OEB 59: Plants and Human Affairs

Semester: 

N/A

Offered: 

2016

Co-taught with Professor D. Pfister

An introduction to the uses of plants by humans. Topics include the form, structure and genetics of plants related to their use as sources of food, shelter, fiber, flavors, beverages, drugs, and medicines. Plant structure and reproduction are studied in lecture and laboratory with a particular focus on relationships between the plant's structural, chemical, or physiological attributes and the utility plant.

Prerequisite: OEB 10 or BS 51 or permission of instructor.