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Accompanying this text is a website (www.mhhe.com/levetin4e) that provides additional resources for both instructors and students. For each text chapter, students will have access to a chapter outline, chapter concepts, chapter summary, web links, multiple-choice quiz questions, and short-answer concept quizzes (also found in the text) that can be electronically completed and submitted to an instructor. Both students and instructors have access to a plant tissues website, a list of suggested activities for each chapter, scientific names of organisms, and interesting, helpful sites including a listing of biological controls, useful and poisonous plants, houseplants, and home gardening.

The Laboratory Manual for Applied Botany by Levetin, McMahon, and Reinsvold features 18 exercises that focus on examining plants and plant products that have sustained or affected human society. Four additional appendixes are titled Science as a Process, A Field Trip to a Health Store, A Taster’s Sampler of Caffeine Beverages and Foods, and Notes for Instructors, which provides additional information for each of the labs.

Available on adoption, The Amazing Lives of Plants: The Reproductive Lives of Mosses, Pines, Ferns, and Flowers is a beautiful four-color exploration into the life cycles of four representative groups of plants. Subtitled text makes it easy to cue up for use in lectures, and the pace of the video is suitable for students taking notes. Presented in a vivid combination of live video footage and sharp animation, this product is available on videotape or CD-ROM.