Student Learning Outcomes

• Value plants, fungi, algae, and the natural world.
• Discuss the importance of biodiversity and conservation.
• Compare and contrast the reproductive structures of bacteria, algae, fungi, bryophytes, lower vascular plants, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms.
• Illustrate the ecological concept that every living and non-living thing is interconnected, with emphasis on biotic as well as abiotic factors such as soil and exposure to sun/wind.
• Examine the major lines of evolution of plants and the phylogenetic relationships from bacteria to angiosperms, including the work of Charles Darwin and natural selection.
• Summarize the characteristics of plant communities and biomes.
• Examine, monitor and analyze the growth and development of plants from seed to seed and relate deficiencies in nutrients to growth changes.
• Evaluate various theories dealing with uptake of water and food and associated transport pathways in vascular plants.
• Distinguish modifications of stems, leaves and roots with respect to various environmental conditions related to water and food.
• Compare and contrast the anatomical and morphological differences between stems, leaves and roots.
• Identify cells and tissues in stems, leaves and roots.