Legacy Course Catalog
BIOL B300 - Vascular Plants
| Effectivity: | 08/23/2004 - Fall 2007 *** @ IU Technology Statewide |
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| Credits: | 3 or 4 |
| Instructional Types: | Lab Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr sum |
| Short Title: | Vascular Plants |
| Description: | This is a remarkably well organized and informative course with excellent and caring AIs. The professor received the 2001 Senior Class Award for Teaching Excellence in Biology and Dedication to Undergraduates. Vascular plants are commonly known as the "higher plants" and are the dominant plants in the world today, those that we constantly see around us in the natural world and those that we cultivate and use for landscaping, house plants and food. Course focuses on the major kinds or groups of extant vascular plants and studies in detail and from an evolutionary perspective the morphologies, life cycles, identification, classification, and economic importance of these groups. laboratory sessions and one spring field trip provide hands-on experience in analyzing plant structures, using identification keys, preparing and working with herbarium specimens, and reconstructing phylogenetic relationships among plant groups with and without computer assistance. In a semester-long lab project, the life cycle of a fern is examined from the sowing of spores to fertilization in gametophytes and the early development of sporophytes. The course progresses from groups most like the earliest evolved land plants to the most recently evolved major group, the angiosperms or flowering plants that dominate most of the earth's land surface today. Approximately the first third of the course deals with the earliest evolving extant vascular plants (the whisk ferns, clubmosses, spike mosses, quillworts, horsetails, and ferns), concluding with the more primitive lineages of seed-producing plants (the gymnosperms such as the cycads, Ginkgo, and pines). |
| Department: | Iupui Courses |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | NO |
| Temporary Flag: | NO |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
