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  1. Key Science: Biology (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formates. col. 59 min., 1999 sale: £45.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Video-based teaching pack containing visual evidence of key scientific phenomena. All the video sequences have been chosen to show some aspect of the principles of biology as described in many new curriculum...

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  2. Plant Physiology (1995 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    Program of multiple-choice questions in plant physiology with feedback. To be used in a tutorial setting. Approximately five hours of teaching material.

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  3. Designs for Living (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Barrie Whatley
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Using simple demonstrations and time-lapse photography explains the principles underlying the structures of seedlings, shoots, herbaceous plants, trees and leaves. Using the microscope, examines how these...

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  4. Flowering (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Crilly
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the causes of flowering, examining factors such as day length and night length. Shows how this information is used by commercial growers of chrysanthemums. Also discusses crops such as celery where...

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  5. Harvesting the Sun (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Barrie Whatley
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A review of our knowledge of how plants utilise sunlight, including the research that led to the 1988 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Plants produce oxygen when exposed to light, and produce starch. The green...

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  6. Patterns in Green (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Barrie Whatley
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the simple patterns that underlie the myriad diversity of form in plants and flowers. Despite apparent complexity most leaf patterns and flowers are variations on three basic patterns, which are...

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  7. Plant Growth Regulators: Whatever Turns You on (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Pam Taylor
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Two studies examine factors that regulate plant growth. Phototropism is the growth of a plant stem towards the light. The validity of the Cholodney-Went theory of phototropism is considered in the light of...

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  8. Plants: Problems with Water (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Aileen Llewellyn
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    When does biology seem to outstrip simple physics? Ordinary air pressure can only raise a column of water up ten metres, but a giant redwood tree can raise it more than 100 metres. The film demonstrates how...

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  9. Plasmolysis and Cytorrhysis (1972 Film, Video)

    Director
    Hans-Karl Galle; W Url
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the principles of plasmolysis: the movement of water from plant tissue after application of a hypertonic solution, the detachment of the living protoplast from the cell wall, the reversibility of...

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