Every day, new species discoveries make big headlines in the news, but scientists are also realizing just how many “undiscovered” species are hiding in plain sight. These species lie buried within ...

Kathy Willis explores how DNA fingerprinting uncovered a new way to classify plants and an evolutionary tree of life. From 2014. Show more The new science of DNA sequencing during the 1990's would not ...

Humans make stuff up—including the names and classifications of living things. But those categories are still useful. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how taxonomy and systematics ...

This is the 300th anniversary of the man who revolutionized our understanding of botany. Carl Linneaus was the Swedish scientist who invented the modern classification of plants and animals, according ...

THINK about what it takes to learn biology. Not textbook biology, the kind you learn in high school with microscopes and dissecting kits. Rather the kind you learn on your own, as a young child ...