Way-back machine
This diet proposed in the 1970s states that we should reject modern-day, processed food and revert back to what humans ate before the Neolithic period.
What is the paleo diet?
This is when plants are genetically altered for human activities.
What is domestication?
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?
Iris, Ginger, Turmeric are all examples of this type of modified stem.
What is a Rhizome?
This is the largest phylum of land plants with over 300,000 species.
What is Anthophyta?
This explanation for how agriculture arose includes the observation that humans tossed seeds that later grew near communities.
What is the dump-heap hypothesis?
What is population growth with outpace food production & lead to famine?
The evolution of the vascular cylinder which transports water and other nutrients throughout the plant body, is called what?
What is the stele?
This is a group of seed plants that do not produce flowers, however they make great gin and turpentine.
What is a gymnosperm?
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 is the time frame the Neolithic Revolution is thought to have taken place.
What is 12,000-10,000 years ago.
Trichomes, that is small hairs on the plants surface, are made of this plant cell type.
What is Parenchyma?
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?
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.
What is the Industrialization of the US food system (18th-19th century)?
These are the consequences of what landmark development for feeding the world: depletion of the underground water table, salinization, and decline in soil quality?
What is the Green Revolution?
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?
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)?
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?
Hemp, flax, and jute are all sources of material for fabric and fiber, thanks to theses rigid, dead cells inside the plant.
Once plant species transitioned from spores to seeds, this became the dominant generation (2n).
What is sporophyte?