21 Cards in this Set
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Homonym
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Same Name, Different Taxon
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Holotype
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The one herbarium specimen upon which the author of a taxon based the name
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Basionym
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Original, now rejected name, part of which is used in a new combination
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Priority
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The first name published is the accepted name
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Synonym
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Different name, same taxon
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Conservation
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The first name published is NOT the accepted name
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Pinus
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Ovuliferous scale with a bract, two seeds, and sometimes an umbo
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Juniperus
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Female cone spherical, covered with wax, appearing like berries, flavoring for alcoholic beverages
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Ginkgo
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Megastrobilus of just two ovules; seed drupe like, fleshy, smells of rotten butter
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Gnetum
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Ovules large, fleshy, colorful, multiple in cluster, looking like angiosperm fruit
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Taxus
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Poisonous seeds enclosed by a bright red aril
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Zamia
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Underside of the microsporophylls coved with many microsporangia
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Fern life cycle
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1) Sporophyte develops sorus of sporangium
2) Meiosis forms spores
3) Spores disperse to become male/female gametophytes
4) Sperm fertilizes egg in archegonium
5) New sporophyte forms from diploid zygote
6) zygote matures into sporophyte and once has leaves and roots-gametophyte rots…
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What is the name, date, and authors name of the starting pt for botanical nomenclature?
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Species Plantarum, May 1, 1753,
Carl Linnaeus
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Italian fellow lived 1519-1603 and wrote De Plantis Libri XVI in 1583? He is considered the first plant taxonomist.
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Andrea Caesalpino
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lived 1744-1829 best known for theory of evolution by inheritance of acquired traits. Wrote Flore Francoise. Who is he?
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Jean Baptist de Lamark
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What type of flower was considered primitive by Engler and Pranti AND what type was considered primitive by Charles Bessey?
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*Engler & Prantl considered Catkins such as Aider (Alnus) & Birch (Betula)
*Charkes Bessey considered The Magnolia type flower
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Nomenclature
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International process of naming by Linnaeus
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Identifying
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Looking at a plant and recognizing it
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Keying
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Looking at a plant and finding out the type by its traits through a key
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Phylogenetic Classification
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Classification of organisms based of their assumed evolutionary histories & relationships
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