Botany Flashcards
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The relationships among population growth, natural resources consumption, and environmental degradation are
Complex
Humans and other animals depend on plants to produce food by?
Photosynthesis
The Scientric study of Plants
Botany
Botanikos means
Botanical
involves te origin, diversity. structure and internal processes of plants relationships with other organisms and nonliving physical
environment
Botany
In french, Botanique means
Botanical
Botanical study of drugs, spices and poisonous plants
Pharmaceutical Botany
Boskein means
To feed
Deals with the description, naming and classification of plants
TAXONOMY
Botane means
Plant or herb
Botanikos means
Botanical
Asking a question, formulating a hypothesis - conducting experiments-developing a theory
Scientific method
Describes the procedures of developing and testing hypothesis
Scientific method
Experimentation observation - verifying or discarding of information
Scientific procedures
Tentative, unproven explanation for something that has been observed. Testing will determine whether it is correct or
incorrect.
Hypothesis
iAn educated guess (based on previous observations) that may be true and is testable by observation and experimentation
Hypothesis
Good experiments are run in two
forms. What are they?
Variables and Control
Good experiments are run in two
forms. What are they?
Variables and Control
Formulation of a useful generalization
Principle
What are the 4 major periods of plant evolution?
Bryophytes
Seedless vascular plants
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Plant adaptations
Adaptation to water
Adaptation to air
Adaptation to extreme dryness
Plant adaptations
Adaptation to water
Adaptation to air
Adaptation to extreme dryness
Study of organisms and their environment.
Ecology
Branch of science devoted to the mitigation of environmental damage.
Restoration ecology