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<span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 280/380 (3 credits)<br><br></span>
 
<span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 280/380 (3 credits)<br><br></span>
 
<span style="font-size: large">Spring 2008<br></span>
 
<span style="font-size: large">Spring 2008<br></span>
''Lectures:'' TBA<br/>
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''Lectures:'' T/TH 9:30-10:45 AM<br/>
  
 
<span style="font-size: large">This course satisfies the plant diversity requirement for the EEB major.</span>
 
<span style="font-size: large">This course satisfies the plant diversity requirement for the EEB major.</span>

Revision as of 19:58, 25 April 2007

Scanning electron micrograph of Equisetum sperm cells. Image by K. S. Renzaglia (http://www.science.siu.edu/landplants/Sphenophyta/sphenophyta.html).


EEB 280/380 (3 credits)

Spring 2008
Lectures: T/TH 9:30-10:45 AM

This course satisfies the plant diversity requirement for the EEB major.

Contact Information

Louise A. Lewis Associate Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
office: 200 Pharmacy/Biology Building
voice: +1 860-486-6723
email: louise.lewis@uconn.edu

Bernard Goffinet Associate Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
office: 300 Pharmacy/Biology Building
voice: +1 860-486-5290
email: bernard.goffinet@uconn.edu

Selected Lecture Topics

  • Introduction to the major groups of green plants
  • Alternative theories to the origin of land plants
  • Introduction to plant life cycles
  • Morphological innovations of land plants
  • Evolution of sex in plants
  • Early land plants and the importance of fossils in phylogenetic reconstructions
  • Molecular biology of land plants
  • Land plant physiology: photosynthesis, evolution of hormones, flavonoids, desiccation tolerance