BOTANY (BOT) for Majors
BOT 3373C Vascular Plants: Form and Function (4) AS BIO - F/S
PR: BSC 2011, BSC 2011L, BSC 2010, BSC 2010L, CHM 2046, and CHM 2045
Introduction to morphology, physiology and evolution of vascular plants, integrating
form and function to understand diversity. Lec.-lab.
BOT 3850 Medical Botany (3) AS BIO - S
PR: BSC 2010, BSC 2010L, BSC 2011, BSC 2011L & CHM 2210
Study of agents that are produced by plants and that are toxic or psychoactive in
human beings or are useful as remedies. Lecture only.
BOT 4152C Field Botany (3) AS BIO - F
PR: BOT 3373C, BSC 2011, BSC 2011L, BSC 2010, BSC 2010L, CHM 2046, and CHM 2045
Identification and classification of native and naturalized flowering plants of
Florida including historical, climatic and floristic aspects of plant communities.
Conducted largely in the field.
BOT 4223C Plant Anatomy (3) AS BIO - F
PR: BOT 3373C & CHM 2210
Comparative studies of tissue and organ systems of fossil and present-day vascular
plants. Functional and phylogenetic aspects stressed. Lec-Lab.
BOT 4434C Mycology (3) AS BIO - F
PR: (either BOT 3373C or MCB 3020C) & CHM 2210
A survey of the fungi with emphasis on their taxonomy, morphology, physiology and
economic importance. Lec.-lab.
BOT 4503 Plant Physiology (3) AS BIO
PR: BOT 3373C & BSC 2011, BSC 2011L, BSC 2010, BSC 2010L, CHM 2046, and CHM
2045
Fundamental activities of plants; absorption, translocation, transpiration, metabolism,
growth, and related phenomena. Lecture only.
BOT 4503L Plant Physiology Laboratory (1) AS BIO
PR: BOT 3373C, BSC 2011, BSC 2011L, BSC 2010, BSC 2010L, CHM 2046, and CHM 2045
CR: BOT 4503 Laboratory portion of Plant Physiology.
BOT 4810C Economic Botany (3) AS BIO - F
PR: BOT 3373C, BSC 2011, BSC 2011L, BSC 2010, BSC 2010L, CHM 2046, and CHM 2045
Study of the uses of plants by man for food, chemicals, fibers, and medicines.BOT
5185C Marine
Botany (4) AS BIO - SB
PR: BOT 3373C, PCB 3043, CHM 2210 and CI
A field course in marine plants with emphasis on ecology and functional morphology.
Field work will stress the ecological aspects of plants in a subtropical marine
environment in Florida . Lec/Lab.
BOT 5725C Evolution of Flowering Plants (3) AS BIO - SB
PR: BOT 3373C, BOT 4152C, and CI
A study of the evolution and phylogeny of the Angiosperms; the origin and nature
of early angiosperms, "primitive" angiosperms today; evolutionary processes leading
to the origin of genera, families and orders, trends of specialization in the angiosperms;
phylogenetic analysis, cladistics, traditional approaches, new approaches; readings
from the current and historical literature. Lec/Lab.