BIO 2100 - General Botany

Credits: 5

Prerequisite(s): BIO 1080 and BIO 1090, BIO 1081 and BIO 1091, or Permission of instructor

Description: This is a one-semester introductory survey of photosynthetic life with emphasis on key events in the evolution and diversification of cyanobacteria, algae, and land plants, evolutionary relationships among major taxa, the chemistry of photosynthetic processes, and an introduction to the life cycles, anatomy, and morphology in major groups of cyanobacteria and photosynthetic eukaryotes.

Note: The Biology Department requires students who do not attend the first week of scheduled laboratory sessions to drop that course. Those students who do not drop the course will not be permitted to attend labs the rest of the semester, will receive an F in the course, and will be responsible for all tuition and fees incurred.