(4 credits)Prerequisites:BIOL 1110/BIOL 1111, BIOL 1120/BIOL 1121, BIOL 1130/BIOL 1131, or equivalent. Flowering plant classification and evolution. Characteristics and methods of traditional plant taxonomy and computer-based phylogenetic methods using morphological and molecular data sets. Plants will be studied in field and lab. Students will use data collected from plant specimens and from GenBank to conduct phylogenetic analysis in various angiosperm groups. Two hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week.