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Edgar Gregory-Abraham Lincoln Education Center [2] (GLEC) is a K-8 school located at 1101 Taft in the Fourth Ward area of Houston, Texas, United States. [3] Gregory-Lincoln is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and has a fine arts magnet program that takes students in both the elementary and middle school levels.
Medical Center Charter School opened in 1996, [6] and catered to employees working in the Medical Center and had the Montessori method, [7] used until grade two. Its specialty as of 2003 was foreign languages. [8] In 2014 the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced that the school's performance was insufficient and that it sought to revoke its ...
Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center is the headquarters of the Houston Independent School District. Lamar High School, in central Houston, is of Houston ISD Clear Lake High School, in southeast Houston, is of the Clear Creek ISD. All public school systems in Texas are administered by the Texas Education Agency (TEA).
Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He started studying botanical science when he was eighteen. [2] In 1781 he enrolled in the medical course at the University of Edinburgh, [2] where he studied chemistry under Joseph Black, natural history under John Walker, [citation needed] and botany under John Hope, an early teacher of Linnaean taxonomy. [2]
Classes Plantarum ('Classes of plants', Leiden, Oct. 1738) is a book that was written by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist. The Latin-language book is an elaboration of aphorisms 53–77 of his Fundamenta Botanica and a complementary volume to his Species Plantarum , Genera Plantarum , Critica Botanica , and ...
DeVry Advantage Academy and CLC at H.P. Carter was a high school in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, operated in conjunction with DeVry University. It was in the former Carter Career Center/Wheatley High School/E.O. Smith Education Center building. The school offered students the opportunity to receive a high school diploma and a degree in web ...
In his introduction, Linnaeus estimated that there were fewer than 10,000 plant species in existence; [12] there are now thought to be around 400,000 species of flowering plants alone. [ 13 ] The species were arranged in around a thousand genera, which were grouped into 24 classes, according to Linnaeus' sexual system of classification. [ 14 ]
Linnaeus's work had a huge impact on science; it was indispensable as a foundation for biological nomenclature, now regulated by the Nomenclature Codes. Two of his works, the first edition of the Species Plantarum (1753) for plants and the 10th edition of the Systema Naturæ (1758), are accepted to be among the starting points of nomenclature.