BIOL& 213 - Majors Plant

1. Apply major terms, vocabulary, methods and concepts relevant to botany.
2. Explain current issues in society and examine their relationship to botany.
3. Analyze botanical problems using the principles of the scientific method, including observation, hypotheses and testing predictions.
4. Explain how and why all life is dependent on plants.
5. Discuss attributes of living organisms including chemical and physical bases of life.
6. Identify practical human uses each for roots, wood and stems, and leaves.
7. Distinguish, draw, compare and contrast utilizing knowledge of the origin, development, form, function, strategies, and adaptations of: plant tissues, roots (specialized), stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds in labs and projects.
8. Identify factors that control dormancy and explain how dormancy may be broken both naturally and artificially.
9. Diagram pathway, movement, and utilization of water in plants.
10. Outline metabolic concepts of photosynthesis, respiration, and additional pathways.
11. Contrast growth, differentiation, and development and distinguish among nutrients, vitamins, and plant hormones.
12. Apply propagation techniques.
13. Use a dichotomous key to identify plants.
14. Recognize the features that members of Kingdoms share with each other and what distinguishes them from other Kingdoms.
15. Use laboratory equipment safely and with technical skill.