Plant Science - An Introduction to Botany

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Table of Contents
Course Scope
Lecture 1—The Joy of Botany
Lecture 2—Plants Are like People
Lecture 3—Moss Sex and Peat’s Engineered Habitat
Lecture 4—Fern Spores and the Vascular Conquest of Land
Lecture 5—Roots and Symbiosis with Non-Plants
Lecture 6—Stems Are More Than Just the In-Between
Lecture 7—The Leaf as a Biochemical Factory
Lecture 8—Photosynthesis Everyone Should Understand
Lecture 9—Days and Years in the Lives of Plants
Lecture 10—Advent of Seeds: Cycads and Ginkgoes
Lecture 11—Why Conifers Are Holiday Plants
Lecture 12—Secrets of Flower Power
Lecture 13—The Coevolution of Who Pollinates Whom
Lecture 14—The Many Forms of Fruit: Tomatoes to Peanuts
Lecture 15—Plant Seeds Get Around
Lecture 16—Water Plants Came from Land
Lecture 17—Why the Tropics Have So Many Plant Species
Lecture 18—The Complexity of Grasses and Grasslands
Lecture 19—Shrublands of Roses and Wine
Lecture 20—The Desert Bonanza of Plant Shapes
Lecture 21—How Temperate Trees Change Color and Grow
Lecture 22—Alpine Cold Makes Plants Do Funny Things
Lecture 23—Bad Plants Aren’t So Bad
Lecture 24—Modifying the Genes of Plants
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