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Biology 1C: Plant Biology and Ecological Principles. Fall 2011

 

Welcome to Bio 1C! Please use these materials to help you, and realize some of the materials (such as lecture notes etc.) may not be up to date, or may be updated later.

DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND THE SI SESSIONS!! Our very superior SI Leader is Angie Reed

Here is the video/lecture on fungi by Paul Stamets - its great!
MAP to Monterey Mushroom farm

Here is a link to Dr. Giacomo Bernardi's blog for his expedition to study clownfish population dynamics off Madagascar

Course Materials

Material Description
Course Syllabus Spring 2012 Course Description and Schedule
Readings for 7th Edition Campbell 7th Edition readings
Class Project Overview of the powerpoint project
Access study materials link to Access study materials
Powerpoint rubric Rubric for the Powerpoint presentation
Lab report rubric a rubric to help write the major lab reports
Lab exam 1 study Study guide for the first lab exam
Lab exam 2 study  
Lab exam 3 study

Angiosperms: flowers, fruits, seeds, life cycle, roots, stems, growth, leaves, physical factors, fungi

Lecture exam 1 study Guide GO TO SI sessions! REVISED: through seedless non-vascular
Lecture exam 2 study Guide Studyguide for lecture exam 2 -
Lecture exam 3 study guide Study guide for lecture exam 3. Semester almost over!!
Final material study guide The 'final' stuff!

Death Valley in bloom. Spring '04

Lab Materials

Here it is!!! The PDF of all the handouts in the green packet

Title Notes

Lab: Life Cycles and Plant cells

Here is a copy of the 'game' we play: life cycle cards

Also download this life cycles worksheet and this one on life cycle patterns
Lab: Bacteria and Eukaryotes Cyanobacteria and intro to eukaryotes - plant cells.

Lab: Eukaryotes II - plant cells and tissues

NOTE: this lab is on the same handout you have for Lab1: Lifecycles and Plant Cells

download this handout on plant cells
Lab: Photosynthesis  
Lab: Photosynthetic protists

Also download these handouts on protists: Protists 1, Protists 2, and Protists 3

Lab: Algal protists And also this handout on green algae
Lab: Bryophytes and seedless vascular plants Mosses!
Lab: Ferns and Conifers and... Also download the fern life cycle, and table of gymnosperm characteristics
Lab: flowers and life cycles BRING flowers to Lab today if you remember!! Also here is some terminology
Lab: seeds and fruits - after fertilization! Bring any seeds and fruits you want to investigate. Also download this KEY and info.
Tissues, stems and roots: growth! Pick up some cool stems and roots
Leaves, adaptations and allelopathy Lab I will hand out some of this Lab in class - but download this part!
Fungi lab download this table too
INTERTIDAL PROJECT Download: Intertidal habitats characteristic of the Monterey Bay and the Methods handout for the lab and this powerpoint about some of the organisms Read these carefully before lab
Float data here are all groups together
Intertidal spreadsheet enter your data here, with team names! Low tide data here
Plant communities template and example Download these!

Interesting Papers (see the link from the home page too)

Assessing the Role of Predators in Ecological Communities Paper discussing the role of killer whales in shaping the North Pacific ecological communities.
Megafaunal Collapse in the North Pacific bottom up vrs top down forcing as mechanisms shaping the community structure
Humans and primary productivity mapping human appropriation of global primary productivity (PNAS paper)
Size and Function in conifer tracheids and Angiosperm vessels A great paper about 'flow' in these two phyla of plants. American Journal of Botany
Darwins finches and Character displacement A paper with some great examples of character displacement (Science journal)
Paddack paper A paper on community structure and trophic dynamics on coral reefs: fish

Lecture Notes

Course Introduction (Lec 1)

Life Cycles

Meiosis/Mitosis/polyploidy

Course Introduction
The Changing Earth
The three major life cycles

Review of mitosis and meiosis

Classification Principles of Taxonomy and phylogeny
Lecture 2 prokaryotes, cyanobacteria

Plant cells and tissues

Eukaryotic cells, plant cells and tissues. Download this handout on plant cells (terminology) too.

Photosynthesis

Lecture on photosynthesis
Protists I Evolution of eukaryotic cells, Plant-like Protists
Protists II-Algae Algal protists

The Move to Land

a link to an animated moss life cycle

Bryophytes (Non-Vascular Plants)
Origins of Vascular Plants
Seedless Vascular Plants (Ferns and Friends…)
Gymnosperms! Gymnosperms and the power of the seed
Angiosperms 1 Flower power!
Angiosperms 2 More flower power-reproduction
Plant growth and development Angiosperm structure and growth
Transport in plants Xylem and Phloem flow - mechanisms for moving fluid
Plant Hormones An overview of plant hormones
Plant physiological ecology adaptations to environmental stress - posted 10/25
Fungi fungal ecology, phyla and life cycles. Check out the Monterey Mushrooms website, as well as Far west fungi website for great mushroom info.
Ecology and ecosystems I Some of the ecology slides
Ecology and ecosystems II The rest of the ecology slides
Ecology notes Some of my ecology notes
Ecology/succession notes
Some more of my notes
Ecosystems notes notes on energetics and biogeochemical cycles
behavior powerpoint notes/powerpoint for animal behavior
populations powerpoint notes/powerpoint for population dynamics
Conservation Biology notes Some of my (unguaranteed)notes
Conservation Bio powerpoint Slides and notes