BTNY111 - Principles of plant biology, honors assignment

Students who wish to get honours credit for BTNY111 will be asked to complete this Wikipedia assignment for extra credit. Click the "Timeline" link to get a sense of what the semester will look like for this honours assignment. It will require a bit more work, and a meeting each week for discussion and to check progress. If you are interested, contact Dr. McNickle with any questions, and get the passcode required to enroll here.

Here are some examples of previous work by BTNY111 students to get a sense of what your final "paper" should look like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroblasty_(botany)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megagametogenesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgor_pressure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizosphere

Course description: BTNY111 is an introduction to fundamental biological concepts designed to prepare students for more specialized study. Lectures and laboratory exercises will cover mechanisms and processes of genetics, physiology, and ecology. Our goal is to convey how these levels of organization all contribute to the relative success of organisms within and across environments. Throughout the course, emphasis will be made on the means by which scientific data is collected and interpreted, and key experiments performed in the lab component will be used to illustrate this process.