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BOT 101 - General Botany I
Course Description
- Corequisite: BOT 101L
Lectures in this course will explore plant growth and development by means of a study of plant structure and function. There will be a consideration of evolution and classification and the interaction between plants and the environment.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of BOT 101, the student will be able to:
- Trace the evolution of plant life: the beginning of life, how living things changed, the first plants and how they changed earth, the movement of plants from water onto land.
- Identify plant cells: structure, function, and reproduction.
- Synthesize basic chemistry as It relates to living things: photosynthesis, respiration, the molecular composition of cells, the movement of substances Into and out of cells.
- Describe how basic physics relates to living things: energy exchanges and their importance within organisms and ecosystems.
- Examine the chemistry of genetics, Mendilian genetics and the Importance of genetic engineering in producing better plant products.
- Explore the evolution of plant diversity: the behavior, of genes In populations, changes in populations, the divergence of populations and the evolutionary role of hybridization.
- Categorize the five kingdoms of living things with an emphasis on four of those kingdoms, excluding Animalia (multicellular animals).
- Detect how plants determine biomes and the role of plants in ecosystems.
- Classify plant growth and development: plant hormones.
- Analyze external factors and plant growth: tropisms and circadian rhythms.
- Describe the movement of water and solutes In plants.
- Distinguish plant anatomy: roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruit.
- Tabulate economic and ecological importance of plants in Hawaii.