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Human view of plants

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Needed for food, shelter, drugs, medicine, and clothing

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Anthropocentric

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Human centered

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What plants feed the world?

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Rice, wheat, and corn

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Civilizations of rice

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Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian

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Civilizations of wheat

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Indo-European, Roman, Persian, Greek

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Civilizations of corn

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Americas, Olmec, Aztec, Mayan, Incan

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Rice, wheat and corn are what?

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Grasses

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Grasses have a special _________.

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Fruit

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What is a fruit?

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  • A mature or fertilized female sex organ (pistil)

- Structure that contains seeds

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A pistil becomes a fruit by what two processes?

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Pollination and fertilization

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Pollination

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Process by which pollen is transferred from the stamen (make sex organ) to pistil (female sex organ)

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Fertilization

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Process of the fusion of egg and sperm

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The fruit of grasses is called a _________.

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Caryopsis

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Caryopsis

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A fruit with one seed, where the seed coat and seed wall are fused together, making it storable

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Rice, wheat and corn are storable forever, as long as _________.

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They don’t get wet (they will get moldy)

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How do you eat rice, wheat, and corn after it gets hard?

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Mill or grind it

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Cotton

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-The hairs of the seed of the cotton bowl (fruit)

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The hairs of cotton are pure _________.

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Cellulose

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What is the biggest killer in the world?

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Malaria

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What is the cure for malaria?

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Quinine

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Gin & Tonic

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Medicinal drink used to prevent malaria

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Why use synthetic instead of natural product?

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Dosage (strength from medicine is consistent from pill to pill; concentration from natural plants vary)

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The earth is a planet for _________.

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Plants

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What do plants need?

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Dirt (mineral nutrients), gases (CO2 for photosynthesis and O2 for respiration), water, and sunlight

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What does the earth not provide for plants?

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Sunlight

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If it’s _________, it’s working. If it’s working, it has to _________ (burn carbohydrates to make ATP)

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Alive; respire

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Why are plants important?

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  • They are energy transformers (convert sunlight (radiation) to chemical bond energy)
  • They’re the basis of the food chain