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BIOL210: Plant Structure and Function
Plants are spectacularly diverse because of the unrelenting interaction of genes and environment. This produces variations on basic structures (such as leaf morphology) and functions (such as water loss through stomates) that adapt plants to their surroundings. This unit reveals how structure and function underpin the performance of wild and cultivated plants at many levels of organisation, from entire communities (such as rainforests) through to the expression of individual genes. Mechanisms of adaption to a wide range of adverse conditions are addressed, using data from practicals and source material to demonstrate principles. This unit leads to specialist third year units in plant biology.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 5 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (Session Dates: 26-27 February; 18-20 April) |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Brian Atwell |
| Prerequisites: |
12cp(P) including 6cp(P) in 100-level BIOL units or admission to GradCertBiotech |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Biological Sciences |
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