Plant Anatomy & Morphology


  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
STUDY LEVEL Undergraduate
COURSE CODE Β0010 SEMESTER 1st
COURSE TITLE Plant Anatomy and Morphology
INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

 

TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK ECTS
Lectures and laboratory course 5 5
COURSE TYPE General Background
PREREQUISITE COURSE(S):
LANGUAGE (TEACHING AND EXAMS) Greek
THE COURSE IS OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS NO
COURSE WEBSITE (URL) http://www.agro.duth.gr/undergraduate/record/B0010.shtml

 

  1. TEACHING OUTCOMES
Teaching outcomes
The purpose of the course is the study of the morphology and anatomy of higher plants. In detail description of the plant cells, plant tissues or plant organs in order to learn the structure of morphological diversity and environmental adaptations of vascular plants. At the end of the course the students will be able to identify and describe macroscopic and microscopic morphological characters of higher plants.
General capabilities
§  Independent work

§  Literature search, data analysis and synthesis

§  Development of inductive reasoning

 

  1. COURSE CONTENT
Introduction – Plant cell

Meristems – growth

Epidermal tissue – parenchymal tissue

Supportive tissue – vascular tissue

Secretory tissue – Periderma

Stem – External morphology of stem and shoot

Anatomy of stem

Branching of stem – transformed stems

Leaf – Outdoor morphology – Anatomic construction

metamorphic leaves

Root – External morphology – Anatomy and structure

Transformed roots – Mycorrhiza – Root nodes

 

  1. TEACHING AND LEARNING ASSESSMENT METHODS
DELIVERING METHOD In classroom
IT USE §  Power point, videos

 

TEACHING ORGANIZATION Activity Semester workload

 

Lectures 65
Laboratory courses 15
Team work
Independent study 45
Course total

(25-hour workload per credit unit)

 

125

STUDENT ASSESSMENT

 

In order to pass this course, each student must succeed in final written examinations

 

  1. PROPOSED LITERATURE
Raven P., Evert F.R., Eichhorn E.S. 2014. Plant Biology. UTOPIA. Athens.

Karampetsos I. 2005. Botany, Morphology and Anatomy of Plants. Embryo. Athens.

Bozampalidis. A. 2014. Botany, Morphology and Anatomy of Plants. University Studio Press. Thessaloniki.