Botany /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
WCB/McGraw-Hill,
c1998.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to botany - - Cells as the fundamental units of life : Atoms and molecules: the building blocks of life - - Structure and function of plant cells - - Membranes and membrane transport - - Plant and energy :- Energy and its use by plants - - Respiration - - Photosynthesis - - Genetics : Patterns of inheritance - - The cell cycle - - Meiosis chromosomes and the mechanism of heredity - - Molecular genetics and gene technology - - The form and function of plants : Plant growth and development - - Primary growth cells and tissues - - Primary growth stems and leaves - - Primary growth roots - - Secondary growth - - Reproductive morphology of flowering plants - - Regulating growth and development : Plant hormones - - How plants respond to environmental stimuli - - Nutrition and transport : Soils and plant nutrition - - Movement and water and solutes - - Evolution, Speciation - - Diversity : Systems of classification, Bacteria, Fungi, Algea, Bryophytes, Seedless vascular plants - - Gymnosperms, Angiosperms - - Ecology : Population dynamics and community ecology, Biomes, Plants and society.