BIO 343

• Course Description:

  This course introduces the principles and practicality of flowering plant taxonomy with emphases on identifying various plants species and relate them to their families using tools such as vegetative morphology, reproductive morphology and fruit morphological characterization.

   

• Course Main Objective:

1. To explain the principles of classification and discuss the history of plant taxonomy.
2. To identify different plant species using Binomial Nomenclature
3. To learn how species evolve and how species and species groups are related biologically, geographically and ecologically.

    

• Learning Resources

1. Taxonomy of Flowering plant, C. L. Porter , 2008
2. Vascular Plant Taxonomy by Murrell, Z E, 2010 Heywood, V.H. 1972.
3. Plant Taxonomy. London. Edward Arnold Publisher's. Jeffrey, C. 1982.
4. An Introduction to Plant Taxonomy. New York. Cambridge University Press
5. Websites and databases that are relevant to the topics of the course