Introduction 1 Part I: Plant Basics 5 Chapter 1: Exploring Botany 7 Chapter 2: Peering at Plant Cells 13 Chapter 3: Identifying Plant Tissues 43 Chapter 4: Vegetative Structures: Stems, Roots, and Leaves 57 Chapter 5: Reproductive Structures: Spores, Seeds, Cones, Flowers, and Fruits 81 Part II: The Living Plant: Plant Physiology 99 Chapter 6: Metabolism: How Living Things Get Energy and Matter 101 Chapter 7: Photosynthesis: Making Sugar from Scratch 109 Chapter 8: Cellular Respiration: Making Your Cake and Eating It, Too 131 Chapter 9: Moving Materials Through Plants 147 Chapter 10: Regulating Plant Growth and Development 163 Part III: Making More Plants: Plant Reproduction and Genetics 179 Chapter 11: Greening the Earth: Plant Reproduction 181 Chapter 12: Passing Plant Characteristics to the Next Generation 199 Part IV: The Wide, Wonderful World of Plants: Plant Biodiversity 215 Chapter 13: Changing with the Times: Evolution and Adaptation 217 Chapter 14: The Tree of Life: Showing the Relationships Between Living Things 231 Chapter 15: Examining the Forest Floor: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular Plants 243 Chapter 16: Their Seeds Are Naked: Gymnosperms 265 Chapter 17: Say It with Flowers: Angiosperms 275 Part V: Plants and People 289 Chapter 18: Making Connections with Plant Ecology 291 Chapter 19: Altering Plants by Using Biotechnology 311 Chapter 20: Thriving on Plants in Everyday Life 323 Part VI: The Part of Tens 341 Chapter 21: Ten Weirdest Plants 343 Chapter 22: Ten Tips for Improving Your Grade in Botany 349 Index 355 |