Instructor: Ari Jumpponen
Office: Ackert Hall 125
Homepage: http://www.ksu.edu/biology/bio/faculty/jumpponen/jumpponen.htm
Phone: 532-6751
Email: ari@ksu.edu
Office Hrs: By appointment; call, email, or meet me after class.
The first half of Biology 201 will cover plants and related organisms. From this portion of the course you should gain an appreciation for the tremendous diversity in plants, their evolutionary history, some representative life cycles, adaptive characteristics, and evolutionary/structural/functional relationships. That's a lot to cover in half a semester; detailed examination of many topics must be sacrificed. I know this will deeply disappoint most of you. I would, however, advise you to start reading the material now; donít leave it until few days before the exam. This is a 5 credit class and substantial as such. Accordingly, this class will, and is supposed to, take a lot of your time this semester. In return, I hope, you will gain more in depth appreciation for life and the diversity on our planet.
Organismic biology is the course upon which more advanced courses in biology build. So please, for your own sake, make sure that attendance of lecture and lab has high priority on your agenda. Attendance is particulary important because the required text for this half of the class (a customized version of Botany by Moore/Clark/Vodopich) covers much more material than we will in class. Thus, for you to know what material to study and the level of understanding required for this course, you need to be in class! However, I would encourage any student planning on specializing in any aspect of plant biology to take advantage of the extra material in Moore et al.
Exam questions will come from lectures
and relevant text. Lab exams will include material covered in labs. Each
test is worth 100 pts., totalling 1,000. There will be 4 tests on lectures,
4 lab tests and a final exam including a set of questions from both instructors,
each, again, worth 100pts. I will make an effort to emphasize those areas
I think are important. Some old exam questions are accessible on Alan Knappís
homepage (http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~aknapp/).
This years are likely to be different. Mine will appear in due course in
the web as well. Unfortunately, this will be only after I have made these
exams and thus be of very little use for you.
Tentative Course Outline
DATE SUBJECT MOORE ET AL. LAB #
8/21 I. Intro., Plants & History
8/22 No lab; use this time wisely, e.g., reading for following dayís classÖ
8/23 II. Diversity and classification 24.5 -24.8; 24.15 -24.20
8/24 LAB-- Introduction to Plants 1
8/25 III. Evolution & Unique features of plants 24.5 ? 24.8; 24.15 ? 24.20
8/28 IV. Plant cells & tissue 3; 13
8/29 LAB-- Plant cells 2
8/30 V. Photosynthesis 7
8/31 L AB?Photosynthesis 3
9/01 VI. Photosynthesis (cont.) 7
9/05 LAB-- Start Fast-Plants 12 & 13
9/06 VII. Fungi 26
9/07 LAB - Fungi 5
9/08 VIII. Algae 27
9/11 IX. Bryophytes 28
9/12 LAB- Algae 4
9/13 X. Vascular systems 29
9/14 LAB - Bryophytes 6
9/15 XI. Ferns 29
9/18 LECTURE EXAM
9/19 LAB - Ferns 7
9/20 XII. Seed Plants-Gymnosperms 30
9/21 LAB - EXAM
9/22 XIII. Flowering Plants-Angiosperms 31
9/25 XIV. Angiosperms (cont.) 17
9/26 LAB- Gymnosperms 8
9/27 XV. Embryogenesis 17
9/28 LAB - Angiosperms 9
9/29 XVI. Plant growth & structure 14, 15
10/2 XVII. Plant growth & structure (cont.) 15, 16
10/3 LAB - Embryology 10
10/4 XVIII. Plant-Environment Interactions 18, 19
10/5 LAB - Plant structure 11
10/6 LECTURE EXAM
10/9 XIX. Plant-Environment Interactions (cont.) 18,19
10/10 LAB - Environmental and Chemical Reg. & Finish Fast-Plants 12 & 13
10/11 XX. Plants and Environmental Issues
10/12 LAB -EXAM
10/13 XXI. Current Topics in Plant Biology
NOTE: Readings on reserve in the library will be assigned during the semester. Dr. Smith has reserved additional material for this class, I decided not to do that this time.