Paleobotany - OENBB1712Z

• Title: Paleobotany
• Guaranteed by: Katedra biologie a environmentálních studií (41-KBES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 4
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (5); summer:unknown / unknown (5)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Vasilis Teodoridis, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

The introduction defines the basic principles and methods of paleobotany including the introduction of the most important concepts and principles of taxonomy with their paleobotanical specifics. Further defined interdisciplinary overlaps of this subject. The main content of the course is its own characteristic problems of transition of plants on land, a detailed characterization of developmental stages: bryophytes, psilophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms, and in the scheme, the most important representatives of phylogenetic and evolutionary trends.

Literature

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

TAYLOR, T. N., TAYLOR, E. L. The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. Prentice Hall, New Jersey. 1993.

BELL, P. R., HEMSLEY, A. R. Green Plants. Thier Origina and Diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2000.

JUD, W. S. et al. Plant Systematics. A phylogenetic approach. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Massachusetts. 1999.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (11.06.2019)

Oral examination, knowledge of subject matter within the scope of the syllabus.