Biology of Plants Lab Exercises

For a schedule refer to the link above to the Biology of Plants Laboratory Syllabus.  The companion book for this course is by Kent Van De Graaff, Samuel R. Rushforth, & John L. Crawley. 2004.  A Photographic Atlas for the Botany Laboratory.  4th edition. Morton Publishing Company.  Englewood, Colorado.  Click on the following links listed below to access an MS Word Document (.doc) of the exercise for the date specified.  

• Exercise 1 - A BRIEF SURVEY OF MEMBERS OF THE PLANT KINGDOM & OTHER PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS (Aug. 23, 2007)

• Exercise 2 - THE PLANT CELL (Aug. 30, 2007)

• Exercise 3 - CELL AND TISSUE TYPES (Sept. 6, 2007)

• Exercise 4 - ROOTS: FORM & FUNCTION (Sept. 13, 2007)

• Exercise 5 - STEMS: FORM & FUNCTION (Sept.,20 2007)

• Exercise 6 - LEAVES: FORM & FUNCTION (Sept. 27, 2007)

• Exercise 7 - THE FLOWER (Oct. 11, 2007)

• Exercise 8 - Sexual Reproduction in the Flowering Plant (Oct. 18, 2007)

• Exercise 9 - Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Algae; Lichens (Oct. 25, 2007)

• Exercise 10 - Kingdom Plantae: Bryophytes Seedless Non-vascular & Vascular Plants (Nov. 1, 2007)

• Exercise 11 - Kingdom Plantae: Gymnosperms & Angiosperms:  Vascular Plants with Seeds (Nov. 8, 2007)