BIO 100 – GENERAL BIOLOGY
The History of Botany
______1. The age where the focus of using plants is through its utilitarian values.
______2. The father of botany.
______3. Wrote the book De Materia Medica.
______4. The two-surviving works of Theophrastus.
______5. Invented the microscope.
______6. Anton van Leeuwenhoek called the cells as _____.
______7. Measured the weight of the tree by its water uptake.
______8. This book was published by Rudolf Camerius. It established plant sexuality.
______9. This book was published by Stephen Hales that includes his experiments dealing with
the nutrition and respiration of plants.
______10. The first person who saw a live cell under microscope.
______11. This book was published by Robert Hooke where he put his description of cells.
______12. This person successfully established plant physiology as a science and developed
techniques to measure area, mass, volume, temperature, pressure, and even gravity in plants.
______13. The father of taxonomy.
______14. Published the book Historia Plantarum that became an important step in modern
taxonomy.
______15. This person laid the foundation for chemical analysis of plant metabolism.
______16. Chlorophyll was discovered by ___ during 1818.
______17. True / False. Women became active in the field of botany during the 1760s.
______18. This person first elucidated the process of photosynthesis.
______19. Proposed the theory of evolution and adaptation. Charles Darwin
______20. True / False. The exact mechanism of photosynthesis was discovered when it was
observed that starch was formed in green cells only in the presence of light.
______21. This person demonstrated the mechanism of synthesis of organic matter from
inorganic molecules.
The History of Botany
______1. The age where the focus of using plants is through its utilitarian values.
______2. The father of botany.
______3. Wrote the book De Materia Medica.
______4. The two-surviving works of Theophrastus.
______5. Invented the microscope.
______6. Anton van Leeuwenhoek called the cells as _____.
______7. Measured the weight of the tree by its water uptake.
______8. This book was published by Rudolf Camerius. It established plant sexuality.
______9. This book was published by Stephen Hales that includes his experiments dealing with
the nutrition and respiration of plants.
______10. The first person who saw a live cell under microscope.
______11. This book was published by Robert Hooke where he put his description of cells.
______12. This person successfully established plant physiology as a science and developed
techniques to measure area, mass, volume, temperature, pressure, and even gravity in plants.
______13. The father of taxonomy.
______14. Published the book Historia Plantarum that became an important step in modern
taxonomy.
______15. This person laid the foundation for chemical analysis of plant metabolism.
______16. Chlorophyll was discovered by ___ during 1818.
______17. True / False. Women became active in the field of botany during the 1760s.
______18. This person first elucidated the process of photosynthesis.
______19. Proposed the theory of evolution and adaptation. Charles Darwin
______20. True / False. The exact mechanism of photosynthesis was discovered when it was
observed that starch was formed in green cells only in the presence of light.
______21. This person demonstrated the mechanism of synthesis of organic matter from
inorganic molecules.
