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Crash Course Botany Preview!
May 11, 2023 · 3m 19s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WACSnwKby2Y
hey want to know a secret right now all around you plants are gossiping and chemical Whispers they're passing notes through underground roots notes about potential predators that linger nearby or how cool it would be if they all coordinated so an entire Orchard ripened in unison plants are also reacting growing and moving in response to Gravity Touch and light traveling via fuzz and feathers and fighting back
against those Predators I mentioned but despite all that action we humans have a funny way of not noticing plants at all we let them Fade Into the background even though they're essential to our survival and just really freaking cool hi I'm Alexis and this is Crash Course botany the study of plants which I've been doing since the first time I laid my little baby hands on
a leaf and shoved it into my mouth hey I was learning and I still am you might know me from my Tick Tock where I yell about plants and show you how to make them into delicious meals or you might have seen my TED Talk where I made some tasty chips from kelp that I foraged myself and also discuss the environmental impacts of the agricultural industry
I've also been an outdoor educator helping others see a truly exciting and invigorating plants are the more I tune into plants the more a rich dramatic World unfolds all around me and over the next 15 episodes I can't wait to show it to you we'll explore what separates plants from other living things and what we have in common we'll uncover how plants will work from their
itsy bitsy cells to their water absorbing roots and we'll learn how the very first plants evolved kicked off by a weird event where a microbe got a little angry we'll also see how changes in genes across Millennia sparked the whole wild Kaleidoscope of plant life every tomato every tree every stinky corpse flower and we'll explore how people have manipulated plants genes in increasingly precise ways influencing
not just the play dance future but our own along the way we'll learn why plants are such a life-giving ecosystem powering Society shaping big deal and we know just how big a deal thanks to knowledge gleaned by indigenous cultures and Western science alike we'll introduce you to some amazing stories of Discovery to see how Botanical knowledge has shaped and continues to shape our world so join
us and get ready you won't believe what Secrets plants are hiding thanks for watching this episode of Crash Course botany which was filmed at the dimir farisa witch studio and made in partnership with PBS digital Studios and nature if you want to help keep crash course free for everyone forever you can join our community on patreon [Music]
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