BOTANY Spring 2010

Syllabus

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Eukaryote systamatics UCMP Berkeley

Glossary

Point Lobos Field Trip

 

Lecture

Lab Assignments Date
Introduction to the course No lab

Read Chapter 1

Evolution of Plants p. 1-6 and p. 9-12

2/4

 

Lecture 1- Chapter 12 Part 1 Intro to Botany

Part 2 Systematics

Safety and Emergency

Microscope and Bacteria

Read Chapter 12

Major Groups of Organisms p.227- 228

Origin of the Eukaryotes p. 229- 231

The Eukaryotic Kingdoms p. 231-235

2/8-2/11

Lecture 2- Chapter 13

Prokaryotes and Viruses

 

Lecture 3- Chapter 14 Fungi

 

Intro to Zygomycota,

Ascomycota

 and

Basidiomycota and Lichens

 

 

Presidents Day

No Lab

Study Guide for Exam #1

Algae Assignment

2/15-2/18

Finish Fungi and

Exam #1 on 2/25

Black mold

Fungi

Lichens

 

Exam #1 Test Chapters 1, 12, 13 and 14

2/22- 2/25

Chapter 15

Protista: algae and Heterotrophic Protists

Point Lobos Field trip

 

3/1-3/4

Lecture 5-chapter 15 and 16

Chapter 15 Algae and slime mold continu and Chapter 16 Bryophytes

 

Slime mold,

Euglenoids

Algea

3/8-3/11

 

 

 
Liverworts and Mosses

Study Guide for Exam #2

3/15-3/18
Exam #2 on 3/25 Ferns, Horsetails 3/22-3/25
Lecture 7- Chapter 18 Gymnosperms

Vacular plants

Plant seed for lab

  3/29-4/1
Lecture 8- Chapter 19 Angiosperm

Naked seed-Gymnosperm- pines and cycads

 

 

 

4/5-4/8
Angiosperm- Flowering plants Evolution of Flowers

Study Guide Short answer questions for

Exam #3

4/6- 4/9
SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK 4/12- 4/15

Lecture 10-  Chapter 22 Early Development of the Plant Body

Exam #3 on Thursday 4/23

 

 

Exam #3

Schedule your Prestentation!!!

4/19-4/22
Lecture 11- Chapter 27 Regulating growth & Development

Fruits and Fruit Development

 

 

 

4/26-4/29
Lecture 12- Chapter 28 External factors and Growth

Roots, Stems and Leaves

Student Presentations

Pepper 5/3-5/6
Lecture 13- Chapter 29     5/10-5/13
   

Final Exam

 

5/24-5/27