Professor Dave Explains
Angiosperms: Flowering Plants
We just learned about gymnosperms, and the incredible evolutionary advantages they had over their ancestors. But the next leap forward for plants was even more impressive. Angiosperms are flowering plants, so any plant with flowers or...
Rock 'N Learn
Life Science: Leaves and Flowers
Here's an exciting way to learn important facts and get ready for a life science test! In this episode we'll be looking at leaves and flowers.
Professor Dave Explains
Plant Anatomy and Structure
We've learned about the types of plant cells, and the types of plant tissues, so the next step up on the hierarchy of organization is organs and organ systems. Plants have these too! The stem, the leaves, the roots, these are all...
Curated Video
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...
Amoeba Sisters
Plant Reproduction in Angiosperms
Join us as we explore flower parts, pollination, and double fertilization in angiosperms. We'll also talk about the importance of pollinators, like bees, and the role they play. 00:00 Intro 1:34 What are Angiosperms? 1:48 Fruit 2:29...
SciShow
The Plant That Grows Perches for Birds
The rat's tail plant, or Babiana ringens earns its name for the distinct stem that grows above its flowers. But what's the purpose of this odd looking appendage? Chapters View all 0:05 0:54 1:13 2:11
TED Talks
TED: The beautiful tricks of flowers | Jonathan Drori
In this visually dazzling talk, Jonathan Drori shows the extraordinary ways flowering plants -- over a quarter million species -- have evolved to attract insects to spread their pollen: growing 'landing-strips' to guide the insects in,...
SciShow
What’s in those flower food packets? #shorts #science #SciShow
What’s in those flower food packets? #shorts #science #SciShow
SciShow
Flowers, Bees, and... Yeast? It's a Pollination Love Triangle!
Bees and flowers are as classic a pair as peanut butter and jelly. But recent research suggests there's a third, much tinier partner in this relationship!
Curated Video
Unveiling the Gene: Understanding Plant Flowering and Manipulating Crop Yield
In this video, microbiologists at the John Inner Centre in Britain have isolated the gene responsible for plants' ability to remember climatic conditions. By studying the simple genetic structure of the Arabidopsis thaliana weed, they...
Curated Video
Uses of Plant Hormones
In this video we are going to look at a few different ways in which plant hormones can be used. Plant growth hormones (auxins) can be used as selective weedkillers. The selective weedkillers contain growth hormones, that cause the weeds...
Curated Video
GCSE Biology - Plant Hormones - Uses of Auxin, Gibberellin and Ethene #53
This video covers: - How we can use plant hormones to control growth in plants - How we can use Auxins to stimulate plants to grow, or kill weeds - Uses of Gibberellin to control dormancy, induce flowering and grow larger fruit - How we...
Curated Video
Plant Classification
Plants are extremely complex and diverse - there are thousands of species. In fact, there are probably somewhere around half a million different species. And these are just the ones we know about - there are no doubt many more that...
Professor Dave Explains
Plant Biologist Molly Edwards (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Do you love flowers? What would it be like to study flowers for a living? Let plant biologist Molly Edwards tell you all about it! She works at Harvard University, studying some really neat plant species with fascinating flower petals,...
Curated Video
GCSE Biology - Gregor Mendel and the History of Genetics #76
This video covers: - The experiment that Mendel did with pea plants, looking at pea colour, flower colour, and height. - How Mendel discovered hereditary units, which could be recessive or dominant - An overview of when chromosomes, and...
Curated Video
Parts of a Plant
Plants come in all different shapes and sizes. But they all have several structural features in common. Plants belong to the same kingdom, can you remember what the other 4 kingdoms are? In this video you are going to learn about the...
Curated Video
The Role of the Flower
Around a third of our global crops depend on animal pollination for their production. Almost all of these crops rely on flowers to attract animals to themselves and so, if flowers vanished, we would lose 35% of all our crops. That’s...
Schooling Online Kids
Science for Kids: Early Stage 1 - Maya the Plant Detective
Meet Maya the Plant Detective. Help her find clues to solve a very puzzling mystery: why are her plants sad? Discover that plants, animals and people all need things like water, food and air to stay alive and happy.
SciShow
The Common Houseplant That Hasn’t Flowered in Almost 60 Years
The pothos plant grows really well in a lot of places, so you’d think they’d be easy to coax blossoms out of, but even the greenest thumbs haven’t seen this plant bloom naturally in over 60 years! Why are the pothos petals so shy?
Bozeman Science
Mathematics - Biology's New Microscope
Paul Andersen (with the help of PatricJMT) explains why mathematics may be biology's next microscope.
Curated Video
Applications of Plant Hormones in Agriculture and Horticulture
This video discusses the applications of three different types of plant hormones in agriculture and horticulture. The video also describes how these plant hormones can be used to make seeds germinate, induce flowering, and ripen fruits...
Curated Video
Exploring the Uses of Plant Hormones for Human Benefit
This video explains how humans have found ways to utilize plant hormones, specifically auxins, gibberellins, and ethene, for their benefit. It explores different examples of how these hormones are used to control plant growth, produce...
Curated Video
Plant Defense Responses: Physical, Chemical, and Mechanical Adaptations
The video explains the different defense mechanisms that plants use to protect themselves from various threats, including pathogens and herbivores. The mechanisms include physical barriers like cell walls and waxy cuticles, chemical...
Curated Video
The Role of Xylem and Phloem in Plant Transport System
The video is a lecture presentation about the role of the flower and the xylem in transporting substances around plants. It explains how plants need to move substances between cells and uses specialized transport systems to do so. The...