PBS
When It Was Too Hot for Leaves
Plants first made their way onto land at least 470 million years ago but for their first 80 million years, leaves as we know them today didn’t exist. What held them back?
SciShow
Half of All Plants Are Invisible
If you see an acorn sprout under an oak tree, you're seeing that tree's grandchild. Here's why half of all higher plants are invisible, and why it works for them.
SciShow
The Biggest Herb on Earth is... a Banana?!
When you think of herbs, you might picture rosemary, basil, or dill weed, but you can add something a bit bigger than that to your mental herb collection: good ol' bananas.
SciShow
The Biggest Herb on Earth is... a Banana?!
When you think of herbs, you might picture rosemary, basil, or dill weed, but you can add something a bit bigger than that to your mental herb collection: good ol' bananas.
Crash Course
Vascular Plants = Winning! - Crash Course Biology
Hank introduces us to one of the most diverse and important families in the tree of life - the vascular plants. These plants have found tremendous success and the their secret is also their defining trait: conductive tissues that can...
Crash Course
The Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations - Crash Course Biology
Hank introduces us to nonvascular plants - liverworts, hornworts & mosses - which have bizarre features, kooky habits, and strange sex lives. Nonvascular plants inherited their reproductive cycle from algae, but have perfected it to the...
Crash Course
The Plants & The Bees: Plant Reproduction - CrashCourse Biology
Hank gets into the dirty details about vascular plant reproduction: they use the basic alternation of generations developed by nonvascular plants 470 million years ago, but they've tricked it out so that it works a whole lot differently...
Curated Video
Plant Structure
“Plant Structure” will help students to identify similarities and differences between vascular and non-vascular plants, as well as reproductive methods for both types of plants.
Visual Learning Systems
Plant Structure and Function: Plant Characteristics
Students will learn how the structures of plants such as roots, stems, and leaves enable them to live and grow. Real-life applications show how these plant structures are useful sources of food, building materials and medicine. Other...
Visual Learning Systems
Plant Structure and Function: Vascular Plants
Students will learn how the structures of plants such as roots, stems, and leaves enable them to live and grow. Real-life applications show how these plant structures are useful sources of food, building materials and medicine. Other...
Visual Learning Systems
Plant Reproduction: Reproduction in Seedless Plants
This engaging video program uses colorful animations and on-location footage to illustrate some of the amazing ways plants reproduce. The reproduction processes in bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms are highlighted....
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Seedless Vascular Plants
This video provides a brief overview of seedless vascular plants, focusing on ferns as an example. It mentions the nine different divisions of vascular plants and highlights the unique characteristics of seedless plants, such as their...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Land Plants: Bryophytes and Vascular Plants
The video introduces the division Bryophyta, which includes mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. The video highlights their common characteristics and mentions their presence on trees, rocks, and near streams. This video is part of the...
Visual Learning Systems
Origin and Diversity of Plants: Seedless Vascular Plants
The conquest of land by plants and their proliferation is an amazing biologic story. This vivid, colorful series of videos highlights the evolution of plants, while also describing the major groupings of modern-day plants. Concepts and...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Plant Taxonomy
In this video, the teacher discusses the task of naming, categorizing, and describing over 300,000 different kinds of living things, specifically focusing on plant and fungi taxonomists. The teacher then mentions that plants can be...
Professor Dave Explains
Lycophytes: Early Vascular Plants
We learned all about nonvascular plants, which are called bryophytes, so what came next in the evolutionary time line for plants? Eventually vascularization came about, and the first vascular plants were called lycophytes. What were...
Professor Dave Explains
History of the Earth Part 2: Phanerozoic Eon – Paleozoic Era
We just cruised through the Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic eons. That brings us all the way to the Phanerozoic eon, which is the one we are still living in today. This is split up into the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras, so...
Professor Dave Explains
Ferns: The Emergence of Roots and Stems
We just learned about lycophytes, so which plants came next on the evolutionary timeline? Those would be ferns. With ferns we finally arrive at a type of plant which should actually look quite familiar to most people, even though these...
Professor Dave Explains
Bryophytes and the Life Cycle of Plants
We now understand that the ancestors of plants came from the ocean. But eventually, the first plants made their way out of the water and onto land. What did these plants look like? What functions were they capable of carrying out, and...
Mazz Media
Fragmentation: Asexual Reproduction in Plants
In this live-action program viewers will learn that a common form of asexual reproduction, without requiring gametes, flowers, seeds or fruits, is fragmentation. As the word implies, fragments of the parent organism split or break off.
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Journey to the Microcosmos
Moss & Lichen Which One Is Actually a Plant
Moss & Lichen Which One Is Actually a Plant
Professor Dave Explains
Overview of Plant Classification: Vascular and Nonvascular Plants
Now that we have covered most of the basics regarding plant structure and function, it's time to start digging into all the different types of plants, how they are classified, and their evolutionary history. It's even more fascinating...
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating Simple Plants: Seedless Vascular Plants
This series of videos explores the fascinating characteristics of nonvascular land plants as well as some of the simpler vascular plants. An in-depth look at mosses, hornworts, and liverworts serves as the topic of study for the...
Professor Dave Explains
Gymnosperms: Long-Distance Pollination
We've made through a number of vascular plants so far, but it's time to examine gymnosperms. These include plants like pine trees, and any plant that bears cones. These plants exhibit an important evolutionary advantage over previous...