Unit GENERAL BOTANY
- Course
- Agricultural and environmental sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 80151506
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Marco Fornaciari Da Passano
- Teachers
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- Marco Fornaciari Da Passano
- Hours
- 60 ore - Marco Fornaciari Da Passano
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2017/18
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline biologiche
- Sector
- BIO/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Cell wall, plastids, vacuoles. Meristems. Vegetal tissues. Plant anatomy-organography.
- 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 - Educational objectives
- Knowledges
1. Plant cytology.
2. Nucleus and cell division.
3. Classification and function of Plastids.
4. Description and function of the vacuole.
5. Origin, function, description of the cell wall and its secondary changes.
6. Organization and function of plant tissues.
7. The Secondary Meristems and Secondary growth.
8. Anatomical organization of Plants.
9. Morphology of Plants.
10. Morphological changes of stem, root and leaves.
Abilities
1. Knowledge of optical and electronic microscopies.
2. Knowledge of techniques of double staining.
3. Knowledge of techniques of cutting plant material (microtome and ultramicrotome).
4. Preparation of plant material for Cyto-histological observation.
5. Preparation of plant materials for anatomical observation.
6. Removing and observation of plant material for the morphological study.
7. Preparation of material related to morphological changes.
Behaviors
1. Mastery of the techniques acquired.
2. Mastery of the knowledge acquired. - Prerequisites
- It is useful to have basic knowledge in plant biology. The knowledge can facilitate the learning of cytology, histology, anatomy and morphology of plant given by Course.
- Teaching methods
- Theoretical lessons and practical activities
- Other information
- September 2017-December 2017.
Classrooms of S. Peter Abbey
Borgo XX Giugno 74 - Perugia
Didactic Calendar according to the Department of 3A - Learning verification modality
- Oral exam
- 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. 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.