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Unit 5: Link and Think

1.

	Family Anacardiaceae	Family Lauraceae
Species 1	cashews	cinnamon
Species 2	mango	avocado

2.

	Sweet Pepper	Hot Pepper	Black Pepper
Genus	Capsicum	Capsicum	Piper
Family (-ceae)	Solanaceae	Solanaceae	Piperaceae
Order (-ale)	Solanales	Solanales	Magnoliales
Class	Magnoliopsida	Magnoliopsida	Magnoliopsida
Native to:	New World Tropics	New World Tropics	India and Cambodia

3.

• Cola and coffee originated in Africa
  
• Cacao and cola belong to the same family

	Cacao	Cola	Coffee
Family (-ceae)	Sterculiaceae	Sterculiaceae	Rubiaceae
Order (-ale)	Malvales	Malvales	Gentianales
Class	Magnoliopsida	Magnoliopsida	Magnoliopsida
Native to:	eastern Andes	West Africa	Ethiopia and Sudan

4.

• Sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and hot peppers are native to the Old World; eggplants, yams, and sweet potatoes are native to the New World; sweet potatoes are common to both.
• Eggplant, tomato, and hot peppers belong to the family Solanaceae, commonly called the Nightshade family. Only the fruits of these plants are eaten.
• You eat the tuber (underground stem) of yams; you eat the root of sweet potatoes.
• The Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae are the most closely related of the three families--not only are they both dicots, but they both belong to order Solanales.
• Only the yam is a monocot; eggplants, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and hot peppers are dicots.

	Eggplant	Sweet Potato	Yam	Tomato	Hot Pepper
Family (-ceae)	Solanaceae	Convolvulaceae	Dioscoreaceae	Solanaceae	Solanaceae
Order (-ale)	Solanales	Solanales	Dioscoreales	Solanales	Solanales
Class	Magnoliopsida	Liliopsida	Magnoliopsida	Magnoliopsida	Magnoliopsida
Native to:	India, or perhaps southern China	South American Andes	Africa, Asia, Tropical America	western South America	New World Tropics

5.

• Family Bromeliaceae (Bromeliads): pineapples
• Family Poaceae (Grasses): sugarcane, bamboo, rice
• Family Zingiberaceae (Gingers): ginger, tumeric
• Family Musaceae (Banana): banana

6.

• Musaceae and Bromeliaceae

Superorder	Zingeberanae		Commelinanae
Family	Zingerberaceae	Musaceae	Bromeliaceae	Poaceae
nodes crossed	6	1	3	8