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Botany

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0304/04
Abbreviation BOT
Course title Botany
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Hana Švehláková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Water management of the plant. Mineral nutrition of plants.
2. Photosynthesis. Respiration.
3. Secondary plant substances. Heterotrophic nutrition.
4. Physiology of movements - physical and vital movements. Phytohromones.
5. Physiology of plant growth and development.
6. Plant reproduction.
7. Cytological bases of heredity. Plant propagation, overview of methods,
principles. Generative reproduction, mitosis, meiosis.
8. Mendel's laws. Monohybrid crossing - dominance and recessivity. Cross
monohybrida - partial dominance. Binding of talents, Morgan's rules.
9. Sex inheritance, sex chromosomes. Types of heterogamity. Mutation,
mutagenicity, mutagens. Genetic toxicology. Ecotype.
10. Classification of plants, their origin and evolution. Biological species. Basic
division of organisms, plant systematics.
11. Lower plants.
12. Higher plants.
13. Plant species protection, specially protected species and species protection tools, non-native and invasive non-native species.

Literature

Taiz & Zeiger: Plant Physiology. Text book. Chelmsford, Essex, 2002

Advised literature

Stern,Kingsley and Bidlack,James. Introductory Plant Biology.2007. ISBN:
9780072830682.