Bio 244 Miami University questions &
complete solutions
wine - correct answer ✔✔drink of the minority, ale the majority; highly valued and imported; naturally
fermented juice of the grape; an aqueous solution of ethanol with greater or lesser traces of sugars,
acids, esters, acetates, and other substances occurring in grape juice and derived from it through
fermentation
ethanol - correct answer ✔✔alcohol derived from grape sugar through anerobic fermentation
0.4-0.7% - correct answer ✔✔percent acid in wine
vintage - correct answer ✔✔all grapes came from the same year
5000 BCE - correct answer ✔✔late stone age, earliest cultivation of grapes
Georgia - correct answer ✔✔wine had/still is a major part of their culture
Dionysis - correct answer ✔✔greek god of wine; brought wine and theater to Greeks (Bacchus is the
Roman name)
, Italy - Oenotria - correct answer ✔✔Land of wine or the Staked Vine; Roman grapes - Falernum wine
(famous vineyard), "Optimian" vintage - 121 BCE - white and sweet
Pompeii - correct answer ✔✔200 wine bars, of 31 villas found 29 were wine producers, Bordeaux of its
day
Cistercian Monks - correct answer ✔✔in the church, 816 council of Aachen, each cathedral had vineyard
to be worked by clergy
Henry II of England married Eleanor of Aquitaine - correct answer ✔✔1152, Infant English industry
overlooked at birth by vigorous Gallic mother (French wine industry), Bordeaux was owned by the
English for 300 years
Phylloxera - correct answer ✔✔microscopic root insect (1866-1880) replanting, wars and depression also
brought vast changes; why we graft onto American roots
viticulture - correct answer ✔✔science and art of grape growing
Arm - correct answer ✔✔a short branch of old wood extending from the trunk or cordon on which canes
or spurs are found
balanced pruning - correct answer ✔✔pruning the vine based on growth, especially the number of buds
from the previous growing season; a method of determining the potential fruiting capacity of a vine at
pruning time
base shoot - correct answer ✔✔a shoot arising from a bud at the base of a cane
bud - correct answer ✔✔the compound bud or eye in the axil of a leaf at the node
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