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Course code: BBS20181o12
Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Phylogenesis reconstruction methods
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Barbara Kosowska, prof. dr hab. Leonid Rekovets, dr Tomasz Strzała
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Student acquire during the course the fundamental theoretical knowledge about the evolutionary processes in biology, principles of natural classification, feno- and phylogenetic analysis, phylogenetic trees, models and algorithms and also about different methods of the phylogenesis reconstruction.

Competences: Student will posses knowledge from evolutionary biology that will allow him to continue more specific studies in the future, carry scientific research and to be a biology teacher.

Prerequisites: zoology of invertebrates and vertebrates, morphology and systematic of plants, paleontology, evolutionism, genetics, molecular biology.

Course content: Concept of evolution, naturalness of classification, diversity of forms in taxonomy, features and taxonomy, systematic criteria and the feno- and Phylogenetic analysis, methods for creating phylogenetic trees, verification and interpretation of the phylogenetic analysis results.

Recommended literature: Futuyma, Douglas Ewolucja, Un-t, 2009 Raup D., Stenley S. Podstawy paleontologii, PAN, Warszawa 1984 Dzik J. Dzieje życia na Ziemi. PAN, Warszawa 2003. Stern A.: Przydomowy chów drobiu, Multico, Warszawa 1995. Wiszniewska-Żelichowska M. Paleontologia, Wyd Geol. Warszawa 1962. Keroł M. Paleozoologia pozwonocznych. Wyd. Nauka, Moskwa 1995. Higgs P. Bioinformatyka i ewolucja molekularna, PWN Warszawa 2008. Freeland J. Ekologia molekularna PWN Warszawa 2008. Baxevanis A.D. Bioinformatyka PWN Warszawa 2004 Brown T.A. Genomy PWN Warszawa 2009

Assessment methods: Completion of laboratory training, test exam from lectures, minimum 60% of knowledge to pass.

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