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Botany 121 Plant Diversity Reading: Fall 2025 Reading Reading lists appear below and are grouped by exam.

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Textbook Reading Support Following is the reading sequence in the text matched to each examination. You will be notified by email of any change to this list as when the sequence is changed or when chapters are added or revised. Note that some chapters are appropriate to more than one exam.

Reading Support for Exam 01 Foundations: Cell Structure Foundations: Membranes Foundations: Water Foundations: Photosynthesis Diversity: Earliest Life Diversity: Defining Plants Diversity: Diversity of Fungi Vascular Plants: Rhyniophytes and the Colonization of Land Ecology: North Americam Prairies Reading Support for Exam 02 Diversity: Diversity of Fungi Vascular Plants: Lycophyta Vascular Plants: Sphenophyta Vascular Plants: Psilotophyta Vascular Plants: Pterophyta Vascular Plants: Gymnosperm Overview Vascular Plants: Coniferophyta (Pinophyta) Vascular Plants: Pine Life History Vascular Plants: Ecology: Coal Age Flora   Reading Support for Exam 03 Foundations: The Central Dogma Foundations: Variation and Mutation Foundations: Mendelian Genetics Foundations: Population Genetics Foundations: Adaptation Physiology: Mineral Nutrition Reading Support for Exam 04 Vascular Plants: Anthophyta Anatomy: Primary Structure of Shoots and Leaves Anatomy: Secondary Growth of Stems Physiology: Movement of Water Physiology: Movement of Food Physiology: Phytohormones Ecology: Chaparral