Course: Botany

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Course title Botany
Course code KGZB/BOTF
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hoštičková Irena, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Čurn Vladislav, prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Contents of lecture blocks: 1. Significance of plants, origin, evolution, taxonomic units. 2. Biomes. Phytogeographical division. 3. Types of plant communities. 4-5. Plant anatomy and morphology. 6. Process of pollination and fertilization, types of fruits. 7. Diasporology - methods of plant propagation 8-9. Algae, mosses, ferns and vascular plants - specifics of individual groups. 10-14. System of seedless and flowering plants.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
  • Preparation for credit - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 40 hours per semester
  • Semestral paper - 25 hours per semester
  • Class attendance - 56 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject is to provide to the students a basic survey about main botany fields. Students should use these peaces of knowledge in the next studium of an angling and water protection.
After this subject experience the students should orient in plant system without problems. Depending on the field of study the student will know the principal morphologic and physiologic differences between plants living in different localities. They shouldn't have any problems with plant specie determination. Student will have a genral survey in botany in the global scale.
Prerequisites
Basics of the ecology, highschool biology

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance assessment, Combined exam

1. Fieldwork lesson and excursion presence. 2. Plant recognizing. 3. Herbarium elaborating.
Recommended literature
  • Kaplan Z., et al. Klíč ke květeně České republiky. Academia, Praha, 2019.
  • Kolektiv. Kolektiv - Květena ČR. Academia Praha. 1988-2010..
  • Novák J., Skalický M. Botanika I, anatomie a morfologie rostlin. ČZU Praha, 2007.
  • Novák J., Skalický M. Botanika II, Systém rostlin. ČZU Praha, 2007.
  • Pecharová E., Hejný S. Botanika I.. Dona Č.B., 1993.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters Study plan (Version): Fishery (2018) Category: Agriculture and forestry 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters Study plan (Version): Fishery (2021) Category: Agriculture and forestry 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters Study plan (Version): Fishery (2022) Category: Agriculture and forestry 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters Study plan (Version): Fishery (2020) Category: Agriculture and forestry 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters Study plan (Version): Fishery (2019) Category: Agriculture and forestry 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer