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The Life Cycle of Plants
Beginning with the oldest film ever made about plants, shot between 1898 and 1900 to show through accelerated images what the naked eye can't see, the program shows how and why plants move. It reveals the characteristics of a plant: the roots, which ...(more details) |
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Mushrooms and Fungi
Mushrooms: an imprecise term that covers a range of shapes and sizes from truffles to toadstools, some perfumed delicately and others putrescent and attractive only to the vilest of insects, some growing wild and others cultivated, some beneficial an...(more details) |
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The Ecology of the Forest
Forests produce more animal and plant biomass-more life-than all the oceans combined, while occupying only one-eighth the area. This program looks at the life of both the temperate and rain forests: how the area of the forest is increased many times ...(more details) |
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Plant Defenses
Animals can escape, bite, claw; plants, being rooted in one spot, have had to come up with a host of ingenious protective devices: spines and thorns that cause pain to those who would steal their fruits; insecticides; caffeine-whose purpose is not to...(more details) |
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Water and Plant Life
This program examines the water cycle in plants, focusing on ways they adapt to insufficient water or problems of water storage. The program looks at extended shallow root networks, seed pods that open only during rain, bulbs, the effect of leaf shap...(more details) |
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