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
