Inanimate Life

Inanimate Life is an open textbook covering a very traditional biological topic, botany, in a non-traditional way. Rather than a phylogenetic approach, going group by group, the book considers what defines organisms and examines four general areas of their biology: structure (their composition and h...

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Main Author: Briggs, George M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneseo, NY Milne Open Textbooks [2021]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Organisms
  • Chapter 2: Taxonomy and Phylogeny
  • Chapter 3: Boundaries
  • Chapter 4: Organism form: composition, size, and shape
  • Chapter 5: Cellular Structure in Inanimate Life
  • Chapter 6: Organ, Tissue, and Cellular Structure of Plants
  • Chapter 7: Producing Form: Development
  • Chapter 8: Vascular plant anatomy: primary growth
  • Chapter 9: Secondary growth
  • Chapter 10: Vascular Plant Form
  • Chapter 11: Reproduction and sex
  • Chapter 12: Fungal sex and fungal groups
  • Chapter 13: Sex and reproduction in non-seed plants
  • Chapter 14: The Development of Seeds
  • Chapter 15: Sex and Reproduction in Seed Plants
  • Chapter 16: Reproduction: development and physiology
  • Chapter 17: Sex, evolution, and the biological species concept
  • Chapter 18: Matter, Energy and Organisms
  • Chapter 19: Cellular Respiration
  • Chapter 20: Photosynthesis
  • Chapter 21: Metabolic diversity
  • Chapter 22: Nutrition and nutrients
  • Chapter 23: Soils
  • Chapter 24: Material movement and diffusion’s multiple roles in plant biology
  • Chapter 25: Plant growth—patterns, limitations and models
  • Chapter 26: Interactions Involving Conditions
  • Chapter 27: Biotic Interactions
  • Chapter 28: Agriculture
  • Chapter 29: Weeds and weed control
  • Chapter 30: Threats to agriculture: insects and pathogens
  • Chapter 31: Propagating plants and developing new plants
  • Organisms