Plants Physiology Exam queries and
answers graded A+
Theophrastus - ANS✅✅-A Greek Naturalist
-Wrote Enquiries into Plants and The Causes of Plants
-Described and classified 500 species into: herbs, under shrubs, and trees.
-Known as the father of Botany.
-Lived 370-285 BC
Pliny the Elder - ANS✅✅-Roman Naturalist
-Described Medicinal Plants
Pedanius Dioscorides - ANS✅✅-Wrote De Materia Medica (it became a medical reference for the
next 1500 years)
Carolus Linnaeus - ANS✅✅-1707-1778
-Born in Sweden
-Interested in Botany gardening with his father
-University of Lund in 1727- studies Natural Science and Medicine.
-Transferred to University of Uppsala where he published his first botanical papers.
What year did Carolus Linnaeus take an expedition to Lapland and what did he do? - ANS✅✅1732
and he catalogued the natural history there.
What year and from where did Carolus Linnaeus earn his medical degree? - ANS✅✅1735 and
University of Harderwijk-Netherlands.
Who did Carolus Linnaeus serve as their personal physician and curator of the gardens? -
ANS✅✅George Clifford
What year did Carolus retire? - ANS✅✅1775
, Willi Hennig - ANS✅✅-German Entomologist
-Considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics (aka cladistics).
Common Name - ANS✅✅Names that have evolved over time and may change geographically.
Scientific Name - ANS✅✅Universally accepted name. Latin, 2 parts, binomial.
Common Name Types - ANS✅✅-Commemoration Names
-Describe Physical Qualities
-Scientific Names that have become common names.
-Indicate Use
-Indicate origin, location, or season.
Scientific Names Characteristics - ANS✅✅-always italicized or underlined.
-Genus is a proper noun- capitalized
-species is an adjective -lowercase
-after the Genus has been formally mentioned it can then be abbreviated to it's first letter.
Family - ANS✅✅-Composed of related genre
-Share combinations of morphological traits
-Floral or Fruit Features
-May share similar evolutionary lineage
-Family size varies
-Each family is assigned a name, capitalized and ending in -aceae
Genus - ANS✅✅A group of similar species. It is always Capitalized.
Species - ANS✅✅a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging
genes or interbreeding. It is always lowercase.
Phylocode - ANS✅✅-Abandons the ranks of the Linnean System
answers graded A+
Theophrastus - ANS✅✅-A Greek Naturalist
-Wrote Enquiries into Plants and The Causes of Plants
-Described and classified 500 species into: herbs, under shrubs, and trees.
-Known as the father of Botany.
-Lived 370-285 BC
Pliny the Elder - ANS✅✅-Roman Naturalist
-Described Medicinal Plants
Pedanius Dioscorides - ANS✅✅-Wrote De Materia Medica (it became a medical reference for the
next 1500 years)
Carolus Linnaeus - ANS✅✅-1707-1778
-Born in Sweden
-Interested in Botany gardening with his father
-University of Lund in 1727- studies Natural Science and Medicine.
-Transferred to University of Uppsala where he published his first botanical papers.
What year did Carolus Linnaeus take an expedition to Lapland and what did he do? - ANS✅✅1732
and he catalogued the natural history there.
What year and from where did Carolus Linnaeus earn his medical degree? - ANS✅✅1735 and
University of Harderwijk-Netherlands.
Who did Carolus Linnaeus serve as their personal physician and curator of the gardens? -
ANS✅✅George Clifford
What year did Carolus retire? - ANS✅✅1775
, Willi Hennig - ANS✅✅-German Entomologist
-Considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics (aka cladistics).
Common Name - ANS✅✅Names that have evolved over time and may change geographically.
Scientific Name - ANS✅✅Universally accepted name. Latin, 2 parts, binomial.
Common Name Types - ANS✅✅-Commemoration Names
-Describe Physical Qualities
-Scientific Names that have become common names.
-Indicate Use
-Indicate origin, location, or season.
Scientific Names Characteristics - ANS✅✅-always italicized or underlined.
-Genus is a proper noun- capitalized
-species is an adjective -lowercase
-after the Genus has been formally mentioned it can then be abbreviated to it's first letter.
Family - ANS✅✅-Composed of related genre
-Share combinations of morphological traits
-Floral or Fruit Features
-May share similar evolutionary lineage
-Family size varies
-Each family is assigned a name, capitalized and ending in -aceae
Genus - ANS✅✅A group of similar species. It is always Capitalized.
Species - ANS✅✅a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging
genes or interbreeding. It is always lowercase.
Phylocode - ANS✅✅-Abandons the ranks of the Linnean System
