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This DVD is aimed at secondary school children. It aims to help students identify the characteristics of plant and animal kingdoms including Monerans (Eubacteria & Archaebacteria), Protists, Fungi, Plants...
This is an archive copy of a live presentation and webcast made at the Natural History Museum’s Darwin Centre.The line between plants and animals becomes blurred or disappears when looking at many...
Illustrates the basic techniques of plant tissue culture, its potential as a means of obtaining a variety of useful secondary plant metabolites and the way in which the technology has revolutionised plant...
At the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge, traditional methods are being used to produce new winter wheats. The stages in this time-consuming process, from the crossing of likely parental types and the...
Discusses the plant succession that takes place on sand dunes. The sand dunes at Braunton Burrows in North Devon provide the study example.
Introduces the techniques used in plant cell, tissue and organ culture and their possible commercial applications. Discusses the initiation, establishment and maintenance of callus and cell suspension...
Provides examples of crop pests that are representative of the main animal groups. 30 slides are devoted to ‘Insecta’. The remaining slides cover ‘Mollusca’, ‘Mammalia’, ‘Aves’,...
Examines in details the adaptations found in different plants for the carbon-fixing step of photosynthesis and discusses the possibilities of breeding the ingenious devices of some tropical plants into our...
The complex mechanism of the Venus fly trap. The bladderwort’s closing mechanism and the sundew. A wasp is trapped by a Sarracenia, a trumpet pitcher. A species of mosquito that has become associated with...
Atholdale is a valley in the carboniferous limestone plateau of Derbyshire. Investigates some of the differences in vegetation at various points in the valley and, with reference to three grasses...
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