BOTN 203 — Plants and Civilization
Plant and Environmental Biology · University of Ghana
A theoretical and field work approaches to the knowledge of society‘s historical connection to plants. Plants and history: Greek and Roman pioneers in the history of plants in medicine, age of herbals and Doctrine of Signatures; Origin of cultivated plants. Plants as stimuli of exploration and exploitation: spices, New World spices, timber, the potato famine and Irish migration; early history of marijuana in China and India and its spread to the West; South American Origins of the coca plant, history of opium and heroin. Early history of plant classification and introduction to how plants are named: common names, scientific names, the language of flowers, genus names and their meanings. The past uses of the following wellknown plant families: buttercup family, Laurel family, Poppy family, mustard family, rose family, legume family, spurge family cactus family, mint family, nightshade family, carrot family, pumpkin family, sunflower family, grass family, lily family, orchid family.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- ABCS 202 — Introductory Cell Biology and Genetics
- BOTN 204 — Plants and Health
- BIOL 201 — Introductory Plant Morphology
- BIOL 315 — Principles of Genetics
- BIOL 318 — Aquatic Biology
- BOTN 310 — Language for Scientists I
- BOTN 311 — Vegetative Anatomy of Seed Plants
- BOTN 312 — Whole Plant Physiology
- BOTN 313 — Phycology
- BOTN 314 — Taxonomy and Evolution of Seed Plants
- BOTN 316 — Plant Ecology of West Africa
- BOTN 317 — Biometry I
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).