1. Answer the following questions to the text:

1. What is botany concerned with?

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2. What do we call scientists who study fungi and those who algae?

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3. What are the statistical data for present day plants in-study?

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4. What makes botany one of the oldest branches of science?

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5. What was the forerunner of botanical gardens and which was the first one?

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6. When did botanists develop the technique of molecular genetic analysis?

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7. Why is modern botany known as a multidisciplinary science?

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8. What are the dominant themes in 21st century plant science?

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9. What is the practical use of botanical research?

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2. Choose the correct answer from a, b, and c, and translate the following sentences:

1. A __________ studies microorganisms and giant trees — all plant life. 

a) microbiologist;

b) biologist;

c) botanist.

2. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word βοτάνη meaning __________.

a) plant;

b) grass;

c) tree.

3. It’s a well-known fact that botany originated in __________.

a) the Middle Ages;

b) prehistoric times;

c) in the middle of the 5th century.

4. Medieval physic gardens, often attached to monasteries, contained __________.

a) flowering plants;

b) vascular plants;

c) plants of medical importance.

5. Botanists exploited the techniques of molecular genetic analysis in __________.

a) the last two decades of the 20th century;

b) the first two decades of the 20th century;

c) the last two years of the 20th century.

6. A thread-like structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes, is called a __________.

a) protein;

b) enzyme;

c) chromosome.