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Hort 306 lecture quiz 1answered 2022

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Textbook name - ANSWER Landscape Plants for Texas And Environs, 3rd edition Shrubs - ANSWER Perennial Woody, upright or spreading growth habits Single or multiple trunks <4"-6" in DBH Small s... hrub - ANSWER <4' tall Medium shrub - ANSWER 4'-8' tall Large shrub - ANSWER >8' tall Scientific name importance - ANSWER -Relatedness -More than one common name for species or more species for 1 common name -Legal -Professionalism -Product labelling Taxonomy - ANSWER Hierarchical ordering of groups of living organisms -most aimed at elucidating the underlying genetic relationships and origins -professional judgement and interpretation of data -3 varieties of 1 species of Taxodium Nomenclature - ANSWER consists of the system of conventions and rules used to assign scientific names to taxa of living organisms -changes in an orderly fashion as we alter the taxonomic status Taxonomy 2 - ANSWER Taxonomy has evolved from morphology based to molecular genetics/ systematics Phylogeny or phylogenetic systematics - ANSWER look at proportion of genes/ DNA in common and ancestry relationships Cladistics - ANSWER classify based on evolutionary ancestry -ancestor species determination Monophyletic - ANSWER clade-ancestral species & all des paraphyletic - ANSWER common ancestor & part of descendants polyphyletic - ANSWER contains taxa which appear to have similar traits but are not derived from a common ancestor [Show More]

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