Amoeba Sisters
Plants: Diversity, Structure, & Adaptations
Join the Amoeba Sisters in their updated plant structure and adaptations video as they discuss the terms vascular vs nonvascular and how they relate to plants before exploring some general categories of plants (bryophytes, seedless...
Bozeman Science
Plants
Paul surveys the Kingdom Plantae. He begins with a brief description of the phylogeny of land plants. He then describes the defining characteristics of plants, including cell walls, embryophytes, alternation of generation and...
Visual Learning Systems
Plants in Our Lives: Nonvascular Plants
This video explores the great diversity of the plant world, and the early history and origins of plants. Bryophytes, spore-producing plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms are illustrated and explained. Other terminology includes: algae,...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Plant Reproduction: Reproduction in Bryophytes
This engaging series of videos 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
Plant Reproduction: Reproduction in Bryophytes
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 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
Investigating Simple Plants: Bryophyte Characteristics
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
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...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Remarkable Mystery of Land Plants
Somewhere around 470 million years ago, something happened that shouldn’t have been particularly striking. An algae found its way onto land. This algae turned the lands of this earth green, altered the chemistry of our atmosphere, and...
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...
Next Animation Studio
Researchers track Otzi the Iceman’s last journey using moss
Frozen plant species buried with Otzi the Iceman has allowed scientists to trace the unusual route he took before his death.
Ancient Lights Media
Biological Classification - The Three Divisions of Plantae
Biological Classification Set: This clip presents the three basic divisions of the plant kingdom: Bryophyta, Tracheophyta, and Spermatophyta.