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Similarly, the flowering plant Silene stenophylla was grown from fruit found in an ancient squirrel's cache. The germinated plants bore viable seeds. The fruit was dated at 31,800 ± 300 years old. [16] In 1994, a seed from a sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), dated at roughly 1,300 ± 270 years old, was successfully germinated. [17] [18]
The list of organisms by chromosome count describes ploidy or numbers of chromosomes in the cells of various plants, animals, protists, and other living organisms. This number, along with the visual appearance of the chromosome, is known as the karyotype, [ 1][ 2][ 3] and can be found by looking at the chromosomes through a microscope.
Carl Linnaeus[ a] (23 May 1707 [ note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [ 3][ b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy ". [ 4] Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is ...
Chorizanthe howellii, a flowering plant in the buckwheat family found only near Fort Bragg. Cuscuta pacifica var. papillata, a parasitic plant found only in the salt marshes of Mendocino county. Eriogonum kelloggii, a species of buckwheat found only on Red Mountain near Leggett. Harmonia guggolziorum, a flowering aster found in two locations ...
Animal species such as the small flying fox, which pollinates durian trees, and the Malayan tiger are endangered by the increasing deforestation of their habitats. [86] [87] In the Gua Musang District, the state government approved the conversion of 40 km 2 (10,000 acres) of forestry, including indigenous lands of the Orang Asli, to durian ...
Plant-animal interactions are important pathways for the transfer of energy within ecosystems, where both advantageous and unfavorable interactions support ecosystem health. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Plant-animal interactions can take on important ecological functions and manifest in a variety of combinations of favorable and unfavorable associations, for ...
Habitat can be defined as the natural environment of an organism, the type of place in which it is natural for it to live and grow. [ 4][ 5] It is similar in meaning to a biotope; an area of uniform environmental conditions associated with a particular community of plants and animals.
Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants.The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for ...