Introduction Flashcards

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Two (2) Types of Benefits We Get from Plants

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  1. Direct
  2. Indirect
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Examples of direct benefits from plants

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  • food
  • medicine
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Examples of indirect benefits from plants

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  • oxygen
  • aesthetic value
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4
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study of life specifically plants

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Botany

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Eight (8) Fundamentals of Botany

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  1. Plant metabolism is based on the principles of chemistry and physics.
  2. Have a means of storing and using information.
  3. Reproduce positive genes to their descendants.
  4. Genes in the information, they contain change
  5. Must survive in their own environment.
  6. Highly integrated organisms.
  7. An individual plant is a temporary result of the interaction of genes and the environment.
  8. Do not have purpose or decision-making capacity.
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Scientific Fundamental Tenets

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  1. Source of Information
  2. Phenomena that can be studied
  3. Constancy and Universality
  4. Basis
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7
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All body of knowledge documented are carefully picked

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Source of Information

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8
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Only tangible things can be observed

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Phenomena that can be studied

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9
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Physical forces that control the world are constant

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Constancy and Universality

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10
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  • accept everything with skepticism
  • not everything is true
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Basis

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11
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Earth is the center of universe

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Geocentric Concept

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