Course: Systematic Botany 1

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Course title Systematic Botany 1
Course code CBG/BOTS1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kout Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Cholevová Veronika, Mgr.
  • Traxmandlová Iva, RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction: historical a current opinions in taxonomy, actual kingdoms in Eukaryote, endosymbiotic theory. 2. Cyanobacteria. Discoba - Acrasiomycota, Euglenophyta. 3. TSAR - Plasmodiophoromycota, Chlorarachniophyta, Dinophyta, 4. Heterokontophyta - Chrysophyceae, Fucophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae. 5. Bacillariophyceae, Raphidophyceae, Labyrinthulomycota, 6. Peronosporomycota. Cryptophyta, Haptophyta, Archaeplastida - Glaucophyta. Rhodophyta, 7. Archaeplastida - Chlorophyta: Ulvophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae. 8. Archaeplastida - Chlorophyta: Chlorophyceae, Streptofyta - Charophyta: Mesostigmatophyceae, Chlorokybophyceae, Klebsormidiophyceae, Coleochaetophyceae, Charophyceae, Zygnematophyceae. 9. Myxomycota, Fungi - general characteristic. 10. Chytridiomycota, Blastocladiomycota, Microsporidiomycota, Zygomycota. 11. Glomeromycota, Ascomycota - Taphrinomycotina, Saccharomycotina. 12. Ascomycota - Pezizomycotina. 13. Basidiomycota, Lichenes.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Laboratory work, Lecture with visual aids
  • Practical training (number of hours) - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 20 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 32 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
know the structure of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell at the upper secondary school level
know the structure of plant cell at the upper secondary school level
know the structure of fungus cell at the upper secondary school level
have knowledge in systematic algology, mycology and lichenology at the upper secondary school level
know how biological systems are derived
know how biological systems are derived
Skills
be able to work with microscope at the upper secondary school level
specify aims, results and conclusion of own observation according to a task at the upper secondary school level
Competences
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
know systematics of non-vascular plant groups
know morphology, ultrastructure, reproduction, ecology and taxonomy of non-vascular plants
know main members of different non-vascular plant groups
Skills
can read and write plant scientific names
can define the cyanobacterial and algal type of thallus
can observe, determine and describe cyanobacterial, algal and fungal cell structures visible in the optical and electon microscope
can observe at macroscopic and microscopic level morphological structures of non-vascular plant body at the presented plant material
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Skills
Practicum
Skills demonstration
Individual study
Competences
Practicum
Individual study
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Continuous assessment
Skills demonstration during practicum
Oral exam
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Competences
Skills demonstration during practicum
Test
Practical exam
Recommended literature
  • Sinice a řasy. .
  • Graham, L. E. et Wilcox, L. W. Algae. 2000.
  • Kalina, T. et Váňa, J. Sinice, řasy, houby, mechorosty a podobné organismy v současné biologii.. Praha, 2005.
  • Kout, Jiří. Základní přehled mykologie. Plzeň. 2022.


Study plans that include the course
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