Chapter 8 Flashcards
Indian writings
Chinese writing
Morphological forms
Pharmacological uses
Father of botany
Theophrastus
Medicinal Plants, identification, colored press
Herbals
Father of taxonomy
Carl von linne
-created a sexual system
-binomial system
Binomial system
scientific name then generic name
Flower language
Certain flowers meant things to people still do
Common names
Worked for people and different culture but not for the scientific world
Taxonomy
Morphological, physiological, molecular evidence
Class Hierarchy
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Problem with morphological classifications
Convergent Evolution
Cladistics
Evolutionary branching
Darwin Theory
1) Variation
2) Overpopulation
3) Competition
4) Survive to reproduce