Intro

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scientific study of plants/plant biology

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Botany

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father of Biology

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Aristotle

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father of Botany

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Theophrastus

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illustrated on sheets of papyrus

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City of Alexandria

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plants pressed roots to leaves for scientific researches

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herbarium

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pharmaceutical ‘Bible’/guidebook, 600 plants, 100 medicine

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“de Materia Medica” (On Medical Material)

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Who wrote “Historia Plantarium” - Enquiry into Plants and “On the Causes of Plants”?

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Theophrastus

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Who wrote “de Materia Medica” (On Medical Material)?

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Pedanius Dioscorides

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When was botany-related knowledge searching stagnant?

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Early 17th Century

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Who disproved ancient Greeks’ theory that plants gained mass by absorbing soil?

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Johannes van Helmont

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Who was credited for the invention of the microscope and is part of the Royal Society of London?

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Robert Hooke

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Who really invented the microscope?

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Hans & Zacharias Janssen

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Who coined the term ‘cell’?

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Robert Hooke

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What plant did Hooke look into that under the microscope he said it looked like ‘prison cells’?

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Cork

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What was Hooke’s famous publication?

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“Micrographia”

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world’s oldest academic society

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Royal Society of London

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motto of the Royal Society of London

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‘Nullius in verba’ - take nobody’s word for it

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founder of the Royal Society of London

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Robert Boyle

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father of Microbiology, inventor of the hand-held microscope

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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protozoa, yeasts, and bacteria were called _____________ before by Leeuwenhoek.

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animalcules

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revised “Historia Plantarium, contributed to taxonomy

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John Ray

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plant sexuality, “de Sexu Plantarum Epistola”

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Rudolf Camerarius

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male reproductive organs of flowers

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stamen

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female reproductive organs of flowers

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ovary & pistils

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made plant physiology a part of botany

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Stephen Hales

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Stephen Hales' publication

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“Vegetable Staticks”

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What is plant physiology?

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measures area, mass, volume, temperature, pressure & gravity of plants

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father of Taxonomy

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Carolus Linnaeus

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8 levels of classification in the Linnaean Hierarchy (in order)

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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Order, Class, Family, Genus, Species

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“Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air”, plant metabolism

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Joseph Priestly

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proposed theory of evolution

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Charles Darwin

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What green pigment was discovered in 1818?

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Chlorophyll

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(BRANCH) production & economic importance of plants

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Agricultural Science

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(BRANCH) crop production and soil management

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Agronomy

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(BRANCH) grasses

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Agrostology

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(BRANCH) how plants were used in the past; to understand medicinal and spiritual significances

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Archaeology

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(BRANCH) study of mosses, liverworts, & hornworts

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Bryology

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(BRANCH) human-plant relationship

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Ethnobotany

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(BRANCH) garden crops and ornamental plants

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Horticulture

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(BRANCH) plants & parts of plants help in investigating non/criminal cases (i.e. Lindbergh kidnapping)

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Forensic Botany

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(BRANCH) evolution of fossil to living plants

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Paleobotany

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(BRANCH) algae

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Phycology/Algology

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(BRANCH) important plant compounds that are endangered or with medicinal properties

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Phytochemistry

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(BRANCH) plant-environment relationship, plant extinction due to humans

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Plant Ecology

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(BRANCH) transfer of genetic information from one generation to the next

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Plant Genetics

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(BRANCH) plant diseases, treatment, prevention

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Plant Pathology

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(BRANCH) photosynthesis, flowering, hormones

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Plant Physiology

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(BRANCH) Carolus Linnaeus. classifications

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Plant Systematics

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(BRANCH) micropropagation (rapid plant propagation)

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Plant Tissue Culture

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(BRANCH) fruits & cultivation

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Pomology

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(BRANCH) pteridophytes & ferns

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Pteridology