BIOL 4500 - Systematics

(3) Credit Hours

Principles of systematic biology including contemporary systematic philosophies, problems of species and speciation, taxonomic characters and interpretation, construction of evolutionary trees, higher categories and classification, nomenclature, taxonomic collections and procedures of identification. Prerequisites: BIOL 3060 and BIOL 3250 and BIOL 3350 with minimum grades of C, or department head approval.