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75Angiosperms vs Gymnosperms, Their Differences
Gymnosperms and angiosperms are two types of vascular plants that make up the spermatophytes (plants that produce seeds.) Angiosperms are plants that flower and have seeds contained within fruit. This is the most common type of plant as angiosperms...
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80How do seeds germinate? Monocots vs. Dicots
A comparison of the early growth of beans (dicot) versus corn (monocot). As you undoubtedly know, flowering plants are frequently separated into two different classes: the dicots and monocots. Apart from some superficial differences, such as in leaf...
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80History of Botany: Part 2, The Development of Taxonomy
Plants were classified on the basis of a few key features until the seventeenth century, when John Ray developed the first classification based on multiple features. Ray's c1assification showed natural relationships among plants. Linnaeus is credited with the first use of the binomial system of nomenclature. Because his classification of plants was based primarily on just a few reproductive features, it was considered to be an artificial system of classification.
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81Scientists Now Claim We Are in the Grips of the Next Mass Extinction
Did you know we are losing the same amount of species today that we did during the Cretaceous mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs? Biologists believe that in as little as 30 years we may have already lost one fifth of the animals that live on...
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74History of Botany: Part 1, from the Ancient Greece until the European Renaissance
The earliest classifications of plants were primarily utilitarian classifications: that is, they included mostly medicinal or other useful plants. Therefore, they were limited to human experience and to their importance in ancient human societies.
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64Plant Name Quiz: Apocynaceae, the Dogbane family
Test your knowledge of the plant family Apocynaceae in this quick plant identification quiz.
77"The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany begins her life's work at 72" a biography by Molly Peacock
Mary Delany (1700 - 1788) was an amateur botanist who invented a method for creating paper collage images of flowers and plants. The biography "The Paper Garden" by Molly Peacock charts the story of Mrs. Delany's remarkable late-life oeuvre.
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71Oldest Plant Grown From Ancient DNA
Plant tissue which is 32,000 years old is said to yield life. Imagine what we could do to bring back plant species which are now extinct on our planet? This article explains the details of this scientific claim.
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67Herbarium
A herbarium is a collection of plants in record form. They are usually A3 in size but I have made one approximately A4 in size, to keep a record of lavenders. The first thing to do if you want to create a herbarium is to take plant samples. This...
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80Delicious Fleshy Fruits
Formation of seeds inside the fruit is the characteristic feature of angiosperms. Fruit is regarded as a ripened post fertilized product of the ovary. The fruit has tow parts namely, the fruit wall (pericarp) and the seed. The nature of pericarp...
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