November 22, 2004

YAY for plant systematics

I just finished the first "key" exam in plant systematics. wow what a test. I was in there for 3 hours, but most of the class is still there! We had 12 unknown plant specimens that we had to key out to family, genus and species. After having done not so good on the site ID quizzes so far in this class, I am proud to say that I think I did pretty well on this test. I am dynamite with the key! It's beautiful when things just seem to fall into place and you're looking at a flower with a blue corolla and it says, "blue corolla" in the key. Keying is fun.

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