Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows
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Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows at Coursera Overview
Duration | 11 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows at Coursera Highlights
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- Beginner Level
- Approx. 11 hours to complete
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Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows at Coursera Course details
- For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form?from Charles Darwin?s early fascination with stems and flowers to Seymour Krelborn?s distorted doting in Little Shop of Horrors. This course intends to present an intriguing and scientifically valid look at how plants themselves experience the world?from the colors they see to the sensations they feel. Highlighting the latest research in genetics and more, we will delve into the inner lives of plants and draw parallels with the human senses to reveal that we have much more in common with sunflowers and oak trees than we may realize. We?ll learn how plants know up from down, how they know when a neighbor has been infested by a group of hungry beetles, and whether they appreciate the music you?ve been playing for them or if they?re just deaf to the sounds around them. We?ll explore definitions of memory and consciousness as they relate to plants in asking whether we can say that plants might even be aware of their surroundings. This highly interdisciplinary course meshes historical studies with cutting edge modern research and will be relevant to all humans who seek their place in nature.
- This class has three main goals: 1. To introduce you to basic plant biology by exploring plant senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste, balance). 2. To introduce you to biological research and the scientific method. 3. To get the student to question life in general and what defines us as humans.
- Once you've taken this course, if you are interested in a more in-depth study of plants, check out my follow-up course, Fundamentals of Plant Biology (https://www.coursera.org/learn/plant-biology/home/welcome).
- In order to receive academic credit for this course you must successfully pass the academic exam on campus. For information on how to register for the academic exam ? https://tauonline.tau.ac.il/registration
- Additionally, you can apply to certain degrees using the grades you received on the courses. Read more on this here ?
- https://go.tau.ac.il/b.a/mooc-acceptance
- Teachers interested in teaching this course in their class rooms are invited to explore our Academic High school program here ? https://tauonline.tau.ac.il/online-highschool
Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction
Course Promo
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Our Life and Plants
1.3 Plants and Biology Research
1.4 Plants and Food Security
1.5 Major Themes in Plant Biology
1.6 Scientific Process
1.7 The Evolution of Plant Structure and Senses
1.8 Plant Evolution
How to succeed in this course? PDF version
Introduction
What a Plant Sees?
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Darwin's Experiment
2.3 Light and Flowering
2.4 Phytochrome: A Light-Activated Switch
2.5 Arabidopsis Blind Mutant
2.6 What a Plant Sees?
2.7 Molecular Biology of Plant Vision
Week 2 - Suggested Reading
What a Plant Sees?
What a Plant Smells?
3.1 Introduction to the Plant Cell
3.2 Lock and Key Mechanism of a Receptor
3.3 Ethylene and Fruit Ripening
3.4 Mechanism of Ethylene Receptor
3.5 Plant Communication: Example 1
3.6 Plant Communication: Example 2
3.7 Inter and Intra Communication
Week 3 - Suggested Reading
What a Plant Smells?
What a Plant Feels?
4.1 Introduction to the Human Mechano-Sensory System
4.2 How Does the Venus Trap Know When it has been Touched?
4.3 Water and the Plant Cell
4.4 Leaf Movement in Mimosa
4.5 Thigmomorphogenesis
4.6 Genes that Respond to Touch
4.7 Do Plants Feel Pain?
4.8 The Sound of Music and Plants
4.9 Plants and Deaf Genes
4.10 Sound Perception in Plants
Week 4 - Suggested Reading
What a Plant Feels?
How a Plant Knows Where it is?
5.1 How a Plant Keeps its Balance
5.2 Plant Response to Gravity
5.3 Gravitropism in Roots
5.4 The Discovery of Auxin
5.5 Auxin Transport
5.6 Auxin and Root Initiation
5.7 Sensing Gravity
5.8 Circumnutation
Week 5 - Suggested Reading
How a Plant Knows Where it is?
What a Plant Remembers?
6.1 What a Plant Remembers?
6.2 Short Term Memory
6.3 Long Term Memory 1
6.4 Long Term Memory 2 (with Prof. Nir Ohad)
6.5 Epigenetic Heredity
6.6 Intelligent Memory?
Week 6 - Suggested Reading
What a Plant Remembers?
The Aware Plant
7.1 Memory and Consciousness
7.2 What Do We Mean When We Say "Intelligent"?
7.3 A Tour of the Manna Center
7.4 Research in the Chamovitz Lab
7.5 Food Security
Bloopers (oops!)
Week 7 - Suggested Reading
What's next?
Final
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