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Lab No.
Week of
Laboratory Exercise(s)
(click link to download specific lab exercise)
Plants 1
Aug. 31
Lab #1 Outline: Algae, Plants and Fungi
Fungi, Algae and Bryophytes
Microscope Tutorial
Sept. 7
No Lab This Week
Plants 2
Sept. 14
Reproduction in Vascular Plants
Plants 3
Sept. 21
Reproduction in Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)
Plants 4
Sept. 28
Morphology and Anatomy of the Vegetative Body of Flowering Plants
Ecology 1
Oct. 5
Population Biology and Interspecific Competition
Fox Squirrel Foraging and the Landscape of Fear
Case Studies in Ecology
Ecology 2
Oct. 12
Predator / Prey
Ecology 3
Oct. 19
Plants and Their Environments: A Field Trip to the UC Botanical Garden
During your visit to the UC Botanical Garden, you will NOT see the vernal pool plant
communities, as this is a springtime event. Here are a
set of photographs
of these unique
plant communities at their prime as they occur in the spring.
Ecology 4
Oct. 26
Bioindicators of Strawberry Creek
Ethnobotany Walk Around VLSB
Strawberry Creek: A Walking Tour of Campust Natural History
Evolution 1
Nov. 2
Changes in Population Genetics of Deer Mice
Molecular Evolution Lab
MicroEVO
is an Excel workbook that simulates the microevolution of a population,
written by Adam Smith (ZIP archive, includes instructions).
Nov. 9
No Lab This Week
Evolution 2
Nov. 16
Introduction to Cladistic Analysis
Cladistics Questions and Practice Problems
Cladistics of Early-Diverging Cactus Lineages
Cactus Cladistics Lab Glossary of Terms
Evolution 3
Nov. 23
Evolutionary Biology at the UC Botanical Garden
Picture of
Bull's horn acacia
showing Beltian bodies and ants
(photo by Ruth Kirkpatrick).
Evolution 4
Nov. 30
Introduction to Macroevolution: The Study of Taphonomy
Macroevolution of the Horse
