Syllabus - Spring 2003
| Week | Lecture | T&Z | Lab |
| Jan 13-17 | Intro to course
Review of plant cells |
1 | Introduce Knockout
project
Links page for KO project Photograph students for lab 5 |
| Jan 20-24 | MLK day Monday
E nergy, Water |
2
(web)
3 |
1 - Plant Cells
paper report 1 due Friday |
| Jan 27-31 | Water movement
Mineral nutrition |
4
essay 4.2 5 |
2 - Membranes
and Permeability
paper report 2 due Friday |
| Feb 3-7 | Solute transport
Phloem transport |
6
essay 6.1 10 |
3 - Water relations
paper report 3 due Friday |
| Feb 10-14 | Photosynthesis
- light Photosynthesis - carbon
(Dept. seminar Friday) |
7
8 essay 8.1 |
4 - Photosynthetic
pigments
5 - Leaf Photographs |
| Feb 17-21 | Photosynthesis
- ecology
Exam 1 Friday, Feb 21 |
9 | 6 - Partial reactions of photosynthesis using spinach thylakoids |
| Feb 24-28 | Respiration and lipid metabolism | 11
essay 11.3 |
7 - PCR of T-DNA insertion mutants I |
| Mar 3-7 | Nitrogen assimilation | 12 | 7 - PCR of T-DNA
insertion mutants II
Lab exam |
| Mar 10-14 | Spring break | - | - |
| Mar 17-21 | Secondary metabolism and plant defense | 13
essay 13.1 |
8 - Knockout
project
Acer project due Friday |
| Mar 24-28 | Gene Expression
Cell Walls |
14
(web)
15 |
8 - Knockout project |
| Mar 31-Apr 4 | Growth and Development
Phytochrome |
16
17 essay 17.2 |
8 - Knockout
project
Pathways poster due Friday |
| Apr 7-11 | Blue-light responses
Exam 2 Friday, Mar 31 |
18
essay 18.3 |
8 - Knockout project |
| Apr 14-18 | Auxin
Gibberellin |
19
essay 19.1 20 essay 20.1 |
8 - Knockout
project
Knockout paper drafts due (ungraded) |
| Apr 21-25 | Cytokinin
Ethylene Abscisic acid |
21
22 23 |
8 - Knockout project |
| Apr 28-May 2 | Flowering
Stress Physiology |
24
25 |
Lab clean-up
Knockout papers due |
| May 5 | Final exam - Take-home |
(w) - web only chapter
1/6/03 Copyright (C) 2003,
Jonathan Monroe, monroejd@jmu.edu.
All rights reserved.
URL: http://csm.jmu.edu/biology/courses/bio455_555/schedule.html