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Video recording of a lecture by Professor Stephen Hopper at the Royal Society on the importance of botany from 1759 to 2059. Arranged in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to celebrate their...
Shows how biologists today classify living organisms into five kingdoms - Plants, Animals, Fungi, Protoctista and Monera - and outlines the principles of taxonomy. Covers development of the five-kingdom...
Shows biological classification using DNA and micro-fossil evidence. Uses animation and micro-imaging of representive organisms from the domains of life - archaea, bacteria and eucarya.
An overview of the plant and animal kingdoms with 10,000 full-colour illustrations, photos and animations, organised by phyla.
Describes the two main classification schemes in current use: Woese and Whittaker. Woese divides all organisms into three domains, which represent three main pathways of evolution: the archae, the bacteria...
Multimedia presentation on the origins and cliasificaiton of life, which includes five modules of the TLTP Biodiversity Consortium project (see above).
Methods of classification: defines the types of character states used in classification and looks at the differing use of characters in cladistics, phenetics and numerical taxonomy. Illustrates the...
An introduction to the terminology and classification of world vegetation systems, presenting a problem-orientated approach to vegetation mapping. The student is asked to construct an hierarchical concept...
DEMOTAX demonstrates the value of using a computer in numerical taxomony, for the following operations: 1) calculation of similarities from the student’s own data; 2) clustering of strains and associated...
Shows how biologists classify all living organisms into five basic categories or kingdoms: plants, animals, fungi, protista and monera. Explains how and why the five-kingdom system was developed from the...
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