Eastern Kentucky University, Department of Biological Sciences

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BIO 131, General Botany

Fall 2008

Florida anise, (Illicium floridanum) one of the world's most primitive living flowering plants.
(photo by Ross Clark)

WEB SITE FOR THIS CLASS
http://people.eku.edu/clarkro/botweb.htm

SYLLABUS
Go to the official syllabus for this class.

ANNOUNCEMENTS will be posted in the space below. Please check this space frequently.

                       Bonus credit opportunity -- 3 points on your lab final exam
                       Video, Queen of Trees (~50 minutes long)
                       Moore 202 (Botany Lab room), Friday, Dec. 5th, at 3:30p.m. [note the change in time , posted on Monday Dec. 1]
                       There will be only one showing of the video, and it is not available for check-out.
                       You must arrive before the video begins, and be present for the whole showing to receive credit.

                       OPEN LAB, REVIEW TIME for lab final exam (instructor will be present)
                       Sunday, Dec. 7, 3 to 7 p.m., in the Botany Lab (Moore 202)          [posted 29 Nov.]

TIMES FOR LAB FINAL EXAM (Please be on time, and take the exam with your regular lab section.) [posted 3 Dec.]
            Tuesday, Dec. 9 -- 1:00 p.m.
            Wednesday, Dec. 10 -- 9:00 a.m.
            Thursday, Dec. 11 -- 12:30 p.m.

LINKS TO LECTURE NOTES
Lectures will be linked here after we cover the material in class.

    LECTURE NOTE LINKS:
          Oct. 30 Th -- was test day
          Nov. 6 Th -- went over test; intro to vascular plants
          Nov. 11 -- rest of vascular cryptogams; heterospory and seeds
          Nov. 13 -- gymnosperms
          Nov. 18 + 20 -- angiosperms
          Nov. 25 -- questions related to First Flower video, shown on this date
          Dec. 2 -- Photosynthesis, part 1

LINKS TO LAB INSTRUCTIONS
Lab instructions on the following topics will be linked below prior to lab.
Please print them out and bring a copy to lab.

             The midterm lab exam was a test that covered the earlier labs of the semester.
             You will not be re-tested over the earlier labs.

Oct 14-16    MIDTERM LAB EXAM

Oct 21-23   Complex fungi
                     lab instructions
                     Powerpoint -- complex fungi, etc.

Oct 28-30   Mosses and liverworts
                     lab instructions
                     liverworts and mosses Powerpoint

Nov 4-6   no labs this week (fall break)

Nov 11-13   Vascular cryptogams
                    lab instructions
                    Powerpoint; phyla of vascular cryptogams

Nov 18-20   Seed plants
                 lab instructions
                 Powerpoint on Gymnosperms

Nov 25-27   no labs this week (Thanksgiving break)

Dec 2-4     Flowering plants
              Ovule and pollen development
              some flower structures
              some variations in flower structure, PowerPoint
              pollen development, PowerPoint
              ovule development. PowerPoint

Dec 9-11 FINAL LAB EXAM

OPEN LAB TIMES

        The only other class that meets in the Botany Lab begins at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
        Please feel free to use the lab for study at all other times.
        If the lab is locked, please see a departmental secretary, and she will open it for you.

TEST ARCHIVE (see links below)
Copies of old lecture tests for the past few years are linked below so you can get a better idea of what types of questions I ask. Because of variations in the schedule from semester to semester, the material covered on Test #1 or Test #2 (etc.) will not be identical every semester. The one thing you can count on is that each lecture test will cover only the material we have covered since the last test .

SPRING 2004 TESTS
FALL 2004 TESTS
SPRING 2005 TESTS
FALL 2005 TESTS
SPRING 2006 TESTS
FALL 2006 TESTS
SPRING 2007 TESTS
FALL 2007 TESTS
SPRING 2008 TESTS

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