Course: Systematic Botany 2

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Course title Systematic Botany 2
Course code CBG/BOTS2
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)
  • Traxmandlová Iva, RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Kvíderová Jana, RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Basic concepts (systematics, taxonomy, methods of systematic botany). Historical overview of the concept of classification systems. Evolution and origin of higher plants, telome and stellar theory. 2. Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerophyta. Higher plants - Cormobionta: Rhyniophyta, Zosterophyllophyta, Trimerophyta. 3. Equisetophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Polypodiophyta I. (fossil) 4. Polypodiophyta II. (recent). Seed plants. 5. Gymnosperms. Cycadophyta, Cordaites, Ginkgophyta, Pinophyta 6. Angiosperms. Basal dicots: ANA/ANITA + magnolid branch. Monocots I. "Alismatids" 7. Monocots II. "Lilies" 8. Monocots III. "Commelinids" 9. Rosopsida I. Basal groups Rosopsid. Eurosides I. 10. Rosopsida II. Eurosides II. 11. Rosopsida III. Eurosides III. 12. Rosopsida IV.Eurosids IV. Superastrids I 13. Rosopsida V. Superasterids II

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture with visual aids, Practicum, Field trip
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 18 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 30 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Practical training (number of hours) - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Good knowledge of botanical morphology and bases of molecular biology.
Skills
Good knowledge of botanical morphology and bases of molecular biology, be able to work with microscope at the upper secondary school level.
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
know taxons of the Cormobionta system
describe origin and evolutional relationships in Cormobionta
Skills
determine common plant spiecies
be able to make botanical herbarium
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture with visual aids
Practicum
Field trip
Skills
Lecture
Practicum
Laboratory work
Lecture with visual aids
Competences
Lecture with visual aids
Practicum
Laboratory work
assessment methods
Knowledge
Project
Combined exam
Skills demonstration during practicum
Continuous assessment
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Combined exam
Competences
Skills demonstration during practicum
Combined exam
Recommended literature
  • Atherton, Ian; Bosanquet, Sam D. S.; Lawley, Mark. Mosses and liverworts of Britain and Ireland : a field guide. 1st ed. [Middlewich] : British Bryological Society, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9561310-1-0.
  • Judd, Walter S. Plant systematics : a phylogenetic approach. 2nd ed. Sunderland : Sinauer Associates, 2002. ISBN 0-87893-403-0.
  • Kalina, Tomáš; Váňa, Jiří. Sinice, řasy, houby, mechorosty a podobné organismy v současné biologii. Vyd. 1. Praha : Karolinum, 2005. ISBN 80-246-1036-1.
  • Kaplan, Z. ed. Klíč ke květeně České republiky. Praha, 2019. ISBN 978-80-200-2660-6.
  • Kremer, Bruno P.; Muhle, Hermann. Lišejníky, mechorosty, kapraďorosty : evropské druhy. Vyd. 1. Praha : Ikar, 1998. ISBN 80-7202-356-X.


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