BIOL 225 - Medicinal Plant Biology

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years

Prerequisites: BIOL 111 and 113 or instructor consent. From Taxol to Vitamin C plants provide important medicinal products for humans. This course is an introduction to the study of plant form and function from the perspective of the utilization of plants by humans for medicinal purposes. Lectures cover plant cell biology, biochemistry, physiology, genetics, and interactions with the environment. The laboratory includes modern plant biology techniques ranging from molecular to organismal. Laboratory course. Hamilton.