546-0510/02 – Introduction to Biology and Ecology (UdBioEko)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2009/2010 | Year of cancellation | 2019/2020 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The student will gain a comprehensive overview of basic information about living matter, its composition, structure and functions at various hierarchical levels.
Teaching methods
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Experimental work in labs
Project work
Terrain work
Summary
After completion of the „Fundamentals of biology and ecology“ students will understand the origin of life on Earth, the basic units of life – cells, evolution of species and the diversity of life, ecology of communities, dynamic characteristics of ecosystems and global issues of the environment.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Successful processing of part-time assignments in the semester. Verification of the acquired knowledge is done by means of control tests. The course is finished by credit and combined examination.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Sorting of biological and ecological sciences. Importance and application of biological and environmental sciences in technical fields.
2. Life in the Universe. The conditions for life on Earth. The emergence of living systems and their evolution.
3. Diversity of organisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi, animals, plants).
4. Cell theory.
5. Genetics (chromosome structure, the structure of DNA, RNA, genetic aspects mitosis and meiosis, mutational changes in genotype).
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).
12. Characteristics of the human environment. Atmospheric pollution, climate disruption (ozone depletion, greenhouse effect, acid rain, dust).
13. Pollution of soil (soil erosion, soil depletion and degradation, cutting of tropical forests, heavy metals, pesticides, etc.).
14. Pollution of fresh waters and oceans (eutrophication, industrial waste, etc.).
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction