PLANT SYSTEMATICS I (BOTS3207)
Biological Science - BS
Semester: Second Semester
Level: 300
Year: 2015
REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA
Peace-Work-Fatherland
P. O. BOX 39 Bambili
School/Faculty: _SCIENCE____________ Department:_Biological Sciences
Lecturer(s): _Njouonkou Andre-Ledoux/Tacham Walter Ndum
Course Code: _BOTS3207_______ Course Title: Plant systematics 1
Date: _15/07/2015______Halls: __PBA 07 ________Time: 11:00-14:00
Instructions: Answer all questions using the appropriate words and short sentences
Section A (35 marks)
1- Give the complete moaning of the following abbreviations: ICNCP, ICN. ICBN
(1.5 marks)
2-What are the two basic activities governed by the ICN
3-Under what condition would you group some individuals in the same clade? (2
marks)
4- What is phylogeography? Genealogy? (2 marks)
5- Give two genera of plants named by Theophracùs (370 - 285 BC?)? I mark
6- What was the reason to study plants in the antiquity (earliest period or empirical
study)?
Name two persons who contributed during this period in plants systematic in the
society (1 + 1x2) marks
7-What is an infraspecific rank? Give two examples (I + 2 x 0.5) mark
8- One of the largest plant family in Cameroon is Compositae;
a Give the main characteristic of this family. (1 mark)
b-Give its actual name and two examples of plants of this family found in the UBa
Campus. (1 + 2 =3 marks)
9-Give two (2) advantages of a scientific name (2 marks)
10-In tabular form give differences between Poaccae and Cyperacaae (3marks)
11-State the type of fruit that best describes (he following? a) Garden egg, b) coconut,
c) cola, d) pineapple. (2 marks)
12- In a tabular form classify the names in the box below in hierarchical order (from
the highest to the lowest rank). (8 marks)
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Amanita loosii, Malwaceae, Chlamydomonadales,.Piper, Monera, Lilliopsida, Zygomycota,
Abelmoschus, Coprinaceae, Fungi, Laphira lanceolata, Russulales, Pteridophyla,
Agameomycetes, Piliostigma, thonningii, Phytolacca, Flacourtiaceae, Magnoliales,
Chlamydomonas, Sapendaceae, Asicrales. Chromophyta, Filicopsida,, Animalia,
MagnoHopsida, Plantae, Abats prtcatorius, Pheophyceae
13a- (only for geology students) illustrate the various position of the ovary (3 marks)
13b- (only for Botany students) illusiraie the various type of placenuuion. (3 marks
Section B (35 Marks)
1. The science that studies biological diverity and the evolutionary history of living organisms
is known as? 1mark
2. An Identification device that consist of selecting from a number of possibilities to narrow
down to one for an identification to be made. 1 mark
3. State the four principal activities of taxonomy. 4 marks
4. The ordering of organisms into group based on perceived similarities or differences. 1 mark
5. Naming groups or grouping organisms according to rules developed for the process 1 mark
6. The study of the external and gross internal structure of plant organs 1 mark,
7. The process of associating an unknown entity lo a known entity 1 mark
8. The life spun of an individual plant 1 mark
9. An identification in which features of the unknown are compared with the description of
the possible known taxa. 1 mark.
10. A collection of dried plant specimens 1 mark
11. The solvent that is used to preserve plants specimens in the forest I mk
12. The document in which information is recorded with regards to a plum on the field during
collection. 1 mark
13. Permanent repositories of plant specimens and source of information about plants and
vegetation. 1 mark
14. A description of the type of place where a plant grows 1 mark
15. Name the basic materials needed for proper observation of plant specimens. 1 mark
16. Pertinent collection data that can't be determined by examination of the specimen 1 mark
17.Which are the steps required for specimen observation 4mark
18. What is diagnostic characterization 1 mark
19. In table form give the scientific names of the following common plants. Guava, pear, and
king grass 3 marks
20. Why are plant systematists said to be endemic? 2marks
21. What are the aims of systematic? 3marks
22. Wliaf do you understand by taxonomy? 4 marks
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