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<span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 280/380 (lecture, 3 credits)<br><br></span> | <span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 280/380 (lecture, 3 credits)<br><br></span> | ||
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<span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 291 (lab, 1 credit)<br><br></span> | <span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 291 (lab, 1 credit)<br><br></span> | ||
<span style="font-size: large">Spring 2008<br><br></span> | <span style="font-size: large">Spring 2008<br><br></span> |
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EEB 280/380 (lecture, 3 credits)
EEB 280W (lecture, W, 4 credits)
EEB 291 (lab, 1 credit)
Spring 2008
Lectures: T/TH 9:30-10:45 AM
Labs (for EEB 291 only): T 2-4:50 PM
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