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Pbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree WebsitePbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree Website
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PBS
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9th - 10th
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Pbs Learning Media: American Chestnut Tree

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This annotated slideshow adapted from KET's Electronic Field Trip to the Forest illustrates how blight decimated the American chestnut tree and the methods scientists use to identify and pollinate the remaining trees to create blight-resistant tree hybrid.

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Concepts

breeding, diseases, plants, traits

Additional Tags

biological evolution, characteristics of organisms, genetics and heredity, practical use and research, process, variation ensures survival of a species, pbs learningmedia: american chestnut tree, teachers' domain, wgbh, diseases in trees

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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