BIOL G183 - Botany

    Recent Professors
    Travis Vail
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
    Class Size
    32 students
    Credits
    4
    Prerequisite
    Course taught at the level of intermediate algebra or appropriate math placement.
    Fall 2026 Sections
    View Fall 2026 sections of BIOL G183
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 5C · Cal-GETC Area 5B · IGETC Area 5B · IGETC Area 5C · CSU GE Area B2 · CSU GE Area B3
    Description
    Formerly: BIOL G190 – General Botany. This course is intended for biology majors and covers comparative diversity, structure, and function of plant, fungal, and protistan phyla. Topics include: fundamentals of chemistry and biochemistry; cytology, with an emphasis on plant cytology; fundamentals of biological energy: catalysis, cellular respiration and photosynthesis; Mendelian and molecular genetics; ethnobotany; evolution and speciation; plant, population, and community ecology; systematics and taxonomy, with light surveys of (taxonomic) Kingdoms Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Fungi, and Protista - emphasis is on Kingdom Plantae: plant histology, anatomy, physiology, morphology and diversity; and principles of plant culture (cultivation). C-ID: BIOL 155.
    Usually Held
    Mon 11:10am–2:20pm