Plants & Human Affairs (BIOL106)  -  Stephen G. Saupe, Ph.D.; Biology Department, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321; ssaupe@csbsju.edu; http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe

Greenhouse Observations

Lecture/Overview

1. Brief history of the CSB/SJU Biology Department Greenhouse

2. Light (glazing, shading, supplemental lighting)

3. Water & fertilizer

4. Growth media 

5. Pests

Locate the following plants:

1. A woody plant
2. An herb
3. A shrub
4. A tree
5. A vine (liana)
6. Fern sporophyte (with sporangia) and gametophyte
7. Moss gametophyte and sporophyte
8. Find 3 plants that are evolutionarily related to one another
9. Locate a plant in flower � if the flowers are abundant, carefully remove one and dissect it looking for the major parts

Locate a plant with the following adaptations (suggest the evolutionary significance of each feature)

1. Succulence
2. Epiphytes
3. Reduced leaves
4. Thorns and spines
5. Asexual reproduction
6. Drip tips
7. Aerial roots
8. Climbing plant
9. A plant with rhizomes
10. A plant with a bulb
11. A plant with a stolon
12. Carnivorous plant
13. Plants that exhibit various modes of asexual reproduction (without flowers)
14. Mechanisms (at least two different ones) to protect from herbivores 
15. Flower modified for wind pollination
16. Flower modified for insect pollination
17. Flower modified for bat pollination

Last updated:  01/10/2005 � Copyright  by SG Saupe