Biology Lab
- Introduction
This lab focuses on the ability to classify plants based on specific characteristics.
Learning Objectives
Lab 1109
SLO – 5: Describe phylogenetic relationships and classification schemes.
SLO – 6: Identify the major phla of life with an emphasis on plants and animals, including the basis for classification, structural and physiological adaptations, evolutionary histry, and ecological significance.
Materials
- Fee for site visit
- Lab worksheet
Instructions
- Schedule a visit to a local arboretum, zoo or botanical garden to collect the information for the worksheet. The fees associated with visitation will be assumed by the student
- While visitng a local arboretum, zoo or botanical garden, complete the worksheet based on the plant species available.
Listed below are some interesting places in and around Houston to study plants.
Houston Arboretum: http://houstonarboretum.org/
Armand bayou Nature center: http://www.abnc.org/
Maas Nursery Kemah: https://maasnursery.com/
Houston Zoo: http://www.houstonzoo.org/
If you are not able to visit a nature center, arboretum or nursery to photograph and look at plants, you may use the following websites as alternatives.
https://plants.usda.gov/java/ or
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/
Choose one plant from each of the categories on the worksheet and answer the questions about that plant. The categories are the headings – moss, fern, gymnosperm, angiosperm dicot, and angiosperm monocot.
Please use a contrasting color when you type your answers on the worksheet.
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