Diversity and Evolution of Plants

PART I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Plant Diversity and Classification -- Concepts of Classification -- Categories of Classification -- Kingdoms of Living Organisms -- Subkingdoms, Divisions, and Classes of Plants -- Botanical Research -- Botanical Nomenclature -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 1-1 -- Special Interest Essay 1-2 -- 2. Plant Diversity in Time and Space -- The Fossil Record -- Ecology and Plant Diversity -- Life Cycles -- Botany and Human Survival -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 2-1 -- PART II. THE RED LINE -- 3. Prokaryotes or Fission Plants -- Class 1. Schizomycopsida -- Class 2. Cyanophycopsida -- Viruses -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- 4. Red Seaweeds -- Class 1. Rhodophycopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 4-1 -- 5. Terrestrial Fungi: Molds and Mushrooms -- Microkaryophytes -- Class 1. Ascomycopsida -- Fungi Imperfecti -- Class 2. Zygomycopsida -- Class 3. Basidiomycopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 5-1 -- Special Interest Essay 5-2 -- 6. Lichens and Other Symbiotic Plants -- Lichens -- Mycorrhizae -- Other Symbioses -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- PART III. THE BROWN LINE -- 7. Fire Plants and Cryptophytes -- Class 1. Cryptophycopsida -- Class 2. Dinophycopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 7-1 -- 8. Slime Molds -- Class 1. Acrasiomycopsida -- Class 2. Labyrinthulomycopsida -- Class 3. Myxomycopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- 9. The Ubiquitous Algae: Diatoms and Other Chrysophytes -- Class I. Xanthophycopsida -- Class 2. Chyrsophycopsida -- Class 3. Bacillariophycopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 9-1 -- Special Interest Essay 9-2 -- 10. Flagellated Fungi -- Class 4. Mastigomycopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 10-1 -- 11. Kelps and Other Brown Seaweeds -- Class 1. Phaeophycopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 11-1 -- PART IV. THE GREEN LINE -- 12. Euglenids -- Class 1. Euglenophycopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- 13. The Pond "Mosses'', Siphonophytes, and Stoneworts -- Class I. Chlorophycopsida -- Class 2. Siphonophycopsida -- Class 3. Charophycopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 13-1 -- Special Interest Essay 13-2 -- 14. Mosses and Liverworts -- Class 1. Hepaticopsida -- Class 2. Bryopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- 15. The Fern Allies and Origin of the Vascular Plants -- General Characteristics of the Tracheophyta -- Class I. Psilopsida -- Class 2. Lycopsida -- Class 3. Sphenopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 15-1 -- 16. Ferns -- Class 4. Filicopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- 17. Plants with Seeds: the Gymnosperms -- Class 5. Pinopsida -- Class 6. Gnetopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Special Interest Essay 17-1 -- 18. Plants with Seeds: the Flowering Plants -- Class 7. Anthopsida -- Suggested Reading -- Student Exercises -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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• Botânica e ciências das plantas
• Ciência agrícola
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