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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 | 2021/22 | |||||||||||||
| 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. The Scientific Method in Botany. I.3. Systematics, nomenclature and taxonomy of plants. I.4. Fields and applications of Botany. |
| BLOCK II: STRUCTURE OF PLANTS AND FUNGI | II.1. Introduction to the structure of plants and fungi II.2. The vegetative body. II.3. Reproductive structures. II.4. Reproduction. Alternation of nuclear and generational phases. Biological cycles. |
| BLOCK III: ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION |
III.1. Plant communities and populations. Interaction with other organisms III.2. Reproductive ecology III.3. Conservation of plant biodiversity. Conservation threats and strategies III.4. Geobotany as an integrative science. The floristic kingdoms and the main plant formations of the Earth. Biomes. |
| BLOCK IV: BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION | IV.1. The evolution in vegetables. Frame of vegetables in living things. Evolutionary relationships and importance of phylogeny. Characters and main groups IV.2. Morphological levels of plant organization. Evolution from talophytes to cormophytes IV.3. Photosynthetic coins and protists. Cyanobacteria and algae IV.4. Fungi and other heterotrophic organisms. Fungal symbioses IV.5. Plants without flowers. General characteristics of embryophytes. Vascular embryophytes. General characteristics and life cycle of pteridophytes IV.6. The prevascular vascular embryophytes. General characteristics and life cycle of bryophytes IV.7. Flowering plants. General characteristics and life cycle of spermatophytes IV.8. Gymnosperms and angiosperms (dicotyledons and monocotyledons) |
| 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 ( ICT practicals) | Realization of a virtual herbarium as a valid strategy of research training that enable the theoretical-practical integration of previous knowledge with new computer technologies, to obtain meaningful learning. |
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