Certificate of Botany

Unit 1 – Taxonomic classification of plants

• Plant taxonomy
• Botanical/horticultural nomenclature
• The binomial system
• Botanical classification
• Plant families and species
• Hybrids, varieties and cultivars
• Botanical keys
• Key to plant groups
• Key to plant phyla
• Key to lamiaceae
• Plant taxonomy
• Genre meanings
• Species and variety names and meanings

Unit 2 – Cells and tissues

• Plant cells
• Cell components
• Plant growth
• Types of plant cells
• Plant tissues – primary and secondary

Unit 3 – Specific vegetative parts of a plant

• Stems
• Leaf structure and arrangement
• Root structure (tap root, adventitious roots)
• Root modifications
• Buds
• Morphological changes due to maturation
• Common botanical terms

Unit 4 – Flowers and fruit

• Flower structure – inflorescence
• Fruits – simple, aggregate, multiple
• Pollination and fertilisation
• Fruit
• Overcoming incompatibility
• Terminology

Unit 5 – Seed and the developing embryo

• Seed structure
• Seed germination
• Germination requirements
• Stimulation
• Inhibition
• Propagation of Plants

Unit 6 – Photosynthesis and Growing Plants

• Photosynthesis
• Chloroplasts in photosynthesis
• Photosynthesis in controlled growing conditions
• Artificial light
• Photosynthetic apparatus
• Light transformation into energy
• The photosynthetic process,
• Gas exchange with the atmosphere

Unit 7 – Respiration

• Stages of respiration
• Rate of respiration
• Mitochondria
• Glycolysis
• Citric acid cycle (krebs cycle)
• Electron transport chain
• Oxidative phosphorylation

Unit 8 – The Role of Water

• Water and plant growth
• Osmosis
• Water movement from soil to root
• Root pressure
• The transpiration stream
• Transpiration and environmental conditions

Unit 9 – Movement of Water and Assimilates through a Plant

• Mechanisms of nutrient uptake
• Absorption and transport of mineral nutrients
• Translocation of photosynthetic products
• Translocation of sugars
• Adaptations for water storage
• Food and water storage organs

Unit 10 – The effects of tropisms and other growth movements

• Plant hormones
• Growth regulators
• Auxins
• Cytokinins
• Giberellins
• Ethylene
• Tropisms
• Growth movements
• Chemical growth modifications
• Hormone products

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