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Which of the following is true about De Materia Medica?
Botany, the study of plants, is one of the major fields of
biology, together with zoology and microbiology, and
has been around for a very long time. Aristotle and
Theophrastus, who lived in ancient Greece around the
4th century BC, were both involved in identifying and
describing plants. Theophrastus has been called the
'father of botany' due to his two well-known books on
plants that are still influential. The early study of plants,
however, was not limited to Western cultures. The
Chinese developed the study of botany along lines
similar to the ancient Greeks at about the same time.
In 60 AD, another Greek, Dioscorides, wrote De Materia
Medica, a work that described a thousand medicines, 60
percent of which came from plants. It remained the
guidebook on medicines in the Western world for 1,500
years until the compound microscope was invented in
the late 16th century. During the 17th century, progress
was made in plant experimentation. In the 19th century,
rapid advances were made in the study of plant
diseases after the potato blight that killed potato crops
in Ireland in the 1840s. The study of plants continues
today as botanists try to understand the structure,
behaviour, and cellular activities of plants in order to
develop better crops and create new medicines