
Reproductive Traits
The Amazing Way Plants Protect Themselves – TED Ed
Meet the Frog that Barfs Up Its Babies – TED Ed
Citation:
PC = PARENTHETICAL CITATION: in the parentheses after PC at the top of each card (author’s last name AND title of source; if encyclopedia include initials of book and title of article).
Research:
Encyclopedias (in the Reference Room and online)
Britannica School Encyclopedia Online (BSE)
World Book Encyclopedia (WB) (print) or World Book Online
International Wildlife Encyclopedia (IWE) R/591.03/I37
Encyclopedia of Mammals (EoM) R/599/E56
Plants and Plant Life (PaPL) R/580/B154
Aquatic Life of the World (ALoW) R/578.76/A656
Books:
Search the OPAC for an animal or plant that interests you
Gale eBooks – do a basic search using any of the keywords from the table below. You can also select a specific title and search within the title.
Subscription Databases:
See planner or posters in the library for database login information; cite all databases by finding MLA citation and finding author and title of article OR title of article and database (if there is no author).
In the following databases use these search terms to help you:
TOPIC | POSSIBLE SEARCH TERMS |
Displays | courtship displays, means of attraction/mating rituals (visual attraction, auditory attraction, olfactory attraction) |
Eggs | oviparous (vs viviparous (live young) |
Asexual Reproduction | budding, fission, vegetative propagation, parthenogenesis, fragmentation, volunteers, sprouting, shoots |
Parental care | gestation (marsupials, mammals), incubation, gestation time vs body mass, r-selected species vs K-selected species, Â caring for young |
Pollination | pollen, self-pollination (autogamy, geitonogamy), cross-pollination |
Seeds | angiosperms, gymnosperms, see production, seed dispersal, germination |
Other possible search terms | dioecious (male and female reproductive organs in SEPARATE organisms) vs monoecious (male and female reproductive organs in SAME organism: plants, invertebrate animals), semelparous (breed only once then die) vs iteroparous (multiple reproductive events in lifetime) |
Gale Science Resources in Context
Checking for Accuracy and Credibility: Use this guide when independently searching the web for resources.
Last update: 12/5/19