PLPA 2003 ACTUAL FINALS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
Wasson - ✔✔an ethnographer discovered mushroom ceremonies in Mexico
✔✔Timothy Leary - ✔✔who experimented with psychedelics at Harvard, attempted to
treat alcoholism, fired from Harvard, established league of Spiritual Discovery,
attempted to keep LSD legal for religious reasons
✔✔Amanita mushrooms - ✔✔genus contains many poisonous mushrooms, includes
names such as death cap, destroying angel, cause the most death, can work as an
insecticide, used to induce trances and for medicines in Siberia
✔✔Soma - ✔✔indian ritual drink praised for divine origin and potent powers, described
in text 1700-2000BC, made from amanita mushrooms
✔✔Uses of fungi - ✔✔making paper, medicinal, sharpen arrowheads, start fires, for fly
fishing, hats, antioxidant, anti inflammatory, used for tea, stop bleeding, edible,
carvings, anti viral, mattresses, snuff
✔✔Ancient brewing - ✔✔relied on accidental inoculation, same containers worked well,
no bottling
✔✔6 Fungi - ✔✔what biotic disease causes the most damage to plants
✔✔Environment, Host, Pathogen - ✔✔what 3 components are required for disease to
occur
✔✔Immune system - ✔✔what do plants lack that humans have
✔✔Neolithic revolution - ✔✔what caused increased plant disease, dispersal gradient,
plant density, lowered plant diversity and irrigation
QUESTIONS SET A+
Wasson - ✔✔an ethnographer discovered mushroom ceremonies in Mexico
✔✔Timothy Leary - ✔✔who experimented with psychedelics at Harvard, attempted to
treat alcoholism, fired from Harvard, established league of Spiritual Discovery,
attempted to keep LSD legal for religious reasons
✔✔Amanita mushrooms - ✔✔genus contains many poisonous mushrooms, includes
names such as death cap, destroying angel, cause the most death, can work as an
insecticide, used to induce trances and for medicines in Siberia
✔✔Soma - ✔✔indian ritual drink praised for divine origin and potent powers, described
in text 1700-2000BC, made from amanita mushrooms
✔✔Uses of fungi - ✔✔making paper, medicinal, sharpen arrowheads, start fires, for fly
fishing, hats, antioxidant, anti inflammatory, used for tea, stop bleeding, edible,
carvings, anti viral, mattresses, snuff
✔✔Ancient brewing - ✔✔relied on accidental inoculation, same containers worked well,
no bottling
✔✔6 Fungi - ✔✔what biotic disease causes the most damage to plants
✔✔Environment, Host, Pathogen - ✔✔what 3 components are required for disease to
occur
✔✔Immune system - ✔✔what do plants lack that humans have
✔✔Neolithic revolution - ✔✔what caused increased plant disease, dispersal gradient,
plant density, lowered plant diversity and irrigation
