Recent SemestersFall 2026, Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022Class Size32 studentsCredits4PrerequisiteCourse taught at the level of intermediate algebra or appropriate math placement. Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 5C · Cal-GETC Area 5B · IGETC Area 5B · IGETC Area 5C · CSU GE Area B2 · CSU GE Area B3DescriptionFormerly: 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 HeldMon 11:10am–2:20pm