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Oh, my. Hello, you're listening to the Science of Everything podcast episode 97,

Plant, Structure and Function.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So in this episode, we are going to start in on a several episode long series on plants.

So in this first part, we're going to look at the basic structure and anatomy of plants, including

looking at stems, roots, leaves, merry stems, plant transport, nutrition, sensory systems,

and in some later episodes, we'll look at plant reproduction, pollination, fruits, seeds,

and different types of plant products, including vegetables and plant fibers and other things

like that.

No real

recommended pre-listening episodes for this one, although if you've got a little bit of background

on cells, then that might help. But basically, nothing is central. Also, I wanted to

apologize that it's been a few months since the last episode. I've had a few issues in my

personal life come up lately that have taken a bit of my time, but never fear the podcast lives on and we move forward. So let's get a start on today's episode.

So before I get into talking about the anatomy and morphology of plants, I just want to talk a little bit about the main types of plants that we find in the plant kingdom.

Now the basic definition of a plant is that it is a multicellular organism that gets most of its energy through photosynthesis.

So plants have chloroplasts, and it's also traditional to define plants as being land-based organisms that photosynthes

although there's plenty of room for disagreement around the edges of this definition,

so we won't worry too much about that. But the basic idea is a very important event that occurred in the early history of the evolution of plants is that they adapted from early photosynthetic, basically algae organisms that lived in the oceans and moved on to land.

But anyways, so in this series of

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