Inanimate life / George M. Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, George M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Textbooks.

Science.

Biology--Textbooks.

Biology.

Botany--Textbooks.

Botany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Geneseo, NY Milne Open Textbooks [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 how it comes to be), reproduction (including sex), energy and material needs, and their interactions with conditions and with other organisms. Although much of the text is devoted to vascular plants, the book comparatively considers ‘EBA = everything but animals’ (hence the title): plants, photosynthetic organisms that are not plants (‘algae’, as well as some bacteria and archaebacteria), fungi, and ‘fungal-like’ organisms. The book includes brief ‘fact sheets’ of over fifty organisms/groups that biologists should be aware of, ranging from the very familiar (corn, yeast) to the unfamiliar (bracket fungi, late-blight of potato). These groups reflect the diversity of inanimate life.

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

Notes:

Description based on print resource

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access