Botany: a Lab Manual: A Lab Manual - Softcover

Snook, Amanda; Mauseth, James D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1284111849 ISBN 13: 9781284111842

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2016

Synopsis

Botany: A Lab Manual, Sixth Edition provides students with a hands-on learning experience that will enhance their understanding of plant biology. It examines plant structure, plant groups, genetics, classification, and other topics pertinent to understanding plants.

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About the Author

James MausethThe University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative BiologyEducation:B.S., University of Washington at Seattle, 1970' 'Ph.D., University of Washington at Seattle, 1975Research:Research in his lab centers on evolution of morphogenic mechanisms and structure. They use cacti as model organisms because the family contains a great amount of structural/developmental diversity and because the cactus genus Pekeskia retains numerous relictual characters. Plants of Pereskia have hard woody stems and ordinary large leaves. From ancestors like this, morphogenic mechanisms have evolved into ones capable of controlling the differentiation of various types of highly modified wood, unusual types of cortex that have leaf-like features, and apical meristems that minimize the number of mitoses necessary to produce large plants. Because each evolutionary line in the family has undergone particular types of modification of the morphogenic mechanism, they can compare different types of differentiation of a particular tissue, each type controlled by homologous morphogenic mechanisms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1284111849
• ISBN 13: 9781284111842
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 260