Inanimate Life
About This Book
Chapter 1: Organisms This course is about organisms, biological things that most of us consider to be very familiar. The idea that life comes in packages called organisms is something that we all accept. And, for most students, the study of biology, at least initially, is focused on organisms, most often humans or things that are much like humans (mammals). Like a number of biological concepts, ‘organism’ is sometimes hard to pin down and there are certain situations where the concept of organis
| Category | science |
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| Subject | Botany and plant sciences |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 57 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
Chapters
- Chapter 2: Taxonomy and Phylogeny
- Chapter 7: Producing Form: Development
- Chapter 8: Vascular plant anatomy: primary growth
- Chapter 9: Secondary growth
- Chapter 11: Reproduction and sex
- Chapter 12: Fungal sex and fungal groups
- Chapter 13: Sex and reproduction in non-seed plants
- Chapter 14: The Development of Seeds
- The vast majority of plants that we observe and utilize possess seeds and seed
- Chapter 17: Sex, evolution, and the biological species concept
- Chapter 18: Matter, Energy and Organisms
- Chapter 19: Cellular Respiration
- Chapter 20: Photosynthesis
- Chapter 21: Metabolic diversity
- Chapter 23: Soils
- Chapter 25: Plant growth—patterns, limitations and models
- Chapter 26: Interactions Involving Conditions
- Chapter 27: Biotic Interactions
- Chapter 28: Agriculture
- Chapter 29: Weeds and weed control
- Chapter 30: Threats to agriculture: insects and pathogens
- Chapter 31: Propagating plants and developing new plants
- A Sampling of Inanimate Life
- Agaricus bisporus, the commercial mushroom
- Alfalfa
- Bracket Fungi
- Caulerpa, a large coenocytic green algae
- Chlamydomonas, a small unicellular green alga
- Coltsoot: Tussilago farfara
- Corallorhiza, a plant that eats fungi
- Dandelion
- Euglena: a unicellular algae
- Ginkgo
- Glomeromycota: important mycorrhizal fungi
- Gonyaulax: a dinoflagellate
- Halobacterium
- Horsetails, the genus Equisetum
- Kelp: Laminaria, a brown algae
- Marchantia: thalloid liverwort
- Marsilea: the 4-leaf clover fern
- Oedogonium: a filamentous green algae
- Physarum: a plasmodial slime mold
- Phytophthora
- Polytrichium: hairy cap moss
- Populus
- Porphyra: an edible red algae
- Redwoods: the tallest and largest trees
- Rhizobium: nitrogen fixing bacteria
- Rhizopus: bread mold
- Rust fungi (order Pucciniales, formerly Uredinales)
- Sagebrush
- Seaweed, Fucus: a brown algae
- Sensitive fern
- Soybeans (and other beans)
- Sphagnum-peat moss
- Thermus aquaticus