Unit GENERAL BOTANY
- Course
- Agricultural and environmental sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 80151506
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Giuseppe Frenguelli
- Teachers
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- Giuseppe Frenguelli
- Hours
- 54 ore - Giuseppe Frenguelli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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
- Essential features of plant biology: plant cytology, histology and anatomy. Fundamentals of reproductive biology.
- Reference texts
- Fondamenti di Botanica generale - Pancaldi, Baldisserott, Ferroni, Pantaleoni. McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2011.
- Educational objectives
- The Course aims to provide students with essential knowledge of fundamental structure of higher plants, both at microscopic and macroscopic level. Main knowledge acquired will be: plant cell, cell wall, plastides, vacuole and membranes; vegetative anatomy and reproductive anatomy with emphasis on cultivated plants.
- Prerequisites
- The ability to solve simple numerical calculations and, above all, knowledge of basic biology, chemistry and physics.
- Teaching methods
- The Course is organized as follow: lectures on all subjects of the course as reported in the program, exercises on some subjects treated with the solution of simple questions, observation at light microscope of histological and anatomical samples and tests with multiple choice test or open-ended question.
- Other information
- Availability of educational material in UniStudium platform.
Consulting hours: each wednesday from 9.30 to 11.30 or by appointment via email:lara.reale@unipg.it - Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of an oral text of about 30 minutes long aiming to ascertain the knowledge level and understanding capability acquired by student on contents as indicated on the program. The oral exam will also test the student communication skills and his autonomy in the organization and exposure of the theoretical topics.
- Extended program
- 1. The plant cell: characteristics of prokaryitic, eukaryotic, animal and plant cells.
2. The cell wall, membranes, vacuole and plastides.
3. Plant tissues: meristems, parenchyma, dermal tissue, secretory and vascular tissues, collenchyma and sclerenchyma.
4. Plant reproduction.
5. Ontogenetic cycles.
6. The flower and inflorescences in angiosperms.
7. The seed and fruits.
8. Morphology and anatomy of stem, root and leaf.
9. Modified stems, roots and leaves,