| Week 1 | 1/5 | Lecture 1 | Around and around they go: Kingdoms & life cycles | Berg pp. 12-15, 300-311, 366 |
| 1/7 | Lecture 2 | The wee ones: Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, and Protista | Berg pp. 309-310, 312-324, 325-343 | |
| Week 2 | 1/10 | Lecture 3 | Monarchs of the sea: Algae | Berg pp. 366, 327-337 |
| 1/12 | Lecture 4 | Invasion: Mosses and ferns | Berg pp. 364-393 | |
| 1/14 | Lecture 5 | Scraping the sky: The gymnosperms | Berg pp. 394-408 | |
| Week 3 | 1/17 | No Lecture - Martin Luther King Day | ||
| 1/19 | Lecture 6 | The flowering world: Angiosperms | Berg pp. 409-430 | |
| 1/21 | Lecture 7 | The good, the bad, and the deadly: Fungi | Berg pp. 344-361 | |
| Week 4 | 1/24 | Lecture 8 | In the beginning: The origins of life | Berg pp. 22-23, 42 |
| 1/26 | Lecture 9 | Plants of the past: Paleobotany | Berg pp. 275-277, 363-367, 378-379 383-391, 396, 404, 416 | |
| 1/28 | Lecture 10 | The big apple: The ecosystem | Berg pp. 432-438 | |
| Week 5 | 1/31 | Lecture 11 | Here, there and everywhere: Energy flow and trophic levels | Berg pp. 432-438, 443-447 |
| 2/2 | Lecture 12 | Over and over again: Nutrient cycles | Berg pp. 438-443 | |
| 2/4 | Lecture 13 | No fighting please: Populations and competition | Berg pp. 436-438 | |
| Week 6 | 2/7 | Lecture 14 | One after another: Vegetation in time and space | Berg pp. 447-448 |
| 2/9 | Lecture 15 | One more time: Review for midterm | ||
| 2/11 | MIDTERM | |||
| Week 7 | 2/14 | Lecture 16 | The Monk's peas: Mendelian genetics | Berg pp. 234-251 |
| 2/16 | Lecture 17 | All together now: Chromosomes | Berg pp. 221-233 | |
| 2/18 | Lecture 18 | Creative self-expression: Gene expression | Berg pp. 206-220 | |
| Week 8 | 2/21 | Lecture 19 | New and better: Recombinant DNA and genetic engineering | Berg pp. 252-265 |
| 2/23 | Lecture 20 | Modern alchemy: Biotechnology | Berg pp. 252-265 | |
| 2/25 | Lecture 21 | Onward and upward: Natural selection | Berg pp. 266-280 | |
| Week 9 | 2/28 | Lecture 22 | Genes by the bunch: Populations | Berg pp. 266-294 |
| 3/1 | Lecture 23 | The wheel of fortune: Evolution of higher taxa | Berg pp. 286-294 | |
| 3/3 | Lecture 24 | Not by bread along: Aboriginal use of drug plants | Berg pp. 417-428 | |
| Week 10 | 3/5 | Lecture 25 | From sea to shining sea: Biomes of North America | Berg pp. 451-462 |
| 3/8 | Lecture 26 | What falls from above: Acid rain | Berg p. 26 | |
| 3/10 | Lecture 27 | Heating up: Global warming | Berg pp. 462 - 465 | |
| Week 11 | 3/16 | FINAL EXAM | 11:30 a.m - 1:18 p.m. ROOM 200, CAMPBELL HALL | |
Week 2 Learning through inquiry
Week 3 Algae and mosses
Week 4 Ferns and gymnosperms
Week 5 Paleobotany and angiosperm diversity
Week 6 Symbiotic nitrogen fixation
Week 7 Plant competition
Week 8 Angiosperm life cycle
Week 9 Biotechnology
Week 10 Plant products