We've always thought that we controlled them. How many arrests are made each year for cannabis possession? 750,000, one third of all crimes 26.Flowers. Besides beauty and sweetness, what is one thing that plants cash in on to appeal to humans? Make chemicals that leads to intoxication 25. What does Michael Pollan say is the greatest threat to a flowers survival from a plants point of view? How do they prevent this from happening? Cannabis (Intoxication) 24. Why are the tulip breeders picking the flowers off the tulip plants? 23. Why does Michael Pollan say that the tulip breeders are “sex crazy”? 22. What is a broken tulip? How does this happen? Why was it special? 21. Why was the presence of a flower a successful evolutionary strategy? 18. Which culture is infamous for their relationship with the tulip? 16. How do a bee and a human have similar ideas of beauty? 15. What is the problem with monocultures? Over time become very susceptible to attack by insects and disease The Tulip (Beauty) 14. What is the “Kazakhstan recreated”? Where is it? What is its purpose? Breeding stock to solve genetic apple problems in Geneva NY. How are most apples protected from insects and diseases? Sprayed with chemicals/pesticides 12. Bugs were always adapting and monocultures didn’t change, bugs would have their way 11. What was the problem with “freezing the evolution” of apples? Sitting duck for pests. What did the settlers use the sour or bad apples for? Made hard cider (alcohol), at the time safer than drinking water 10. How can you get a tree that produces an exact copy of an apple that you like? Grafting a branch onto an existing tree 9.

Why wouldn’t you want to plant an apple tree from seed? Rarely the sweetness and apple size passed on to the seed.

Why were people in the early Americas required to plant fruit trees? Showing they wouldn’t move on and were settling in the area 7. Who was the real person of whom the legend of Johnny Appleseed is based on? What did he do? John Chapman travelled west to Ohio (born 1774) sold and planted apple trees 6. How did the apples get out of the Kazakhstan forest? Appealed to mammals (bears) who enjoyed the largest and sweetest apples 5. Hardwired in human beings – food wasn’t poisonous and full of calories 4. What was the apple’s evolutionary strategy to get it from where it started to where it is now? Evolved to produce sweetness 3. Where is the native home of an apple tree? Central Asia 2. (Include something about the desires of both plants and humans.) The Apple (Sweetness) 1. PBS with Michael Pollan Introduction Summarize what Michael Pollan is talking about during the introduction. Download The Botany of Desire PBS with Michael Pollan and more Botany Study notes in PDF only on Docsity!The Botany of Desire A documentary on plant evolution and their relationships with the human species.

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