Biodiversity

The variety of life, told through a fruit bowl: where fruits grow, where they came from, how scientists sort them and why variety matters — with pictures that move, a narrator and hands-on steps.

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Lessons, narration and exercises are original work. Pictures: Twemoji © Twitter, Inc. and other contributors, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).

Facts drawn from open-access articles licensed under CC BY: Duan et al. 2017 (Nature Communications); Cornille et al. 2012 (PLoS Genetics); Dita et al. 2018 (Frontiers in Plant Science); Li et al. 2013 (PLoS ONE); Wang et al. 2021 (Nanomaterials); Ahmad et al. 2026 (Horticulture Research); Tahir et al. 2026 (BMC Plant Biology); Li et al. 2021 (Frontiers in Plant Science); Iezzoni et al. 2020 (Horticulture Research); Romadanova et al. 2025 (Plants); Dufour et al. 2020 (PLoS ONE). No text or figures were reused; the full list with links is in the book's sources register.

Facts drawn from OpenStax Biology 2e and Concepts of Biology (Rice University, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), restated in our own words; no text or figures reused.

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