Section 1

Question 0

What are the five major gymnosperms?

Answer 0

Trees, woody plants, pines, bald cypress, and eastern red cedar. Total flora: 2187 species

Question 1

How many species of herbaceous plants are in the Texas piney woods? How many major taxonomic groups?

Answer 1

1838 species and 6 taxonomic groups

Question 2

What are some examples of woody monocots?

Answer 2

Bamboo, green briars, palms, and yuccas

Question 3

What group of 330 species is called the “ flowering group”?

Answer 3

Magnoliads & Eudicots

Question 4

Which 4 flora families are the largest groups in the piney woods region?

Answer 4

The sunflower family, the grass family, the sedge family, and the legume family

Question 5

What plant family’s scientific name is ASTERACEA?

Answer 5

The sunflower family

Question 6

What plant family’s scientific name is POACEA?

Answer 6

The grass family

Question 7

What family’s scientific name is CYPERACEA?

Answer 7

sedge family (some grasses but mostly wetlands vegetation)

Question 8

What family’s scientific name is FABACEAE

Answer 8

Legume family

Question 9

Systematic botany or the science of naming, identifying, and classifying plants is called

Answer 9

Plant Taxonomy

Question 10

Nomenclature is

Answer 10

The application of naming to plants

Question 11

What’s a taxon?

Answer 11

The name for a group of plants

Question 12

Flora is

Answer 12

All the native or naturalized plants found in a region

Question 13

What are Floristics?

Answer 13

Investigation and knowledge of a regions flora

Question 14

What is phylogeny?

Answer 14

The evolutionary lineage

Question 15

Composition of scientific species names?

Answer 15

Genus name + specific epithet + author’s name

Question 16

Modern scientific names began in 1753 when the book___________ was published.

Answer 16

species Plantarum by Carl Linnaeus

Question 17

Ranks

Answer 17

Domain, Kingdom, division (phylum), class, order, family, genus, and species

Question 18

What is the basic unit of classification?

Answer 18

Species

Question 19

What are species

Answer 19

Populations of organism fundamentally alike

Question 20

What is the morphological species concept?

Answer 20

The traditional concept based on appearance

Question 21

What is the genetic species concept?

Answer 21

The concept gat members of a species have similar DNA

Question 22

What is biological species concept?

Answer 22

Plants Can freely interbreed.they are isolated from all other groups by various mechanisms that limit or eliminate gene flow

Question 23

What is evolutionary ( or phylogenetic) species concept?

Answer 23

The lowest level at which populations have separate evolutionary history