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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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Sex and the single primrose

In early spring, primroses and cowslips can be found in many gardens and parks. Their yellow flowers are certainly beautiful, but they also hold a secret: they come in two different types that can only mate with each other.
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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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