Plant Biology (BIOL 2204)

• Evolutionary origin of plants, speciation, mutation, natural selection, and adaptation
• Hardy-Weinberg principle
• Plant ecology including nutrient cycling, competition, adaptations for dispersal, biodiversity, extinction, and conservation
• Plant cells (structure, function, growth, and division)
• Plant body (cell and tissue types, shoots and roots, primary structure and development, secondary growth)
• Major plant groups including nonvascular plants, seedless vascular plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms emphasizing phylogenetic relationships and morphological characteristics
• Energy metabolism in plants including the multiple pathways of photosynthesis and cellular respiration
• Transport of water, minerals, and sugars through the plant body
• Plant nutrition (and alternate nutritional modes), growth, and development
• Plant reproduction including sexual and asexual
• Recombinant DNA technology, genomics, and plant biotechnology

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.