Plant Life
3rd Edition
Published on 30. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-1-7924-6915-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Plant Life Lecture Guide is a blueprint for exploring the dynamics, complexity, utility, and importance of the organisms that compose our green world at an introductory level. Beginning with an overview of the Plant Kingdom, students use a fill-in notes structure to examine essential topics in botany including plant anatomy, physiology, diversity, life cycle biology, ethnobotany, and ecology.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-1-7924-6915-2 (9781792469152)
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Content
- 1. Botany: History and Classification
- 2. Plant Chemical Composition, Water, and Macromolecules
- 3. Plant Cells and Simple Tissue Types
- 4. The Flowering Plant Body and Complex Tissues
- 5. Seeds, Germination, and Primary Growth
- 6. Roots
- 7. Stems
- 8. Leaves
- 9. Shoot Adaptations and Modifications
- 10. Mechanisms and Patterns of Secondary Growth
- 11. Photosynthesis!
- 12. Algal Diversity and Uses
- 13. Alternation of Generations
- 14. Bryophytes: Plants With No Seeds or Vascular Tissue
- 15. Seedless Vascular Plants: Ferns and Fern Allies
- 16. Gymnosperms
- 17. Angiosperms: Flowers and Fruits
- 18. Angiosperm Life Cycle and Diversity
- 19. Plant Biotechnology
- 20. Plant Hormones
- 21. Plant-Water Relations and Responses to Environmental Stimuli
- 22. Fermentation and Specialized Metabolites: Foods, Poisons, and Survival
- 23. Plant Ecology
- Credits
- Notes
- End of Lecture Summary Sheets
- 2. Plant Chemical Composition, Water, and Macromolecules
- 3. Plant Cells and Simple Tissue Types
- 4. The Flowering Plant Body and Complex Tissues
- 5. Seeds, Germination, and Primary Growth
- 6. Roots
- 7. Stems
- 8. Leaves
- 9. Shoot Adaptations and Modifications
- 10. Mechanisms and Patterns of Secondary Growth
- 11. Photosynthesis!
- 12. Algal Diversity and Uses
- 13. Alternation of Generations
- 14. Bryophytes: Plants With No Seeds or Vascular Tissue
- 15. Seedless Vascular Plants: Ferns and Fern Allies
- 16. Gymnosperms
- 17. Angiosperms: Flowers and Fruits
- 18. Angiosperm Life Cycle and Diversity
- 19. Plant Biotechnology
- 20. Plant Hormones
- 21. Plant-Water Relations and Responses to Environmental Stimuli
- 22. Fermentation and Specialized Metabolites: Foods, Poisons, and Survival
- 23. Plant Ecology
- Credits
- Notes
- End of Lecture Summary Sheets