This section is intended to get you up to speed with the basics of plant biology. What a better way to start than a video introduction into the major forms of plants. This video was produced in partnership with Pearson Publishing and currently accompanies the Miller and Levine highschool biology textbook.
Plant biology is a branch of biology and that deals with plant life and plant development. Botany is another name for this field of biology. It covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants. Some of them include structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, and chemical properties and evolutionary relationships between the different groups. Botany began with tribal efforts to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making botany one of the oldest sciences. From this ancient interest in plants, the scope of botany has increased to include the study of over 550,000 kinds or species of living organisms. In these Untamed Science pages, we want to cover the basics of plant biology, including everything one might cover in an introductory biology class. To start things off we created a short introduction to a few of the major forms of plants.
Plant Topics Coming Soon
- Plant Chemistry
- Transport in Plants (Physiology)
- An Overview of Plant Diversity
- Plant Evolution
- Plants and Humans
- Plant Parts
- Seed Dispersal
- Monocots vs Dicots
- Plant Hormones
- Photosynthesis
As the botanists with UntamedScience add more information this year, we will also add educational videos to these pages. Be patient with us though, these pages are all under construction ...
Biological Diversity of Plants
Don't forget that we have an enitre site dedicated to plant diversity, of which we're slowly adding new species. Here are a few examples.
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