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Some of Adrian's old Plant Studies Essays

The following are a selection of essays left over from a Plant Studies course at Sheffield University. I offer them here in case they may be of some use or interest to someone. If you do refer to any of them in your own work, an acknowledgement, and perhaps an email thank-you, would be appreciated.

"The Evolution of the Flowering Plants" (html)

"Taxol - An anti-cancer drug obtained from the Pacific Yew - Taxus brevifolia Nutt." (html)

"Plant classification is more of an art than a science." (html)

"The medicinal properties of Cannabis sativa - Hemp" (html)

"The history of trees in Britain from the end of the Ice-Age to the Roman occupation" (html)

"Mendel's experiments on heredity and their importance to the development of evolutionary theory" (28kb pdf)

And still to come (as time allows) ....

"A comparison of the reproductive cycles in plants"
and, unrelated to the C. sativa title, ... "What makes a plant a weed?"