PřF:Bi6589 Methods of plant taxonomy - Course Information
Bi6589 Methods of plant taxonomy
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Petr Bureš, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petr Šmarda, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Petr Bureš, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Petr Bureš, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Wed 16:00–17:50 D36/225
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! B6589 Methods of plant taxonomy
- 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 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Laboratory course is the complement to the lecture of plant taxonomy. Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to understand the basic principles of taxonomic methods using case studies, detail presentation of these methods and lab courses
- Syllabus
- Microscopic methods in plant taxonomy, pollen preparation and staining, pollen viability estimation, methods of chromosome counting, flow cytometry, estimation of breeding systems; Molecular methods: DNA isolation, DNA-DNA hybridization, PCR, RAPD, RFLP, AFLP, RT-PCR retrotranspozon amount estimation, sequencing, cloning, CoT and reassociation kinetic of DNA
- Literature
- HEYWOOD, V. H. Modern methods in plant taxonomy. 1st ed. London & New York: Academic Press, 1968, 312 pp. ISBN 68-9103. info
- Teaching methods
- practical courses
- Assessment methods
- lectures, class discussion, laboratory courses, credit
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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