Thursday, March 7, 2013

Plant Evolution



Summary

Paul the person talking surveys the Kingdom Plantae. He begins with a short description of the phylogeny of land plants. He then describes the defining characteristics of plants, including cell walls, embryophytes, alternation of generation and photosynthesis. He briefly describes the sporophyte and the gametophyte. He finishes with brief discussion of plant evolution and includes major divisions, like bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. He touches upon a little bit of everything in the beginning to the end he is going through the evolutionary process of plants.

Relevance 

The relevance of this article to what we have been studying in class is plants. We discussed the history of plants he also goes through that in the video. We saw how plants work the video shows us that too. Most importantly he talks about reproduction and how it all works and we did that in this unit fro a long time during the notes.

Article Info:
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4L3r_XJW0I
Date of Publication: Published on Apr 9, 2012

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