ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 1 Expository Class: 30 Interactive Classroom: 25 Total: 56
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Functional Biology
Areas: Cellular Biology
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
Know the origin, structure and function of animal and plant tissues and organs.
Know and distinguish different animal and plant tissues and organs.
Know the basic techniques used in Histology.
Identify different animal and plant cell types and tissues in photomicrographs obtained in different types of optical and electron microscopes.
Train in the handling of the bright field optical microscope by observing histological slides of sections of various animal and plant organs and relate theoretical and practical content identifying different cell types and tissues.
How to use and look for information in specific and general bibliography and in Internet to supplement the information provided in lectures and seminars.
CLASSROOM LECTURES
Lectures will take place face-to-face in the classroom of the Faculty of Biology indicated in the schedule established by the centre.
The approximate duration of each lecture will be from 1.5 to 2 hours and the duration of each classroom lecture will be 55 minutes.
LECTURE 1.- Plant body plan. Plant tissues. Biology of meristems.
LECTURE 2.- Biology of the parenchyma, collenchyma and sclerenchyma.
LECTURE 3.- Biology of vascular tissues I. Xylem.
LECTURE 4.- Biology of vascular tissues II. Phloem.
LECTURE 5.- Biology of protection tissues.
LECTURE 6.- Biology of secretory tissues.
LECTURE 7.- Sporogenous tissue and gametophytes.
LECTURE 8.- Origin and evolution of animal tissues. Biology of epithelia: covering and glandular epithelium.
LECTURE 9.- Biology of connective tissues. Adipose tissue. Chromatophores.
LECTURE 10.- Biology of cartilaginous tissue. Notochord.
LECTURE 11.- Biology of bone tissue. Dental tissue.
LECTURE 12.- Biology of blood. Haematopoiesis.
LECTURE 13.- Biology of muscular tissue. Electric organs.
LECTURE 14.- Biology of the nervous tissue. The central and peripheral nervous system.
LABORATORY SESSIONS
Laboratory sessions will take place face-to-face in the general laboratory 3 of the Faculty of Biology. The duration of each session will be 2.5 hours.
LAB SESSION 1.- Root anatomy: Primary and secondary roots. Leaf anatomy.
LAB SESSION 2.- Stem anatomy: Primary and secondary stems. Flower anatomy.
LAB SESSION 3.- Integument and exocrine glands. Digestive system anatomy I.
LAB SESSION 4.- Digestive system anatomy II.
LAB SESSION 5.- Digestive system anatomy III. Respiratory system.
LAB SESSION 6.- Lymphoid organs.
LAB SESSION 7.- Excretory system.
LAB SESSION 8.- Nervous system. Sense organs.
SEMINAR SESSIONS
Seminar sessions will take place face-to-face in the classroom of the Faculty of Biology indicated in the schedule established by the centre. There will be two seminar sessions of 110 minutes each.
SEMINAR SESSION 1.- Histological process and common protocols used for processing tissues to be observed in optical or electron microscopes.
SEMINAR SESSION 2.- Practice of exercises for the recognition of animal and plant tissues in photomicrographs obtained in different types of optical and electronic microscopes, and of different types of questions, similar to those that students will have to answer in the exams referring to the evaluation of the contents taught in classroom lectures and seminar sessions.
Basic Bibliography:
Paniagua, Ricardo, Nistal, Manuel, Sesma, Pilar, Álvarez-Uría, Manuel, Fraile, Benito, Anadón, Ramón y Sáez, Francisco Javier, 2007. Citología e Histología Vegetal y Animal. Vol.2. 4ª ed. Madrid: McGraw-Hill-Interamericana.
Alonso Peña, José Ramón, 2011. Manual de Histología vegetal. Madríd: Ediciones Mundi-Prensa.
Evert, Ray F., 2008. Esau Anatomía vegetal: meristemas, células y tejidos de las plantas : su estructura, función y desarrollo. 3ª ed. Barcelona: Omega.
Gartner, Leslie P. y Hiatt, James L., 2008. Texto Atlas de Histología. 3ª ed. México : McGraw-Hill Interamericana.
Megías Pacheco, Manuel, Molist García Pilar y Pombal Diego, Manuel Ángel, 2019. Atlas de histología vegetal y animal. Accesible en: http://mmegias.webs.uvigo.es/inicio.html. [Consultado 29/05/2022].
Complementary Bibliography:
Crang, Richard, Lyons-Sobaski, Sheila and Wise, Robert, 2018. Plant Anatomy: a concept-based approach to the structure of seed plants. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland.
Mauseth, James D., 2009. Botany : an introduction to plant biology. 4th ed. Massachusetts : Jones and Bartlett.
Fawcett, Don W. and Jensch, Ronald P., 1999. Compendio de Histología. Madrid: McGraw Hill- Interamericana.
Pawlina, Wojciech, 2020. Ross Histología. Texto y Atlas. Correlación con Biología Molecular y Celular. 8ª ed. Barcelona : Wolters Kluwer.
Young, Bárbara, O’Dowd, Geraldine and Woodford, Phillip, 2014. Wheater Histología Funcional. Texto y Atlas en Color. 6ª ed. Barcelona: Elsevier.
The basic and general competencies will be those indicated in the memory of the Degree in Biology.
Regarding the specific and transversal competencies, the following are worked on in this subject:
CE3 - Know and know how to apply the instrumental techniques, and design work protocols in the laboratory and in the field, applying the regulations and appropriate techniques related to safety, hygiene, waste management and quality.
CE9 - Know and understand the structure and function of viruses, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
CE10 - Know and understand the development, morphology and anatomy of living organisms.
CT1 - Ability to search, process, analyze and synthesize information from various sources.
CT2 - Ability for reasoning, argumentation and critical thinking.
CT3 - Ability to work in groups and cover problematic situations collectively.
CT4 - Ability to prepare and present an organized and understandable text.
CT8 - Ability to solve problems through the integrated application of their knowledge, promoting initiative and creativity
CT9 - Ability to organize and plan work.
CT10 - Ability to interpret experimental results
Classroom lectures. Teachers will explain lectures contents in the classroom with the support of audio-visual media and will promote the participation and intervention of the students during the course of the lecture.
Teachers will use the USC virtual campus to provide students teaching material with the aim of facilitating the understanding of the contents taught in the lectures.
Seminar sessions. Seminar sessions will consist of the realization by lecturers of teaching activities of different kind with the active participation of the students, with the aim of delving the contents taught in the classroom lectures.
Laboratory sessions. At the beginning of each lab session, teachers will make a brief introduction on the organ(s) object of study. Throughout these lab sessions, students will be trained in the handling of the bright field optical microscope by observing various histological slides of sections of plant and animal organs. By analysing those sections students must understand the general structure of the organ(s) and identify and distinguish the different cell types and tissues that compose it(them).
Each student will have a bright field optical microscope, histological slides corresponding to each session, and a script with the description of the organs that will be studied in each session that will be available through the virtual classroom of the subject prior to carrying out the session in the laboratory.
According to the Estatutos da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela y la Normativa de asistencia a clase nas ensinanzas adaptadas ao Espazo Europeo de Ensinanza Superior (Consello de Goberno, 25 marzo 2010) “It is the duty of students to attend the theoretical and practical classes of each subject and the completion of the appropriate complementary work”.
Although attendance at the different activities (classroom lectures, seminar and laboratory sessions) will not be mandatory to pass the subject, it is recommended due to the many benefits it has for students (both new enrolment and repeating students) such as, for example, a better understanding of the subject, continuous learning, the possibility of a more participatory teaching-student methodology, or interaction with other students.
For the two evaluation opportunities, the grade obtained by each student will be a weighted average of their performance in the parts of the subject in which their work is evaluated. Students must pass two assessment tests:
1) Theoretical content exam, which will account for 65% of the overall grade for the subject. It will consist of two parts: one referring to the contents on plant tissues lectures, and another referring to the contents on animal tissues lectures and the contents taught in the seminar regarding the histological tissues processing. Each part will consist of a written test with multiple choice questions (where two incorrect answers subtract one correct answer), short and/or long answer questions, and questions related to photomicrograph and diagrams of tissues and/or organs included in the lectures. The answer using terms or concepts corresponding to animal tissues in the questions referring to plant tissues, or vice versa, will be penalized with the subtraction of one point in the overall grade of the exam.
To pass the theoretical content exam it is mandatory to achieve a grade equal to or greater than 5.0 points (out of 10.0) in each of the parts. If this is not the case, the summation will not be carried out and the exam will be considered failed.
2) Examination of laboratory sessions, which will account for 35% of the overall grade for the subject. This exam will consist of two parts that will be held consecutively on the same date and in the same classroom:
1st part- It will consist of photomicrographs recognition of animal and plant tissues/organs. Students will have to identify, in colour photomicrographs projected in the classroom and obtained from the histological slides studied during the lab sessions, animal and plant organs and the structures indicated in each photomicrograph. Each student will have to write her/his answers in a template provided by teachers at the time of the exam. If the organ is not identified (blank answer) or is not identified correctly, answers referring to the indicated structures will not be scored.
2nd part: It will consist of a written exam with true/false test questions (where one incorrect answer subtracts one correct answer). The questions will refer to the theoretical contents of the lab sessions scripts.
To pass the lab sessions exam it is necessary to achieve a grade equal to or greater than 5.0 points (out of 10.0) in each of the parts (photomicrographs and test). Otherwise, the sum will not be made and the lab sessions will be considered failed.
The overall grade of each student in the subject will result from the sum of the grade obtained in the exam of lectures contents (65%) and the grade obtained in the exam of lab sessions contents (35 %). This sum will only be carried out when the student reaches a grade equal to or greater than 5.0 points (out of 10.0) in each of the exams. If the sum cannot be made, the grade that will appear in the academic record will be that of the exam that obtains the highest grade.
For repeating students, the assessment system will be the same as for newly enrolled students.
For cases of fraudulent completion of exams, the provisions of the "“Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión das cualificacións" of the USC will be applied.
Classroom lectures: 30 h.
Seminar sessions: 4 h.
Laboratory sessions: 20 h.
Tutorials: 1 h.
Study time and individual work: 93 h.
Examinations: 5 h.
Classroom lectures and seminar and laboratory sessions attendance and active participation during class work.
Study and weekly review of the information provided in lectures, and seminar and laboratory sessions, using the textbooks suggested by the lecturer.
Clarify doubts consulting the lecturers.
The subject requires previous study of the Cell Biology subject in the first semester of the first year of the Degree in Biology.
The subject will have a virtual classroom from the beginning of the semester on the Moodle platform of the USC virtual campus, in which lecturers will provide students with subject information (schedules, groups of classroom lessons, seminar and laboratory sessions, teaching guide, bibliography, presentations of theoretical content, laboratory scripts, news forum, etc...), and didactic materials referring to the contents taught in classroom lessons and in seminar and laboratory sessions.
Maria Fatima Adrio Fondevila
Coordinador/a- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Cellular Biology
- Phone
- 881816943
- fatima.adrio.fondevila [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Miguel Angel Rodriguez Diaz
- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Cellular Biology
- Phone
- 881816942
- miguelangel.rodriguez.diaz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Daniel Romaus Sanjurjo
- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Cellular Biology
- daniel.romaus.sanjurjo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Investigador/a Sara Borrell
Nicolas Vidal Vazquez
- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Cellular Biology
- nicolas.vidal.vazquez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Laura Gonzalez Llera
- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Cellular Biology
- l.gonzalez.llera [at] usc.es
- Category
- USC Pre-doctoral Contract
Alejandro Sanchez Rueda
- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Cellular Biology
- alejandrosanchez.rueda [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Paula Ayuso Garcia
- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Cellular Biology
- paula.ayuso [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Cecilia Huarte Sebastian
- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Cellular Biology
- cecilia.huarte.sebastian [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Izaskun Buendia Abaitua
- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Cellular Biology
- izaskun.buendia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Juan de la Cierva Programme
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