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286 ■ CHAPTER 16 Plants, Fungi, and Protists BIODIVERSITY Southeast Asia. In fact, the illegal trade of plants is often called t ...

The Dirt on Black-Market Plants ■ 287 cleaning up—so that the cell can function effi- ciently (review Figure 4.8 for a compariso ...

288 ■ CHAPTER 16 Plants, Fungi, and Protists BIODIVERSITY protists are single-celled and microscopic, but some protists have evo ...

The Dirt on Black-Market Plants ■ 289 egg and sperm produces a single cell, called a zygote, which then divides to produce a mul ...

290 ■ CHAPTER 16 Plants, Fungi, and Protists BIODIVERSITY Figure 16.5 Plants are eukaryotic autotrophs Plants are photosynthetic ...

The Dirt on Black-Market Plants ■ 291 In addition to being food, plants are valuable for many other reasons. Many organisms live ...

292 ■ CHAPTER 16 Plants, Fungi, and Protists BIODIVERSITY present-day bryophytes (liverworts and mosses), grew as ground-hugging ...

The Dirt on Black-Market Plants ■ 293 Gymnosperms produce “naked” seeds that sit bare, unwrapped in any additional layers, on th ...

294 ■ CHAPTER 16 Plants, Fungi, and Protists BIODIVERSITY Basidiomycetes (club fungi) Zygomycetes (molds) Ascomycetes (sac fungi ...

The Dirt on Black-Market Plants ■ 295 white truffles cannot be cultivated in greenhouses as other fungi can. There’s danger in t ...

Over millennia, farmers have saved seeds from crops that were easiest to grow, process, or store, and have used those seeds and ...

The Dirt on Black-Market Plants ■ 297 Figure 16.12 The greatest threat to endangered cacti is illegal trade Like orchids and cyc ...

298 ■ CHAPTER 16 Plants, Fungi, and Protists REVIEWING THE SCIENCE ● (^) There are at least three main groups of fungi— zygomyce ...

The Dirt on Black-Market Plants ■ 299 Leveling Up (^12) Life choices If fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants ...

Neanderthal Sex The relationship between modern humans and Neanderthals just got a whole lot spicier. ◆ (^) Identify the key cha ...

Neanderthal Sex 301 BIODIVERSITY 17 CHAPTER ANIMALS AND HUMAN EVOLUTION ...

302 ■ CHAPTER 17 Animals and Human Evolution BIODIVERSITY twenty-first century, Laura Longo, a curator at the Civic Natural Hist ...

Neanderthal Sex ■ 303 some 700 million years ago, descended from flag- ellated protists, single-celled organisms with whiplike t ...

304 ■ CHAPTER 17 Animals and Human Evolution BIODIVERSITY artificial grouping (like that of protists) of animals with varied evo ...

Neanderthal Sex ■ 305 symmetry and those with bilateral symmetry. The body of an animal with radial symme- try (Figure 17.4, lef ...