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One billion years a slave

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Back Garden Biology
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Peering into a drop of pondwater allows you to look back in time and see key events in the history of life on Earth.
In this episode we learn where plants obtained the machinery needed for photosynthesis and find out how hard it is for multicellular beings to form.

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Seeing the Wood for the Trees

In winter the bones of the trees are laid bare, giving us a chance to see their skeletons. Join Lindsay as she takes a tour round Wytham Woods in Oxford, showing you how to identify our common native trees from their bark and the shape of their branches.
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Back Garden Biology
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Lindsay Turnbull
Stuart West
Keywords
algae
pond water
co-operation
endosymbiosis
chloroplasts
cyanobacteria
Department: Department of Plant Sciences
Date Added: 06/08/2020
Duration: 00:16:54

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