Where & What?
This is how many years ago I would set my time machine if I were going to witness the beginning of agriculture.
What is 10-12,000 years ago?
This is genetically altering plants for human activities.
What is domestication?
This is the bean family.
What is Fabaceae?
Native to south America, this plant was discovered to contain a treatment for malaria: quinine.
What is Chinchona, Cinchona calisayi?
This fruit is hard "core."
What is a pome?
This secondary xylem provides structural support and transports water throughout the mature dicot.
What is wood?
This is where maize was domesticated.
What is Mexico?
This is the coffee family.
What is Rubiaceae?
This species provides 97% of the world’s cotton crop.
What is Upland cotton, Gossypium hirsutum?
This term means that fruits of this type will not ripen once it is harvested from the tree.
What is non-climacteric?
Japonica and Indica are subspecies of this species of rice.
What is Orzya sativa?
This is where soybean was domesticated.
What is China?
This is the banana family.
What is Musaceae?
This is the diploid ancestor of wheat that was domesticated in Turkey.
What is Einkorn? (Emmer is tetraploid, modern wheat is hexaploid)
This compound is found in plants in the Apiaceae (celery, carrots) family (sometimes called umbellifers) and can cause severe chemical burns.
What is furanocoumarin?
These two places was where Rice underwent parallel domestication.
What is China and Africa?
This is where beans (Phaseolus spp) were domesticated.
What is South America?
This is the grass family.
What is Poaceae?
This mutant contains precursors thebaine and oripavine; it's a morphine-free crop.
What is thebaine oripavine poppy 1 (top1)?
This secondary growth by the lateral meristem is retained in mature dicots within the vascular cambium.
What is the wood (xylem)?
This plant is native to North America. It stimulates the release of dopamine and can also mimic the action of acetylcholine which promotes relaxation.
What is Tobacco, Nicotiana spp?
This is where peanuts were domesticated.
What is South America?
This is the potato/nightshade family.
What is Solanaceae?
This plant is responsible for 90% of all natural rubber.
What is para rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis?
Where were plantations of sugar cane established that predate travel to the Caribbean?
What is Cape Verde & Madeira? (Off the coast of Portugal and Western Africa)