Eco Botany: Plants And Human Affairs

Instructor:
Robert D Paratley
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Credits:
3.0
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Building:
Thomas Poe Cooper Bldg
Room:
Rm.113
Semester:
Spring 2023
Start Date:
End Date:
Name:
Eco Botany: Plants And Human Affairs
Requisites:

Prereq: PLS 104, PLS 210, one year of introductory biology, or permission of the instructor.

Class Type:
LEC
11:00 am
12:15 pm
Days:
TR

Plants have played a major role in human affairs. Course will relate plant life processes and chemistry to human uses: food crops, spices, medicinals, and materials. Major units are the origins agriculture and early domesticates, ethnobotany, and a selection of plants and plant products with major historical impacts - potato, nutmeg, pepper, chocolate, sugar cane, cotton, quinine, rubber, tobacco. Contemporary themes include herbal medicine and plant-based pharmaceuticals.

Plants have played a major role in human affairs. Course will relate plant life processes and chemistry to human uses: food crops, spices, medicinals, and materials. Major units are the origins agriculture and early domesticates, ethnobotany, and a selection of plants and plant products with major historical impacts - potato, nutmeg, pepper, chocolate, sugar cane, cotton, quinine, rubber, tobacco. Contemporary themes include herbal medicine and plant-based pharmaceuticals.

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