Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
Grao en Bioloxía |
Subjects |
Introduction to Botany: General Botany |
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Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
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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Topic | Sub-topic |
Teoría: Introduction and general characteristics | 1 Plants and related organisms in the tree of life. Evolutinary relationships and phylogeny. Characteristics and main groups. 2 Morphological organization of plants and related organisms. From talophyes to cormophytes. 3 Reproduction. Alternation of nuclear phases and generations. Biological cycles. 4 Systematics, nomenclature and taxonomy of plants and other related groups. |
Teoría: Studied groups | 5 Flowering plants. General characteristics and life cycle of seed plants. 6 Morphology and floral biology of seed plants. 7 Angiosperms (monocots and dicots) and gymnosperms. 8 The non-flowering plants. General characteristics of embriophytes. Vascular embriophytes. General characteristics and life cycle of pteridophytes. 9 Prevascular embriophytes. General characteristics and life cycle of bryophytes. 10 Cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae. 11 Fungi and other heterotrophic organisms. Lichens and other symbiotic associations. |
Teoría: Introduction to plant conservation and geobotany | 12 Conservation of plant diversity. Threats and conservation strategies. 13 Geobotany as integrative science. The floristic kingdoms and major plant formations of the Earth. |
Seminars | 1 Diagrams and floral formulas. Identification keys (2h). 2 Seminar on vascular and prevascular plants (2h). 3 Life cycles of algae and fungi (2h). 4 Comparative studies of organisms (1h). |
Lab sessions | 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. |
Case studies | 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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