PřF:Bi4115 System of vascular plants - Course Information
Bi4115 System of vascular plants
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Vít Grulich, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Vít Grulich, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Vít Grulich, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Mon 18. 2. to Fri 17. 5. Tue 12:00–13:50 D31/238
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- Bi2030 High. plant phylog. & divers. || B2030 System phylog. higher plants || B3090 Syst. Phyl. Higher Plants
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 19 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to understand of phylogeny of vascular plants; to learn the diversity of taxa (on family level) with special remarks to the Flora of Central Europe.
- Syllabus
- Phylogeny of vascular plants. Rhyniophyta. Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta, Polypodiophyta, Cycadophyta, Pinophyta, Gnetophyta (recent families, genera and species). Magnoliophyta - Magnoliidae, Liliidae. A survey of families in the Flora of the Central Europe. Important families, genera and species in ecosystems and economy.
- Literature
- Flowering plants of the world. Edited by V. H. Heywood. London: Batsford, 1993, 335 s. ISBN 0-7134-7422-X. info
- HENDRYCH, Radovan. Systém a evoluce vyšších rostlin : učební přehled. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1979, 517 s. info
- NOVÁK, František Antonín. Vyšší rostliny : Tracheophyta. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1961, 941 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, 2 hours weekly.
- Assessment methods
- oral exam; 3 questions - characteristics of 3 selected families, usually from a. primitive dicots b. evolutionary advanced dicots c. monocots
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2019, recent)
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