An introduction to Botany:

Botany is the science of the study of plants. This course is aimed at giving you a general understanding of plant structure and function. It assumes no previous knowledge and while the course stands on its own, it can function as a backup to formal class instruction in Botany. There is an emphasis on getting to know a reasonably wide selction of plant species, photographing some, adding your own descriptions thus building an effective plant catalogue.

Preliminaries:

Before you start, we need to be assured that your computer and internet connection is compatible with our learning system. Please click (once only) on the link below to play one of the instructional movies from the course. If you can see movement on the screen and hear the audio commentary, then your system is compatible with ours. We have deliberately chosen one of the longer movies to thoroughly test if your access speed matches our learning system.

Click here to play the test movie - a discussion of the theory of transpiration as it applies to bananas!