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emphasis on collection, identification, and ecology of these
plants in Florida.
BOT 5505C-Intermediate Plant Physiology (3) Prereq: BOT
3503, 3503L, andCHM 3200, 3200L, or equivalent. Fundamental
physical and chemical processes underlying the water relations,
nutrition, metabolism, growth, and reproduction of higher
plants.
BOT 5625-Plant Geography (2) Prereq: BOT 3153 or 5725C.
Geography of the floras and types of vegetation throughout the
world, with emphasis on problems of the distribution of taxa,
and the main factors influencing types of vegetation.
BOT 5685-Tropical Botany (10) Prereq: elementary
biology/botany; beginning course in plant systematics; anatomy
and morphology; consent of instructor. Study of tropical plants
utilizing the diverse habitats of South Florida with emphasis on
uses, anatomy and morphology, physiology and ecology, and
systematics of these plants. Field trips and the Fairchild Tropical
Garden will supplement laboratory experiences.
BOT 5695-Ecosystems of Florida (3) Prereq: PCB 3043 or
equivalent and consent of instructor. Major ecosystems of Florida
in relation to environmental factors and man's relationship to
them. Emphasis of all day Saturday field trips is on field prob-
lems, techniques, and research.
BOT 5725C-Taxonomy of Vascular Plants (4) Prereq: BOT
2011C or 3303C or equivalent. Vascular plants, their classifica-
tion, gross morphology, and evolutionary relationships.
BOT 5755C-Biology of Ferns and their Allies (3) Prereq: BOT
3303C and 3153C or 5725C or consent of instructor. Living and
fossil representatives of ferns and other vascular cryptogams,
with emphasis on their structure, evolution, and classification.
BOT 6256C-Plant Cytology (3) Prereq: MCB 4403 or
equivalent. Fundamental structures of plant cells, their functions,
reproduction and relation to inheritance; recent research and
techniques.
BOT 6316C-Developmental Morphology of Flowering Plants
(3) Prereq: BOT 3303C. Developmental morphology of the
vegetative and reproductive organs of flowering plants with
particular emphasis on form and function as revealed by recent
experimental techniques.
BOT 6326C-Methods and Applications of Plant Cell and
Tissue Culture (3) Prereq: BOT 6316C. Laboratory techniques
for the culture of plant protoplasts, cells, tissues, and organs,
and their applications in the study of cellular differentiation,
development, genetics, and agriculture.
BOT 6346C-Biology and Taxonomy of Myxomycetes and
Phycomycetes (3) Prereq: BOT 5435C. Morphology, develop-
ment, and taxonomy of slime molds, water molds, and allied
taxa emphasized.
BOT 6446C-Biology and Taxonomy of the Basidiomycetes (3)
Prereq: BOT5435C. Isolating, collecting, and identification of
field material required.
BOT 6467C-Biology and Taxonomy of Ascomycetes, Their
Imperfect Stages, and Lichens (4) Prereq: BOT 5435C. Mor-
phology, development, and taxonomy of the ascomycetes, fungi
imperfecti, and lichens with emphasis on their identification.
Field work required.
BOT 6496C-Fungal Physiology (3) Comparative physiology of
growth, development, metabolism, and reproduction of selected
fungi.
BOT 6516-Plant Metabolism (3) Prereq: BOT 5505C, BCH
4203. Metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and nitrogen com-
pounds in higher plants; cell structure as related to metabolism;
metabolic control mechanisms.
BOT 6526-Plant Nutrition (2) Prereq: BOT 5505C. Plant
nutrition including essentiality of elements, absorption of ions,
utilization of minerals in plants, and water metabolism.
BOT 6566-Plant Growth and Development (2) Prereq: BOT
5505C. Ways in which environmental factors influence plant
growth and development.
BOT 6576-Photophysiology of Plant Growth (3) Prereq: BOT
5505C. Effects of light on the physiology and biochemistry of
plants. Photosynthesis and photorespiration emphasized. Prop-
erties of light sources, photochemistry, phytochrome action,
photomorphogenesis, photoperiodism, and phototropism
examined. :
BOT 6646-Ecology of Aquatic Plants (3) Prereq: PCB 3043C.
Aquatic plants, their morphology, physiology, anatomy, and role


in aquatic ecosystems. Field trips emphasize the flow of energy
and system structure.
BOT 6716C-Advanced Taxonomy (2) Prereq: BOT 5725C.
Problems in the classification of vascular plants. Published
taxonomic studies reviewed as demonstration of techniques and
principles involved in classification; intensive individual work
required in field and herbarium application of procedures.
BOT 6905-Individual Studies in Botany (1-3) Prereq: approval
of department chairman and consent of instructor. Individual
nonthesis, research problem in one of the following areas of
botany: ecology, physiology and biochemistry, cryptogamic
botany, morphology and anatomy of vascular plants,
systematics, cytology, and ultrastructure. Work selected to meet
the interests and needs of students.
BOT 6910-Supervised Research (1-5) S/U.
BOT 6927-Advances in Botany (1-3) Supervised study in
specific areas of botany.
BOT 6936-Graduate Student Seminar (1) Readings and oral
presentation on general topics in botany. S/U.
BOT 6940-Supervised Teaching (1-5) S/U.
BOT 6951-Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach (8)
Intensive field study of ecological concepts in tropical envir-
onments. Eight weeks in different principal kinds of tropical
environments. Offered Summer Term in Costa Rica as part of
the Program of the Organization for Tropical Studies.
BOT 6971-Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
BOT 7980-Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.
PCB 5046C-Advanced Ecology (2) Prereq: PCB 3043C or
equivalent; physics, chemistry, statistics, physiology and calculus
are desirable. Diversity measures,, population dynamics,
ecosystem classification, quantitative plant sociology, nutrient
cycles, energy flow, productivity, modeling and computer
simulation, and budgets at the ecosystem level.
PCB 5115C-Cytology (4) Prereq: BSC 2010C or equivalent.
Microscopic components of plant and animal cells. Structure,
chemical constitution and function of the cell wall, protoplasm,
cytoplasmic constituents, and nucleus.
PCB 6176-Electron Microscopy of Biological Materials (2)
Prereq: PCB 5115C or 3136 or equivalent. Use of the electron
microscope, including fixation, embedding, sectioning, freeze-
etching, negative staining, and use of the vacuum evaporator.
PCB 6176L-Laboratory in Electron Microscopy (2) Coreq: PCB
6176 and consent of instructor. Laboratory training in use of
electron microscopes, ultramicrotomes, vacuum evaporators,
and freeze-etch machines.
PCB 6216-Cytochemistry (3) Prereq: PCB 6176L or consent
of instructor. Cellular organization, cell function, and
cytochemical technique.
PCB 6356C-Ecosystems of the Tropics (3) Prereq: PCB 3043C.
Natural and man-dominated tropical ecosystems, their struc-
ture, function, and relation to man.
PCB 6626C-Fungal Genetics (3) Comparative genetics of
mating type and sexual development, chromosome mapping,
polyploidy, gene structure and function, and pathogenicity of
selected fungi.
PCB 6691-Topics in Genetics (1-2)
PLP 6622-Biology, Ecology and Taxonomy of Mycorrhizae
(3) Prereq: basic course in botany and plant pathology or their
equivalent. Coreq: BOT 5435C or equivalent. A survey of the
taxonomy, morphology, and ecology of organisms forming
mycorrhizae, and the biological and physiological effects and
economic aspects of mycorrhizae on plants.
ZOO 6126-Historical Ecology of the Pleistocene (3)
Pleistocene environments and ecosystems with emphasis on
worldwide chronology and correlation and intermediate term
historical processes that require 102 to 104 years for significant
expression.

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 GRADUATE FACULTY 1982-83
Director: B. H. Brown. Graduate Coordinator: R. E. Cox.
Professors: B. H. Brown; R. E. Cox; B. G. Eppes; D. A.
Halperin. Associate Professor: H. F. Holland.