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Course code: BBS10160o11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: Systematic botany
Major: Biology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 24 / 11
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Jan Matula
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: During the course students obtain theoretical knowledge with regard to classification systems used in plants systematic, their advantages and disadvantages. They also gain the skills of describing and interpretation of organisms features resulting from their position in a hierarchy of appropriate classification system. Students are also able to use the proper methods and guides (clues) for the recognition and identification of more important groups of prokaryotes (cyanobacteria); algae and seed plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms). Students get familiar with techniques of iconographic and herbarium documentation of identified species. They understand main mechanisms and tendencies of plant evolution.
Competences: Completion of the course enables the employment in laboratories or offices dealing with the valorisation of natural environment, in laboratories of environment biomonitoring, in sanitary institutions, environment protection services, national and landscape parks etc.
Prerequisites: Plant morphology
Course content: The role and tasks of systematic; contemporary rules of botanic terminology; characteristic of different classification systems; systematic review of main development lines of procaryotes (archeony, cyanobacterias) and eucaryotes (algae). The origins and main development trends of terrestrial plants. Systematic review with the phylogenesis of more important groups of prokaryotes (cyanobacteria); algae; embriophytes (liverworts, mosses, hornworts); vascular plants - pteridiophyta (lycophytes, equisetophytes, pterophytes) and seed plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms).
Recommended literature: Szweykowscy A. i J. 2004. Systematyka. T. 2 PWN; Polakowski B. (red.) 1991 Botanika, PWN; Woodland D.W 1991: Contemporary Plant Systematics, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The last edition; Simpson Michael G. 2006. Plant Systematics. Elsevier Academic Press; Graham L. , Graham J., Wilcox Lee W. 2006. Plant Biology. Pearson Education Upper SaddleRiver NJ; Keddy Poul A. 2007. Plants end Vegetation (Origin, Processes, Consequences). Cambridge University Press; Flora glonów eds. Karola Starmach and Jadwiga Siemińska t 1-12 and monographic papers about algae
Assessment methods: Obligatory practical grade by the end of the semester, lectures – written exam; Final course mark: 40% - practical mark, 10% - herbarium and plants recognition, 50% - exam mark
Comment: 11 h - field exercise, students own work (40h), collection of plants currently growing in vegetation season, doing the herbarium of them (40 h)