BIOL.3240 Economic Botany (Formerly 81.324)

Id: 038098 Credits: 3-3

Description

Discussions on how humans use plants. Topics will include: Structure and characteristics of woods and their uses in construction of various items, agricultural uses of food plants and spices, poisonous plants, medicinal plants, plants used in religious ritual and plants used as hallucinogens, plants that have altered human history.

Prerequisites

BIOL 1110 Principles of Biology I, or LIFE 1010 Life Science I.

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