1.  INTRODUCTIONS
2.  HAND OUT SYLLABUS - mention sequence and text

    A.  TEXT SEQUENCE - LEVELS OF RESPONSIBILITY
        1)  PRESENT IN TEXT
        2)  PRESENT IN TEXT, MENTIONED IN CLASS
        3)  PRESENT IN TEXT, WRITTEN ON BOARD
        4)  NOT PRESENT IN TEXT-MENTIONED OR WRITTEN ON BOARD [EITHER A DIGRESSION OR IMPORTANT]
        5) EXAM QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWER OR ESSAY [LOOK FOR LISTS, COMPARE AND CONTRAST, AND 'LINKAGE' QUESTIONS

    B.  TERM PAPER - WILL HAND OUT TOPICS PAPERS ON THURSDAY.

    C.  LAB - Extension of lecture.  Will take various forms:  DEMO, TOURS, TRIPS.  Listed in Fall Class Schedule as starting at 2:20 and ending at 5:10 - would like to take a 15 min. break after lecture on Thursdays and start lab at 1:50 and end the lab at 4:30 - any problems with this?

TAKE NOTES - LOOK FOR REDUNDANT ITEMS, BE SURE TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY IMPORTANT PLANT PRODUCTS IN TERMS OF STRUCTURE [VEGETATIVE OR FLORAL] AND CLASSIFICATION = GENUS, SPECIES, ORIGIN AND FLOWERING PLANT FAMILY - DEMO GOURD:  Lagenaria siceraria - CUCURBITACEAE - ORIGIN = EITHER SA OR AFRICA.

LAB PRACTICAL IS SERIES OF STATIONS WITH AN OBJECT AT EACH STATION, EXAMINE AND RESPOND TO QUESTION.  FIELD TRIPS REQUIRE PROPER DRESS.  DESCRIBE -  'AGGIE CUISINE'

 INTRODUCTORY NOTIONS:

Relationship between plants and people relates to fundamental energetic relationships of the BIOSPHERE

The planet:  Lithosphere ('crust of the earth - mineral) - Atmosphere ('the air' -gas)
both are abiotic and massive - these relate to the BIOSPHERE - which constitutes a very thin layer between the lithosphere and the atmosphere - it contains elements of both other 'spheres', but is also UNIQUE:

     a.  rapid cyclic flux - turnover, cycles
     b.  complex
     c.  increasing (mass, complexity)
     d.  anti-entrophic (in a sense)

ENTROPY - EARTH IS UNIQUE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM - WHY?  AT THE MULTICELLULAR LEVEL - HOW IS LIFE ORGANIZED? - PLANT [CELL WALL-CELLULOSE-GLUCOSE POLYMER-CHLOROPLAST].  WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT LIFE - ANTI-ENTROPHIC - INCREASE COMPLEXITY AND MASS.  HOW IS LIFE ANTI-ENTROPHIC? - INTEGRATED SYSTEM [BIOSPHERE] - RADIANT ENERGY CONVERTED TO CHEMICAL ENERGY THROUGH PHOTOSYNTHESIS:

WATER + LIGHT --- CHLOROPLAST [WHY ARE PLANTS GREEN = EM SPECTRUM - PIGMENTS] = O₂+ENERGY [LIGHT REACTION] + CO₂ [CALVIN CYCLE] = CARBON COMPOUNDS

CONSULT BOOK (P. 8-11) AND KNOW [AT LEVEL OF BOOK] - THESE REACTIONS (role of both light and dark reactions, NADP+ and ATP), KNOW WHY CARBON IS A LOGICAL CHEMICAL BASE FOR LIFE, AND KNOW THE STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE MAJOR CLASSES OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS - HYDROCARBONS, ALCOHOLS, ALDEHYDES, KETONES, ACIDS, AND AMINES.

5.  THUS, ANIMALS  ARE PARASITIC ON THE ONLY LIFE FORM THAT CAN TRANSFORM RADIENT TO CHEMICAL ENERGY - PLANTS.

"ALL FLESH IS GRASS" - next notion:

[ethnoflora as subset of world's flora]

'PLANTS AND PEOPLE' DEALS WITH THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ONE ANIMAL SPECIES [Homo sapiens] AND THAT PORTION OF THE PLANT WORLD WITH WHICH IT INTERACTS - THE ETHNOFLORA - which is - in essence - an array of species adapted to habitats created by humans.

TWO GENERAL AREAS OF INTEREST: 1) TECHNICAL VS. FOOD AND 2) ORIGINS

Extra time?:  1.  FLOWERING PLANTS:  ALL PLANTS CLASSIFIED INTO 15-20 MAJOR UNITS OR DIVISIONS [=PHYLA OF ANIMALS].  CAN ALSO BE BROKEN DOWN INTO:

NON-VASCULAR [ALGAE, MOSSES]

VASCULAR:  NON-SEED [FERNS AND ALLIED] AND SEED [GYMNOSPERMS AND ANGIOSPERMS] - DIVISIONAL NAME FOR THE FLOWERING PLANTS OR ANGIOSPERMS IS THE MAGNOLIOPHYTA [CA. 220,000 SPECIES DISTRIBUTED WORLDWIDE IN ESSENTIALLY EVERY HABITAT].  THIS GROUP IS CLASSIFIED INTO TWO CLASSES:  LILIOPSIDA [MONOCOTS] AND MAGNOLIOPSIDA [DICOTS].  BASIC WORKING UNITS WITHIN THE CLASSES ARE SUBCLASSES [GROUPS OF ORDERS] AND FAMILIES (OVERVIEW).