Bio 214: Plant Diversity and Evolution

 Course Syllabus: Biol 214 Jang Spring 2018

Meet Your Instructor: 

I received my BS in Biology from CSUF with a minor in biotechnology and another minor in Chemistry.  After undergrad, I worked at Allergan and Ionis Pharmaceuticals.  I left the biotech industry and went to UCR for graduate school in the department of Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics.  There I worked in a plant lab studying proteins involved in cell signalling during flooding. 

I started teaching at SAC in 2014.  Here I teach Bio 109: Fundamentals of Biology, Bio 190: Intro to Biotechnology, Bio 190L, Intro to Biotechnology Lab, Bio 191: Biotech A: Basic Skills, Bio 211: Cell and Molecular Biology, and Bio 214: Plant Diversity and Evolution.  

Course Description: 

Principles and processes of evolution leading to biodiversity. Survey of the
organisms, viruses, prokaryotes, fungi, algae, and plants with emphasis on evolutionary adaptations of the anatomy, physiology, and life cycles of these organisms. 

Textbook Information:  

Biology, Rye, Wise, Jurukovski, DeSaix, Choi, and Avissar, 1st ed., 2017, ISBN: 9781938168093 openstax.org/details/books/biology