Transcript Exploring Creation with Botany

Exploring Creation with
Botany
Lesson One Review
What is Botany?
Botany is the study of plants.
A person who studies plants
is called a botanist.
What is Latin?
Latin is a “dead language,”
which means that no one
speaks it anymore.
Scientist use Latin to
name the things
they discover.
What is Biology?
You can remember the meaning
by dividing the word in half.
Bio • logy
In Greek, “bio” means life
and “ology” means the study of.
What is Biology?
So, biology is the study of living things.
A person who studies biology is a biologist.
How does Botany fit in Biology?
Botane is a Greek word that means plant.
Since a plant is a living thing,
botany is a part of biology.
A botanist is a biologist
who studies plants.
What does a Botanist do?
Botanist might:
– Study plants that can be used to make medicine.
– Experiment on plants to learn more about them.
– Grow plants in outer space to see how gravity affects
them.
An astrobiologist is a
astronaut who studies
living things.
How do Biologist organize living things?
Biologists separate living
things into separate groups
called kingdoms.
The process of putting
things in groups is
called classification.
The Five Kingdoms
Animalia
Animals
Fungi
Mushrooms
Protista
Microscopic Living Things
Our
Study
Plantae
Plants
Monera
Bacteria
Classification: Break Them Down
Kingdoms need to be broken up into even
smaller groups to help organize all the
different living things which God has made.
Classification: Break Them Down
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Naming a Living Thing
When a living thing has been classified,
all the way down to the species,
it is given two names.
Name of the Genus-Name of the Species
Naming things this way is
called binomial nomenclature.