The botanical world - Northington, David K.; Schneider, Edward L. (Dubuque, IA WCB, 1996)
Table of Contents: Preface -- Part One. Plants and Our Environment: Chapter One. Why Botany? -- Chapter Two. Plants and Ecology -- Chapter Three. Biomes -- Part Two. The Inside Story: Chapter Four. Molecules to Cells -- Chapter Five. The Master Molecule at Work: DNA to New Cells -- Part Three. The Plant Body: Chapter Six. Growth and Tissues -- Chapter 7. Roots -- Chapter Eight. Stems -- Chapter Nine. Leaves -- Chapter Ten. Wood and Industrial Plant Products -- Chapter Eleven. Reproductive Structures -- Part Four. Function and Control: Chapter Twelve. Plant-Soil-Water Relationships -- Chapter Thirteen. Energy Conversions -- Chapter Fourteen. The Control of Growth and Development -- Part Five. Evolution and Diversity: Chapter Fifteen. Meiosis, Sexual Reproduction and Inheritance -- Chapter Sixteen. Evolution and Taxonomy -- Chapter Seventeen. Life's Origins and Prokaryotes -- Chapter Eighteen. Diversity: Nonvascular Eukaryotes -- Chapter Nineteen. Vascular Plants -- Part Six. Plants and Society: Chapter Twenty. The Roots of Culture and Modern Agriculture-- Chapter Twenty-one. Plants of Medicine and Culture -- Chapter Twenty-two. Our Precarious Habitat -- Chapter Twenty-three. Now, Why Botany? -- Appendix. Glossary. Credits. Index.
Includes indexes.
Keywords: Botany