|
Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
 Subjects |
| Plant Systematics: Cryptogamia |
| Contents |
|
|
|
| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Plant Systematics: Cryptogamia | Code | 610G02024 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
|
|||||||||||||
| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Lectures. Part I: Fungi. Systematics and Evolution | 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 Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. Reproduction and life history. Lesson 5.- Lichens, Fungi imperfectae (Deuteromycetes) and related groups. Ecological and economical importance. Summary and phylogeny of Fungi sensu lato. |
| Lectures. Part II: Algae. Systematics and Evolution | 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 and Streptophyta: characters, reproduction, life history, habitat, classification and examples of Prasinophyceae, Chlorophyceae and Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta) and Charophyceae, Zygnematophyceae and Coleochaetophyceae (Streptophyta). The origin of embryophytes. |
| Lectures. Part III: The colonization of drylands. Systematics and Evolution of embryophytes | Lesson 12.- Introduction to embryophytes. The origin of land plants. Adaptation to drylands. Lesson 13. Non vascular embryophytes; bryophytes s. lat.: characters, reproduction, life history, habitat and classification. Differential features of Anthocerophyta, Marchantiophyta and Bryophyta). Lesson 14.- Introduction to vascular plants. Telomatic theory. Lesson 15.- Euphyllophytina p.p. (Monilophytes, former Pteridophyta) and Lycophytina: features, reproduction, life history, habitat and examples of Lycopsida, Psilophytopsida, Psilotopsida, Equisetopsida, Marattiopsida and Polypodiopsida. 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. (1 hour). Seminar 4.- General summary of the course and open questions for the students. (2 hours). |
| PRACTICAL TEACHING (FIELD TRIPS) | 2 field trips. A first one focused on the marine algae growing in two coastal localities of A Coruña and one focused on terrestrial cryptogams growing in an area close to the Faculty of Sciences. |
| 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 and Diatoms. Lab session 4.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of Red seaweeds. Lab session 5.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of Green algae and Bryophytes s. l. Lab session 6.- Observation, description, identification and preservation of ferns. |
| PRACTICAL TEACHING (PRACTICAL CASES) | Practical case 1.- Write a descriptive report of a natural environment of the seashore (mainly seaweeds and lichens), as well as a representative herbarium of the plants collected in the area. Practical case 2.- Write a descriptive report of a natural environment of a forest (mainly lichens, fungi, bryophytes s. lat. and ferns), as well as a representative herbarium of the plants collected in the area. |
|
