BOTY 1052

Intro to Botany Laboratory

Spring 2009

 

Instructor: Ms. Tommi Lou Carosella     Office: N257, 667-3596      tcarosella@csustan.edu

Office hours: Mon 11:15-12:00, Wed 10:10 - 11:08, Fri 1:30 - 2:20

 

Lab starts first day of the semester! Purchase the lab manual as soon as it is available and bring it to class every time. You should also bring the Raven text to lab.

 

Week

Dates

Topics

1

2/16 – 2/19

What is a Plant?; Scientific Method

2

2/23 – 2/26

Microscope and Plant Cells; Cell Division

Collect Data for Scientific Method

3

3/2 – 3/5

Collect Data; Sexual Reproduction, Meiosis, Genetics

4

3/9 – 3/12

Collate and analyze Data for Scientific method;

Monera; Protista; Pond Water Extra Credit (5 pts)

5

3/16 – 3/19

Evolution exercise. Dress for Outdoors

6

3/23 – 3/26

Understanding Life Cycles;  Scientific Method Report Due (20pts)  Fungi; Supermarket Botany

7

3/30, 4/1, 4/2

No Tuesday Lab; other sections will meet.

Microclimate and Plant Adaptations  (not in manual)

8

4/6 – 4/9

Bryophyta; Lower Vascular Plants

9

4/13 – 4/16

No classes:  Spring Break

10

4/20 – 4/23

Gymnosperms; Leaf Size, Shape and Arrangement

11

4/27 – 4/30

Angiosperm Life Cycle; Flowers, Fruit, and Pollination

12

5/4 – 5/7

Roots; Primary Stems  Tree ID Extra Credit due (10pts)

13

5/11 – 5/14

Secondary Growth and Woody stems; Internal Anatomy of Leaves

14

5/18 – 5/21

Photosynthesis; Respiration; Osmosis  Turn in 2 graphs (10 points)   

15

5/26

Tuesday lab Section only: Microclimates and Plant Adaptations

 

 No food or drink in Lab. No open toe shoes. Quiz every week!