Introduction to the Anthophyta - four basic types of angiosperm, flowers, and fruit.
Anthophyta Life Cycle - microsporogenesis, megasporogenesis, and fertilization.
Angiosperm Evolution - earliest extant, and ancestral/modern trait comparison.
Co-evolution. Intro to Genomics, Human Genome Project, and HGP categories.
Questions Genomics will answer - grouping, evolution, etc. Comparison of Genomes.
Junk DNA, pseudogenes, transposons, gene amplification, plasticity, and ethics.
Intro to plant hormones, discovery of auxin, bending coleoptile light experiment.
Plant hormones and tropisms - responses to touch, and effects of day/night lengths.
Ethnobotany, Green Revolution, crop breeding with genomics, and course wrap up.