Unit FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOLOGY
- Course
- Food science and technology
- Study-unit Code
- GP000940
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Fabio Orlandi
- Teachers
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- Fabio Orlandi
- Hours
- 72 ore - Fabio Orlandi
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline biologiche
- Academic discipline
- BIO/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- ITALIAN
- Contents
- The principal steps of live on earth. Morphological organization in the plants. Metamorphoses. The cell, characters and functions; meristems and tissues. Plant anathomy in monocotyledones and dycotyledones. The flowers and sexual reproduction. Organization of seeds and fruits.
- Reference texts
- MAUSETH, J.D. Botanica. Fondamenti di biologia delle piante, Idelson-Gnocchi, Napoli, 2014, ISBN 8879475827.
PASQUA G., ABBATE G., FORNI C., Botanica generale e Biodiversità vegetale, Piccin-Nuova Libraria, Padova, 2015. ISBN: 882992718X.
Notes suggested and furnished by the teacher - Educational objectives
The aim of the course is to transmit adequate knowledge for understanding the biological dynamics, the role and potential features that the various forms of living organisms are able to carry out in the activities related to the agro-technologies agro-food wine and technical brewing.- Prerequisites
Some abilities to scientific method (also in laboratory) are required, moreover, basic knowledges of biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics are required- Teaching methods
- Lectures, laboratory exercises, visits to botanical gardens and other outdoor facilities
- Other information
- Recommended frequency both for lessons and exercises. Headquarters: Building of the Department of Agrarian, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia. Monumental complex S. Pietro - Borgo XX Giugno, 74 - 06121 Perugia
- Learning verification modality
- Oral test and possible written examination.
- Extended program
- Origin, evolution and functions of living organisms. The principal steps of live on earth. The principal levels of morphological organization in the plants: thallophytes, cormophytes. Morphological organization in the root, stem and leaf. Metamorphoses and plant adaptation to different functions and different climates. Relationships between climate and vegetation.
The cell, characters and functions; growth and differentiation of vegetal cells; meristems and tissues. Morphological aspects of germination: embryo, organogenesis. The root, stem and leaf: anathomy and functions in monocotyledones and dycotyledones. The flowers and sexual reproduction. Organization of seeds and fruits. Growth and fruit ripening.
Observation of plant material in vivo. Main methods for observation and study of plant samples; optical microscopy observation of cells; observation of tissues and anatomical structures with the main methods of optical microscopy.