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Plants
Botanists, who are scientists who study plants, have identified and described over 3,500 types of plants, but there are many more! Plants have different shapes and sizes, some are so small they can only be seen with a microscope, while others are so tall that it is hardly possible to identify their foliage; many have very colourful flowers others do not have any.
There is such a large variety of plants because they live in different environments of the Earth: in the water, in thick forests or wide plains, in cold climates or blazing deserts. Since millions of years they have had to and have known how to adapt to their environment. Plants provide much of the oxygen that animals and humans breathe, and a large part of the food they eat.
subjects dealt with in Plants
Plants knowledge
Algae are plant organisms that carry out photosynthesis but which, unlike plants, have a poorly differentiated body, or thallus, and…
Man and Plants
Plants are essential food for all living organisms, including man, to survive. In the Ecosystems section, we saw they are…
Impacts on ecosystems
Farming also means exploitation of forests. There are many reasons for deforestation: timber trade, exploitation of ore deposits, urbanisation and…
GMOs
In the light of the current food crisis, to increase agricultural productivity on a global scale, it’s possible to expand…
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture was established in response to environmental problems caused by the “green revolution” and other production methods having high…
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The Fibonacci Sequence has always attracted the attention of people since, as well as having special mathematical properties, other numbers…
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Biodiversity: the largest seed bank in the world in the ice
Inside a mountain of ice, a thousand kilometres from the North Pole, hundreds of thousands of seeds, the fruit of…
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What is cryptozoology? In the mid-1950s, the Belgian zoologist, Bernard Heuvelmans (1916-2001) coined the term “cryptozoology”, from the Greek kryptos (hidden), zoion (animal)…
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Plants and bacteria giving new "light" to off grid communities
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CO2 “eating” trees
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CO2 “eating” trees
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