EE BIOL 162

Plant Physiology

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Basic aspects of plant function, including photochemical, biochemical, and physiological aspects of photosynthesis. Carbon and nitrogen metabolism and its regulation; organellar interactions and compartmentation. Water relations, ion transport, flowering, hormone action, and plant responses to stress.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Summer 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Life Sciences 1, 2, 3, and 23L, or 7A, 7B, 7C, and 23L.

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· "LIFESCI 1" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 2" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 3" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 23L" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 23L" is not in this catalog version
· mixed comma-level AND/OR in "Life Sciences 1, 2, 3, and 23L, or 7A, 7B, 7C, and 23L" — 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 162

LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biologyanother path to it
LIFESCI 7CPhysiology and Human Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecologyanother path to it

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

EE BIOL 162

EE BIOL 162LPlant Physiology and Ecophysiology Laboratory
EE BIOL 247Advanced Plant Biology
EE BIOL 288Seminar: Plant Cell Biology

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.