Lissa Leege	Lorne Wolfe
	Biology 1103C	Biology 2204C
	912-681-0800	912-681-0848
	leege@GeorgiaSouthern.edu	wolfe@GeorgiaSouthern.edu

About the course. This is a highly interactive research based course on the biology of plants. Labs and lectures are highly integrated and we will be spending lecture time in lab and lab time in lecture. This schedule is extremely tentative as the timing of events in nature is unpredictable and we are dependent on when our research species begin to flower. Thus, please be flexible

Lecture Topics

Week	Date	Topic	Lecturer
1	Jan 7-11	Botanical Diversity	Wolfe
2	14-18	Morphology	Wolfe
3	21-25	Morphology	Wolfe
4	28-Feb.1	Physiology	Leege
5	4-8	Physiology	Leege
6	11-15	Physiology	Leege
7	18-22	Field Work
8	25-March 1	Field Work
9	4-8	Field Work
10	11-15	No Class - Spring Break
11	18-22	Reproductive Biology	Wolfe
12	25-29	Reproductive Biology	Wolfe
13	April 1-5	Population Ecology	Leege
14	8-12	Population Ecology	Leege
15	15-19	Plant Enemies	Leege
16	22-26	Ethnobotany	Wolfe

Lab Topics

Week	Date	Topic
1	Jan 9	Ipomoea Setup
2	16	Morphology-Cells and Tissues
3	23	Morphology-Stems, Roots & Leaves
4	30	Exam 1
5	February 6	Morphology - Reproduction
6	13	Pear Pollination
7	20	Exam 2
8	27	Pear Pollination
9	March 6	Gelsemium Project
10	13	No Class - Spring Break
11	20	Gelsemium Project
12	27	Exam 3
13	April 3	Ipomoea harvest
14	10	Demography of an Invader
15	17	Ipomoea analysis
16	24	TBA

Grading

Lecture	Points		Lab	Points
Exam 1	75		Lab Paper 1*	50 (2 page)
Exam 2	75		Lab Paper 2	50 (2 page)
Exam 3	75		Ipomoea	100 (full paper)
Final Exam	100
In class stuff	25
Total	350		Total	200

* each student will choose two out of the three projects (Pear, Gelsemium, Invader) to write up.

Text. Raven, P.H., R.F. Evert and S. E. Eichhorn. 1999. Biology of Plants. 6th ed.

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