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Biology

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Study of life

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Major fields of biology

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Botany
Zoology
Human anatomy and physiology
Cell and molecular

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What is the importance of botany

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Diet
Industry
Medicine

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Aspirin

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Common white willow

Pain reliever

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Quinine

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Yellow cinchona

Anti- malarial (inhibits Plasmodium)

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Common white willow is the plant source for…

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Aspirin

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The rosy periwinkle is the plant source for…

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Vinblastine

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The yellow cinchona is the plant source for…

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Quinine

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Aspirin is used as a

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Pain reliever

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Quinine is used as a

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Anti-malarial (inhibits plasmodium)

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Vinblastine

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Anti-cancer: Hodgkin’s disease

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What plant can be used as a pain reliever

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Common white willow

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What plant can be used against cancer (Hodgkins disease)

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Rosy periwinkle

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What plant fights malaria (inhibits plasmodium)

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Yellow cinchona

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Four parts of a plant

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Flowers
Leaves
Stems
Roots

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Reproductive plant organ

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Flowers

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Photosynthesis

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Leaves

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Woody, herbaceous, vines

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Stems

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Absorption and transportation

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Roots

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Leaves

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Photosynthesis

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Roots

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Absorption and transportation

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Flowers

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Reproductive organ

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Stems

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Woody, herbaceous, vines

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Methods of categorizing plants

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Looking for similarities and differences,
Classification of flowering plant families,
Classification by structure,
Classification by growth cycle,
Trees

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Which flowering plant family is made of multiple things
Composite family
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Head-disk and ray flowers
Composite family
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Sunflower and dandelion
Composite family
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Square stem, aromatic
Mint family
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Basil, lavender
Mint family
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Leaves, bark, seeds, and/or sees pots contain poison
Rose family
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Apple, cherry
Rose family
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Podlike fruits
Pea family
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Kudzu
Pea family
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Peanuts
Pea family
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Nitrogen cycle Nitrogen fixing bacteria... Which family?
Legumes--pea family
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All initially thought to be poisonous
Nightshade family
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Tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco
Nightshade family
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The three most common poison plants are in which family?
Cashew family
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Poison oak, poison ivy, poison sumac
Cashew family
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What is the oily substance that produces a rash in poison oak, ivey, and sumac?
Urushiol
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Graminoids is another name for
Grass family
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Most important group of plants
Grass family (graminoids)
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Cereal crops
Wheat, rice, corn
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Which grasses are used by livestock?
Forage grasses
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Which grasses are used for lawns and athletic fields
Turf grasses
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Pampas
Ornamental
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Bamboo and sugar cane
Woody grasses
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What to notice about grass plants?
Stolen-vegetative reproduction Leaf: blade and sheath Flower cluster
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One catyledon
Monocot
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2 cotyledons
Dicot
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1 year growing cycle
Annual
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1st year stores up nutrients, 2nd year uses up nutrients to grow flowers
Biennial
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Never have to replant
Perennial
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Study of trees
Dendrology
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Leaves change color
Deciduous
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What are the two types of tree crowns?
Deliquescent | Excurrent
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Wide, branches outward
Deliquescent
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Slide-like, branches upward
Excurrent
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What device calculates the age of a tree without damaging it?
Increment borer

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