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Plant Diversity
Data Repository
Lecture & Lab Syllabus
DAY |
DATE |
BOOK |
SUBJECT |
LAB TOPIC (Tentative) |
SPECIAL DIRECTIONS |
T |
1/20 |
Ch 1 |
Introduction to the course – The importance of plants |
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Th |
1/22 |
Ch 1 |
Plant characteristics and diversity |
Lab 1: Biodiversity: Tour the greenhouse and herbarium Links to Phytotox papers |
Plan a time to meet with your group to design phytotoxin bioassy |
T |
1/27 |
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Living together Questions from the movie |
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Th |
1/29 |
Ch 15 |
Evolutionary history
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Lab 2: Phytotoxin bioassay |
Group presentation experimental design |
T |
2/3 |
Ch 15 |
Mechanisms of evolution
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Th |
2/5 |
Ch 15 |
Speciation |
Lab 3: Analyze data from phytotoxin bioassay EvoBeaker Flowers lab |
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T |
2/10 |
Ch 16 |
Classification |
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Th |
2/12 |
Ch 17 |
Viruses and prokaryotes |
Lab 4: Introduction Plant Partnerships |
Lab report due: Phytotoxin bioassay
Plan a time to meet with your group to design Plant Partnerships experiment |
T |
2/17 |
Ch 19 |
General characteristics of Fungi |
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Th |
2/19 |
Ch 19 |
Diversity in Fungi |
Lab 5: Fungi - microscopy |
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T |
2/24 |
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Midterm Exam 1 |
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Th |
2/26 |
Ch 3 |
Vascular tissue |
Lab 6: Set up Plant Partnerships experiments |
Group presentation experimental design |
T |
3/3 |
Ch 4 |
Stems, roots and leaves |
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Th |
3/5 |
Ch 4 |
Stems, roots and leaves |
Lab 7: Stems roots and leaves |
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T |
3/10 |
Ch 5 |
Secondary growth |
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Th |
3/12 |
Putting down roots |
Lab 8: Secondary growth |
Lab Quiz 1 |
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T |
3/17 |
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Spring Break |
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Th |
3/19 |
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Spring Break |
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T |
3/24 |
Ch 18 |
Algae - complexity and endosymbiosis Keeling 2004 Diversity and Evolutionary history of plastids and their hosts. AJB 91:1481-1493 |
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Th |
3/26 |
Ch 18 |
Algae - Diversity - 10 phya |
Lab 9: Protists |
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T |
3/31 |
Ch 20 |
Bryophytes Lecture 16 notes |
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Th |
4/2 |
Ch 20 |
Bryophytes |
Lab 10: Bryophytes |
Lab Quiz 2 |
T |
4/7 |
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Midterm Exam 2 |
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Th |
4/9 |
Ch 21 |
Seedless vascular plants |
Lab 11: Analyze plant partnerships data |
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T |
4/14 |
Ch 21 |
Seedless vascular plants |
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Th |
4/16 |
Ch 22 |
Gymnosperms |
Lab 12: Seedless vascular plants |
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T |
4/21 |
Ch 22 |
Gymnosperms |
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Lab report due: Plant Partnerships |
Th |
4/23 |
Ch 23 |
Angiosperms |
Lab 13: Gymnosperms |
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T |
4/28 |
Birds and the Bees |
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Th |
4/30 |
Ch 23 |
Angiosperms |
Lab 14: Angiosperms |
Lab Quiz 3 |
T |
5/5 |
Ch 26 |
Plant conservation biology |
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Th |
5/7 |
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Student presentations Lab groups present in different rooms |
Group presentations on major plant groups AM Lab PM Lab |
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W |
5/13 |
8:00-10:00 am |
Final Exam - 115 SSB |
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