Learn to see and appreciate the amazing plants all around you, guided by a renowned Professor of Biology.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Catherine Kleier
