Introduction to botany /
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San Francisco :
Pearson Benjamin Cummings,
©2004
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Table of Contents:
- The world of plants.
- Unit one. The structure of plants.
- Cell structure and cell cycle.
- An introduction to plant structure.
- Roots, stems, and leaves: The primary plant body.
- Secondary growth in plants.
- Life cycles and reproductive structures.
- Unit two. The functions of plants.
- Basic plant biochemistry.
- Photosynthesis.
- Respiration.
- Transport in plants.
- Plant responses to hormones and environmental stimuli.
- Unit three. Genetics and gene expression.
- Gene expression and activation.
- Plant biotechnology.
- Unit four. Evolution and diversity.
- Evolution.
- Classification.
- Viruses and prokaryotes.
- Algae.
- Fungi.
- Bryophytes.
- Seedless vascular plants.
- Gymnosperms.
- Angiosperms: flowering plants.
- Unit five. Ecology.
- Ecology and the biosphere.
- Ecosystem dynamics: How ecosystems work.
- Conservation biology.
- Conservation biology.