What Are Plants Made Of? S01E02
When you eat a salad for lunch, you’re digging into a giant pile of plant organs. That’s right—plants are made up of organs, only theirs follow a totally different set of rules from our own. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore what it takes to build a plant, including roots, leaves, and stems, and how one little tomato went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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What is Botany?
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What Are Plants Made Of?
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Plant Cells & Hormones
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What Do These Creepy Plant Mouths Do? (Plant Tissues)
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Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
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How Did Plants Evolve?
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How Do We Categorize Plants?
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Why Don't These Plants Need Seeds? (Moss and Ferns)
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Why Do Flowers Exist? (Gymnosperms & Angiosperms)
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What Do Pea Plants Have To Do With Your Eye Color? (Mendelian Genetics)
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GMOs are Nothing New: Plant Breeding & Gene Editing
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The Secret Social Lives of Plants (Population & Community Ecology)
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How We ALL Get Our Energy (Plants & Ecosystems)
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Can Planting Trees Fix Climate Change? (Plants & Biomes)
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The Future of Botany
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