or discarding the information

Question 20

What is scientific method?

Answer 20

procedures of developing and testing hypothesis

Question 21

What is hypothesis?

Answer 21

an unproven explanation of something that has been observed

Question 22

What is testing?

Answer 22

will determine whether it is correct or incorrect

Question 23

Scientific method pyramid

Answer 23

asking question
formulating hypothesis
experiments
developing a theory

Question 24

2 forms of good experiment

Answer 24

variable and control

Question 25

what is variable

Answer 25

a specific aspect that can be changed

Question 26

what is control

Answer 26

sample that remains the same throughout the expermient

Question 27

what is data

Answer 27

bits of information

Question 28

what is principle

Answer 28

formulation of a useful generalization

Question 29

what is theory

Answer 29

group of generalizations that helps us understand something

Question 30

what is microscope

Answer 30

an optical instrument used for viewing very small objects, typically magnified several hundred times

Question 31

what does two convex lenses do

Answer 31

could magnify tiny objects more than 30 times

Question 32

Who is a dutch draper

Answer 32

anton van leeuwenhoek

Question 33

birth and death of anton van leeuwenhoek?

Answer 33

1632-1723

Question 34

What is modern microscopes

Answer 34

can produce magnifications of more than 200,000 times and are leading almost daily to new discoveries in biology

Question 35

what is plant anatomy

Answer 35

concerned with the internal structure of plants

Question 36

who are the scientific pioneers

Answer 36

the one who established the plant anatomy

Question 37

who is marcello malpighi

Answer 37

who discovered the various tissues in stems and roots

Question 38

who is nehemiah grew

Answer 38

who described the structure of wood more precisely than anyone

Question 39

what is forensic laboratories

Answer 39

fragments of plant tissues found on clothing or under fingernails to determine where a crime took place

Question 40

what is heredity

Answer 40

passing of traits from parents to their offspring

Question 41

what is paleobotany

Answer 41

study of plant fossils

Question 42

what is plant physiology

Answer 42

concerned with plant "normal" function

Question 43

who is J.B van Helmont

Answer 43

the first to demonstrate that plants don't have the same nutritional needs as animals

Question 44

what is photosynthetic activity

Answer 44

the tree absorbed all the water that's why it became large

Question 45

what is cloned genes

Answer 45

units of heredity that are found mostly within the nuclei of cells

Question 46

who are the taxonomists

Answer 46

botanists who specialized in the identifying, naming, and classifying the plants

Question 47

who is carolus linnaeus

Answer 47

the one who created the system of naming and classifying organisms

Question 48

what is plant taxonomy

Answer 48

involves describing, naming and classifying organisms

Question 49

what is plant systematics

Answer 49

science of developing methods for grouping organisms related field, but is broader than taxonomy

Question 50

what is species plantarum

Answer 50

linnaeus' book

Question 51

what is pteridologists

Answer 51

the one who studies about the ferns

Question 52

bryologists

Answer 52

the one who studies about mosses and plants with similar life cycles

Question 53

what is plant geography

Answer 53

study of how and why plants are distributed where they are, interaction with the earth

Question 54

what is plant ecology

Answer 54

study of the interaction of plants with one another and with their environment

Question 55

what is plant morphology

Answer 55

study of the form and structure of plants

Question 56

what is genetics

Answer 56

science of heredity

Question 57

who is gregor mendel

Answer 57

the one who discovered the genetics

Question 58

what is plant breeding

Answer 58

changing the traits of plants in order to create another desired characteristics

Question 59

what is genetic engineering

Answer 59

the transfer of genes from one organisms to another

Question 60

what is cell biology

Answer 60

science of cell structure and function, how cell multiply and how their various components perform and integrate a variety of functions

Question 61

what is another term of cell biology

Answer 61

cytology

Question 62

what is electron microscope

Answer 62

which use a beam of electrons to examine objects on very fine scale

Question 63

what is economic botany and ethnobotany

Answer 63

focus on practical uses of plants and plant products