546-0515/01 – General Biology (OBB)
Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 6 |
Subject guarantor | Mgr. Oldřich Motyka, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Barbara Stalmachová, CSc. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2008/2009 | Year of cancellation | 2021/2022 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Comprehension and knowledge of organism functioning, organism structures and microstructures.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Experimental work in labs
Summary
Anatomical strucutre of plant, fungal and animal bodies: cytology and biochemistry of cells, plant and animal histology and anatomy.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended 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
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Examination papers
Credit examination paper
E-learning
Other requirements
regular participation in exercises
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
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.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction