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| − | <span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 280 ( | + | <span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 280 (3 cr)</span> [= new course # EEB 3320]<br><br> |
| − | <span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 280W ( | + | <span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 280W (W, 4 cr)</span> [= new course # EEB 3320W]<br><br> |
| − | <span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 380 (graduate | + | <span style="font-size: x-large">EEB 380 (graduate, 3 cr)</span> [= new course # EEB 3220]<br><br> |
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<span style="font-size: large">Spring 2008<br><br></span> | <span style="font-size: large">Spring 2008<br><br></span> | ||
''Lectures:'' T/TH 12:30-13:45 PM<br/><br/> | ''Lectures:'' T/TH 12:30-13:45 PM<br/><br/> | ||
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| + | [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Evolution_of_Green_Plants_Lab To lab home page.]<br/><br/> | ||
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<pre>This course satisfies the plant diversity requirement for the EEB major.</pre> | <pre>This course satisfies the plant diversity requirement for the EEB major.</pre> | ||
Revision as of 19:34, 21 December 2007
Scanning electron micrograph of Equisetum sperm cells. Image by K. S. Renzaglia (http://www.science.siu.edu/landplants/Sphenophyta/sphenophyta.html).
EEB 280 (3 cr) [= new course # EEB 3320]
EEB 280W (W, 4 cr) [= new course # EEB 3320W]
EEB 380 (graduate, 3 cr) [= new course # EEB 3220]
Spring 2008
Lectures: T/TH 12:30-13:45 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
