BIO 120 Introductory Botany

This course provides an introduction to the classification, relationships, structure, and function of plants. Topics include reproduction and development of seed and non-seed plants, levels of organization, form and function of systems, and a survey of major taxa. This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement general education core requirement in natural sciences/mathematics. (BIO 110 or 111 is a prerequisite for this course.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

MAGNOLIACEAE, ERICACEAE, FABACEAE, CORNACEAE

Odds and Ends...

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Lab Activities

We looked at Pruniodeae (Okame Cherry) flowers
We looked at Pomoideae (Bradford Pair) flowers
We saw the location of Spiroideae (Spirea)
We briefly discussed the primitive flowers of Magnolia and learned the term 'tepals'.
We say an example of two different cultivars of White Pine (Pendula and Nana)

We watched the documentary King Corn.