PBIO 3080 - Structural Botany

• Conceptual understanding of phylogenetic systematics and the construction of systematic trees.
• Knowledge of fevolution, structure, and reproduction of Psilotopsidaa, Pteropsida, and Equisetopsida.
• Knowledge of evolution, structure, and reproduction of Lycopodiales, Selaginellales, and Isoetales.
• Knowledge of evolution, structure, and reproduction of chcads, Ginkgo, Conifers, and Gnetophytes.
• Knowledge of evolution, structure, and reproduction of extinct seed plant clades.
• Knowledge of novel vegetative and reproductive characters of flowering plants.
• Knowledge of structure and reproduction of Zosterophyllopsida.
• Knowledge of the first vascular plants - rhyniophytes, zosterophylls, trimerophytes.
• Knowledge of vascular plant diversity as expressed through tree-based phylogenies.
• Understanding of basic structural, reproductive, and systematic diversity of flowering plants.
• Understanding of embryophyte organography and the evolution of stems, leaves and roots.
• Understanding of evolution and diversity for Lycophytina.
• Understanding of evolution of seed-plant reproduction and origin of seed plants, Pteridospermopsida.
• Understanding of evolution of seed-plant vegetative structure, Progymnospermopsida.
• Understanding of evolutionary charnge that led to the origin of vascular plants.
• Understanding of evoluton and relationships among major plant groups.
• Understanding of geologica/paleontological concepts upon which plant evolution is based.
• Understanding of the origin, evolution, and diversity of Euphyllophytina.
• Understanding of the origin, evolution/diversification, and importance of flowering plants.
• Working knowledge of modes of plant fossil preservation and the interpretation of plant fossils.
• Working knowledge of paleontological evidence for plant evolution.
• Working knowledge of plant anatomy as reflected by concepts of cells, tissues, tissue systems and organs.