Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2017 - Full Term (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Term: Fall 2017 - Full Term (08/28/2017 - 12/08/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:
6
CRN: 17082
Special Fees: $85.00
CRN: 17082
Special Fees: $85.00
Classification, identification, culturing, life histories, and ecology of fungi, from slime molds to hallucinogenic mushrooms; the significance of fungi in human history, from their contribution to the art of bread making and alcoholic fermentation to their destructiveness as agents of deadly diseases of plants and animals. Prereq: principles of biology I, II or introduction to botany, or equivalent. Special fee. Lab.
Section Comments: Some Saturday or Sunday field trips required.
Equivalent(s): PBIO 852
Instructors: STAFF
Times & Locations
Start Date | End Date | Days | Time | Location |
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8/28/2017 | 12/8/2017 | M | 2:10pm - 5:00pm | SLS 140 |
8/28/2017 | 12/8/2017 | MWF | 1:10pm - 2:00pm | SLS 140 |
Additional Course Details:
This is a field and lab course emphasizing the identification, classification, and ecology of macrofungi. Field collections of wild mushrooms will be identified from habitat, macroscopic, microscopic and molecular genetic characteristics using printed and online resources.