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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

General Biology

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0515/01
Abbreviation OBB
Course title General Biology
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. General hierarchy of construction and organization of organisms. Prokaryotic and
eukaryotic cell. Plant and animal cell.
2. Plant tissues and tissue systems. Criteria for evaluation and classification of tissues.
False and real meshes, dividing and permanent meshes, meshes by function.
3. Animal tissues.
4. Circulatory, nervous, excretory, cutaneous, sensory, hormonal regulation systems.
5. Differentiation in a plant organism with a transition to land.
6. Morphology and anatomy of roots.
7. Morphology and anatomy of stems.
8. Morphology and anatomy of leaves.
9. Morphology and anatomy of reproductive organs.
10. Morphology and anatomy of seeds and fruits.
11. Basics of biochemistry - hydrocarbons as basic compounds (functional groups,
complex compounds, biochemically significant reactions).
12. Amino acids, proteins,
13. Protein synthesis and metabolism. Nucleic acids, enzymes, vitamins.
14. Biological oxidation (oxygen metabolism). Regulatory mechanisms and mutual mechanisms in metabolism. Mineral metabolism.

Literature

WILSON, K. a J. WALKER. Principles and Techniques of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-82889-9 

Advised literature

BERGTROM, G. Basic Cell and Molecular Biology. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2021; https://bio.libretexts.org/@go/page/16407
Basic Biology: Introduction to Biology. https://basicbiology.net/biology-101/introduction-to-biology