Plant Science An Introduction To Botany Disc 3 & 4
Discover the ever-surprising world around you by exploring plants with a botanist.
| Main Author: | Kleier, Catherine (Author) |
|---|---|
| Format: | Videos DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
[Chantilly, Va.] :
Teaching Company,
[2017]
|
| Edition: | [PDF workbook version]. |
| Series: |
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The joy of botany
- Plants are like people
- Moss sex and peat's engineered habitat
- Fern spores and the vascular conquest of land
- Roots and symbiosis with non-plants
- Stems are more than just the in-between
- The leaf as a biochemical factory
- Photosynthesis everyone should understand
- Days and years in the lives of plants
- Advent of seeds: cycads and ginkoes
- Why conifers are holiday plants
- Secrets of flower power
- The coevolution of who pollinates whom
- The many forms of fruit: tomatoes to peanuts
- Plant seeds get around
- Water plants came from land
- Why the tropics have so many plant species
- The complexity of grasses and grasslands
- Shrublands of roses and wine
- The desert bonanza of plant shapes
- How temperate trees change color and grow
- Alpine cold makes plants do funny things
- Bad plants aren't so bad
- Modifying the genes of plants.