Why Don't These Plants Need Seeds? (Moss and Ferns): Crash Course Botany #8

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
  • Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we'll dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic tree-bryophytes and seedless vascular plants, like mosses and ferns. These plants are the unsung heroes of the botanical world, and we’re giving them their due.
    Chapters:
    The Plant World's Unsung Heroes 00:00
    Plant Phylogeny 1:09
    Bryophytes 3:08
    The Bryophyte Life Cycle 7:15
    Seedless Vascular Plants 9:39
    Review & Credits 12:20
    Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1P...
    ***
    Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at / crashcourse
    Thanks to the following patrons for their generous monthly contributions that help keep Crash Course free for everyone forever:
    Tawny Whaley, Sean Saunders, DL Singfield, Ken Davidian, Stephen Akuffo, Toni Miles, Steve Segreto, Kyle & Katherine Callahan, Laurel Stevens, Burt Humburg, Aziz Y, Perry Joyce, Scott Harrison, Mark & Susan Billian, Alan Bridgeman, Breanna Bosso, Matt Curls, Jennifer Killen, Starstuff42, Jon Allen, Sarah & Nathan Catchings, team dorsey, Bernardo Garza, Trevin Beattie, Eric Koslow, Indija-ka Siriwardena, Jason Rostoker, Siobhán, Ken Penttinen, Nathan Taylor, Les Aker, William McGraw, ClareG, Rizwan Kassim, Constance Urist, Alex Hackman, Pineapples of Solidarity, Katie Dean, Stephen McCandless, Wai Jack Sin, Ian Dundore, Caleb Weeks.
    __
    Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet?
    Instagram - / thecrashcourse
    Facebook - / youtubecrashcourse
    Twitter - / thecrashcourse
    CC Kids: / crashcoursekids

Комментарии • 73

  • @crashcourse
    @crashcourse  10 месяцев назад +86

    The answer to the extra credit question is… sphagnum moss! What plant would you like to thank for its helpfulness?

    • @kbrcomplexly
      @kbrcomplexly 10 месяцев назад +12

      i'd like to thank aloe for alleviating the sunburns i get on my unfortunately pale skin 😅

    • @kingpopaul
      @kingpopaul 10 месяцев назад +3

      Was also used as menstrual pads.

    • @QuiteSanelyInsane
      @QuiteSanelyInsane 10 месяцев назад +2

      Sword ferns! The orange sporangia on the underside of their phyllids can be used to treat minor cuts, abrasions, and even stinging nettle :)

    • @amandas5398
      @amandas5398 10 месяцев назад +1

      I’d like to thank stinging nettle - for the medicinal help it provides to humans AND the boost it’s presence gives to other plants in my garden!

  • @pedrostormrage
    @pedrostormrage 10 месяцев назад +50

    13:08 The bryophyte that can be used to dress wounds is the sphagnum (or peat) moss (you can see it at 4:53). It is known to absorb moisture a lot quicker than cotton (90% percent of the cells in a sphagnum plant are dead, so they can be filled with water), in addition to being an effective antiseptic (the plant's cell walls have negatively charged sugar molecules, which attract positively charged nutrient ions (like potassium, sodium and calcium), which when released make the environment around it acidic, inhibiting the growth of bacteria.).

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher
    @MariaMartinez-researcher 10 месяцев назад +42

    "Mars will come to fear my botany powers."
    Today, I learned something about evolution. The living beings that branched earlier, haven't stopped evolving in their particular ways. If they are still alive, is because they are still successful.
    They aren't primitive or lower. They are tough and smart.

  • @67comet
    @67comet 10 месяцев назад +15

    I "LOVE" your energy! You're an awesome addition to the Crashcourse crew!.. We appreciate you!

  • @Stephshouse23
    @Stephshouse23 10 месяцев назад +24

    I’m in love with this series I wanted to be a plant scientist but life has taken me down a different path. No other show teaches with accuracy and enthusiasm than this. With Crash Course I have access to knowledge I would otherwise wouldn’t know where to begin without paying for classes. Thank you thank you thank you!
    I’ve been watching crash course since I was 14 in biology class freshman year in 2014 and I just want to say that I believe wholeheartedly in cc and hope one day I’ll be able to support the next generation of curious kids like me ♥️

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk 10 месяцев назад +4

    Ferns and mosses are the BEST. I have always loved them because they look so soft and green, they really make me think "this is a lush place"! I'm starting on a journey this year to learn how to propagate ferns, too - I have a beautiful patch of them and I want to get them in many more places in my yard, I just have to learn how to help them do their thing! It promises to be a challenge but I'm excited!

  • @Syco108
    @Syco108 10 месяцев назад +3

    Gurl! That hair! You're killing it! Thank you for the plant knowledge❤

  • @marim0y
    @marim0y 10 месяцев назад +7

    Mosses are awesome. I loved this.

  • @99721
    @99721 10 месяцев назад +27

    You could say the Bryophytes are much _more_ evolved, since they are older and have had more time to diversify and perfect.

    • @Go4Noctis
      @Go4Noctis 10 месяцев назад +2

      Nice thought but no because EVERYTHING alive has been around the same amount of time and has been evolving the same amount of time.

    • @erikholgersson9235
      @erikholgersson9235 10 месяцев назад +1

      But that is only the case when you start setting hard lines for when a species is a new species. I mean humans are a recent species, but our ancestors are responsible for evolving into humans. So you have to count that time evolving into humans as well. This view would mean that all species on earth have had equal time to evolve since we all came from the same common ancestor

  • @fayem4091
    @fayem4091 10 месяцев назад +2

    This is my favourite series ever!

  • @corgi42069
    @corgi42069 10 месяцев назад +1

    Your enthusiasm is infectious!!

  • @NickGamer1Bmv
    @NickGamer1Bmv 10 месяцев назад +5

    Thanks for the new knowledge

  • @thesocialnerd
    @thesocialnerd 10 месяцев назад +7

    Yay! New episode! Loving the series so far
    Also, looking at my lil rabbit foot fern while I watch this episode and letting her hear about her ancestors lol

  • @CristinaMCGil
    @CristinaMCGil 10 месяцев назад +2

    unrelated to plants, I'm mesmerized by the butterfly clips in your hair!! they move!!!

  • @guanabanajuice13
    @guanabanajuice13 10 месяцев назад +2

    This is my version of Saturday Morning Cartoons. Thank you so much!

  • @camiloharritt3007
    @camiloharritt3007 10 месяцев назад +4

    Amazing video

  • @joshuaharrison9331
    @joshuaharrison9331 10 месяцев назад +1

    The group of plant-nerds I go to uni with are Bryophyte obsessed - They were the first plants I learned to key out & study so I still have a keen respect for them & their pioneering niche.

  • @roxcaz
    @roxcaz 10 месяцев назад +5

    Great Course. Thank you

  • @therongjr
    @therongjr 10 месяцев назад +3

    Your energy is amazing, and I'm so happy that you have the same love of liverworts and club-mosses that I do! 💚 They don't get enough attention . . . and the alternation of generations is somehow so alien to us, although it's all around us! 😮

  • @duskadown6751
    @duskadown6751 10 месяцев назад +5

    I love moss

  • @Anuchan
    @Anuchan 10 месяцев назад +1

    This video has spurred my desire to learn more about botany. Thanks!

  • @maggiewang30
    @maggiewang30 10 месяцев назад +1

    I like listening to your video to learn English.

  • @christopherwarner6896
    @christopherwarner6896 10 месяцев назад +1

    Def favorite episode so far!

  • @rckli
    @rckli 10 месяцев назад +1

    I loved all of this, her attitude, and this weed I’m smoking 🎉

  • @georgigeorgiev9931
    @georgigeorgiev9931 10 месяцев назад +1

    I love masses 💜 Used to have them as mount wall

  • @gucciflipflops6064
    @gucciflipflops6064 10 месяцев назад +1

    It would've been awesome if I had this video to study for my exams during my first botany course 😭 The alternation of generations confused me to no end but it's never to late to understand old information! Thanks thought bubble!! 🫂

  • @canis2020
    @canis2020 10 месяцев назад +1

    I lichen these videos so much!

  • @Shake1
    @Shake1 10 месяцев назад +1

    Highlights to brazil, i came here by a colleague recommendation and JUST LOVED the way you teach, it's nothing like a botany book you could borrow in library but it is all contextualized and rich of content and love. Although, i'd like to request some captions since there are many scientific words and some others i couldn't get

  • @Flow_3801
    @Flow_3801 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is so educative to listen to, i wish this video came earlier in my high school, nice work

  • @ponyote
    @ponyote 10 месяцев назад +1

    Here from Be Smart. Yay plants!

  • @Davlavi
    @Davlavi 10 месяцев назад +2

    Love furns.

  • @chocomalk
    @chocomalk 10 месяцев назад +3

    Gotta be the cutest thumbnail ever lol

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 10 месяцев назад +8

    You Said think of a Plant and I immediately thought "Fern". Wasn't sure if I should've thought of Moss.

  • @corruptedsociety_
    @corruptedsociety_ 10 месяцев назад +1

    I’m not in school, but I love crash corse regardless

  • @esteriistiel331
    @esteriistiel331 10 месяцев назад +1

    I almost remembered the answer to the extra credit question. I was gonna say it's called old man's beard lichen, all because of the game "the long dark"

  • @KerrikkiLurgan
    @KerrikkiLurgan 10 месяцев назад +1

    Mosses are my favourite plants

  • @boehrb
    @boehrb 10 месяцев назад

    I'm lichen those fluttery butterfly hair clips!!

  • @muahlakaparak
    @muahlakaparak 10 месяцев назад +1

    Beautiful👍

  • @electroxyz5674
    @electroxyz5674 10 месяцев назад +1

    i have waiting for this video thanx🥳👌

  • @Ganymedescup
    @Ganymedescup 10 месяцев назад +1

    Dress my wounds with that peat moss, please.

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 10 месяцев назад +1

    Like any good science teacher, she's tossing out the puns thick and fast. Bless

  • @sarahgriffith1424
    @sarahgriffith1424 10 месяцев назад +1

    Alexis is awesome!!!!

  • @novice7T7
    @novice7T7 10 месяцев назад +1

    if plants took over all the soil how many plans would there be or would huge plants spur in groups.

  • @MeatPops
    @MeatPops 10 месяцев назад +1

    3:35 A lot of fun-gis were hurt by this statement.

  • @nicolenew1708
    @nicolenew1708 10 месяцев назад

    AMAZING

  • @caitlinhanson2773
    @caitlinhanson2773 10 месяцев назад +1

    Love Crash Course. Is there any possibility of the Literature part of Crash Course to do an analysis and summary of George Lammings "In the Castle of my Skin", I have been struggling to grasp it a bit.

  • @therongjr
    @therongjr 10 месяцев назад +1

    0:48 - I don't think those are liverworts? It looks like the right kind of environment for them, but they look like some are on stems and have radial vasculature.

  • @werebitch1313
    @werebitch1313 10 месяцев назад +1

    I love her passion about this!
    It is wonderful to see.

  • @KifoNemkana
    @KifoNemkana 10 месяцев назад

    I love plants

  • @lr8786
    @lr8786 10 месяцев назад

    Her butterflies are cute.

  • @sydneyschmidt4267
    @sydneyschmidt4267 10 месяцев назад +1

    Alexis you’re the best!!! Your foraged veggie tik toks blew my mind when I first saw them:) so cool you’re doing crash course botany! Can’t imagine a better person!

  • @mercuriallimit
    @mercuriallimit 10 месяцев назад +1

    my god, braided hair WITHIN braided hair!! it looks so nice.

  • @dapprligtnin98
    @dapprligtnin98 10 месяцев назад

    Oh sweet Narcos Mexico Season 1 memories come back to me, COME BACK TO ME!

  • @AdnicajChiquis
    @AdnicajChiquis 10 месяцев назад +1

    I hit 👍 at "mossome"

  • @imgooley
    @imgooley 10 месяцев назад

    The thumbnail madee hear yahaha! In my head

  • @elainewu7266
    @elainewu7266 10 месяцев назад +1

    Sphagnum mosses

  • @hrhevansjohn8528
    @hrhevansjohn8528 10 месяцев назад +2

    👍

  • @shawnholbrook7278
    @shawnholbrook7278 10 месяцев назад +1

    Lichens!

  • @sankimalu
    @sankimalu 10 месяцев назад +1

    The host with the MossT…

  • @JulianPatrickMiller
    @JulianPatrickMiller День назад

    Alexis!!!!!

  • @GamerKimberly191
    @GamerKimberly191 10 месяцев назад

    Ummm cool

  • @shawnholbrook7278
    @shawnholbrook7278 10 месяцев назад

    Is the answer spaghum moss?

  • @Shehz-95
    @Shehz-95 10 месяцев назад

    Why is Crash Course getting quite low views these days?

  • @Sunflower-sg1it
    @Sunflower-sg1it 10 месяцев назад

    she is so pretty

  • @drsingingeagle
    @drsingingeagle 10 месяцев назад

    So do liverworts have livers? How about warts? 😜

  • @katsomeday1
    @katsomeday1 10 месяцев назад +2

    The first multicellular life on land isn't plant or animal. The oldest known land life fossils, (about 135 million years older than plans,) is fungus. Why is it educational shows like this always seem to forget the third kingdom of multicellular life fungi.

  • @kartikchopra519
    @kartikchopra519 10 месяцев назад +1

    Mausam in hindi means weather