Plant Science : an Introduction to Botany

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Call Number: DVD 580 Kl Oversize, Adult DVD / Great Courses / Science & Nature / Biology / Plant Science
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 580 Kl Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 580 Kl Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult DVD / Great Courses / Science & Nature / Biology / Plant Science	4-week checkout	Due 05-04-2024

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.
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.
Lecturer: Catherine Kleier.
Discover the ever-surprising world around you by exploring plants with a botanist.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

good but not submitted by Zaneeba on June 26, 2019, 8:18am not good but there were some parts that were still good"-

nice submitted by kevinhe on August 1, 2019, 9:58pm at least I know how plant grows and why their leaves fall down in the autumn. good book.