BIOL 1202 : Final April 3 2012
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Page 1: american society of plant biologists. Publications, teaching tools, last one why study plants . 5 final exam questions are coming from this. Plants are amazing living organisms, not the largest living organism though. Plants can produce an amazing assortment of chemicals: vitamins come from plants which they make themselves. Humans and animals must eat things to get vitamins: drugs, don"t eat things you don"t know cause it could be poisonous. Cancer drugs which attack dividing cells are made by plants: world population grows and grows, hunger is a major problem in the world. Population is growing exponentially but we will eventually reach a carrying capacity. Plant science aims to increase food production because it"s a lot cheaper to produce then meat: malnutrition and hunger disproportionately kill children: In 2004, 60 million people worldwide died because of a lack of an adequate diet. Be aware of the rest of these facts: angiosperms intro:
