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department Plant Biology (X) |
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Examination of a special topic in a small group setting. Not open for credit to students who have completed course Plant Sciences 90X. (Former course Plant Sciences 90X.)
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Internship—3-36 hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Technical and/or professional experience on or off campus. Supervised by a member of the Plant Biology faculty. (P/NP grading only.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Primarily for lower division students. (P/NP grading only.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—8 hours. Prerequisite: Plant Sciences 2, Biological Sciences 1C, 2C, or equivalent course in Plant Sciences. Survey of the flora of California, emphasizing recognition of important vascular plant families and genera and use of taxonomic keys for species identification. Current understanding of relationships among families. Principles of plant taxonomy and phylogenetic systematics. One Saturday field trip. (Same course as Plant Sciences 102.)—III. (III.) Potter
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite: introductory plant biology (for example, Biological Sciences 1C). Survey of vascular plant structure and development. Current ideas and experimental evidence for developmental concepts.—I. (I.) Canington
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1A, 1B, 1C, or 2A, 2B, 2C. Diversity and classification of angiosperms (flowering plants) on a world scale, and current understanding of the origin of angiosperms and evolutionary relationships and trends within them based on morphological and molecular evidence. (Same course as Evolution and Ecology 108.) GE credit: SciEng.—III. (III.) Doyle
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1C, or 2A, 2B, and 2C; Chemistry 8B and Physics 7C (either may be taken concurrently); Plant Biology 105 recommended. The plant cell as a functional unit. The processes of absorption, movement, and utilization of water and minerals. Water loss, translocation, photosynthesis, respiration.—I. (I.) Dehesh, Lucas
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Discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 111 concurrently. Discussion of problems and applications relating to principles presented in course 111. Students will be assigned problems each week showing novel applications of principles described in course 111 and will prepare answers to be delivered orally during the class period. (P/NP grading only.)—I. (I.) Lucas, Dehesh
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1C, or 2A, 2B and 2C; Chemistry 8B. Introduction to the mechanisms and control systems that govern plant growth and development and the responses of plants to the environment. Strong emphasis on vegetative development of flowering plants. GE credit: SciEng.—II. (II.) Harada, Sundaresan
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Discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 112 concurrently. Discussion of problems and applications relating to principles presented in course 112. Students will be assigned problems each week showing novel applications of the principles described in course 112 and will prepare answers to be delivered orally during class period. (P/NP grading only.)—II. (II.) Harada, Sundaresan
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1A and 1C, or 2A, 2B, 2C; 101; Biological Sciences 102 or 105 recommended. Molecular and cellular aspects of the growth and development of plants and their response to biological and environmental stresses. Primary focus on processes unique to plants. Experimental approaches will be emphasized.—III. (III.) Harada
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Discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 113 concurrently. Discussion of topics and applications related to principles presented in course 113. Assigned topics each week show novel applications of the principles described in course 113; discussion of topics during class period. (P/NP grading only.)—III. (III.) Harada
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite: introductory plant biology (e.g., Biological Sciences 1C, or 2A, 2B, and 2C); plant anatomy recommended (e.g., Plant Biology 105). Introduction to the form, development and evolution of vascular plants. Emphasis given to the form and development of reproductive structures in ferns and seed-producing plants as a basis for determining evolutionary relationships. GE credit: SciEng.—II. (II.) Jernstedt
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Lecture—3 hours; fieldwork—3 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1A, 1B, 1C, or 2A, 2B, 2C; Plant Biology 111 recommended. The study of the interactions between plants, plant populations or vegetation types and their physical and biological environment. Special emphasis on California. Four full-day field trips and brief write-up of class project required. (Same course as Evolution and Ecology 117.)—I. (I.) Pearcy
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1A and 1C, or 2A, 2B, and 2C. Comparative morphology, physiology, development and reproduction of cyanobacteria, the major algal groups, and the bryophytes. Focus is on structure-function and evolutionary relationships. Ecological factors and commercial uses are considered. Laboratories include study of living organisms and identification exercises.—II. (II.) Canington
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1A, 1B, 1C, or 2A, 2B, 2C; introductory statistics recommended. Origin and evolution of weeds, reproduction and dispersal, seed ecology, modeling of population dynamics, interactions of weeds and crops, biological control. Laboratories emphasize design of competition experiments and identification of weedy species. (Same course as Evolution and Ecology 119.) Not open for credit to students who have completed Plant Biology 121.—III. (III.) Rejmanek
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1A, 1C, 101; course 105, Plant Pathology 120, and Entomology 100 recommended. Analysis of the interactions necessary for viruses to infect plants. Interactions among insect vectors and host plants involved in the plant-virus life cycle. Evolutionary aspects of the molecular components in viral infection and modern experimental approaches to the interdiction of viral movement. Offered alternate years. (Same course as Entomology 123/Plant Pathology 123.)—(I.) Lucas, Gilbertson, Ullman
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 103 or 105. The biochemistry of important plant processes and metabolic pathways. Discussion of methods used to understand plant processes, including use of transgenic plants. (Same course as Molecular and Cellular Biology 126.)—II. (II.) Abel, Callis
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1C. Growth, identification, cultivation, and use of common culinary and medicinal herbs; herbal plant families; effects of climate and soils on herbs; herbal medicine; ecology and geography of herbs; herb garden design; secondary chemistry of active compounds. (Same course as Environmental and Resource Sciences 140.)—III. (III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: Plant Sciences 2 or Biological Sciences 1C or 2C. Origins of crops and agriculture, including main methodological approaches, centers of crop biodiversity, dispersal of crops, genetic and physiological differences between crops and their wild progenitors, agriculture practiced by other organisms, and role and ownership of crop biodiversity. GE credit: Div, SciEng, Wrt.—III. (III.) Gepts
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Lecture/discussion—2 hours; fieldwork—3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1A or 1B or 1C or Molecular and Cellular Biology 10 recommended. Consent of instructor required quarter prior to course. Upper division standing required if enrollment must be limited. Selected plant communities analyzed for their structure and the relationship of their component species to the environment. Four weekend field trips required. GE credit: SciEng, Wrt.—III. (III.) Young
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—6 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1A, 1B, 1C. Systematics, ecology, evolution, and morphology of fungi. Importance of fungi to humans. (Same course as Plant Pathology 148.)—I. (I.) MacDonald, Rizzo
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Laboratory/discussion—6 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1A, 1B, 1C, or 2A, 2B, 2C, or the equivalent courses in Plant Sciences, and consent of the instructor. Provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to formulate experimental approaches to current questions in plant biology and to carry out their proposed experiments. May be repeated for credit for a total of 12 units. (P/NP grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: upper division standing in Plant Biology or related discipline; consent of instructor. Introduction to research methods in plant biology. Design of field or laboratory research projects, survey of appropriate literature, and discussion of research by faculty and students. May be repeated for credit. (P/NP grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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