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What was Robert Brown 's major accomplishments?
a botantist
What did the German botantist matthias schleiden conclude?
He concluded that all plant parts are made of cells.
What type of scientist was Carl linnaeus?
Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician known for his work in taxonomy, the classification of organisms. He is often referred to as the father of modern taxonomy for his development of the binomial nomenclature system still used today to name and classify species.
What term is used to name a specific organism?
In general, naming organisms is one of the activities involved in the science of Taxonomy. Taxonomists are people who study, identify, classify and name organisms. Because it is important that scientists can share information and be understood worldwide, they use the Latin language when assigning names to organisms. For example, it does not matter if you travel in Japan, Greece or Florida, if you were to see the identical lily plant in ALL THREE places and around the world, it would have the same Latin name that some botantist had once given it. Broadly speaking, living organisms "belong to" a species, a genus, a family, an order and kingdom. The Latin nomenclature assigns names for each hierarchy. Most people would identify a plant by genus and species (e.g., Quercus Alba is Latin for White Oak) and of course the famous, human species, Homo sapiens. Organisms can be named for people, however, it is probably more helpful when their name contains some obvious attribute. A purple plant in some genus might be given the specific name of "purpurea", a white plant in the same genus would be named "Alba". That way when anyone observed the plants they could tell which species they had just by looking at the color.
Is a pseudanthium and a capitulum the same thing or is pseudanthium a type of capitulum?
I tried to find the answer out to this question also. I edited the Wikipedia article on pseudanthium so it would seem like I should know the answer but at the end of my research I wasn't sure. There seem to be four overlapping terms, pseudanthium, flower head, head and capitulum. No botanical glossary that I found contained a definition of all four words or any information about how the meaning of the words was differentiated. I looked at usage a bit and at this point it seems like pseudanthium might be the most general word covering all inflorescences that consist of multiple closely grouped sessile (stalkless) flowers. So the flowers of asteraceae, araceae and euphorbiaceae are all some kind of pseudanthium even though they have a very different form. The word capitulum seems to be reserved for flowers of asteraceae and a few other families so there might be some aspect of the definition of capitulum that excludes the flowers of araceae for instance. However I found two glossaries (one on-line and one in a book) that defined capitulum as a small flower head and flower head according to at least one definition is just an alternative word for pseudanthium. The real answer might be that some botanical terms have enough variance in their usage and definition to preclude a precise answer to questions like yours and pseudanthium and capitulum might be examples of that. However a botantist might disagree. I hope one happens along, because I'd like to see what he has to say also.
