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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
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| Introduction to Botany: General Botany |
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| Identifying Data | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Introduction to Botany: General Botany | Code | 610G02023 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| BLOCK I: INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL CONCEPTS |
I.1. Organisms studied in Botany. I.2.. Acquisition of botanical knowledge. I.3. Theories of evolution and botany. |
| BLOCK II: ORGANIZATION OF PLANTS AND FUNGI | II.1. Cell organization. II.2. Organization in thallophytes. II.3. Organization in cormophytes. II.4. Plant tissue organization II.5. The reproduction. Biological cycles. Reproductive ecology |
| BLOCK III: BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION | III.1. The evolution in vegetables. Frame of vegetables in living things. Evolutionary relationships and importance of phylogeny. Characters and main groups III.2. Morphological levels of plant organization. Evolution from talophytes to cormophytes III.3. Photosynthetic coins and protists. Cyanobacteria and algae III.4. Fungi and other heterotrophic organisms. Fungal symbioses III.5. Plants without flowers. General characteristics of embryophytes. Vascular embryophytes. General characteristics and life cycle of pteridophytes III.6. The prevascular vascular embryophytes. General characteristics and life cycle of bryophytes III.7. Flowering plants. General characteristics and life cycle of spermatophytes III.8. Gymnosperms and angiosperms (dicotyledons and monocotyledons) |
| BLOCK IV: ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION |
IV.1. Plant communities and populations. Interaction with other organisms IV.2. floristic kingdoms and main veetation formations on Earth. Biomes. Vegetation of Galicia. IV.3. Plant biodiversity. Threats and conservation strategies. |
| SEMINARS | 1.- Classification and systematics. 2.- Life cycles of plants and fungi. 3.-Floral diagrams and formulas. Identification keys. 4.- Comparative studies of organism |
| LAB SESSIONS | 1.- Introduction of the local vegetal landscape, organographic study and field diagnosis of a selection of species. Collection and conservation methods. 2.- Characteristics and function of fungi and lichens. Observation of vegetative (mycelium) and reproductive structures in microscopic Zygomycetes and Ascomycetes. Recognition of fruiting bodies of Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes. Morphological types of lichens and their habitat. Recognition of reproductive structures in lichens. 3.- Characteristics and function of microscopic algae. Microscope handling. Analysis of microscopic algae in inland waters (eutrophic or not). Study of algae in marine plankton. 4.- Characteristics and function of macroscopic algae. Observation of freshwater and marine representatives. Organization and morphology, reproductive structures and life cycle. 5.- Characteristics and function of bryophytes and pteridophytes. Study of diversity of representatives of bryophytes (liver and moss) and pteridophytes (ferns, horsetails and lycopods). 6.- Characteristics and function of gymnosperms. Observation of vegetative and reproductive characters. Recognition of species of gymnosperms (Pinaceae, Cupressaceae, Taxaceae) representative of the Iberian flora. 7.- The flower. Flower analysis. Morphological study of different types of flowers. 8.- Study of the characteristics and function of monocotyledonous angiosperms. Recognition of common species in the Iberian Eurosiberian environment. 9.- Study of the characteristics and function of dicotyledonous angiosperms. Recognition of common species in the Iberian Eurosiberian environment. |
| CASE STUDY | Create a photographic atlas of Botany, in an orderly and classified manner and preparing sheets of photographic composition of the vegetative and reproductive parts of the different plant groups |
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