Three hours of lecture per week. Topics include water potential, transpiration, mineral nutrition, phloem transport, photosynthetic and respirational gas exchange, photosynthetic electron transfer, plant movements, and plant hormones. One 3-hour laboratory per week. Topics in morphology, physiology, evolution, land economics, importance of various groups are considered. Three hours of lecture and one 3-hour laboratory per week.
Laboratories focus on techniques of observation, experimental design, and data analysis.
Fall semester of even-numbered years. Three hours of lecture and one 3-hour field or laboratory period per week. Laboratories include dissection and study of preserved material of representative vertebrates. Two hours of lecture and two 3-hour laboratories per week. May be repeated with different topics.