<p>Lecture, two and one half hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: Life Sciences 7A, 7B, 7C. Plants are the foundation of most terrestrial ecosystems and humans are utterly dependent on them for survival and reproduction. Exploration of diversity of plants that provide significant economies and those that intersect with certain cultural cosmologies. Examination of their ecological, evolutionary, and economic histories while studying plant morphology and function. Highlights importance of plants to human cultures from biological and cultural perspectives in historical and modern contexts. Letter grading.</p>

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

College of Letters and Science

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EE BIOL 104 - Plants and People

Plants and People

Appreciate the diversity of economically and culturally important plants that people have interacted with in the past and into the present.

Develop proficiency of information literacy including discovery of information, understanding how information is produced, organized, and valued, as well as use of information in creating a digital project with an online publishing platform (i.e. Scalar).

Explain the economic uses of plants by humans for food, beverage, medicine, industry and other products.

Gain an understanding of 'tree-thinking' as it applies to plant systematics.

Gain knowledge of how human activities influence plant diversity and conservation.

Identify the basic plant parts of commonly eaten plants, or plants with significant economic or cultural importance.

Gain an understanding of the cultural importance of plants to humans in historical and modern contexts.

Understand various evolutionary processes related to plant domestication.

Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of plant biology such as cell structure, morphology, anatomy, physiology, genetics, and systematics.

Articulate the importance of plants to human societies from biological and cultural perspectives in both historical and modern contexts.

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Plants and People

EE BIOL 104

4 units