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[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophrastus”]Theoprastus[/popup] – 400 BC
– [popup url=”http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Theophrastus”]New World Encyclopedia[/popup]
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Plantarum_%28Theophrastus%29″]Natural History of Plants[/popup]
About the Reasons for Vegetable Growth
[popup url=”http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Greece/Science/en/Theophrastus.html”]READ MORE HERE[/popup]
The Natural History of Plants, (περὶ φυτικῶν ἱστοριῶν α’-θ’ ) a nine books work (with the following topics):
1. The anatomy of plants
2 – 5. Wooden plants
6. Herbaceous perennial plants
7. Vegetables and their cultivation
8. Cereals
9. Saps and medicine
About the Reasons of Vegetable Growth (περὶ φυτικῶν αἰτιῶν α’-ς’) (6 books)
See: [popup url=”http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e01/01a.htm”]Hamburg University[/popup]
Theophrastus in contrast to Aristotle believed that the animals are capable of reasoning. He considered that as the animals are above the plants it is not ethical to eat meat. For this reason he was a vegetarian.
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydomonas”]Chlamydomonas[/popup] – [popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvox”]Volvox[/popup] – [popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelp”]Kelp[/popup]
[popup url=”http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/nehemiah-grews-anatomy-of-plants-1680/”]Grew’s Anatomy of Plants[/popup]
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Jakob_Camerarius”]Rudolph Camerarius[/popup]
Plant Sexuality
Corn – Self polinating
Sunflower – Males and Females – No seeds? No polination
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek”]Anton van Leeuwenhock[/popup]
invented single lens microscope
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke”]Robert Hooke[/popup]
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel”]Gregor Mendel[/popup] – Czech Republic
Plant inheritence
[popup url=”http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Selective_breeding.aspx”]Laws of Selective Breeding[/popup]
[popup url=”https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=_la3H4GVn8MC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=Experiments+on+Plant+Hybrids&ots=DrwCiWP8Z1&sig=RonvAl9NkzULXBTraE4fUBWwtfM#v=onepage&q=Experiments%20on%20Plant%20Hybrids&f=false”]Experiments on Plant Hybrids[/popup] – 1865
[popup url=”https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Genetic+Dominance+via+%22Allele%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwio-PL4xqrLAhUX6GMKHR4nC-MQgQMIGjAA”]Genetic Dominance via “Allele”[/popup]
Five Fathers of Modern Science
Mendel, Mendeleyev, Newton, Darwin, Einstein
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation”]Nitrogen Fixing[/popup] – Peas
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiotic_bacteria”]Symbiotic with Bacteria[/popup]
[popup url=”http://extension.psu.edu/agronomy-guide/cm/sec2/sec28″]Soluble Nitrogen[/popup]
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Priestley”]Joseph Priestly[/popup] – Photosynthesis
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Calvin”]Melvin Calvin[/popup] – Carbon 14
[popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-independent_reactions#Calvin_Cycle”]Calvin-Benson Cycle[/popup] – Photosynthesis
ATP – necessary for all life – [popup url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate”]Adenisene Triphosphate[/popup]
[popup url=”http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/02/468887190/u-s-announces-hack-the-pentagon-bug-bounty-program”]”Hack the Pentagon” contest[/popup]
Hard boiled eggs in oven at 350º for 30 minutes
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