Class Schedule

Week

Date

Topics

8/19

Course introduction and

Plant Principle 1: Plants improve our lives

8/21

Plant Principle 2: Plants transport water from root to leaf

8/26

Plant Principle 2 continued

8/28

Plant Principle 3: Plants transport sugar from source to sink

9/2

Plant Principle 4: Plant form is essential for function

9/4

Plant Principle 5: Plants maintain positive carbon balance

5th Edition
Chapters

(4th ed in red)
31.1, BioSkill
16 B:29-30
(30.1)
2.2, 6.3, 37 pp.
743 stomata &
746, 38.1, 38.3
(2.2, 6.3, 36
pp. 708
stomata & 710,
37.1, 37.3)
38.2 (37.2)
38.4, p.747
(37.4, p.711)
11.1-2, 24.124.2, 31 pp.
580-581 &
584-586, 37
(8.2, 23.223.3, 30 pp.
549-550, &
553-555, 36)
8 pp.141-3,
10 pp.176-191,
198-9
(9 pp. 151-2,
10 pp.172-187,
192-3)

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9/9

Plant Principle 6: Photosynthesis has evolved through time

9/11

EXAM 1: principles 1-6

9/16

Plant Principle 7: Plants use inorganic nutrients

9/18

Plant Principle 8: Other organisms help plants grow

9/23

Plant Principle 9: Plants sense their surroundings

9/25

Plant Principle 10: Plants have hormones too

9/30

Plant Principle 11: Plants defend themselves

10/2

Plant Principle 12: Plants have sex

10/7

EXAM 2: principles 7-12

7
8

8 pp. 148-152
10 pp.192-195
(10 pp.186189)
39 pp. 775-784
(38 pp.737745)
39 pp. 784-790
(38 pp. 746752)
40.1-40.5
(39.1-39.5, 40
pp.787-8)
11.3, 40.5-6
(8.3, 39.5-6)
40.7 (39.7)
24.1, 24.3, 41
(23.1-2, 40)

10/9
10/14
10/16

FALL BREAK
Introduction, Homeostasis*
Metabolism and thermobiology*

10/21

Metabolism

10/23

Neurophysiology 1*

10/28
10/30
11/4

Neurophysiology 2*
Senses*
Exam 3*

11/6

Animal movement 1*

10

11
12

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14
15
16

11/11

Animal Movement 2

11/13
11/18

Gas exchange and Circulation 1*

Gas exchange and Circulation 2*

11/20

Gas exchange and Circulation 3*

11/25

Osmoregulation

11/27

Thanksgiving Holiday

12/2

Endocrine System

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*45
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*45
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*49
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12/4
Exam 4
*The syllabus post fall-break is tentative and will be updated by Dr. Salinas.

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8/19
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8/21

8/26

8/28

9/2
3
9/4

9/9

9/11
9/16
5
9/18

9/23
6
9/25

Course Outcomes
Students will:
1) accept responsibility for completing pre-class assignments
2) participate in example active learning activities
3) be able to describe how plants improve our lives
Students will be able to:
1) explain how form affects function with respect to water transport
2) illustrate and label the flow of water from the soil, through the plant, and
out of leaves at the cell and whole plant level
3) describe the driving forces for movement of water and calculate water
potentials
Same as prior lecture period
Students will be able to:
1) explain how form affects function for how plants distribute and store food
internally
2) describe the driving forces and calculate osmotic and pressure potentials for
sucrose transport
3) illustrate and label the aspects of vascular structure that are essential for
function
Students will be able to:
1) be able to describe the gross structure of plants
2) be able to identify the function of different plant parts
Students will be able to:
1) illustrate how form influences photosynthetic function
2) describe how solar energy is captured and converted in to chemical energy
3) describe how a gas is assimilated in to carbon building blocks
Students will be able to:
1) describe how the history of the earth has influenced the evolution of
photosynthetic organisms
2) explain why all plants do not have carbon concentrating mechanisms
3) explain the differences and similarities between respiration and
photorespiration
Students will participate in an assessment (exam)
Students will be able to:
1) describe what the inorganic nutrients plants need to grow and reproduce
2) describe why plants need the most abundant macro and micronutrients (i.e.
how they are used)
Students will be able to:
1) explain and illustrate how plants interact with other organisms to acquire
additional nutrients
2) describe the costs and benefits of symbioses
Students will be able to:
1) explain the how environment controls germination
2) describe how light controls flowering including perception and transmission
of the signal
3) explain why how perception of touch is beneficial to plants
Students will be able to:
1) define what a hormone is and compare and contrast plant and animal
hormones
2) illustrate and explain how hormones are involved in light and gravity
perception
3) explain how an increase in a single hormone can cause opposite effects in

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10/7
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root than in shoots and why this is beneficial

4) describe the role of hormones in aging and ripening
Students will be able to:
1) explain how plants perceive an herbivore and a pathogen
2) describe how plants defend against attack
Students will be able to:
1) describe the differences and similarities between reproduction in
gymnosperms and angiosperms
2) illustrate and label the process of double fertilization
3) describe the different forms of self incompatibility
4) describe and illustrate the stages of embryogenesis
Students will participate in an assessment (exam)
FALL BREAK