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Plants
This issue of Big Picture provides lots of interesting information about flowering plants and their uses.
The plant hormones animation explores the action of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and shows how scientists used experimental evidence to explain the role of auxins in a phototrophic response.
The Happy Cells card game is useful for checking students' understanding of organelles in different cell types - plant, animal, bacterial and fungal.
Curriculum links include cell structure, gas exchange, mass transport in plants, light-dependent reaction, light-independent reaction, photoionisation of chlorophyll, growth factors, hydroponics, using pollen in forensic science, transgenic crops, alternative energy sources, enzymes, carbon fixation by ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase oxidase (RuBisCO), epigenetics, plant diseases and defences, phytochemicals and the discovery of new drugs.
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Plant hormones animation stills 9.29 MB
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Plant hormones presentation 1.9 MB
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Plants for food and fuel 156.45 KB
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Plants for health 137.9 KB
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Poster 12.03 MB
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Debatable issues 142.61 KB
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Heroes and villians of the plant world 189.02 KB
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Meet the plants 268.6 KB
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Plant defence and communications 141.67 KB
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What's in that cell cards 553.43 KB
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Plant hormones animation stills 9.29 MB -
Plant hormones presentation 1.9 MB -
Plants for food and fuel 156.45 KB
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Plants for health 137.9 KB
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Poster 12.03 MB
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Debatable issues 142.61 KB
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Heroes and villians of the plant world 189.02 KB
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Meet the plants 268.6 KB
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Plant defence and communications 141.67 KB
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What's in that cell cards 553.43 KB
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