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Greek word for Botany

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Botane

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What does “Botane” mean?

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plant/ grass

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one of the oldest surviving medical record made by the Egyptians

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Ebers Papyrus

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he studied the “nature” of plants

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Aristotle

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1st man to became familiar with wide range of biological facts

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Aristotle

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he is a student of Aristotle

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Theophrastus

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Real name of Theophrastus

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Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Honhenheim

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he is the father of botany

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Theophrastus

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he wrote the HISTORY OF PLANTS

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Theophrastus

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10
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He is the father of Botanical Illustrations

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Crateuas

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Made the first illustrated herbals and oldest treaties on Pharmacology

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Crateuas

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Real name of Pliny the Elder

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Calus Plinius Secundus

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He wrote the NATURAL HISTORY

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Pliny the Elder

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14
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First to use the word “stamen”

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Pliny the Elder

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15
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Studied the medicinal values of plants

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Pedanios Dioscorides

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He wrote the De Materia Medica

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Pedanios Dioscorides

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Description of medicinal properties of about 600 plant species

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De Materia Medica

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18
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Description of the biological, medicinal, and agricultural aspects of plants

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Natural history

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19
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chief botanical books containing descriptions and drawing/ wood-cut illustrations of plants

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herbals

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20
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German Fathers of Botany

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Heironymous Bock,
Leonhard Fuchs,
and Otto Brunfels

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He began the transition from medieval, the modern scientific botany thru his books and his own system of classifying plants

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Heironymous Bock

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he wrote the PLANT BOOK

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Heironymous Bock

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Classification of about 700 plant by arranging it by their relation or resemblance

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Plant Book

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he wrote the NOTABLE COMMENTARIES ON THE HISTORY OF PLANTS

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Leonhard Fuchs

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Description of 497 plants and illustrated over 500 superb woodcuts based on first-hand observation
Leonhard Fuchs
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he wrote the LIFE-LIKE IMAGES IN IMITATION OF NATURE
Otto Brunfels
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collection of original, detailed and realistic representation of plants.
Herbarium of Life-like Images in Imitation of Nature
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he wrote the PHYTOPINAX
Gaspard Bauhin
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description and classification of plants by drawing comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linneaus
Phytopinax
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Description and classification of about 6000 plant species using traditional grouping
Illustrated Exposition of Plants
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he wrote the DE PLANTIS LIBRI XVI
Andrea Cesalpino
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real name of Carolus Linneaus
Carl von Linne
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father of modern taxonomy
Carolus Linneaus
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he wrote the SPECIES OF PLANTS
carolus Linneaus
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classification of all plants known at that time according to the binomial system
The Species of Plants
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real name of A.L De Jussieu
Antoine Laurent de Juisseu
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he wrote the GENERA OF PLANTS ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR ETC.
A.L de Juisseu
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real name of Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin
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Introduced the scientific theory of natural selection
Charles Darwin
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real name of Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel
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he is the father of Genetics
Gregor Mendel
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his experiment lead to the recognition of the mathematical pattern of inheritance from one generation to the next
Mendel's law of inheritance
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Pipol in the Ancient Period/ Scientists in the Ancient Period
``` Aristotle Theophratus Crateuas Pliny the Elder Pedanios Dioscorides ```
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Medieval- Renaissance Scientists
Heironymous Bock Leonhard Fuchs Otto Brunfels Gaspar Bauhin
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Modern, 18th century scientists
Andrea Cesalpino Carolus Linnaeus A.L de Juisseu
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Modern, 19th century scientists
Charles Darwin | Gregor Mendel
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concerned with the plant not as a static structure to be cut up, picked apart, and described.
Modern Botany
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A period where primitive men can distinguish edible from poisonous plants through a system of trail and error
Ancient Period
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they pioneered the definite expression of Plant Science's problems and principles for practical reasons
The Greeks
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they explore plants primarily for their curative qualities focusing on plant classification
Medieval - Renaissance Period or the 16th and 17th century botanists
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the period where it led to the discovery of thousands of new plants and facts of plant life divorced from superstition
18th century
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the theory of organic evolution prepared the way for a natural system of classification wherein plants related to one another through a common ancestry is grouped together.
19th century
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Importance of Plants
* fundamental source of food * provide shelther and fuel * can be made into clothing, accessories and cosmetics * serve aesthetic purposes to the environment * help conserve biodiversity * serves as a buffer to climate change * can be used and developed into medicines
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Characteristics of Plants
* highly organized * take in and use energy * respond to stimuli * grow and develop * reproduce * adopt to their environment
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stimuli that respond to light
phototropism
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stimuli that respond away to light
negative phototropism
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stimuli that respond to water
hydrotropism
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stimuli that respond to gravity
geotropism
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stimuli that respond to light
thigmotropism
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changes a plant undergoes in order to survive certain environment
adaptation
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adaptation that occurs over a long period of time
evolution
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study of the nomenclature of living things
taxonomy
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study of the forms and structures of living things
morphology
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study of the mechanisms and structure of living things
physiology
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study of the distribution and abundance of plants
plant ecology
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study of the geographic distribution
phytogeography
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study of the biology and evolution of plants
paleobotany
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study of the interaction of people and plants
economic botany
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study of the management resources from forest lands
forestry
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study of mode and action of drugs
pharmacology
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study of the cultivation of plants and livestock
agriculture
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study of soil
soil science
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the technology of producing and using of plants
agronomy
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study of garden cultivation
horticulture
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study of the cause and control of plant diseases
plant pathology

PBSCI- MODULE 1 (5 decks)

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