22 results for “plants”

1. Plants & Fungi

   Carnivorous Plants

   plant needs to build proteins and DNA, are nearly absent. Sunlight is plentiful, so the plants

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2. Plants & Fungi

   Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light

   plants or eats animals that ate plants. Coal, oil and gas are photosynthesis from hundreds of millions

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3. Plants & Fungi

   Flowers and Pollination

   plants began recruiting insects instead. Beetles and flies were already visiting plants to eat pollen; a plant

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4. Plants & Fungi

   Seeds

   plants colonise dry land, and the seed plants, conifers and then flowering plants, came to dominate

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5. Plants & Fungi

   Fungi

   plants About 90 percent of plant species live in partnership with fungi at their roots. The fungal

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6. Life & Biology

   Ecosystems and Food Webs

   plants take them up again. Energy flows through an ecosystem once, from Sun to plant to animal

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7. Plants & Fungi

   Trees and Forests

   plant that has solved the problem of height. Sunlight is the prize every plant competes for, and the plant

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8. Matter, Energy & Physics

   Energy and Heat

   Plants take in high-quality energy from sunlight and radiate low-quality heat. Animals eat the plants

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9. Life & Biology

   Bacteria and Viruses

   plants cannot use, and convert it into forms plants can absorb; every protein molecule in your

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10. Life & Biology

    What Is Life? The Cell

    plants, burning sugar with oxygen to produce the energy currency that drives everything else. Plant cells

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11. Animals

    Insects

    plants we eat, and they are the base of food webs on every continent except Antarctica

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12. Chemistry

    The Chemistry of Life

    Plants make glucose by photosynthesis, then link thousands of them together. Joined one way, they form

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13. Planets & the Solar System

    The Sun

    Plants capture it; animals eat plants; coal, oil and gas are sunlight stored by ancient forests

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14. Planet Earth

    The Oceans

    plants to grow; by 1,000 metres, it is utterly black. More than 90 percent of the ocean

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15. The Human Body

    Digestion

    plant attached, and it takes a day or more. Mouth Digestion starts before you swallow. Teeth

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16. Space & the Universe

    Space Exploration

    plants grow, how fluids and flames behave without gravity, and how the human body changes, losing

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17. Life & Biology

    DNA and Genes

    plant. Much of the rest is control: switches and dials that decide which genes are turned

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18. Chemistry

    Water: The Strangest Ordinary Substance

    plants lift it from their roots to their leaves. Without them, water would boil at about

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19. Space & the Universe

    Nebulae

    plants of the galaxy. Dying stars return their gas, now enriched with carbon, oxygen, iron and heavier

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20. Planet Earth

    The Atmosphere

    plants and plankton it would disappear from the atmosphere within a few million years. A planet

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21. Life & Biology

    Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions

    plants and plankton fell apart. About three quarters of all species died, including every dinosaur larger

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22. Animals

    Birds

    plants, spread seeds, eat crop pests by the billion and clean up carrion. They are also

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