Looks at what plants are, how they grow, how we use them, and how we can look after them for the next generation
Examines how plants evolved and how they cope on dry land, including their reproduction and dispersal
Explores how this group of organisms is organized into botanical classifications
Considers how we have manipulated plants to provide for our needs, and how we can preserve this botanical inheritance for future generations
Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over five million copies sold worldwide
Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolution of the Earth's climate. Plants have also become essential to humans not only in the form of cereal crops, fruit, and vegetables, but in their many other uses in wood and paper, and in providing medicines. Their aesthetic importance too in our parks and gardens as well as in wildflower meadows and great forests should not be underestimated.
In this Very Short Introduction Timothy Walker, Director of the Botanical Gardens in Oxford, provides a concise account of the nature of plants, their variety, their evolution, and their importance and uses, stressing the need and efforts for their conservation for future generations.
Readership: Gardeners who wish to understand more about where their garden plants came from and how they function. Also of interest to students of biology at all levels.
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作者简介
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Timothy Walker, Director of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Timothy Walker has degrees in both botany and horticulture, and has been director of the Botanic Garden in Oxford for 23 years.
目录
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1: What is a plant?
2: Living on dry land
3: Making more plants
4: Moving around
5: Making sense of plant diversity
6: What have plants ever done for us?
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1: What is a plant?
2: Living on dry land
3: Making more plants
4: Moving around
5: Making sense of plant diversity
6: What have plants ever done for us?
7: Looking after the plants that support us
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Volvox, like Chlamydomonas,has been
investigated in depth because it is capable of existing as a unicellular plant or in a spherical colony of several thousand cells. Volvox carteri is thus a useful subject if you want to study the evolution of multicellularity, which has evolved many times inplants, let alone independently in plants and animals. (查看原文)
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Thanks to kindle's built-in dictionary to look for abundant unacquainted biological terminology, I could complete this charming and instructive book without too many hurdles.
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0 有用 未时 2021-07-24 23:38:17
😂对我来说需要查词典的地方挺多的
0 有用 某少 2020-03-05 17:49:58
Thanks to kindle's built-in dictionary to look for abundant unacquainted biological terminology, I could complete this charming and instructive book without too many hurdles.
0 有用 歪木鹅 2021-01-31 12:48:45
很正经的简短入门读物。查词可查死我了...改天再看一遍中文版。
0 有用 未时 2021-07-24 23:38:17
😂对我来说需要查词典的地方挺多的
0 有用 歪木鹅 2021-01-31 12:48:45
很正经的简短入门读物。查词可查死我了...改天再看一遍中文版。
0 有用 某少 2020-03-05 17:49:58
Thanks to kindle's built-in dictionary to look for abundant unacquainted biological terminology, I could complete this charming and instructive book without too many hurdles.