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what is ethnobotany?
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the study of how people use plants
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who coined the term ethnobotany
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John William Harshberger, Florida Botanist
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What is Economic Botany
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the study of the economic importance of plants
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what is an ethnobotanist
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a person who work closely with people and experts of other field ( anthropology and biochem)
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who was richard schultes
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incorporated ethnobotany into the academic cirriculum
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who was edmund wade davis
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studied under schultes, worked in the andes mountians
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mark plotkin
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research student of schultes, book "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice"
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Michael J. Balick
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studied under schultes, book "rainforest remedies and plants, people, and culture"
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Carbohydrates
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available from plants include fructose, sucrose (cane sugar) malose (grains), starch (abundant white potatoes), and cellulose. glucose forms when we digest carbs
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fibers (soluble)
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found in pectin, mucilage, and gum reduce the amount of density lipoprotiens
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fibers (insoluble)
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ex. cellulose and lignin, they do not provide much nutritional benefits, other than bulk and roughage.
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Proteins
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important for overall health, growth, and maintenance of adequate metabolism. (soybeans, lentils, ect.)
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South America
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Sweet and white potato, cassava, corn (mexico)
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Northeastern China
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Soyebean
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Mediterranean Countries
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sugar beets
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Australia
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Banana
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Pacific Islands
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sugar cane
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southeast asia
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rice
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Iraq, Syria
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wheat
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what is botany
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the study of plants and plant life
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botane ( greek)
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plant or herb
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photosynthesis
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transformaing atmospheric carbon into usable forms of energy by utilizing light and chlorophyll
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four major groups of pants
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angiosperms (flower-bearing seed plants), gymnosperms (cone-bearing seed plants), seedless vascular plants( aka tracheophytes), bryophytes( include peat moss and sphagnum)
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angiosperm
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grow from a seed that consists of an embryo, the cotyledons and the endosperm, which is protected by two layers of integuments
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hypoctyl
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emerges first as the seed germinates, and establishes the root system
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epicotyl
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emerges later and become the shoot system
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axis
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a portion of the stem or a branch
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node
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the point on the axis where the leaf attaches, closer the nodes the denser the the leaves
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leaves attach
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to the axis either directly (sessile) or through a stalk called petiole
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stipules
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short appendages on either side of the petiole
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(A)axil/(B)axillary bud
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(A)the angles formed between the axis and the petiole (B)the bud located in an axil
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apex
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extreme tip of the growing plants
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apical bud
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bud present at the apex
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apical meristems
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actively dividing cells
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tap root
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a primary root that is very developed
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fibrous roots
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is when the roots disintegrates several thick root eventually replace it
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adventitious roots
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roots that emerge from other parts of the plant root system
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peduncle
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a single flower
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receptacle
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hold all four whorls
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calyx
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the outer most whorl
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sepals
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individual units
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second whorl
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made up of the corolla and petals
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perianth
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the caylx and the corolla, they are also non-essential parts
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