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Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany

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English
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12 hours 25 minutes
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Self-Paced
Level

Beginner

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Learn to see and appreciate the amazing plants all around you, guided by a renowned Professor of Biology.

Syllabus

01: The Joy of Botany
02: Plants Are like People
03: Moss Sex and Peat's Engineered Habitat
04: Fern Spores and the Vascular Conquest of Land
05: Roots and Symbiosis with Non-Plants
06: Stems Are More Than Just the In-Between
07: The Leaf as a Biochemical Factory
08: Photosynthesis Everyone Should Understand
09: Days and Years in the Lives of Plants
10: Advent of Seeds: Cycads and Ginkgoes
11: Why Conifers Are Holiday Plants
12: Secrets of Flower Power
13: The Coevolution of Who Pollinates Whom
14: The Many Forms of Fruit: Tomatoes to Peanuts
15: Plant Seeds Get Around
16: Water Plants Came from Land
17: Why the Tropics Have So Many Plant Species
18: The Complexity of Grasses and Grasslands
19: Shrublands of Roses and Wine
20: The Desert Bonanza of Plant Shapes
21: How Temperate Trees Change Color and Grow
22: Alpine Cold Makes Plants Do Funny Things
23: Bad Plants Aren't So Bad
24: Modifying the Genes of Plants
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Taught by

Catherine Kleier

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