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2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

BIOL 251 - Elements of Botany


Credit Hours: 4
Billable Contact Hours: 6
Prerequisites: BIOL 151  
MTA Natural Sciences Satisfier Y
Session Cycle: WI

A detailed study of plant forms from the primitive groups to the higher seed plants. Morphology and physiology, taxonomy, evolution, ecology and economics will be studied. Course requires laboratory work.

Notes: Science/Mathematics

Theory Hours: 45

Lab Hours: 45

Learning Outcomes: 1. Achieve an understanding of how science influences our daily lives.

2. Describe how plants colonized land and evolved from algae.

3. Achieve an understanding of plant structure and function.

4. Recognize the areas of study covered by botany.

5. Identify uses of plants by mankind.

6. Identify and apply the major taxonomic plant groupings