Plants are interesting to me because they are so different from us and the organisms that we are most familiar with (mostly animals). At first these differences will cause unfamiliarity, but eventually you will not be so bogged down by learning new vocabulary and you will hopefully come to realize that plants are more interesting than you might have thought (and besides, no plants means no dorritos, french fries, or beer?).
Readings From Textbook
pages 600 - 610.
Further Viewing
1) Here is the slideshow that I will use in class for the final three lectures.
http://www.slideshare.net/secret/DBv71wnKTH1YBN
2) Here is a powerpoint presentation from a group called "world of teaching" that covers plant diversity? There are many "quiz questions" that should be helpful to look at.
http://www.worldofteaching.com/powerpoints/biology/Plant%20Divisions.ppt
Primitive Plants
Expected Learning Outcomes
A the end of this course a fully engaged student should be able to
- functionally define a plant
- discuss the characteristics of a primitive plant such as Chlamydomonas
- diagram a life cycle of a human
- diagram the life cycle of Chlamydomonas
- distinguish between oogamy and isogamy
- discuss the evolutionary advantage of multicellularity, diploid dominance, and oogamy
Transition to Land
Expected Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course a fully engaged student should be able to
- discuss the problems plants face when moving to the land
- discuss the characteristics of the ancestor of land plants
- diagram the life cycle of a moss
- discuss the morphological and physiological characteristics of mosses
- discuss the characteristics of mosses that makes them considered to be advanced relative to primitive plants but primitive relative to the ferns
- discuss how the morphological and life history characteristics of mosses limits their growth and geographic distribution
Thank you so much for posting that world of teaching powerpoint - it really helped clarify the big picture and clarify similarities/differences
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