BOTANY, VOLUME 1: CELL BIOLOGY. ANATOMY. MORPHOLOGY — 2007

    Preface

    INTRODUCTION

MORPHOLOGY

    Acknowledgments

1. MOLECULAR BASIS — THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF CELLS

    1.1. Structure and properties of water

    1.2. Nucleic acids

    1.3. Proteins

    1.4. Polysaccharides

    1.5. Lipids

2. CELL STRUCTURE AND ULTRASTRUCTURE

    2.1. Studying the cell

    2.2. The plant cell

    2.3. Structure of the prokaryotic cell

    2.4. Endosymbiotic theory and the hydrogen hypothesis

3. TISSUES OF VASCULAR PLANTS

    3.1. Meristematic tissue (meristem)

    3.2. Permanent tissues

4. MORPHOLOGY AND ANATOMY OF CORMOPHYTES

    4.1. Morphology and anatomy

    4.2. The shoot

    4.3. Leaf organs: structure and metamorphoses

5. STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLES OF THALLOPHYTES

    5.1. Unicellularity and multicellularity

    5.2. Cellular and Siphonous Thalli

    5.4. Fungal Mycelium

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, UNITS, AND SYMBOLS