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12 hours, 1 credit. Plant growth and development, hormones, tropisms, phytochrome, dormancy, responses to low temperature, flowering, senescence and abscission, with emphasis on the physiological variations that occur from season to season. PREREQ: BBG 112.
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12 hours, 1 credit. The relationship of vegetation study to ecology; the classification and description of forest and wetland communities; the influence of climate, soil, topography, geology, and man on the vegetation. Local flora will be compared with that in other parts of the United States.
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12 hours, 1 credit. The cryptogams are seedless plants: algae, fungi, mosses, hepatics, lichens, ferns, and fern allies. The recognition and collection of cryptogams for observation in herbariums. Weather permitting, some classes will be field trips in or near the New York Botanical Garden. PREREQ: BBG 114.
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12 hours, 1 credit. Identification of common trees, shrubs, and flowers in the area; naming and basic plant structure; practice in using taxonomic keys of identification. Students are required to make their own personal plant collections. PREREQ: BBG 114.
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12 hours, 1 credit. Learning to read the fossil record: an introduction to such disciplines as paleoecology, geochemistry, and paleochemotaxonomy. Computer analysis applied to historical biology. PREREQ: BBG 111.
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12 hours, 1 credit. Specific patterns of gene inheritance by Mendelian and non-Mendelian mechanisms; the use of probability and statistics; the role of DNA-RNA as the "code of life." PREREQ: BBG 111.
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12 hours, 1 credit. A history of the large fossil plant groups and their characters, with emphasis on evolution, ecology, dispersal, paleoclimates, and practical applications. PREREQ: BBG 111.
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20 hours, 1 credit. The basic structure of flowering plants as viewed by a dissecting microscope for the examination of living flowers of highly specialized structure and with the compound microscope for the observation of anatomical slides. The student will have the opportunity to make botanical illustrations of the dissection specimen.
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12 hours, 1 credit. The principles of classifying plants into species, genus, family, etc. Typical flower structure and modifications that affect classification. PREREQ: BBG 111.
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4.00 Credits
6 hours (3 , lecture; 3, lab), 4 credits. Introduction to the principles of biology governing the unity and diversity of living organisms, with special emphasis on molecular, subcellular, and cellular levels of organization in plants and animals, and on genetics and evolution. Laboratory exercises consist of experimental procedures illustrating basic concepts of biology.
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