https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl Biol 1020 en-us 2017-08-22 15:55:19 UTC 2017-12-04 23:27:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png mariah_johnson2014 https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/182152038 I think this picture best represents my understanding of the role of plants in  society and the environment. This is a photo of a farmer harvesting some of her crops. In society plants play a huge role in many different ways, but one of the main ways is by providing us with food. We need plants to sustain ourselves and have a healthy diet. Plants on farms, also affect the environment by providing oxygen and a natural fertilizer to the field. Farmers practice crop rotation for this very reason. Certain plants take nutrients and leave others, so every few years a farmer must switch its crops to continue to work the land healthily. ]]> 2017-08-22 17:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/182152038 mariah_johnson2014 https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/185318283 I think this video best represents a summary of the process of photosynthesis. Even though it is only 2 minutes long this video is jam packed with information. This video covers everything from stages of photosynthesis to the Calvin Cycle. There are also many diagrams, and tables, as well as key terms. This video does a good job of summarizing the key points and adding visuals to accompany them. ]]> 2017-09-06 21:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/185318283 mariah_johnson2014 https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/192613104 This is a website with a database of all US Wildflowers. The link i have attached is narrowed down to a database of wildflowers in Georgia. Angiosperm, any member of the more than 300,000 species of flowering plants, the largest and most diverse group within the kingdom Plantae. Since wildflowers are flowering plants they fall into the classification Angiosperm.]]> 2017-09-29 20:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/192613104 mariah_johnson2014 https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/196631027 Indigenous temperate grasslands are one of the world's great biomes, occupying 8% of the earth's surface. However after cradling human needs for centuries they are the most endangered, the most altered and yet the least protected biome on the planet. Only 3.4% of the world's temperate grasslands are protected.]]> 2017-10-12 20:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/196631027 mariah_johnson2014 https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/200161397  The Neolithic revolution affected humanity because it changed the way people lived. Farming caused humans to permanently settle. This way of life differed drastically from the constant traveling that occurred when hunting and gathering was the dominant structure in society. As people began to settle in villages, these villages became towns and then cities. The first cities emerged in Mesopotamia and Egypt, which eventually led to the first establishment of civilizations. The development of these cities provided the foundation for the social life that would consequently follow. The adoption of farming enabled the human population to rise from an estimated 8 million present 10,000 years ago, to between 100 million and 300 million at the time of Christ, to 6 billion people in the year 2000. Although the discoveries of agricultural tools positively catalyzed population growth, these inventions led to social and economic stratification. ]]> 2017-10-24 18:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/200161397 mariah_johnson2014 https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/203915589 The novel technological development of the Green Revolution was the production of novel wheat cultivars. The Green Revolution refers to a set of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives occurring between the 1930s and the late 1960s (with prequels in the work of the agrarian geneticist Nazareno Strampelli in the 1920s and 1930s), that increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.]]> 2017-11-06 15:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/203915589 mariah_johnson2014 https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/212914285 Australia (Tasmania), Turkey and India are the major producers of poppy for medicinal purposes and poppy-based drugs, such as morphine or codeine. The USA has a policy of sourcing 80% of its narcotic raw materials from the traditional producers, India and Turkey. Morphine is a very important medication for pain and used in surgeries. I think this is one of the most important plant based chemicals. ]]> 2017-12-04 15:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/212914285 mariah_johnson2014 https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/213110758 I think in the future agriculture will be strictly and directly controlled. I believe GMO's and other forms of genetically modified plants will be our main supply. I believe "organic" will be more expensive and harder to come by. I think farming will become more scientific and less natural.]]> 2017-12-04 23:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mariah_johnson2014/6y5vs2klyrpl/wish/213110758