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Study Guide 1
Introduction to Ethnobotany
1. What is Ethnobotany?
2. Name five examples of disciplines that are associated with ethnobotany.
3. What are the areas of plant use that ethnobotanists study the most?
4. Give five examples of plant products that you have used today.
5. Give examples of holidays and the type of plants that are associated with them.
6. When do we consider the official begining of associations between plants and humans?
7. Is there evidence of previous associations?
8. Name five specific examples of associations of plants and humans in antiquity.
9. Describe some of the associations between plants and humans during the middle ages.
10. What major event took place during the 15th century that changed the way humans relate to plants
forever.
Introduction to Biology
1. What is the difference between eukaryotic cells and prokaryotic cells?
2. What is the difference between unicellular and multicellular?
3. Name all the kingdoms of the domain Eukarya and how you can recognize each one of them? Give
examples of each kingdom.
Introduction to Plant Biology
1. Name three characteristics that make the Plant Kingdom different from other living organisms.
2. Name the different groups of plants. How do you differentiate them?
3. What are the most primitive plants and which ones are the most evolved
4. Define Bryophytes
5. Name some uses for bryophytes
6. Define Pterydophytes ( ferns)
7. Name some uses for ferns
8. Define Gymnosperms
9. Name some uses for gymnosperms
10. Define Angiosperms
11. Name the differences between Monocots and Dicots.
12. Define a species.
13. What is the genus and species of a plant? Examples.
14. Name the taxonomic hierarchy used to classify plants.
15. Name and briefly describe the main parts of a plant and their functions.
Cell Biology
1. Name and give an example of the four types of biological molecules found in living organism.
2. Describe the main parts of a plant cell.
3. What is the cell wall? What is it made of? What are primary and secondary walls? Name three
functions of the cell wall?
4. What are annuals, biennials and perennial plants? What kind of cell wall will you find in each of these
type of plants?
5. What is the central vacuole? What is its function? Explain. What is turgency? Explain how it works.
6. Name the organelles found in the cytoplasm of a plant cell and establish their functions.
7. What are plastids? Name and describe the different type of plastids that you are familiar with. Give
examples of plants where you may find these types of organelles.
8. Describe in detail the morphology of a chloroplast? What is the chlorophyll?
9. Explain three strategies plants have develop to acquire water
10. Explain three strategies plants have developed to preserve water
11. Using the plant model and the plant cell scheme, draw your own scheme of the plant cell and
identify its components.
12. Using the chloroplast model, draw a scheme of the chloroplast and identify its components.