🌿 Animals & Plants

Five micro-lessons · about 36 minutes in total

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Photosynthesis, pollination, evolution, food webs and the great migrations. Five lessons, about 36 minutes in total — read one at a time; each stands alone.

The five lessons

1. Photosynthesis: The Real Engine

Sunlight turned into sugar and oxygen — the reaction that runs almost every food chain.

About 7 min · 1 quiz question

2. Pollination: The Sex Life of Flowers

Petals are advertising — and most of our food crops take the matchmaking.

About 7 min · 1 quiz question

3. Evolution by Natural Selection

The one idea that makes every species in the world suddenly sensible.

About 8 min · 1 quiz question

4. Food Webs and Keystone Species

Why the pyramid of energy leaves room for only a few tigers — and why some small species hold everything.

About 7 min · 1 quiz question

5. The Great Migrations

Terns pole-to-pole, godwits nonstop for days — and the senses that navigate it.

About 7 min · 1 quiz question

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Further reading

Three real books on this track, from the Open Library catalogue — follow the links for libraries, previews and borrow options.

Cover of A place in the sun

A place in the sun

Lois Darling · 1968

Cover of Bible

Bible

Bible · 1200

The research

The most-cited Crossref-indexed papers matching the topic — a window into how professionals actually study it.

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