Course Syllabus

You can find our syllabus on Welcome to Biol416 - Syllabus. Here I show our schedule.

Schedule:

Week

Date

 

1

24 Sept

Lecture and discussion: Course Introduction; Why study plants? Case Study: Domestication and Floral Development

26 Sept

Lecture and discussion: Genetics and Mutagenesis, Case Study: Domestication and Floral Development

2

1 Oct

Lecture and discussion: Genetics and Mutagenesis, Case Study: Domestication and Floral Development

3 Oct

Lecture and discussion: Genetics and Mutagenesis, Case Study: Domestication and Floral Development Continued 

3

8 Oct

Lecture and discussion: Genetics and Mutagenesis, Case Study: Domestication and Floral Development Continued

10 Oct

Greenhouse tour (meet at the LSB greenhouse)

4

15 Oct

Lecture and discussion: Genetics and Mutagenesis, Case Study: Domestication and Floral Development Continued

17 Oct

Lecture and discussion: Genetic Engineering of Plants, Genetic problems: Forward vs. Reverse Genetics

5

22 Oct

 Lecture and discussion: Plant Hormones (asynchronous)

24 Oct

Group presentation

6

29 Oct

 Lecture and discussion: New Findings in Plant Hormones

31 Oct

 Lecture and discussion: New Findings in Plant Hormones

7

5 Nov

 Lecture and discussion: New Findings in Plant Hormones

7 Nov

Lecture and discussion: New Findings in Plant Hormones

8

12 Nov

 Lecture and discussion: Photomorphogenesis

14 Nov

Lecture and discussion: New Findings in Plotomorphogenesis

9

19 Nov

Lecture and discussion: New Findings in Plotomorphogenesis

21 Nov

 Lecture and discussion: New Findings in Plotomorphogenesis

10

26 Nov

Student individual presentation (1)

28 Nov

Native American Heritage Day (holiday)

 

11

 

3 Dec

Student individual presentation (2)

Review session: what we learned throughout this class 

5 Dec

 Exam

Finals

8/Dec

No exam