PLBIO 4440 - [Plant Cell Biology]

Fall (offered in odd-numbered years only). Next Offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: one year of college-level introductory biology or permission of instructor.

R. Wayne.

Uses evidence from microscopy, physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology to try to unravel the mystery of the living cell. Studies the dynamics of protoplasm, membranes, and the various organelles. The mechanisms of cell growth and division, the relationship of the cytoskeleton to cell shape and motility, the interaction of the cell with its environment, and the processes that give rise to multicellular differentiated plants are investigated.