Botany For Dummies
The easy way to score your highest grade in botanyBotany For Dummiesgives you a thorough, easy-to-follow overview of the fundamentals of botany, helping you to improve your grades, supplement your learning, or review before a test. Covering typical topics in botany, this hands-on, friendly guide is your ticket to acing this required course for your major in biology, microbiology, zoology, or elementary education.Breathe life into botany — get an overview of the fundamentals of metabolism that are common to all living things, and understand why living things need matter and energy to grow and functionGet ready to photosynthesize — find out how plants make food from carbon dioxide and water using energy from the sun, and how they break down that food through cellular respirationLet's talk about reproduction — get the 411 on how plant cells divide, either to make exact copies of themselves for growth or to make eggs and sperm for sexual reproductionThe many uses of plants — discover the importance of plants to the natural world, and the role they play in food, clothing, fuel, and medicineOpen the book and find:An overview of plant biologyThe basic chemistry you need to know to understand botanyPlain-English explanations of plant tissuesThe structure of plantsThe lowdown on photosynthesisPlant reproduction and geneticsA look at how evolution has shaped the structure and behavior of plantsHow we thrive on plants in everyday lifeLearn to:Understand how plants reproduceGrasp the structure and function of plantsScore your highest grade in botany