EE BIOL 103
Plant Diversity and Evolution
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to green plant tree of life, with emphasis on using phylogenetic perspective to examine major transitions in plant evolution, including evolution and diversification of land plants, vascular plants, seed plants, and currently ecologically dominant flowering plants. Introduction to phylogenetics, providing overview of theory and methodology to reconstruct and use phylogenetic trees to study organismal evolution. Exploration of 700 million years of plant evolution, with emphasis on morphological, functional, ecological, and biogeographical perspectives.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Life Sciences 1 and 4, or 7A and 7B.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
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- · "LIFESCI 1" is not in this catalog version
- · "LIFESCI 4" is not in this catalog version
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "Life Sciences 1 and 4, or 7A and 7B" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EE BIOL 103
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EE BIOL 103
- EE BIOL 184Evolution, Development, and Disease
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.