Taxonomy
Life Cycles
Scientific Name
Terms to Know
Miscellaneous
100
The Father of Taxonomy
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
100
A plant that germinates, produces roots, stems, and leaves, flower, produces seed, then dies in one year or growing season.
What is an annual?
100
A product of plant breeding this part of the Latin name appears last in single quotation marks.
What is a cultivar?
100
Plants that retain their leaves throughout the winter.
What are evergreens?
100
The study of the shape or form of an organism.
What is morphology?
200
The science of the classification of living things.
What is taxonomy?
200
A plant that has a life cycle of more than two years.
What is a perennial?
200
This name appears first in the Latin name and begins with an uppercase letter.
What is the Genus?
200
Plant whose seeds develop within a fruiting body.
What are angiosperms?
200
The term used for cone-bearing plants.
What is conifer?
300
These plants normally require two years or two growing seasons to complete its life cycle.
What are biennials?
300
To correctly represent the Latin or scientific name the genus, species, and variety must be _________________ or __________________.
What is underlined or italicized?
300
A group of plants with "naked" seeds.
What are conifers?
300
The term used for plants that lose their leaves in winter.
What is deciduous?
400
The two-word system for naming plants.
What is binomial nomenclature?
400
These perennials die back to the ground each winter.
What are herbaceous perennials?
400
This part of the Latin name appears third if needed and represents species with variants in the offspring that occurred naturally.
What is the variety?
400
A group of plants that produced two seed leaves called cotyledons.
What are dicots?
400
The name used by people without regard to scientific classification.
What is the common name?
500
A written set of choices that leads to the name of a plant.
What is dichotomous key?
500
These perennials produce secondary growth that persists through the winter year after year.
What are woody perennials.
500
Appearing second this part of the Latin name represents plants that will consistently reproduce similar offspring and starts with a lowercase letter.
What is the species?
500
A group of plants that reproduce using spores on the backs of leaves called fronds.
What are ferns?
500
The first stage of classification with all living things in one of five groups.
What is Kingdom?
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