Course Title:
Evolution of Vascular Plants
Course Description:
Covers the origin and evolution of land plants. The invasion of the land surface by plants, particularly vascular plants, occurred in late Silurian and early Devonian time, approximately 405 million to 370 million years ago. The flora that covers Earth today is vastly different from the flora of those early geological days. What were the early land plants like? How did they evolve into the complex land plant flora that we see today? Which taxa have survived unaltered until the present day? How did seed-bearing plants develop? What is the nature of the complex reproductive structure we call the flower? These questions and others are the focus of this course on higher land plants.
Fall Offering:
Even
Lab/Coreq 1:
BIO G258
Spring Offering:
Odd
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Prerequisite 2:
Cross-Listed Course 1:
BIO U557
Prerequisite 3:
Cross-Listed Course 2:
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Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
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Repeatable:
N
