Blog des TS Euro SVT, Lycée Galois, Sartrouville

How has plant domestication shaped vegetable biodiversity but even broad civilizations ?

I) Discovering the process of domestication

1) A broad overview: plant domestication and effects on Humans (gap-fill text)

2) Map of the centers of domestication of crop plants

II) Diversity of plant domestication process

- The birth of agriculture in the Neolithic and its worldwide spread

- Group work: 1) Maize domestication

                       2) Rice domestication ( cf PJ)

                      3) Wheat domestication

                      4) Pearl Millet domestication

                      5) A domestication for a non feeding purpose: Flax (cf PJ)

III) An assessment of the human use of plants: from empirical selection to modern biotechnologies, to feed people, but not only.

1) Selection

2) ... for diverse purposes.

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