Paleobotany, as based on Botany

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Course ID:	1300-OPBB4W
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.304 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0532) Earth science The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Paleobotany, as based on Botany
Name in Polish:	Paleobotanika z elementami botaniki
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Geology
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	elective courses
Prerequisites (description):	(in Polish) Wskazane jest posiadanie wiedzy z zakresu biologii na poziomie szkoły średniej.
Short description:	Course covers the evolutionary history of plants as revealed by the fossil findings.
Full description:	This course begins with the review of basic terms used in botanical studies, especially in plant anatomy, plant geography and plant systematic. Deposition and fossilization of plants and post-depositional processes. Origin of life in the Precambrian. Elaboration and evolution of lower plants in the Lower Paleozoicum with special attention to red algae and Charales. Plants invade the lands - fossil record, molecular evidence, key reasons. Radiation of early land plants. Herbaceous lycopods of the Devonian, radiation in Carbonaceous – arborescent forms. Carbonaceous coal swamps. Trimerophytes, Sphenophytes. Ferns – first, extinct forms, carbonaceous ferns, birth of the modern fern. Seed habit. Progymnospermopsida, seed ferns. Cordaites and Mesozoic and Cenozoic conifers. Cycads and Bennettitales evolution. Ginkos radiation. Origin of angiosperms and the first fossils. Angiosperm evolution and distribution in the upper Cretaceous. Major events in plant evolution. Evolution of the Quaternary flora.
Bibliography:	(in Polish) Szweykowska, A., Szweykowski, J. 1993. Botanika - systematyka. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN; Warszawa Taylor T., Taylor E., Krings M. 2009 PALEOBOTANY The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, Second Edition Elsevier Steward and Rothwell 1993. Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants. Cambridge.
Learning outcomes:	During this course students will get knowledge about the evolutionary history of the particular systematic groups of plants and the key events in the evolution of plant - land invasion, the origin of seed habit, origin of angiosperms.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Students have to attend lectures and take notes. Passing a course (as well as a re-sit examination) - a positive grade of the dissertation is required for passing. To get a credit students have to attend lectures (min 75%).
Practical placement:	(in Polish) brak

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