Way-back machine
This diet proposed in the 1970s suggests 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?
This man warned in 1798 that population growth with outpace food production & lead to famine.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
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?
This is a group of seed plants that do not produce flowers, however they make great gin and turpentine.
What is a gymnosperm?
Some researchers believe that the amount of starch in the diets of hunter-gathers may have lead to the evolution of more copies of this.
AMY1 gene that encodes for salivary amylase
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 is the most common variety of banana grown today.
What is Cavendish?
This bryophyte (seedless, nonvascular, no true leaves or roots) was used to dress wounds in WW1.
What is moss?
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?
These pteridophytes (seedless, vascular) 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 manmade process converts nitrogen from the air to ammonia usable to plants.
What is the Haber-Bosch process?
This famine was due to 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 has one cotyledon, flower parts in multiples of three, leaf veins that are parallel, and often no secondary growth. Examples include Palms & Bananas
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.
Ephedra sinica contains these compounds with one or more nitrogen atoms on a cyclic system; one of particular interest for humans is ephedrine.
What are alkaloids?