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45 Cards in this Set
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Plant Science - 3 parts |
Forestry, Agronomy, Horticulture |
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Horticulture |
study of taking care of gardens, each plant has value |
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Pomology |
study of the cultivation of fruits |
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Olericulture |
study of the cultivation of vegetables |
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Floriculture |
study of the cultivation of flowers and potted plants |
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post harvest physiology |
what happens to plants after harvest, extending keeping quality |
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Tracheophyta |
plants with roots, stems, and leaves w/ vascular system |
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gymnospermae |
plants producing naked seeds (cones, conifers) |
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angiospermae |
fruit bearing plants, 250,000 species |
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Filicinae |
ferns, have spores |
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Angiospermae subclasses |
monocotyledenae and dicotyledenae |
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monocotyledenae |
one cotyledenae flower parts in multiples of 3 leaves with parallel veination grasses (graminales), palms (palmales), lilies (liliales) |
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dicotyledenae |
two cotyledenae flower parts in multiples of 4 and 5 reticulate veination deciduous trees, shrubs, fruit trees |
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Family |
a group of closely related genera, based on certain plant structures or bio chemistry |
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Genus |
a group of plants within a family that have reproductive similarities |
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Species |
similar reproductive and vegetative characteristics that distinguish from all other plants in same genus |
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common names |
created by common people one name can be connected to many species many names for 1 species |
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Carl Von Linne (Carolus Linnaeus) |
binomial system, latin, |
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Genus |
Always capitalized and always underlined or typed in italics |
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Quercus |
Oak |
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Acer |
Maple |
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Metasequoia |
Redwood |
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Specific Epithet |
never capitalized, always underlined |
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Acer Nugundo |
box elder |
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types of variations |
size, habit, leaf, color, flower color |
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Botanical Variety |
a group of plants within a species that display unique and inheritable characteristics which always show up in future generations |
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Cultivar |
a group of cultivated plants within a species clearly distinguished by some characteristics when reproduced by humans, retain that characteristic |
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Cultivar Epithet |
single quotations and first letter capitalized |
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Agronomy |
crop science |
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two categories that make up NCSU's agriculture program |
plant and animal science |
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What five categories make up NCSU's animal science program |
Pigs, Pets, Chickens, Horses, Cows |
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Latin words in "horitculture" |
hortus and culturae |
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Hortus |
Garden |
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Culturae |
to cultivate |
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Botany |
The study of plants because they are plants |
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Average spending on gardening a year |
$420 |
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Order of plant classification |
1. Kingdom
2. Divisions 3. Classes 4. Orders 5. Families 6. Genus 7. Species 8. Variations 9. Cultivar |
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Variation |
plants in the same species vary from one another but the variations are not significant enough to create a new species |
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straight species |
the actual species with no variation |
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self perpetuating |
able to reproduce naturally with no variation in kids |
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Variant |
a plant/ part of a plant possessing one or more different characteristics than the straight species |
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variants come from |
chance seedlings |
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Pinus Taeda 'Nana' |
very rare and valuable pine with the disease "witch's brew" and viable seeds
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tree |
woody plant with exposed trunk or trunks and a canopy |
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shrub |
multistemmed with branches connecting at the ground |
