Great courses (DVD)

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

Discover the ever-surprising world around you by exploring plants with a botanist

Course no. 9010

Accompanying PDF contains course workbook in CD-ROM format

Lecturer: Professor Catherine Kleier, Regis University

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