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Introduction to Botany
This text is a re-structuring the “classical” course into a more logical sequence of themes with two main ideas: (1) put as much plant-related information as possible into an evolutionary context and (2) explain complicated problems with simple words and metaphors.
- Author
- Alexey Shipunov
- Publisher
- Minot State University
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC0 / Public domain
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 46 sections
- 01: Introduction to the Introduction
- 1.01: Plants Botany and Kingdoms
- 1.02: Styles of Life and Basic Chemistry
- 02: Symbiogenesis and the Plant Cell
- 2.01: Introduction to Cells
- 2.02: Mitochondria and Chloroplasts
- 2.03: Cell wall Vacuoles and Plasmodesmata
- 2.04: Other Parts of the Cell
- 03: Photosynthesis
- 3.01: Discovery of Photosynthesis
- 3.02: Light Stage
- 3.03: Enzymatic Stage
- 3.04: C Pathway
- 3.05: True Respiration
- 04: Multicellularity the Cell Cycle the Life Cycle
- 4.01: Mitosis and the Cell Cycle
- 4.02: Syngamy and Meiosis
- 4.03: Life Cycle of the Unicellular Eukaryote
- 4.04: Life Cycle of the Multicellular Eukaryote
- 05: Tissues and Organs - How the Plant is Built
- 5.01: Tissues
- 5.02: Organs and Organ Systems
- 5.03: The Leaf
- 5.04: The Stem
- 5.05: The Root
- 06: Growing Diversity of Plants
- 6.01: Bryophyta - the Mosses
- 6.02: Pteridophyta - the Ferns
- 07: The Origin of Trees and Seeds
- 7.01: Secondary Stem
- 7.02: Branching Shoot
- 7.03: Life Forms
- 7.04: Modified Shoot
- 7.05: Origin of the Seed
- 7.06: Spermatophyta - Seed Plants
- 08: The Origin of Flowering
- 8.01: Spermatophyta 2.0
- 8.02: The Flower and the Fruit
- 8.03: Three plant families you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask
- 09: Plants and Earth
- 9.01: Geography of Vegetation
- 9.02: Geography of Vegetabilia
- 10: Methods of Taxonomy and Diagnostics
- 10.01: Cladistics
- 10.02: Phenetics
- 10.03: Dichotomous keys