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Plant science [videorecording (DVD)] : an introduction to botany / Catherine Kleier.

by Kleier, Catherine.

Teaching Company, 2017.

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Biology.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. Plant science [videorecording (DVD)] : an introduction to botany

[videorecording (DVD)] :

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook.

"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Course no. 9010.

Closed-captioned.

Disc 1. 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 -- Disc 2. The leaf as a biochemical factory -- Photosynthesis everyone should understand -- Days and years in the lives of plants -- Advent of seeds: cycads and ginkgoes -- Why conifers are holiday plants -- Secrets of flower power -- Disc 3. 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 -- Disc 4. 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.

Lecturer: Professor Catherine Kleier, Regis University.

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

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Films for the hearing impaired.

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