Distinguish micro- and macro-nutrients and understand symptoms used to identify nutrient deficiencies
Identify and describe the key properties of soil and soil formation, including abiotic and biotic influences, and the soil horizons
Understand the nitrogen cycle
Explain how agriculture influences soil health and thus crop health, and its implications for global food security and climate change
Learn about 5 key plant hormones, their mechanisms and applications
Review concepts: Phylogeny, Systematics, Taxonomy, Cladistics
Apply knowledge of cladistics to 3 domains
Plesiomorphies for Bacteria and Archaea
Synapomorphies of Bacteria, Cyanobacteria, Archaea
Cyanobacteria, Origin of Photosynthesis, Oxygen Revolution

Lecture Slides: Link to PowerPoints and Handouts
Textbook Readings:
- Resource Acquisition and Transport in Vascular Plants
- Soil and Plant Nutrition
- Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals

Monday, 8:30AM

Wednesday 8:30 AM

- read textbook
- prepare for Exam 2
- submit Informational Interview Candidates