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Plants & Human Affairs (BIOL106) - Stephen G. Saupe, Ph.D.; Biology Department, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321; ssaupe@csbsju.edu; http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe |
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Plants & Human Affairs (BIOL106) - Stephen G. Saupe, Ph.D.; Biology Department, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321; ssaupe@csbsju.edu; http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe |
Botanical Science Survey
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| Class: | first year / sophomore / junior / senior / not in college | number of previous college science courses: | ||
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Survey Questions: Answer the following questions True or False
| Response (T / F) | Question |
| Plants can feel pain | |
| Plants can read your mind | |
| Plants can change sex | |
| Some plants, like mandrake, shriek & scream when picked | |
| Prayers will make a plant grow better | |
| Music stimulates the growth of plants | |
| Touching your plants will stunt their growth | |
| Plants possess a telepathic communication system | |
| Plants can filter hazardous pollutants from the air | |
| Plants can communicate with humans via lie detectors | |
| The life force of flower can be extracted in water and used to cure disease (Bach flower remedies) | |
| Harsh words spoken to your plant will stunt its growth | |
| Initials carved into a tree move upward as the tree grows | |
| Plants have the longest life span of any organisms on earth | |
| Spontaneous human combustion has happened to many individuals | |
| Water can be found by dowsing (witching) | |
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The appearance of a plant gives a clue to how it can be used for medicine |
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| Carnivorous plants, like the Venus fly trap, originally come from outer space | |
| Plants can secrete poisonous chemicals that kill neighboring plants | |
| Plants will grow better with organic fertilizers than inorganic fertilizers | |
| Pant speech can be detected with sensitive electronic equipment | |
| Plant odors or essences (aromatherapy) can cure diseases | |
| Plants are the largest organisms that ever lived on earth | |
| Plants grown in the dark are smaller than those grown in the light | |
| Plants display emotions that can be detected with a galvanometer (lie detector) | |
| Plants are seldom used as medicine today | |
| Crop circles are caused by the landing of alien spaceships | |
| Small doses of plant substances that cause symptoms that mimic a disease will protect you from the disease (homeopathy) | |
| Plants can recognize evil people | |
| A person with a "green thumb" has a special psychic rapport with plants | |
| Plants have dispositions like people (i.e., orchids are nervous ) | |
| Plants respond positively to affection | |
| Plants can warn neighboring plants if a predator is near | |
| Plants grown with organic fertilizers taste better than those grown with inorganic fertilizers | |
| The search for cinnamon lead to the discovery of North America |
Last updated: 08/31/2005 © Copyright by SG Saupe