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Botany Certificate Electives
Students seeking a Certificate must complete at least 58 elective course hours.
Elective course offerings vary with every catalog season. Browse this page to discover what's currently scheduled.
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Epiphytes and Aerial Roots: Life Without SoilHow do plants thrive without touching the ground? This course explores the remarkable world of epiphytes—plants that live perched on others yet remain self-sufficient. Focusing on orchids, bromeliads, and other canopy specialists, we'll examine their anatomy, water relations, and ecological more... | |||||
| 271BOT336O | 07/09 | Th | 10:00am-1:00pm | Bijkerk | ONLINE | |
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BracketologyOn any walk through a woodland area, you've likely seen bracket fungi without even knowing it. These woody, often large, shelved bodies grow on tree trunks and due to their hard and durable stature, go largely ignored but hold many more... | |||||
| 271BOT364 | 07/14 | Tu | 11:00am-1:00pm | Sadowski | NYBG | |
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The Science of Tree CommunicationDiscover how trees communicate via chemical signals in the air (to warn of insect attacks) and transfer nutrients to one another through complex underground fungal networks (sometimes to assist sick trees). | |||||
| 271BOT385O | 07/15 | We | 6:00pm-8:00pm | Kutos | ONLINE | |
