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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
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| Iniciación á Botánica: Botánica xeral |
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| Identifying Data | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Iniciación á Botánica: Botánica xeral | Code | 610G02023 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Teoría: Introducción e xeneralidades | 1 Position of vegetables in living organisms. Kingdoms Plantae, Protista, Monera and Fungi. Characters and major groups. 2 Morphological levels of plant organization. Evolution: talophytes to cormophytes. 3 Reproduction. Alternation of nuclear phases and generations. Biological cycles. |
| Teoría: Grupos vexetais | 4 Flowering plants. General characteristics and life cycle of seed plants. 5 Morphology and floral biology of seed plants. 6 Las angiosperms (monocots and dicots) and gymnosperms. 7 The non-flowering plants. General characteristics of embriophytes. Vascular embriophytes. General characteristics and life cycle of pteridophytes. 8 Prevascular embriophytes. General characteristics and life cycle of bryophytes. 9 Moneras and photosynthetic protists. Cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae. 10 Kingdom Fungi and heterotrophic protists. |
| Teoría: Introdución á Botánica Sistemática e Xeobotánica | 11 Systematic Botany as science. Cryptogamy and Fanerogamia. Evolution of classification systems. Botanical Nomenclature. 13 Geobotany as integrative science. The floristic kingdoms and major plant formations of the Earth. |
| Seminarios | 1 Diagrams and floral formulas. Identification keys (2h). 2 Seminar on vascular and prevascular plants (2h). 3 Cycles of life of algae and fungi (2h). 4 Comparative studies of organisms (1h). |
| Prácticas | 1 Observation of terrestrial plants in their natural environment. Collection and preservation methods. 2 Observation and description of dicotyledonous angiosperms. 3 Observation and Description of monocot angiosperms. 4 Observation and description of gymnosperms. 5 Observation and description of pteridophytes. 6 Observation and description of bryophytes. 7 Observation and description of macroscopic algae. 8 Observation and description of microscopic algae. 9 Observation and description of fungi. |
| Estudo de casos | 1 Collection, identification and conservation of two dicotyledonous angiosperms. 2 Collection, identification and conservation of two monocotyledonous angiosperms. 3 Collection, identification and conservation of two gymnosperms. 4 Collection, identification and conservation of ferns and moss. 5 Collection, identification and conservation of two different macroalgae division. 6 Collection, identification and preservation of higher fungi and lichen. |
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