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BI368A - Plants: Form and Function

Wilfrid Laurier University | Waterloo, Canada | Posted June 25, 2026

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Position Summary

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A lecture, seminar, and laboratory course relating plant structure to function. Cells, tissues and organs will be studied, linking them to specific functions. Once their functions are understood, an emphasis will be placed on how the organs are capable of structural and mechanistic modifications to allow non-mobile plants to live in their environments.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Recognize and describe the anatomical and morphological features of a plant.

  • Understand and discuss the relationship between the structure and function of those features.

  • Describe the approaches used to study relationships between plant structure and function.

  • Discuss how variability in plant structure and function confer an advantage to environmental conditions and/or life strategies.
  • Topics Covered:


    Plant cell organelles; formation; cell types and tissues; structure and function; water and solute movemen...

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