Botany For Dummies

Botany For Dummies gives you a thorough, easy-to-follow overview of the fundamentals of botany, helping you to improve your grades, supplement your learning, or review before a test. Covering typical topics in botany, this hands-on, friendly guide is your ticket to acing this required course for your major in biology, microbiology, zoology, or elementary education.

• Breathe life into botany — get an overview of the fundamentals of metabolism that are common to all living things, and understand why living things need matter and energy to grow and function

• Get ready to photosynthesize — find out how plants make food from carbon dioxide and water using energy from the sun, and how they break down that food through cellular respiration

• Let's talk about reproduction — get the 411 on how plant cells divide, either to make exact copies of themselves for growth or to make eggs and sperm for sexual reproduction

• The many uses of plants — discover the importance of plants to the natural world, and the role they play in food, clothing, fuel, and medicine

Open the book and find:

• An overview of plant biology

• The basic chemistry you need to know to understand botany

• Plain-English explanations of plant tissues

• The structure of plants

• The lowdown on photosynthesis

• Plant reproduction and genetics

• A look at how evolution has shaped the structure and behavior of plants

• How we thrive on plants in everyday life

Learn to:

• Understand how plants reproduce

• Grasp the structure and function of plants

• Score your highest grade in botany