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	by Prof. Sean Carrington, Department of Biological & Chemical Sciences, University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

Course Text: Raven, PH et al. (2005) Biology of Plants, 7th Edn. WH Freeman ISBN 0716710072

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THIS COURSE

Is designed for 1st year students at the University of the West Indies
Relies heavily on examples from the Caribbean region
Assumes you have passed A'level Biology or CAPE Biology I & II or UWI Preliminary Biology
Is an 8 lecture course (2 lectures, 1 tutorial and one 3 h laboratory class each week)

GOALS OF THIS COURSE

To get you to like plants!
To train you to recognise the major plant groups
To familiarise you with the life cycles and modes of reproduction of these groups
To help you understand how the land plants evolved from simple algal ancestors

USE THIS WEB-SITE

as a back up for missed lectures
to check over something you may not have understood in the lectures
to download handouts and lab manuals
to delve deeper than the lecture material
to direct you to websites relevant to the plant world
as a revision aid

SHORTCUT BUTTONS

	Course home page
	Lecture topics
	Glossary of technical terms
	Laboratory exercises
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	Bibliography
	Relevant web sites
	Email to Prof. Carrington

The links in bold are for sites elsewhere on the WWW
The links not in bold are for sites on this website
Words in the Glossary are also linked

Click here to start the course and attend your first class!

Credits

This course was inspired by an introductory botany course taught by the late
Philip Smith of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

The photographs on the web site are mainly original slides taken by the author except photomicrographs which were obtained from Biodisc

Line drawings were taken largely from
Fawcett, W. & Rendle, A.B. (1914-1936) Flora of Jamaica, British Museum, London.
Sachs, J. (1882) Textbook of Botany, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Strasburger, E. et al. (1908) Textbook of Botany, Macmillan, London.
Wettstein, R. (1935) Handbuch der systematischen botanik, Franz Deuticke, Leipzig & Wien.

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This site was last updated on May 23, 2005.

Sean Carrington

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