Plant Sciences

This Course List emphasizes the sub-discipline of Plant Sciences, and is well suited for students who are interested in:  plant physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology; plant biotechnology and genetic engineering.

Highly Recommended Courses for this Stream
BCHM 218  Molecular Biology
BIOL 315  Plants and Human Culture
BIOL 331  Analytical Genomics
BIOL 341  Plant Physiology
BIOL 402 Experiments in Plant Physiology
BIOL 404  Techniques in Molecular Biology

Other Complementary BIOL Courses for this Stream 
BIOL 322 Environmental Physiology of Animals
BIOL 323 Vertebrate Diversity and Evolution
BIOL 334 Comparative Biochemistry
BIOL 409 Bioremediation
BIOL 416 Terrestrial Ecosystems
BIOL 430 Molecular Genetics of Development
BIOL 431 Cellular Basis of Adaptation
BIOL 441 Molecular Genetics
BIOL 501 Recent Research in Molecular Biology
BIOL 502 Plant Cellular Responses to Environmental Stress
BIOL 503 Plant Biotechnology
BIOL 506 Biochemical Adaptations to Life Under Extreme Conditions
BIOL 507 Biotechnology
BIOL 508 Biology of the Cell Cycle
BIOL 510 Biogeochemistry and Global Change
BIOL 530 Origins of Biodiversity

Suggested Options and Electives
BCHM 410 Protein Structure and Function
BCHM 411 Advanced Molecular Biology

 

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

It's a parts list... If I gave you the parts list for the Boeing 777 and it had 100,000 parts, I don't think you could screw it together and you certainly wouldn't understand why it flew

Eric Lander

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant

Jacques Monod

The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism

Richard Dawkins

Shall we conjecture that one and the same kind of living filaments is and has been the cause of all organic life?

Erasmus Darwin

Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it's impossible to determine the line of demarcation

Aristotle

Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love, and realize the bath water is cold

Lorraine Lee Cudmore

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history

Charles Darwin

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum

J. Craig Venter

Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made

Neil Shubin

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct

Charles Darwin

The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned

Steven Pinker

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest

Rosalind Franklin

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget

Mary Roach

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine

Leroy Hood

I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment"

Isabella Rossellini

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality

Thomas Cech

Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of evolution

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century

- Freeman Dyson

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third

- Thomas Huxley