Plant biology / Linda E. Graham, James M. Graham, Lee W. Wilcox

Contents;

PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to plant biology
2. Plants and people


PART II. PLANT STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
3. Molecules of life
4. Cells
5. Photosynthesis and respiration
6. DNA and RNA
7. Cell division
8. Plant structure, growth, and development
9. Stems and materials transport
10. Roots and plant nutrition
11. Leaves: photosynthesis and transpiration
12. Plant behavior


PART III. PLANT REPRODUCTION, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION
13. Reproduction, meiosis, and life cycle
14. Genetics and the laws of inheritance
15. Genetic engineering
16. Biological evolution


PART IV. DIVERSITY OF PLANTS PROKARYOTES, PROTISTS, AND FUNGI
17. Naming and organizing plants and microbes
18. Prokaryotes and the origin of life on earth
19. Protists and the origin of eukaryotic cells
20. Fungi and Lichens
21. Seedless plants
23. Gymnosperms, the first seed plants
etc....

PART V: ECOLOGY AND PLANT ADAPTATIONS TO THE ENVIRONMENT
25. Principles of ecology and the biosphere
26. Arid terrestrial ecosystems
27. Moist terrestrial ecosystems
28. Aquatic ecosystems
29. Human impacts and sustainability

Glossary : p. 623-638 . _ Index : p. 641-670.

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