Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
BIO/02 ()
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY "LAZZARO SPALLANZANI"
Course
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(01/03/2017 - 14/06/2017)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Learning outcomes
The course aims to create a general knowledge on plant biology with emphasis on interreletionships of growth and development, structure and function and evolution and ecology. The expected learning results are the capacity of understanding the plant structures and functions, and their ecology and evolution.
Course contents
The Plant Cell and the Cell Cycle, notes on Photosynthesis, The Process of Evolution, reproduction cycels, taxonomy and phylogeny of photosynthetic organisms. Photosynthetic protists (algae); bryophytes, seedless vascular plants; gymnosperms; angiosperms; evolution of angiosperms; cells and tissues of the plant body; the root: structure and development primario e secondario; the shoot: primary structure and development; secondary growth in stems. The course includes practical lessons.
Teaching methods
lectures and practical demonstrations
Reccomended or required readings
Biologia delle piante di Raven. Ray F Evert, Susan E Eichhorn. Zanichelli
Assessment methods
written and oral exam
Further information
written and oral exam
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030
Università di Pavia - Offerta formativa