Runner Beans

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This clip contains speeded up footage of the complete life cycle of a runner bean plant.

The complete annual life cycle of a runner bean plant, speeded up. Shows the plant growing from a seed, the plant developing flowers, the blooms dying later on in the year and beans growing.
From: Science Clips Life Cycles
First Broadcast : 16 January 2004

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 7-9,9-11

Subject : Science

Topic : Life processes and living things

Keywords : Green plants as organisms

Notes : Uses : studying the life cycle of flowering plants.


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