Includes index.

Introduction to plants and botany -- Overview of plant life -- Cell structure -- Growth and division of the cell -- Tissues and the primary growth of stems -- Leaves -- Roots -- Structure of woody plants -- Flo wers and reproduction -- Energy metabolism: photosynthesis -- Energy me tabolism: respiration -- Transport process -- Soils and mineral nutriti on -- Development and morphogenesis -- Genes and the genetic basis of m etabolism and development -- Genetics -- Population genetics and evolut ion -- Classification and systematics -- Algae and the origin of eukary otic cells -- Nonvascular plants: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts -- Vascular plants without seeds -- Seed plants I: seed plants without flo wers ("gymnosperms") -- Seed plants II: angiosperms -- Ethnobotany: pla nts and people -- Populations and ecosystems -- Community ecology -- Bi omes.