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How We All Get Our Energy (Plants & Ecosystems)

Over the next 15 episodes, Alexis Nikole Nelson will spill plants’ secrets—how they evolved, how they function, and just how vital they are to human societies and all of life on Earth.

How We All Get Our Energy (Plants & Ecosystems)

Season 1 Episode 13 | 12m 53s | CC

From the driest deserts to the lushest forests, ecosystems are networks of life where organisms and the environment interact. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how plants function as the foundations of these systems, without which no other life on Earth would be possible.

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