Lecture Materials, BIOL 325 & 625:

Topic 01 (Overview of Plant Systematics)

Topic 02 (Overview of Plant Taxa Covered in this Course)

Topic 03 (Taxonomy & The Botanical Code) Reading assignment Here

Topic 04 (PA Natural History) One reading assignment Here, the other in Rhoads & Block

Topic 05 (Global Patterns of Plant Diversity)

Topic 06 (Species & Speciation) One reading assignment Here, another here, the last (Walters & Keil, 1992) on reserve in the library.

Topic 07 (Preparing Herbarium Specimens, by Robert Dirig) This reading assignment was handed out in class. It was not lectured upon. This reading assignment will be counted as lecture material, potentially to be test on.

Topic 08 (History of Plant Systematics)

Topic 09 (Cladistics Primer)

Topic 10 (Uses of Cladograms)

Topic 11 (Molecular Systematics & Ethnobotany of Artocarpus altilis). Reading materials below.