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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
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| Plant Systematics: Cryptogamia |
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| Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Plant Systematics: Cryptogamia | Code | 610G02024 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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| THEORETICAL TEACHING (FUNGI AND LICHENS) | Lesson 1.- General features of fungi and fungi-like organisms. Fungal nutrition and life history. Ecological and economical importance. Origin and classification. Lesson 2.- General features of Acrasiomycota, Myxomycota and Plasmodiophoromycota. Reproduction and life history. Lesson 3.- General features of Oomycota. Reproduction and life history. Lesson 4.- Fungi sensu stricto. General features of Chytridiomycetes, Zygomycetes, Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes. Reproduction and life history. Lesson 5.- Lichens, Fungi imperfectae (Deuteromycetes) and related groups. Ecological and economical importance. Summary and phylogeny of Fungi sensu lato. |
| THEORETICAL TEACHING (ALGAE) | Lesson 6.- General features of algae. Algal biology, reproduction and life history. Ecological and economical importance. Origin and classification. Lesson 7.- Procariotic algae. Cyanophyta: characters, habitat and classification. Lesson 8.- Eucariotic algae. Rhodophyta: characters, reproduction, life history, habitat and classification. Lesson 9.- Eucariotic algae. Ochrophyta: characters, reproduction, life history, habitat and classification (Chrysophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Bacillariophyceae and Phaeophyceae). Lesson 10.- Eucariotic algae. Haptophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta and Euglenophyta: characters, reproduction, life history, habitat and classification. Lesson 11.- Eucariotic algae. Chlorophyta: characters, reproduction, life history, habitat and classification (Chlorophyceae, Prasinophyceae, Ulvophyceae and Charophyceae). Summary and phylogeny of Algae. |
| THEORETICAL TEACHING (MOSSES, LIVERWORTS, STONEWORTS AND FERNS) | Lesson 12.- Introduction and origin of land plants. Bryophyta: characters, reproduction, life history, habitat and classification (Anthoceropsida, Marchantiopsida and Bryopsida). Origin and phylogeny of embriophytic plants. Lesson 13.- Introduction to vascular plants. Telomatic theory. Lesson 14.- Pteridophyta: characters, reproduction, life history, habitat and classification (Psilophytopsida, Psilotopsida, Lycopodiopsida, Equisetopsida and Pteridopsida). Origin and phylogeny of ferns sensu lato. |
| THEORETICAL TEACHING (SEMINARS) | Seminar 1.- Fungi sensu lato: questions about reproduction, life history, definitions, etc. (2 hours). Seminar 2.- Algae: questions about reproduction, life history, definitions, etc. (2 hours). Seminar 3.- Embriophytic plants: questions about reproduction, life history, definitions, etc. (2 hours). Seminar 4.- General summary of the course and open questions for the students. (2 hour). |
| PRACTICAL TEACHING (FIELD TRIP) | Fiel trip (morning and afternoon) along the seashore and wet continental habitats for studying plants in their habitat and collection samples for the lab. |
| PRACTICAL TEACHING (LAB SESSIONS) | Lab session 1.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of Fungi sensu lato. Lab session 2.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of Lichens. Lab session 3.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of Brown seaweeds. Lab session 4.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of Green algae. Lab session 5.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of Red seaweeds. Lab session 6.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of Mosses and Liverworts. Lab session 7.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of Ferns sensu lato. |
| PRACTICAL TEACHING (PRACTICAL CASES) | Practical case 1.- Devise a descriptive report of a natural environment of the seashore (mainly seaweeds and lichens), as well as a representative herbarium of the planst collected in the area. Practical case 2.- Devise a descriptive report of a natural environment of a wet forest (mainly lichens, mushrooms, mosses, liverworts and ferns), as well as a representative herbarium of the planst collected in the area. |
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