Learning Paths
Each learning path is one chapter: a guided route through a topic, one small course at a time. Pick a class to see its chapters in order.
Chapter 2Contains Standard content
The Five Kingdoms, Kingdom Protista, Kingdoms Plantae and Animalia, The Three Domains of Life, Viruses, Viroids and Prions, Kingdom Monera, Kingdom Fungi, Lichens and Symbiosis, Bacteria in the Laboratory
A mushroom grows from the ground, and it is not a plant. A bacterium has one cell without a nucleus, and an Amoeba has one cell with a nucleus. A lichen is two organisms that live as one. How do we put such different living things in order? In this chapter we follow the work of biologists from two kingdoms to five. We study the bacteria, the protists, the fungi, the plants and the animals one by one. At the end we meet the viruses, the viroids, the prions and the lichens, which do not fit in the five kingdoms. Python helps us to sort organisms and to look at data.
4 courses
Chapter 3Contains Standard content
Algae, Bryophytes and Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, Kingdoms Plantae and Animalia, Classification of Living Organisms, Plant Life Cycles and Alternation of Generations
From green slime on a pond to a towering deodar, plants come in astonishing variety. In this chapter you learn how botanists classify them, and meet each group in turn: the algae, the bryophytes, the pteridophytes, the gymnosperms and the angiosperms. You compare how each one is built and how it reproduces, and follow the alternation of generations in their life cycles. Python helps you sort plants with a key and count chromosomes through a life cycle.
4 courses