Economic Importance of Plants
Plants are extremely important in the lives of people throughout the world. People depend upon plants to satisfy such basic human needs as food, clothing, shelter, and he...
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Plants
Plants are photosynthetic multicellular eukaryotes, well-separated evolutionarily from photosynthetic prokaryotes such as the cyanobacteria. Three lineages of photosynthetic eukaryotes are reco...
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Record-Holding Plants
Of all the kingdoms of living organisms, the plant kingdom exhibits the greatest extremes of size and scale of individuals. From gigantic, massive organisms to extremely small on...
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Rhythms in Plant Life
The natural environment is always changing, sometimes predictably, but more often not. Unlike animals, plants cannot move away or seek shelter from unfavorable conditions, so it ...
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Shape and Form of Plants
Plants exhibit an enormous range of shape and form. Common shapes include the conical form of conifers, the vase shape of many shrubs, the linearity of scrambling vines, and t...
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Plant
A plant is an organism in the kingdom Plantae. According to the five-kingdom classification system used by most biologists, plants have the following characteristics: they are multicellular duri...
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Plant Anatomy
Plant anatomy is a branch of plant morphology which studies the internal structure of plants. The plant body comprises three types of vegetative organs: the root, the stem, and the leaf;...
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Plant structure and function
Aug. 4, 2005
Summary
In the lab exercise regarding plant structure and function, we examined slides containing the different kinds of roots (monocot, dicot). We labele...
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Economic Importance of Plants
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