BIOL 1050 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Common Wheat, Brassica Juncea, Rapeseed
5 Oct 2016
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Pharmaceuticals (drugs/medicine) - 25% of drugs come from plants. Fuel (wood {fire}, coal {from prehistoric plants} Created names for classification (hierarchial taxonomic groupings) Order: cyperales [flowers form spikelets around stem] Often used and understood (ex. sunflower family: asteraceae, mustard family: Crussiferae (brassicacea): was named because flower has four petals and was thought to look like crucifix family names capitalized, not in italics. Group of individuals that when they interbreed: produce viable & fertile progeny without artificial intervention (ex. crossing serval [leptailurus serval] and a domestic cat [felis catus] to produce a savannah cat) Capable of interbreeding & forming fertile offspring (not in nature due to geographical or other barriers) New genus is a combined name of the two genera. X is used to indicate the genus cross. Coral bells x foam flower = foamy bells. Seeds surrounded by an ovule, eg. apples (apple seeds are surrounded by the ovule (5 ovules per receptacle) and fruit. )
