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General Sites for
Plant Biology |
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(NZ) Bushmans Friend
This site is educational and informative. It is ideal for teachers,
students and anyone else looking for information on New Zealand native
plants.
Kimball's
Plant Biology Lecture Notes
These lecture notes cover a range of topics including: photosynthesis,
hormones, life cycles, reproduction, nutrition, gas exchange, transport
, plus more.Well worth a look.
Plant
Biology for Non-Science Majors
Provides lecture notes for a course in introductory botany. Covers
basic plant anatomy and physiology, photosynthesis and respiration,
systematics, evolution, and adaptation.
Plant
Hormones, Nutrition, and Transport
Excellent coverage of plant hormones, plant nutrition and plant transport.
Plant
Physiology Links
A well organised list of resources aimed for students and teachers.
Search through the long list of plant related web sites categorised
under the various subheadings.
Science
and Plants for Schools
Aiming to interest and educate young people in plants and molecular
biology the SAP's site contains resources including practical investigations,
projects, and suggestions for independent study.
Weed
Science
Part of Agriculture Western Australia, this site has extensive information
on weeds permitted and prohibited in Australia, also contains "The
Declared Plants Handbook" on-line with recommendations for the
control of declared plants in WA.
WWW
Virtual Library: Botany
From this starting point, you can access areas of interest in plant
sciences.
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Classification
and Diversity |
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Flowering
Plant Diversity
This web page has a good use of photos and diagrams to examine the
large diversity of flowering plants.
Introduction
to the Plantae
This site is from Introduction
to the Eukaryota, and provides detailed information on the plant
kingdom. Learn about morphology, life histories, the fossil record
and systematics for all existing types of plant divisions.
Natural
Perspective: The Plant Kingdom
With the use of photographs, this site clearly explains the classification
of the plant kingdom. Starting with mosses and finishing with angiosperms,
each section has a brief description of features used to classify them.
Vascular
Plant Families
Hosted by the University of Hawaii, this site provides information
and images of flowering and non-flowering plant families.
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Hormones
and Responses |
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- Botany
online: Plant hormones
- Part of the extensive Botany online website, this page discusses
the plant hormone concept .
- Plant
Hormones
- This website provides general information on plant hormones and
links to the plant-hormones discussion list. This list has been set
up on the National Academic Mailing List Service .
Plant Hormones and directional growth
- From the Biology-online website, this web page introduces the student
to the role of plant hormones and also looks at tropism and plant
growth.
- Plant
hormones and growth regulators
- Based on lecture notes from Oregon State University, this page
introduces the student to various plant hormones and their roles,
and compares these with plant growth regulators. Also has an online
quiz.
- Plants-In-Motion
- Plants-in-motion serves as a resource for non-profit educational
use and is a collection of quicktime timelapse movies of plant responses,
and information about those responses.
- Plant
Tropisms
- This site examines plant tropisms. Learn about gravitropism: the
gravitropic setpoint angle, and how one should measure gravitropism.
Phototropism and autotropism.
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Structure
and Function |
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- Angiosperm
Structure& Function Tutorials
- Part of Cornell University, learn about the plant structures of
roots, stems and leaves, then take their online tutorial.
- Ferns
- This page on fern structure and function includes some very useful
photographs and good information.
- Lab
I - Plant Structure
- An introduction to the basic organisation of plants, plant cell
and tissue types. Includes a glossary of terms and a virtual gallery.
- Mangrove:
Adaptations
- This website hosted by the Florida Museum of Natural History provides
information on the adaptations of mangroves for living in oxygen
poor, high salinity environments.
- Monocots
versus Dicots
- This site contains laboratory notes from the University of Hawaii.
The coverage may be more in depth than required at high school level
but does contain some excellent photographs comparing the structure
of monocots and dicots.
- Plant
Structure
- Part of the Online Biology book. This chapter is one of two and
deals with the general organisation of plants, parenchyma, collenchyma,
sclerechyma and the xylem.
- Plant
Structure II
- Part of the Online Biology book. This is chapter two of a two part
section and deals mainly with monocots and dicots, and secondary
growth.
- Plant
Structure and Growth
- A thorough overview of plant structure and growth. Includes: types
of plant cells, vascular plants, transport in plants, plant reproduction,
structure of the mature seed, and fruit development.
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Nutrition
and Gas Exchange |
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- Gas
Exchange in Plants
- Learn about gas exchange in plants. Includes: the role of leaves,
roots and stems in gas exchange, and the opening and closing of stomata.
- How
Plants Feed
- Informative site dealing with plant feeding and plant feeding methods,
including parasitic, lichen and carnivorous.
- Learning
about Photosynthesis
- Hosted by Arizona State University, this site provides a list of
links to other web sites on photosynthesis and is aimed at school
students.
- Mineral
Requirements
- Take a closer look the composition of soils. Includes macro and
micronutrients, soil pH, and how nutrients become available to plants.
- Nitrogen
Fixation
- Part of the Bookrags website, learn about the nitrogen
cycle and nitrogen fixation.
- Nitrogen:
The Essential Element
- This site, part of the Pesticide Management Education Program at
Cornell University, deals with the use of nitrogen as a fertiliser
and the fate of nitrogen in the environment.
- Photorespiration
and C4 Plants
- Learn about photorespiration and how C4 plants have adapted to
minimise the losses to photorespiration.
- Parasitic
Flowering Plants
- This webpage provides information on a variety of parasitic flowering
plants. Types of parasitism include mycheterotrophs, hemiparasitic,
holoparasitic and endoparasitic.
- Plants
Which Feed in Different Ways
- Easy to read and interesting page on plants that obtain their nutrients
from different methods, such as parasitic plants, symbiotic plants
(e.g. lichens), and carnivorous plants.
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Support
and Transport |
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- Lab
Measuring Plant Transpiration
- Transpiration is the movement of water molecules from the plant
to the air. This site provides a laboratory experiment to investigate
the environmental conditions which may affect the rate of transpiration.
- Plant
Transport Lecture
- Maintained by Glendale High school, this web page looks at mechanisms
for transporting water and nutrients to the plant.
- Plant
structure and growth
- Intro to plant structure and growth. Includes: types of plant
cells, vascular plants, transport in plants, plant reproduction,
structure of the mature seed, and fruit development.
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Reproduction |
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- Asexual
Reproduction
- This page is part of Kimball's website, detailing asexual reproduction.
This the formation of new individuals from the cell(s) of a single
parent, it is very common in plants; less so in animals.
- Asexual
Reproduction Biology, Pearson College
- An excellent site where students explore the many aspects of plant
asexual reproduction (includes plant tissue culture).
- Flower
Structure
- This web site is easy to read and introduces the student to flower
structure, pollination, fertilisation in plants, results of fertilisation,
dispersal of fruits and seed.
- Flowers
and Reproduction
- An very basic introduction to reproduction in flowering plants.
Useful for those with no prior knowledge. Also contains online question
and laboratory skills.
- Seed
Germination
- A look at the plant hormones involved in seed germination, as well
a case study of barley seed germination.
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