EEB 187, SPRING 2005 INTRODUCTION TO PLANT BIOLOGY Instructor: Eduardo Zeiger ([email protected]) Teaching Assistants: Rachel Buchwalter and Yonghong Ren LECTURES: Tuesdays and Thursday 3:30 to 4:45 PM KNUDSEN 1200B DISCUSSION SESSIONS: 1A Wednesday 2:00P 2:50P BOELTER 5273 1B Wednesday 3:00P 3:50P BOELTER 5273 Welcome to EEB 187. I hope that this is an enjoyable experience for both you and us, the teaching team. The goal of this course is to provide you with “portable” knowledge about what plants are about. By “portable” I mean knowledge that you will not forget a couple of weeks after the final exam. This is not a trivial undertaking, I am keenly aware that you are continuously receiving vast amounts of information, which is very hard to organize in a meaningful way. With that in mind, in our course we will not emphasize information as such, we will rather focus on understanding and meaning. We shall elaborate in class what that means. The course is organized into two weekly lectures and one discussion session. The discussions will dwell with selected subjects taught in the lectures from the previous week. The textbook for the course for both lectures and discussion sessions is: Biology of Plants by Raven, Evert, & Eichhorn, 7th Edition W.H. Freeman. Evaluations: In EEB 187 you will be evaluated by weekly quizzes to be given in the discussion sessions, and a final exam. Quizzes are mandatory (NOTE: THERE IS NO DISCUSSION SESSION ON THE WEEK OF APRIL 4, the discussion sessions will start on Wednesday, April 13. Final Exam: Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 3:00pm-6:00pm Critically Important: There is NO make up for the final exam, if you do not take the final exam you will fail the class, sorry but no exceptions. Grading structure. Quizzes: 100 points. Final exam: 200 points. Total: 300 points. You will find below a syllabus for the course. Please keep in mind that the syllabus is likely to change as the course progresses. Changes will be posted in the web site.SYLLABUS APRIL CHAPTER 5 Information versus knowledge. Acquisition of knowledge. Navigating the sea of information. Plants and animals, similarities and contrasts. Overview of the course. 1 7 BUILDING BLOCKS. Major molecules in plant cells. DNA, RNA, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins. 2 12 The plant cell and the cell cycle. 3 14 THE PLANT BODY I. Cells and Tissues 23 19 THE PLANT BODY II. Roots and Shoots 24 & 25 21 THE PLANT BODY III: Leaves and conductive tissue 25 & 26 26 PLANTS IN ACTION I: Photosynthesis and respiration 6 & 7 28 PLANTS IN ACTION II: Transport 30 MAY 3 PLANTS IN ACTION III: Hormones 27 5 PLANTS IN ACTION IV: Environmental sensing by light. 28 10 PLANTS IN ACTION V: Stomatal function 23 & 30 12 Sexual reproduction and Heredity 8 17 Gene Expression 9 19 Plant Biotechnology and Genomics 10 24 THE PLANT COMMUNITY I: Plant diversity and systematics 12 26 THE PLANT COMMUNITY II: The “lower” plants 13-18 31 THE PLANT COMMUNITY III: The Angiosperms 19-20JUNE 2 The angiosperms, part II 19-20 7 “Round up” plants. A case study in integration 10 9 Review