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  • BOT 4650: Greenhouse Management

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1610 or BOT 1800, and University Advanced Standing; BOT 1800 recommended. Gives students an in-depth understanding of greenhouse operations, infrastructure, and management. Covers greenhouse structures components and controls. Focuses on plant growth and development within controlled environments. Informs students about plant nutrition, plant substrates, watering, and lighting strategies used in greenhouse management.. Course Lab fee of $97 applies.
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  • BOT 4700: Plant Tissue Culture WE

    4.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1620 with a minimum grade of C- and University Advanced Standing. Teaches principles of plant micro propagation techniques. Prepares the student to design and carry out their own micro propagation systems for the cultivation of a particular plant species.. Course lab fee of $60 applies.
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  • BOT 4800: Plant-Herbivore Interactions

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1620 with a C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Studies the diversity of interactions between plants and herbivores, and how these interactions can affect population, community, and ecosystem-level dynamics. Topics include plant defenses, tritrophic interactions, plant succession, and co-evolution. Implications of plant - herbivore interactions to natural resource management are considered.
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  • BOT 481R: Botany Internship

    1.00 - 5.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1620 with a C- or higher, Instructor Approval, and University Advanced Standing. Allows biology majors to earn credit while obtaining practical and research experience as an intern in a government, nonprofit, private agency, or with an approved employer. Must be supervised by agency representative and faculty advisor. Department chairperson approval required and written contracts must be completed and signed. May be repeated for a maximum of 5 credits toward graduation. May be graded credit/no credit.
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  • BOT 489R: Student Research

    1.00 - 4.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1620, CHEM 1210, Junior or Senior Standing, Instructor Approval, and University Advanced Standing. Provides guided research studies in botany under the direction of a Biology Department faculty mentor. Includes any combination of literature reviews, original research, and/or participation in ongoing departmental projects. Involves students in the methodology of original botanical research. Requires preparation and presentation of oral and/or written reports. May culminate in results that will form the basis of the senior thesis in the major, if thesis option is chosen. May be repeated for 9 credits toward graduation.
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  • BOT 4900: Museum-Based Taxonomy and Biodiversity Research

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1620 and (BOT 2050 or BOT 2100 or BOT 2400) with a C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on botany and utilizes the UVU natural history museum herbarium and other online natural history resources. Employs museum-based pedagogical tools and will evaluate, define and practice taxonomic applications in biodiversity research, including how floras, faunas and mycotas have been used by scientists. Uses floristics to assess outputs (dissemination) and impacts as well as assess technology on field data collection, uses, potential, and how might collections be used in the future.
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  • BOT 490R: Special Topics in Botany

    1.00 - 4.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1610 with a C- or higher, and University Advanced Standing. Explores and examines special topics relating to botany. May emphasize areas of rapid growth in botanical science or areas not covered in other courses. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits toward graduation.
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  • BOT 499R: Senior Thesis

    1.00 - 2.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010, Junior standing, Instructor Approval, and University Advanced Standing. Is for students who are nearing completion of a baccalaureate degree in Botany with the thesis option. Assists students who are writing a thesis based only on library research, or those who have performed laboratory/field research under BIOL 489R or BOT 489R. Provides experience in critically analyzing published literature and, if laboratory/field research was performed, comparing research results with the scientific literature. Is supervised by an appointed faculty member of the Department of Biology. Requires a technically accurate report on one's findings. Includes the opportunity to present the research results to students, faculty and the community at a Department of Biology seminar. May be repeated once for a total of 2 credits toward graduation.
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  • BTEC 1010: Fundamentals of Biotechnology I Career Survey BB

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Explores careers in biotechnology with emphasis on central dogma of biology, DNA techniques, applications in biotech, and bioethics. Examines forensics and human cloning. Includes lab work.. Course Lab fee of $26 applies.
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  • BTEC 2010: DNA Manipulation and Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): BTEC 1010 with a minimum grade of a C; BIOL 1610 and BIOL 1615, with minimum grade of C- in each. Facilitates the mastery of lab skills relevant to DNA technology including recombinant DNA cloning, DNA gel electrophoresis, polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing.. Course fee of $86 for lab applies.
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