Way-back machine
This is the reasoning behind the Paleolithic diet.
What is an ancestral diet (before neolithic revolution at least) reduces the risk of diseases?
What is population growth with outpace food production & lead to famine?
A plant can be broken down into these three basic units.
What is roots, stems, and leaves.
Iris, Ginger, Turmeric are all examples of this type of modified stem.
What is a Rhizome?
This is a group of seed plants that do not produce flowers, however they make great gin and turpentine.
What is a gymnosperm?
This is one of the potentially several explanations for why agriculture arose.
What is the dump-heap hypothesis?
These are 3 consequences of the Green Revolution.
This functions to anchor, absorb & store nutrients for plants, and for humans can be starchy staples like cassava, sweet potatoes, and turnips.
What is a root?
This modified stem has scales but appears solid in cross section. Soon many crocus that utilize this stem will be blooming.
What is a corm?
What are ferns?
The human body has evolved since the Neolithic Revolution. These are two examples of how.
What is a longer digestive track and generalist teeth?
This was a combination on reliance on a monoculture, prevalence of a plant disease, and ineffective relief program.
What is the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-1852)?
Trichomes, that is small hairs on the plants surface, are made of this plant cell type.
What is Parenchyma?
Hemp, flax, and jute are all sources of material for fabric and fiber, thanks to theses rigid, dead cells inside the plant.
These early land plants can be used in scouring or polishing wood. They are also round and have branches that are whorled around the stem.
What are horsetails?
This is the rapid development of the farming industry characterized by mechanization, specializations, and monocultures.
These are 3 major challenges in feeding the world.
What is food production growing, protecting the environment, and eliminating food insecurity?
What is dermal, vascular, and ground tissue?
What is Beans, Corn, and Squash?
This group of three non-vascular land plants are known as the bryophytes.
What is hornworts, liverworts, and mosses?
This is 2 reasons why Cahokia dispersed after 2000 years.
What is resources were used up and land was deforested and subsequently eroded, flooded, and no longer very productive?
What is the Green Revolution?
This type of plant named in part by the number of cotyledons it has, have flower parts in multiples of three, leaf veins that are parallel, and often no secondary growth.
What is a monocot?
What is the most expensive spice in the world made from stigmas & styles from a Crocus sativus?
What is saffron?
Once plant species transitioned from spores to seeds, this became the dominant generation (2n).
What is sporophyte?