What's in a Name?
The language that all scientific names are believed to be derived from.
What is Latin?
Determined by internal developmental program and external environmental cues.
What is cell differentiation?
The product of sexual reproduction.
What are seeds?
The product of sexual reproduction.
What are seeds?
YQ's favorite fermented beverage.
What is wine?
"Father of taxonomy", inventor of our system of classifying and naming organisms.
Who is Linneaus?
The phenomenon that a biological entity has one end that is different from the other.
What is polarity?
Like stem cells in plants.
What is totipotency?
A thick underground stem.
What is a tuber?
YQ's office hours.
What are 1-3 Mondays at the BSB?
The first part of a scientific name.
What is the genus?
A growth response to an environmental stimulus
What is tropism?
Laterally growing elongate and spreading stems with roots and buds.
Derived from Portuguese inhame or Canarian (Spain) ñame, which is derived from West African languages during trade. The main derivations borrow from verbs meaning "to eat".
What is a yam?
Where YQ got his PhD.
Where is the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill?
The second part of a scientific name.
What is the species?
A response that allows plants to maximize their photosynthesis.
What is phototropism?
From the Greek “bolbos”: plant with round swelling on underground stem.
What is a bulb?
Triggers cell growth and expansion.
What is auxin?
YQ's main research focus.
What is the evolution of land plants?
The century that scientific nomenclature was first published.
What is the 18th century?
Plant growth in response to touch.
What is thigmotropism?
It's latin name is Ipomea batatas.
What are sweet potatoes?
Allows plants to grow their stems upwards and their roots downwards.
What is gravitropism?
YQ's complete name.
What is Yin-Long Qiu?