BI 125 - Laboratory for BI 124

Credit Hours: 1

This laboratory (BI 125) is designed to supplement and reinforce the subject matter learned in the lecture classes. Students are required to collect and identify native wild plants in the field and identify them as to their genera, species, and family names. Students are required to collect and prepare herbarium specimens for permanent use. A major part of the course is devoted to identifying and learning the common and scientific names of plants, their relationships to each other and their evolutionary diversification.

Fulfills SUNY General Education – Natural Sciences.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

identify plants at sight, (learn genus and species, common names, and family names);
collect herbarium specimens that represent at least 100 native plants;
classify the 100 plants collected using binomial nomenclatures; and
identify the salient features of the families represented by the plant specimens collected during field trips.

Concurrent Registration: BI 124
SS (C, N, S)