Plant Evolution and Diversity

In the Real World

Environment

A major way humans are changing the environment is by moving plants around to new habitats. We are taking plants out of the habitats in which they evolved and are putting them in new ones, which ha...

Biotechnology

Up until now, we have been talking about evolution by natural selection. But humans are taking evolution into our own hands through selective breeding and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).Sele...

Research

As biotechnology improves, we know more and more about plant genetics and evolutionary relationships. We can use the tools available to resolve evolutionary relationships between plants, at least t...