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Biology 404b Systematics

An overview of modern systematics, including: breeding systems and the nature of species; significance of different kinds of data-morphological, ultrastructural, chemical, cytogenetic; numerical analyses of affinity, phenetic and cladistic; nomenclature. The role of systematics in conservation and evolution.

Antirequisite: The former Plant Sciences 404b.
Prerequisite: Admission to the fourth year of a four-year program in Biological or Medical Sciences.
2 lecture hours, 3 laboratory hours, half course.


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