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3.00 Credits
This course explores major topics of physical oceanography, marine biodiversity and ecology, and human impacts on the ocean. Emphasis is placed on reading, evaluating, and synthesizing primary literature. Dual listed with BOT 5235. Cross listed with ZOO 4235. Prerequisite: LIFE 3400 with a grad of C or better.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the ecology and evolution of land plants throughout Earth history that emphasizes the profound impact plants have had on Earth's surface and atmosphere. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and laboratory, the course will explore fossilized plant communities, their ecological properties, and effects of major environmental upheavals. Dual listed with BOT 5280. Cross listed with GEOL 4280. Prerequisite: a grade of C or better in LIFE 1010 or GEOL 1100.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an understanding of fungi from mushrooms to molds and how they affect our daily lives. Lecture and lab topics include mushroom identification, fungi symbiotic with plants, animals and insects, and fungi that are important in medicine, industry and agriculture. Prerequisite: LIFE 2023.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth course on mushroom cultivation emphasizing a hands-on approach. Students learn about the history and biology of edible mushrooms as well as about tissue culture, spawn generation techniques, substrate preparation, inoculation techniques and strategies for maximizing yield. Prerequisite: LIFE 2023.
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3.00 Credits
A course on human pathogenic fungi and actinomycetes, covering the essential features, clinical manifestation, epidemiology and pathology of fungal infections. Familiarizes students with the ability of fungi to invade hosts, immunological and serological changes evoked by fungi, and drugs and therapies currently available. Prerequisite: general microbiology of mycology.
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4.00 Credits
A broad introduction to the biology of mushrooms, with emphasis on identification, ecology, and safety for consumption. Lab emphasizes learning major mushroom families and genera and their features, use of keys and manuals, and mushroom collection with a Wyoming and Rocky Mountain focus. Prerequisite: LIFE 2023 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
A comprehensive lecture-seminar-discussion course designed to familiarize advanced students with physiological processes underlying fungal ecology, and modern methods used to study those processes. A comparative organismal approach is taken, involving both symbiotic fungi and saprophtic fungi, with emphasis on ectomycorrhizal and decomposer modes of nutrition in forest ecosystems. Dual listed with BOT 5390. Prerequisites: BOT 4300 and one course in plant physiology or ecology.
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3.00 Credits
Symbiosis, the living together of unlike organisms, encompasses mutually beneficial to reciprocally detrimental interactions. The course examines conditions required for establishment and maintenance of important symbioses including mycorrhizae, lichens, endophytes, nitrogen-fixing and endosymbiotic bacteria, fungal/insect interactions, and fungal pathogens. Symbioses in forest ecosystems will be emphasized. Dual listed with BOT 5395. Prerequisites: LIFE 2022 or LIFE 2023, and LIFE 3400.
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4.00 Credits
Provides a basic understanding of plant growth and development. Covers water relations, general metabolism, nutrition, as well as hormonal and environmental controls. Dual listed with BOT 5400. Prerequisites: LIFE 2023, CHEM 1030, 2300 or equivalents.
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3.00 Credits
Addresses the broadest environmental issues facing society (habitat loss, invasion, overexploitation) and the mechanisms driving them, with particular attention to the Intermountain West. Through computer exercises, students also learn how to evaluate conservation efforts and make management recommendations. Cross listed with ZOO & ENR 4420. Prerequisites: LIFE 3400 and one of the following: ENR 3500, STAT 2050, or STAT 2070.
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