546-0361/01 – Biology (BIOB)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | 2019/2020 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Graduating student will be able to describe the living cell, to understand basic life processes of living organisms, will be able to identify different types of organisms, to understand the functioning of plant and animal communities and will be able to identify and explain Global environmental problems.
Teaching methods
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Summary
General Cytology, cytogenesis, plant and animal anatomy, physiology and
systematics of organisms, population and community ecology.
Compulsory literature:
Charles J Krebs: Ecology. Textbook, Chelmsford, Essex, 2001
Recommended literature:
Smith, R.L., Elements of Ecology, 1991, Harper Collins Publishers, New York.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
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E-learning
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Cell theory. Construction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
2. Energy and living cells (energy flow, respiration, photosynthesis).
3. Genetics (chromosome structure, the structure of DNA, RNA, genetic aspects
mitosis and meiosis, mutational changes in genotype).
4. Diversity of organisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi, animals,
plants).
5. The emergence of living systems and their evolution.
6. Relations between the organism and the environment (niche, ecological valence,
ecological optimum).
7. The conditions for life (climate, temperature, water and humidity, light, soil).
8. Type (adaptation, specialization, genetic and phenotypic polymorphism,
fitness, individual).
9. Population (density, distribution, age, mortality, natality, population growth
and regulation of migration and dispersion of organisms, Intraspecific and interspecific
competition, predation, parasitism, and mutualism).
10. Communities (communities in the arrangement of space, structure
communities in time - succession, stability, flexibility and community resistance).
11. Ecosystems (biosphere, energy flow and productivity of ecosystems, trophic
structure, biochemical cycles, biomes).
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction