#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | BOTANISTS $400: Luther Burbank developed what is known as the Burbank or Idaho type of this a potato |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | BOTANISTS $800: This former slave & botany whiz turned down offers to work for Thomas Edison & Joseph Stalin George Washington Carver |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | BOTANISTS $1200: A statue in the Czech Republic honoring this botanist monk is crawling with pea vines (Gregor) Mendel |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | BOTANISTS $1600: 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug developed a dwarf type of this grain that greatly reduced famine wheat |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | BOTANISTS $2000: Knott's Berry Farm got its signature berries from this horticulturist; the berry is named for him (Rudolph) Boysen |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | BOTANISTS $400: Nehemiah Grew (good name for a botanist) coined the term "radicle" for the embryonic one of these a root |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | BOTANISTS $800: This monk's 2 basic principles of heredity are the law of independent assortment & the law of segregation Mendel |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | BOTANISTS $1200: In 1888 Liberty H. Bailey established the 1st horticultural laboratory in the U.S. at this East Lansing school Michigan State |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | BOTANISTS $1600: This Santa Rosa, Calif. botanist's "How Plants Are Trained to Work for Man" influenced the 1930 Plant Patent Act Luther Burbank |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | BOTANISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): As a professor of botany at Uppsala University, he wrote several works including "Species Plantarum" Linnaeus |
#4915, aired 2006-01-13 | IT'S THE BERRIES $2000: Some botanists believe that this berry developed by a California judge in 1881 is a blackberry-raspberry hybrid the loganberry |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $800: Australia's botanists first bred these green-skinned apples in the late 19th century Granny Smith apples |
#4254, aired 2003-02-13 | SCIENCE CLASS $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports) Botanists divide a flower into four main parts: sepals, petals, stamens & these pistils |
#3562, aired 2000-02-15 | CASPIAN, THE FRIENDLY SEA $200: Botanists believe this fruit, Vitis vinifera, originated in the area of the Caspian Sea Grapes |
#2733, aired 1996-06-19 | SCIENTISTS $600: Hugo de Vries, Gregor Mendel & George Washington Carver are classified as these botanists |
#1422, aired 1990-11-06 | "TRANS" SCIENCE $400: Some botanists believe this process in plants is equivalent to sweating in humans Transpiration |
#1266, aired 1990-02-19 | FOOD $300: Most botanists believe the Irish potato originally came from this continent South America |
#1146, aired 1989-09-04 | BOTANY $800: If a flowering plant contains these 2 reproductive organs, botanists call it perfect stamen and a pistil |
#741, aired 1987-11-23 | FLOWERS $200: Botanists force certain white lilies to do this early so they can be sold at Easter bloom |
#137, aired 1985-03-19 | VEGETABLES $600: Technically not vegetables due to their seeds, these berries are popular on pizza tomatoes or peppers |
#52, aired 1984-11-20 | FOOD $400: Widely considered a vegetable tho botanists call it a fruit, it was once thought to be poisonous a tomato |