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Biology 101 Syllabus 2002

Professor Ford
Weeks 6 through 10

Wk

Day

Date

Lecture Topic

Readings

Lab Topic

6

M

4 Nov

    How do plants determine conditions in the world?

   25.1, Chap 49

Tu

5 Nov

   Diversity and Selection

   Sections 18.3 through 18.5, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, 20.8, 48.1 (on niche)

   Diversity

W

6 Nov

   Protists and Life cycles

   Chapter 23

F

8 Nov

   Mosses and ferns

   25.1 through 25.4

7

M

11 Nov

   Veterans Day

Tu

12 Nov

   Meristems and plant structure

   Chap 29

   Non-seed  Plants and Gymnosperms

W

13 Nov

   Make up from previous lectures

   25.5 - 25.7

F

15 Nov

   Gymnosperms and Conifer Biology

   Chapter 25

8

M

18 Nov

   Ecology of conifers

   50.3, 50.6, 51.4

Tu

19 Nov

   Angiosperms

   25.8 25.9

W

20 Nov

   Flowers

   31.1 through 31.3

F

22 Nov

EXAMINATION 3

9

M

25 Nov

   Fruits, seeds and germination

   31.4 & 31,5

T

26 Nov

   Diversity in angiosperm biology

   Ch 17.13, 31.11 through 31.15

W

27 Nov

   Earth's carbon balance

   49.8, 49.9

F

29 Nov

   Thanksgiving Holiday

10

M

2 Dec

   Water uptake, water transport and transpiration

   30.3, 30.4, 51.7

Tu

3 Dec

   Translocation

   30.5

   Water Economy of Plants

W

4 Dec

   Plant nutrition 

   30.1, 30.2

F

6 Dec

   Symbiosis and Mutualism

   24.4, 30.2

11

M

9 Dec

   Regulation of plant development

   Chap 32

Tu

10 Dec

   This period will be used for the lecture on the Earth's Carbon Balance

W

11 Dec

EXAMINATION 4