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Check out this site. It gives a great perspective of relative sizes in powers of ten.
Chapters 31 and 32. These may be downloaded.
Tree of Life. Follow the links to get an understanding of the major groups of organisms.
Another site to get an idea of the diversity of life.
Flowers in UV light. Neat photos of flowers in ultra violet light.
Succulents. Nice photos of succulent and caudiciform plants.
World clock. Interesting "clock" of population growth, diseases, extinctions, etc.
BIOL 203 Introductory Biology - Plants (5) Plant structure, function, and diversity with emphasis placed on ecological and evolutionary aspects of seed plants. Two hours lecture and nine hours laboratory. Prerequisites: BIOL 201.
Times: MW 8:00 - 9:20am lectures. MW 9:30 - noon labs
Location: Science 215
Instructor: L. M. Moe. Science 217. 654-3169
e-mail
Textbook: Raven, P. H., R. F. Evert and S.
E. Eichhorn 2005. Biology of Plants. Seventh Edition, W.H. Freeman, Publishers
In addition to fostering an understanding and appreciation of plants, the objectives of this course are such that upon its completion, students should attain a Freshman level literacy of the principles of plant organization, form, and function by being able to:
- Describe the "textbook" morphology and anatomy of stems, leaves, and roots.
- Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis at the organismic level.
- Describe the term "plant."
- Describe three fundamental differences between and three fundamental similarities of the biological Kingdoms.
- Describe the processes of photosynthesis and respiration.
- Describe vascular plant growth, development, and regulation.
- Describe three evolutionary, structural adaptations of stems, leaves, and roots.
- Describe the roles of mitosis, meiosis, and syngamy in sexual reproduction.
- Describe the shift from gametophyte-dominant to sporophyte-dominant plant life histories.
- List the informational hierarchy from DNA to Kingdom.
- List the structural hierarchy from organelle to biome.
- Describe five environmental factors that affect the process of photosynthesis.
- Describe five environmental factors that affect the process of respiration.
- Describe five environmental factors that affect vascular plant growth, development, and regulation.
- Describe the relationships between rocks, climate, soil, nutrients, and plant roots.
- Identify the interrelationships between plants and other organisms in a community.
- Describe the fundamentals of evolution by natural selection and genetic drift.
- Describe five fundamental ecological problems encountered and solutions developed by plants as they become increasingly terrestrialized.
- Explain the notions of "eat, avoid being eaten, & reproduce" as they relate to evolution.
- Trace the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
- Trace the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and calcium through an ecosystem.
- Explain the relationship between the flow of energy and the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients.
- Describe the relationships between the sun and earth as they relate to the distributions of climates and biomes.
- Describe five general impacts plants have had on the course of human history.
- Describe with examples, five major impacts humans have had on natural communities.
- Describe the scientific study of plants.
- Develop, design, and perform experiments and methodical observations testing hypotheses about plants.
- Differentiate between hypothesis and theory, theory and fact, and scientific methods and metaphysical or philosophical methods.
- Design and interpret graphical representations of data.
- Present findings in standardized format for scientific reports.
- Identify five most important scientific journals related to botany.
Additional information will be posted as necessary throughout the quarter.
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