Course Description:
This course was created for both graduate
and advanced undergraduate students. Undergraduate students are very
welcome!
Lectures:
Lab:
Instructor:
Textbook:
If you have any questions about the course,
please contact the instructor!
What some have said about this course: "My
son is looking forward to teaching a new course at the University of
Illinois. He says it's a course about land plants and I know it's
going to be very good! I think somebody else will be teaching about
the water plants." Professor Downie's Mother.
If you liked IB 335 (Systematics of
Flowering Plants), you'll love this course!
Integrative Biology 469 (formerly Plant Biology 304), Evolutionary
Survey of Plants, is a lecture and laboratory course dealing with the
structure, development, reproduction and phylogeny of land
plants, as represented by mosses, liverworts, lycophytes, ferns,
horsetails, gnetophytes, conifers, cycads, angiosperms, and fossils. The
evolutionary changes that led to this diversity will be emphasized;
recent literature will be discussed.
Prerequisites:
Integrative Biology 102 or Integrative Biology 103;
Integrative Biology 201 recommended;
or consent of instructor.
9:00-9:50 AM; Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; Room 306 Natural
History Building
Tuesday 2:00-4:50 PM; Room 306 Natural History Building
Dr. Stephen R. Downie
239 Morrill Hall,
phone 333-1275
sdownie@life.uiuc.edu
Raven et al., 2005. Biology of Plants, Seventh Edition.
W.H. Freeman and Company.