Ferns - The Secret Life

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A combination of videos of living plants and three dimensional animations. Combining images of living plant stages with computer simulations allows you to easily bridge the gap between the familiar plant and the micro-environment contained within it. Place yourself on the surface of a fern leaf or on a prothallus! Three dimensional animations take you in and around reproductive structures such as the sorus, sporangium, antheridium and archegonium. You see dynamic events such as spore formation, spore release, prothallus formation, sperm release, fertilisation and embryo growth. There are three levels of increasing complexity: 1. Simple - no terminology or breaks, 8m:46s; 2. Intermediate - simple terminology and divided into sections with summaries, 16m:4s; 3. Advanced - contains scientific terminology, divided into sections, 13m:21s.