Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic discipline
BIO/03 ()
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY "LAZZARO SPALLANZANI"
Course
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Lesson hours
24 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Elements of Cytology (meiosis and mitosis). Concept of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organism, autotrophic and heterotrophic
Learning outcomes
Students will have to acquire the basic concepts of general and applied mycology. They will have general knowledge about taxonomy and fungal ecology and be able to recognize the main groups by microscopic analysis. Practical laboratory activities are organized for this last aspect .
Course contents
Presentation of the Course -
Biological and ecological characteristics of fungi
Asexual and sexual reproduction
Microsporidia, Chitridiomycetes, Zygomycetes, Glomeromycetes
Ascomycetes - ascomycetous yeasts.
Basidiomycetes - basidiomicetous yeasts
Symbiosis between fungi and autotrophyc organisms, and fungi and animals
Fermentation & degradation of lignocellulosic compounds
Final summary & exam preparation
Teaching methods
lectures and practical activities in equipped classrooms. There are written preparation monitoring tests with open questions and questions with multiple answers.
Reccomended or required readings
Biology of the plants of Raven. Ray F Evert, Susan and Eichhorn. Zanichelli. The part deals with fungi is in a specific chapter
On the KIRO platform the slides of the lectures and specific topics are loaded
Assessment methods
written and oral exam
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030
Università di Pavia - Offerta formativa