Health & Life Sciences, Agriculture, Botany, Paleontology, Notes

Agricultural Science and Policy

natural resource conservation for ensuring healthy agricultural food and environmental systems, focuses on soils, water, air and energy, delves into plant nutrients, plant-pest interaction, crop breeding and livestock production: readings, Image Gallery, Supplementary Material

Animal Health Management

Role of "Agent" in Health and Disease, Role of ("Host" & Environment in Health and Disease), Principles of Control of Infectious Disease, Health Management (Ruminant, Equine, Feline, Swine, Aquatic Species, Canine, Avian, Lab Animal, Reptile), wildlife Health Concerns, Regulatory, Public Health Concerns: presentations, resources

Paleontology

principles of paleontology, basic morphology & geological significance of important fossil groups, use of fossils in dating & deciphering ancient environments, major features of evolution as seen in fossil record: lab manual, exam study guides

Introduction to Botany

introduction to plants and "plant like" organisms as well as the basic principles and processes of biology which provide a foundation for further study: plant photos, glossary, resource, genetic code and "code cracker", geologic time scale, fruit key

DESIGN, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS (agriculture)

Graduate students in agricultural and environmental sciences introduction to research process and statistical methods to plan, conduct, and interpret experiments (SAS used): principles of experimental design, Distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing, sample size Calculation, Fundamentals of ANOVA, Orthogonal contrasts, Mean separation, Blocked & Latin square designs, Transformations, Factorial analysis, Unbalanced designs, Fixed, random, mixed models, Split plot designs & repeated measures, Covariance analysis, Non-parametric methods or review

Land Evaluation

diverse set of analytical techniques used to describe land uses, predict the response of land to these in both physical and economic terms, and optimize land use in the face of multiple objectives and constraints: basic concepts & procedures, geographical information systems, modeling, economic, risk & uncertainty, data sources for land evaluation including remote sensing, non-FAO land classification methods, Versión en Español

Flowering Plants

collection and identification of flowering plants, detailed knowledge of structural botany & understanding of the principles and methods of plant classification: Science and Evolution, Plant Taxonomy & Systematics, History of Plant Taxonomy,Floral Terminology, Floral Formulas, Morphology of Flowering Plants, Fruits, Survey of Important Plant Families, Identification Keys, Field Techniques, Herbarium Techniques, Plant Nomenclature, Taxonomic Literature, Cladistics

Growth & Structure of Meat Animals

carcass structure of cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry, consideration to whole range of animal structure from molecular biology to commercial grading of the carcass, animal growth and development considered in relation to meat production, factors such as meat tenderness, adipose development in the carcass, abnormalities of meat quality, skeletal development and carcass composition.

Links for Palaeobotanists

teaching documents, tutorials, quizzes: fossil & recent plant taxa, palynology & palynofacies, palaeontology & palaeoecology, ichnology, ecology, taphonomy. plant & wood anatomy, tree-ring research, botany, biology, evolution, mass extinction, cladistics, palaeogeography, palaeoclimate, stratigraphy & historical geology, geochronological methods, statistics, virtual field trips

Integrative Biology, Systematics of Plants

introduces principles & methods of identifying, naming, classifying flowering plants - FAQ, digital flowers, rosaceae digital images

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