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Botany 350 Plant Taxonomy Robin Bencie Arthur Grupe Melissa DeSiervo Sydney Carothers Ian Zacher Michael Mesler
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That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. Richard Feynman, physicist
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The beginning of wisdom is getting the right names on things. That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Chinese proverb You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. Richard Feynman, physicist
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Melissa T/Th 11-2 Arthur M/W 2-5 Robin M/W 11-2 Ian collector Sydney T/Th 2-5 L.
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Robin Bencie, MA, Lecturer and Herbarium Collections Manager
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Lola, official plant tax dog
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Lola
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Sundew (insectivorous) Books and lab gear
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Botany 350 Moodle Book required See Bio Office for lockers
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BioQuip
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Quizzes – 10 % of your grade local global lab or home announcedsneak-attack in-lecture
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mean quiz score course grade Quizzes – 10 % of your grade local global lab or home announcedsneak-attack in-lecture
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mean quiz score course grade Global 1: due this Friday, by 5 PM (in the lab) Quizzes – 10 % of your grade local global lab or home announcedsneak-attack in-lecture
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Weekend work Review materials Weekend groups (“taxa”) to learn Keying global quizzes Lab open all day Friday and Sat/Sun afternoons Keying parts of lab exams = 9 % of course grade
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Course objectives native Iris
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Course objectives native Iris “England is great! All the sounds were so foreign at first but I'm starting to get a handle on the avifauna.” Alisa Muniz
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The importance of taxonomy courses
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The basis of conservation biology We are born classifiers and diversity lovers ( Carol Yoon article ) Building a constituency for biodiversity ( Nikolas Kristof article )
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“Without the power to order and name life, a person simply does not know how to live in the world…”
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Nicholas Kristof NYTimes, August 1, 2009 “How to lick a slug” “Paul, a fourth grader in San Diego, put it this way: I like to play indoors better, ‘cause that’s where all the electrical outlets are.” Baby boomers may constitute the last generation of Americans to share an intimate, familial attachment to the land and water. Only 2 percent of American households now live on farms, compared to 40% in 1900.
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“A British study found that children could more easily identify Japanese cartoon characters like Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff than they could native animals and plants, like otter, oak and beetle. One problem may be that the American environmental movement has focused so much on preserving nature that it has neglected to do enough to preserve a constituency for nature. One sign of trouble: the number of visits to America’ national parks has been slipping for more than a decade. Let’s acknowledge that getting kids awed by nature is as important as getting them reading.
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Botany 410 Systematic Botany
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systematics
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Botany 410 Systematic Botany systematics taxonomy
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Botany 410 Systematic Botany systematics taxonomy classifications and floras
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cotyledon
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“binomial”
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Trillium ovatum “binomial”
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Trillium ovatum “binomial” genus name + specific epithet
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Bencie mary-robin Grupe arthur DeSiervo melissa Carothers sydney Zacher ian Mesler michael
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species genus
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Trillium grandiflorum Trillium
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Trillium grandiflorum
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Trillium vaseyi Trillium albidum Trillium undulatum Trillium grandiflorum Trillium sulcatum Trillium viride
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oaks Quercus
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Quercus chrysolepis Quercus douglasii Quercus kelloggii Quercus garryana oaks Quercus
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Trillium ovatum
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T. ovatum
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Trillium ovatum T. ovatum Trillium sp.
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ovatum ??
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genuses ??
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genuses
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GENERA
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“authority” Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774-1820)
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Ranunculus Buttercup
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Ranunculus Buttercup George Bentham
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Ranunculus Buttercup
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Ranunculus Buttercup Linnaeus
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