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Biology 1C: Plant Biology and Ecological Principles. Fall 2009

 

DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND THE SI SESSIONS!!

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

Course Materials

Material Description
Course Syllabus 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
Exam 1 study study guide for exam 1
Lab exam 1 study study guide for lab exam 1
Lab exam 2 study study guide for lab exam 2
Exam 2 study Exam 2 study guide - UPDATED
Exam 3 study guide look here for updates to this
Final study (last material) Study guide for pop bio and conservation

Death Valley in bloom. Spring '04

Lab Materials

Title Notes
Lab: phylogenetics Classification, taxonomy and phylogenetics
Lab: Bacteria and Eukaryotes Cyanobacteria and intro to eukaryotes - plant cells
Lab: Photosynthesis  
Lab: Life Cycles and Plant cells

Also download this handout on life cycles and this one on plant cells

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
Download: Intertidal habitats characteristic of the Monterey Bay and the Methods handout for the lab Read these carefully before lab
Intertidal spreadsheet enter your data here, with team names!
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)

Lecture Notes

Course Introduction (Lec 1) Course Introduction
The Changing Earth
Principles of Taxonomy and phylogeny
Classification Principles of Taxonomy and phylogeny
Lecture 2 prokaryotes, cyanobacteria, origin of Euk cells, cells, membranes, transport
Photosynthesis Photosynthesis
Eukaryotes Eukaryotic cells, modes of reproduction, Plant cells. Download this handout on plant cells (terminology) too.
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
Fungi fungal ecology, phyla and life cycles
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