In order to gain a minor you must gain a total of 10 points from the learning projects, or a combination of learning projects, research, and/or course design.
In order to gain a major you must gain a total of 20 points from the learning projects, or a combination of learning projects, research, and/or course design.
Choosing a site, gaining rights and permissions, the site survey, observation planning, observation preparation, site mapping, handling samples, fields instruments, conducting an observation and collecting data, and data analysis.
Setting up a lab, planning an instrument, constructing and calibrating scientific apparatus, experimental electronics, laboratory chemistry, computer hardware, data acquisition, and sensors, control systems, error analysis, collecting data, and data analysis.
Numerical computing, GUI programming, web interfaces, list processing, simulations, patterns, proximity, encoding information, visualization, and optimization.
Eigenfunction methods for differential equations, Fourier analysis, orthogonal functions, asymptotic expansions, the gamma function, Bessel functions, other special functions, calculus of variations, metric spaces, and measure and integration.
The nature of modeling, scaling arguments, dimensional analysis, graphical methods, optimization, probability models, differential equations as models, analytical solutions, numerical solutions, and stability theory.
The plant cell structure, plant cell cytoskeleton, photosynthesis, plant cell diversity, plant cell physiology, plant cell division, intracellular transport of proteins, plant cell communications, plant cell culture, and production of products in plant cell cultures.
Tissue culture, culture media, sterile technique, plant growth regulators, developmental pathways of plant regeneration, micropropagation, biolistic transformation, microbe-mediated transformation, embryogenesis, and PCR analysis of plants.
Parenchyma, collenchyma and sclerenchyma, epidermis, primary and secondary xylem, phloem, periderm, vascular cambium, the leaf, the stem, and the root.
Water and plant cells, water balance of plants, mineral nutrition, solute transport, photosynthesis, translocation in the phloem, respiration and lipid metabolism, secondary metabolites and plant defense, response to light, and stress physiology.
Plant genes and genome structure, plant gene function, plant reproduction and transgenic plants, plant DNA replication, plant mitosis and meiosis, Mendelian inheritance, gene expression, plant gene interactions, plant genetic and phenotypic variation, and plant genetic analysis.
Photographic methods for plant cultures, plant growth regulators, molecular plant development, shoot culture, organogenesis, embryogenesis, protoplasts, genetic engineering, gene guns, and illumination systems.
This project is open to design.
The evolutionary record, earliest forms of plant life, land colonization, the first forests, emergence of seed plants, flowering plants, the current era, extinctions and persistence, the biomolecular evolutionary record, and evolutionary theories.
Taxonomy and classification, the taxonomic system, morphological data, anatomic data, embryonic and reproductive data, palynological data, cytological and genetic data, chemical and biochemical data, environmental data, and determining taxonomic relationships.
Life history and environment, seed dormancy, plant competition, seed dispersal, plant populations, plant-herbivore dynamics, plant communities, plants in trophic webs, plants and pollution, and biodiversity.
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