Lab Schedule Fall 2007


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Lab No.

Week of

Laboratory Exercise(s) (click link to download specific lab exercise)
Plants 1Jan. 28Fungi, Algae and Bryophytes

Microscope Tutorial
Plants 2Feb. 4Reproduction in Vascular Plants

Plants 3Feb. 11Reproduction in Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)

Feb. 18No Lab This Week
Plants 4Feb. 25Morphology and Anatomy of the Vegetative Body of Flowering Plants

Plants 5Mar. 3Water Relations and Mineral Nutrition
Evolution 1Mar. 10Changes 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).
Evolution 2Mar. 17Evolutionary Biology at the UC Botanical Garden

Picture of Bull's horn acacia showing Beltian bodies and ants (photo by Ruth Kirkpatrick).
Mar. 24No Lab This Week
Evolution 3Mar. 31Introduction to Macroevolution: The Study of Taphonomy

Macroevolution of the Horse
Evolution 4Apr. 7Introduction to Cladistic Analysis

Cladistics Questions and Practice Problems

Cladistics of Early-Diverging Cactus Lineages

Cactus Cladistics Lab Glossary of Terms
Ecology 1Apr. 14Population Biology and Interspecific Competition

Case Studies in Ecology
Ecology 2Apr. 21Predator / Prey

Ecology 3Apr. 28Plants and Their Environments: A Field Trip to the UC Botanical Garden

Ecology 4May 5Bioindicators of Strawberry Creek

Ethnobotany Walk Around VLSB

Strawberry Creek: A Walking Tour of Campust Natural History