Science 1001 self test 1 study guide

2 important developments of the Renaissance were __________ and __________ which encouraged the growth of taxonomy.

1. reading books 2. exploring

Ways of grouping plants and animals in ancient times might be by:

1. usefulness 2. harmful

One of the first Greek taxonomists who grouped animals by blood color and plants by size and shape was:

Aristotle

How did God introduce the concepts that would lead to the science of taxonomy?

By causing Adam to name the animals

Linnaeus

Father of modern technology

herbalists

Herbal- a book on medical classification and identification

Theophrastos

Herbs, Shrubs,Trees, flowering and non flowering plants (plants)

What was the difference between the study of taxonomy in Rome and in Greece?

In Rome, people were more concerned with power and copied ideas. Greeks were more original.

fixity of species

Linnaeus

Ibn-Sina

Persian doctor

genetics

The scientific study of heredity

When information was not available for a plant, the herbalist:

added their own unproven ideas.

population

all organisms of a kind in an area

What were Linnaeus' contributions to taxonomy?

binomial system, easier classifications, number of stamen per flower

Taxonomy is the science of:

classification

An herbalist might use an interpretation known as _______ to suggest a plant's use for medicinal remedies by it's shape.

doctrine of signatures

/After its kind/ means /reproduction of new kinds of living things./

false

TRUE/FALSE Moses wrote in Genesis about the science he had learned in Egyptian schools.

false

The Bibke gives us no information about science.

false

Adam

first taxonomist

kind

group of organisms that are capable of reproducing more of that group

Ray

grouped plants on similarities

Aristotle

herbs, shrubs, trees, red and nonred blood

Egyptians of Moses'day taught that snakes came from:

horsehair

Pliny

medical and agricultural plants with fables

Dioscorides

medical plant lore

Cordus

one of the first Renaissance scientists to use firsthand observations to write about plants

Bauhin

plant register; Pinax; used groupings and a form of scientific names

taxonomy

science of classification

Classification groupings today are made on the basis of how organisms are __________ and __________.

similar and different

People have classified plants and animals for thousands of years.

true

Scientists began to study and observe real plants and animals during the Renaissance.

true

Taxonomy is a science of organizing and classifying.

true

Linnaeus

two-word scientific names