Plants: Diversity, Structure, & Adaptations

Join the Amoeba Sisters in their updated plant structure and adaptations video as they discuss the terms vascular vs nonvascular and how they relate to plants before exploring some general categories of plants (bryophytes, seedless vascular, gymnosperms, and angiosperms). Then, the Amoeba Sisters go into how plant structure works with the function of photosynthesis.
This video ends with a few examples of interesting plant adaptations! Please note: this video has updated visuals and audio from our old "Plant Structure and Adaptations" video. It still includes the same content discussed before plus more! But if you prefer the old video, it will remain up here: • (OLD VIDEO) Plant Stru...
Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Focus of Video
00:56 Vascular vs Nonvascular
02:25 Bryophytes
03:06 Vascular Plants
04:18 Monocots and Eudicots Illustration
04:32 Plant Structure
07:23 Some Especially Fascinating Adaptations
08:38 Value of Learning About Plants
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Factual References:
Fowler, Samantha, et al. “14.1 the Plant Kingdom - Concepts of Biology | OpenStax.” Openstax.org, 25 Apr. 2013, openstax.org/books/concepts-biology/pages/14-1-the-plant-kingdom.
Urry, Lisa A, et al. Campbell Biology. 11th ed., New York, Ny, Pearson Education, Inc, 2017.
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Further Reading/Viewing Suggestions:
Want to learn more about mangrove tree species and their structural adaptations to waterlogged soil with low oxygen (and/or high salt concentrations)?
www.amnh.org/explore/videos/b...
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sou...
ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/plant...
What is meant by the technical term "hemiparasite" when talking about mistletoe? Great read, it also goes into different types of mistletoe! hort.extension.wisc.edu/artic...
We mention that some nonvascular plants lack stomata. Want to learn more about stomata evolution? Here's a recommended reading, and we highly recommend checking out figure 1! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28356...
We mention on our chart of general plant categories that if you're curious: we'll also have the phyla names for you!
Seedless Vascular Plants:
Phylum Lycophyta
Phylum Monilophyta
Gymnosperms:
Phylum Ginkgophyta
Phylum Cycadophyta
Phylum Gnetophyta
Phylum Coniferophyta
Angiosperms:
Phylum Anthophyta
See our Short Plant Hormones! • Plant Hormones - Amoe...
See our Short Plant Tropisms! • Plant Tropisms- Amoeba...
See our Short Carnivorous Plants! • Carnivorous Plants - A...
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UPDATE: We like to pin comments of things we should have clarified or included. A great comment brought up this point: while we mention that the leaves are what produce glucose (a sugar) and ultimately it is the phloem that transports sugars, the plant tends to transport in the form of sucrose in the phloem, and sucrose is a sugar made of glucose & fructose combined. Plants can also carry additional sugars too. This is our updated video from our old “Plant Structure and Adaptations” Video. So what is different with this updated video? Petunia has improved her illustrating, Pinky has improved her audio, and the content still covers the old material but also has more about types of plants! Find resources that go with this video on our handouts page www.amoebasisters.com/handouts and if you still prefer the old video from 8 years ago (or are feeling nostalgic), it will remain up kzbin.info/www/bejne/enjTgXuogatga68

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That's a really good detail that we should have included - while we mention that the leaves are what produce glucose and ultimately it is transported in the phloem, the plant tends to convert to sucrose for transport which would be made up of glucose + fructose combined. We'll make a note on this, thank you!!

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