BIOL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brassica Juncea, Rapeseed, Colony Collapse Disorder
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Topics for this section: sexual reproduction anatomy of a flower, pollination and fertilization, seed anatomy, taxonomy, vegetative propagation, bee decline/ colony collapse disorder, climate change/global warming, adaptation to climate change. Information about the plant reproduction labs: parts of a flower, pollination. Plant reproduction: we will focus on angiosperms which are flowering vascular plants. Class angiospermae covered seeds- seeds surrounded by an ovule. Taxonomic classification: domain: prokaryotes, arachaea, eukaryotes, kingdom: plantae, fungi, animalia, protists, division speratophyta, class angiospermae. Subclass eudicotyledonae and monocotyledonae: order, family, genus, species. Taxonomic classification: genus and species (and authority) Scientific names or latin names i. e. homo sapiens (l. ) Zea mays (l. : devised by carl linneaus- swedish botanist born in 1707, the (l. ) means that the organism was described by linneaus. This is the authority. (don"t worry about it for this class?) Canola (brassica napus l. , brassica rapa l. or brassica juncea l. ) Now the most valuable field crop in canada.