Plants

Search the web for a video, picture, website or interesting facts about the Kingdom Plantae. Edit this page to add your pictures, video or text. IN YOUR OWN WORDS (1-2 sentences) describe what information will be obtained by clicking the link. Use the formate below to post information. Name: Description of Link or Video: Link to website, Fun Fact or Video (If it is a video, you can embed the html here so we can view the video here)

Jacob West-Roberts This site describes in detail the evolution of the family Cactacae, and the related path of the sub-family Opuntiae. I found it very enlightening- I have a strange obsession with Cacti, and yes, I am a nerd. But the information in this website is still very useful, and certainly worth a look. http://cactus.biology.dal.ca/evolution.html Marley Burton: This video talks about the three main characteristics of the kingdom plantae. There are other useful videos on this website, too. They are located on the right side of the screen. http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/10424-the-world-of-plants-the-kingdom-plantae-video.htm

Nicole Oretga This is a site on fruits and vegetables a couple of fun facts on them. http://www.tooter4kids.com/Plants/plant_fun_facts.htm

Mitchell Boh This animation explains the transport of sugar in plants by use of the Xylem and Phloem. http://www.pearsoned.ca/school/science11/biology11/sugartransport.html Bethany Ho This video explains the double fertilization in angiosperm plants through self-pollination. It includes the steps to both male and female gametophyte formation and explains the fusion of the gametophytes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq8NWh98wQs media type="youtube" key="Gq8NWh98wQs" height="344" width="425" This video explains the differences between monocots and dicots. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uq5ybc4vts&feature=related media type="youtube" key="4uq5ybc4vts" height="344" width="425"

Sammie Thomas This video describes the evolution of plant life and how the plants have adapted themselves to there environments. It also gives a few examples of plants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA4rpATxaHU

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Eric Loucks This is a really cool website that lets you search for plants that may help or cure a wide selection of medical ailments. Each search result comes complete with the plant's common name, botanical name, synonyms for the plant often used, and a list of side effects.The link is below. http://www.plant-medicine.com/ Morgan Ilg Well I just found out about this really neat banana! It’s called the “Japanese fiber banana” its scientific name is musa basjoo. It can be grown in every state now but is harder to grow in places that are a little bit colder because bananas need warm places to grow. [|__http://www.stokestropicals.com/japanese-fiber%20banana-39.htm__]

This is a clear concise website that will give you the baisic knowledge of a plants every day life.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/

Genna Blanton This website provides information about 10 types of plants that have made a big impact on the way we use plants for medicine today. There's a lot of interesting facts on this website. http://www.plantsandus.org.uk/medicine.htm & http://www.plantsandus.org.uk/top-10_medicine.htm

McKenzie Ferre This website provides a column on a few extinct flowers that have recently been appearing in Northern Australia. These flowers have been named extinct sine 1992 until just recently. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080428-extinct-plants.html

Meghan G. Here is a video more in depth about the Xylem and water transport in plants. It helped me better understand the tissue that transfers the water and minerals from the roots to the leaves.   If video doesn't show up here is the link~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir9bm3fli90     media type="youtube" key="Ir9bm3fli90" height="364" width="445" 

Jason Keefer The website listed shows a lot of information about roots and how they help the plant and our everyday lives. It then goes into detail about the other parts of a plant (ex: Pedals, Pistils, Leaves, ect...) http://members.cox.net/tunias_travels/Plants.htm  Kyle Larson This website is all about stems and their uses, structure, types, and uses in the world. (P.S. That gum you're chewing is from a chicle tree) [|Plant Stems]  Matthew Groeling The website below goes into detail about photosynthesis, and the slight adaptations that occur in the process of photosynthesis when plants are found in extreme environments. (Cacti, for example) http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Courses/bio104/photosyn.htm

Chandler Lacy This website has some great interesting facts that i didn't know about plants! Did you know that a pineapple is a berry? Check out this website to learn some new interesting facts about plants! http://sophia.smith.edu/badseeds/plantfacts.html  <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span style="color: rgb(25, 21, 21);">Cameron Brown Some very interesting facts are listed in the website below such as the importance of bannanas to the United States. The United States alone goes through 11 billion bananas a year! http://www.bitoffun.com/fun_facts_plants.htm <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Brady P This is a site to an animation of the xylem and explains in a little more and shows cohesion, adhesion, and transpiration. [|http://aicademic.kellogg.cc.mi.us/herbrandsonc/bio111/animations/0031.swf]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"> <span style="color: rgb(9, 6, 6);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span style="color: rgb(14, 12, 12);">Maddy F <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"> <span style="color: rgb(14, 12, 12);">This video goes more in depth on the marine food web; it talks about phytoplankton and how without them the ecosystem wouldn't be able to survive. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"> http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/25811-plankton-the-basis-of-the-oceans-food-web-video.htm

<span style="color: rgb(8, 7, 7);">Harrison Levin This website shows the characteristics of the Kingdom Plantae, along with how the Kingdom Plantae is divided into different more specific groups. It also describes how plants are used in supporting life for other animals and describes how plants are the producers and organisms that eat the plants are consumers. http://enrichmentplus.com/Media/MSBioSec12-15.pdf <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span style="color: rgb(20, 16, 16);">David Franklin <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span style="color: rgb(20, 16, 16);">This video shows how plants use transpiration to transport water from their roots to their leaves. __<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1BJJDcXhk&feature=related__ __ <span style="color: rgb(8, 7, 7);">Cody Kotelko <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 7, 7);">This website I chose describes the stomata in plants and the gas exchange that they undertake which is very important to our planet and every organism that lives on the Earth. http://faculty.washington.edu/ktorii/stomata.html

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Max Eshleman [|http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~sabedon/biol3060.htm] This website is about the evolution of plants. It describes the characteristics of plants as well as their early evolution into land dwellers and the different parts of the plant that evolved. This diagram shows the different parts of a plant and where they are located.