BIk024 System of Higher Plants for Teachers

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Natálie Čeplová, Ph.D.
Department of Biology – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Biology – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to: understand the origin and diversification of land plants while emphasizing flowering plants; identify and classify emphasizing flowering plants; understand basic evolution processes (speciation, reproductive biology, adaptation, convergence, biogeography); to interpret their phylogenetics (phenetics, cladistics, morphology and molecules).
Syllabus
  • Plant morphology, phylogeny and evolution; characteristics of the main taxonomical groups and species; Given topics for presentations: 1. Biomes 2. Phytogeography of the Earth 3. Phytogeography of the Czech Republic 4. Vegetation of the Czech Republic 6. Flora of the Czech Republic 7. Alien species, invasive species 8. Nature conservation 9. Red list of vascular plants 12. Plant endemites
Literature
Teaching methods
theory, presentation and discussion on given topics
Assessment methods
1. students discuss given topic; 2. final written test
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016.
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