ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 30 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Botany, Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology
Areas: Botany, Zoology
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
a) General:
- Know how to base the common origin of all living beings and its repercussions.
- Relate environmental diversity, organic diversity and the evolutionary process.
- Place organisms on the tree of life and identify the evolutionary relationships between the main groups.
- Recognize taxonomic categories and use the rules of biological nomenclature.
- Recognize the main phases of the development of life on Earth.
- Recognize the main milestones in the history of biological knowledge
b) Specific:
- Identify organisms and associate them with the different modes and types of anatomical, functional and reproductive organization.
- Distinguish between the different phases of life cycles.
- Recognize the identifying characteristics of the main botanical and fauna groups as well as their phylogenetic position.
- Analyze the phenomena of evolutionary convergence and divergence of functional systems as an adaptive response to continuous environmental changes.
- Know the interspecific relationships that may condition the different species and their environmental characteristics.
- Relate the spatio-temporal variation of biodiversity and the maintenance of life.
- Instill notions for the conservation of diversity in ecosystems.
The contents that will be developed in this subject address biological diversity.
The study program to achieve these contents is as follows:
Introduction to the history of life on Earth.
Biological diversity, current and previous vision. Phylogenetic trees and classification of organisms. Nomenclature and taxonomy.
General characteristics of living systems. The three domains: Bacteria, Arquea and Eukaria. Differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Structure and function of the different types of cells (in multicellular organisms) and their subcellular organelles.
The Protists: Algae. General characteristics. Biological cycles.
Mushroom Kingdom and related groups. General characteristics and diversity.
Plant of the kingdom. Complexity, structure and development.
Non-vascular plants (Bryophytas): biological cycle.
Vascular plants I: Seedless plants (Pteridophytas): biological cycle.
Vascular plants II: Seed plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms). Reproduction.
Animalia Kingdom: origin of animals, animal architecture, body plans. Animal Protostomes and Deuterostomes. Foundations of taxonomy and zoological nomenclature. Classification and phylogeny. Animal reproduction and development.
Phylum Porifers, Cnidarians and Ctnophores: general characteristics and types of organization
Accelomados: Filo Platelmintos. Diagnosis and general characteristics. Classification and examples of life cycles.
Pseudocellomas: definition and general characters. Rotiferous Edge. Nematode Edge
Celomados: definition and general characters. Mollusk Phylum: general characteristics, organization, reproduction and classification.
Phylum Annelids: general characteristics, organization, reproduction and classification.
Arthropod Edge: Definition, general characteristics and classification.
Quelicerados: general characteristics, organization and classification.
Crustaceans: general characteristics, organization and classification.
Myriapods: definition, general characteristics and classification
Hexapods: general characteristics. Biology and classification. Collembola, Proturos and Diplomas. Exopterigotas and Endopterygotas
Deuterostome animals: Phylum Echinoderms: general characteristics and organization.
Filo Chordates: Definition and general characters. General characteristics of vertebrates, classification. Agnatos Overview
Gnathostomes: definition. Chondrichthya and Osteictios: general characters. Structural and functional adaptations for life in water.
Tetrapods: adaptation to the terrestrial environment. Amphibians: general characteristics and organization. Classification. Reproduction and development
Reptiles: General characteristics and organization. Classification
Birds: General characteristics and organization; functional and structural adaptations for flight. Classification
Mammals: general characteristics, functional and structural adaptations. Classification. Reproduction and development
SEMINARS
Biodiversity and conservation (2 hours)
Invasive species (2 hours)
LABORATORY PRACTICES
Practice 1.- Introduction to laboratory work protocols. Use and management of binocular loupes and microscopes (1:30)
Practice 2.- Mushrooms and related groups. (1:30)
Practice 3.- Algae and non-vascular plants (mosses) (1:30)
Practice 4.- Vascular plants (ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms) (1:30)
Practice 5.- Invertebrates in arthropods. Acelomados, pseudocelomados, anelidos (1:30)
Practice 6.- Molluscs and echinoderms (1:30)
Practice 7.- Arthropods 1. Quelicerates and shellfish. (1:30)
Practice 8.- Arthropods 2. Insects and other groups of terrestrial jaws. (1h: 30)
Practice 9.- Chordates 1. Urocordadas, cefalocordados, fish and amphibians (1:30)
Practice 10.- Chordates 2. Reptiles, birds and mammals (1:30)
Due to the guidelines for safe face-to-face teaching, the duration of the practices will be cut in half in this academic year 20_21, so that each group will be divided into two (A and B) and each of them will receive 45 'per internship . The remaining time will be postponed for telematics work.
Basic Bibliography
Brusca, R. C., e Brusca, G. J.,.- Invertebrados. Ec. McGraw-Hill-Interamericana, 2005
Curry, J.P.- Grassland Invertebrates: Ecology, influence on soil fertility and effects on plant growth. Ed. Chapman&Hall, 1994
Curtis, H.; N. Sue Barnes. 2008. Biología. 7ª ed. Ed. Panamericana.
de la Fuente, J. A., Artrópodos. I. Características xerais, Dpto. Zoología, Univ. Salamanca, 1982.
de la Fuente, J. A., Zoología de Artrópodos, Ed. McGraw-Hill-Interamericana de España, Madrid, 1994.
Esau, K. 1987. Anatomía de las plantas con semilla. Ed. Hemisferio Sur.
Hickman, C. P., Roberts, L. S., Keen, S.L.,Larson, A., l'Anson, H e Eisenhour, D.J. Principios integrales de Zoología, Ed. McGraw-Hill Interamericana, Madrid, 14ª edición, 2008.
Kardong, K. V., Vertebrados: anatomía comparada, función, evolución, Ed. McGraw-Hill Interamericana, Madrid, 1999.
Raven, P. H.; R. F. Evert; S. E. Eichhorn. 1992. Biología de las plantas. 2 tomos. Reverté.
Complementary bibliography
Aira, Mª J., Vázquez, R.A. e Izco, J. Eds. 2014. Manual de prácticas de botánica: laboratorio y campo. Servizo de Publicacións e intercambio Científico. Santiago de Compostela.
Barnes, R. S. K., Calow, P., e Olive, P. J. W., The Invertebrates: a new synthesis, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1993.
Birch, M. C. e Hainer, K. F., Feromonas de insectos, Ed. Oikos-Tau, Barcelona, 1990.
Díaz, J. A. e Santos, T., Aproximación evolutiva a la diversidad e organización de los animales, Ed. Síntesis, Madrid, 1998.
Malakhov, V. V., Nematodos: Structure, Development, Classification and Phylogeny, Smithsonian Institution, 1994.
Mueller, GM, Bills, GF, Foster, MS., 2004. Biodiversity of Fungi. Inventoring and Monitoring Methods. Elsevier Academic Press. Amsterdam.
Nabors, M. W. 2006. Introducción a la Botánica. Pearson Educación. Madrid.
Richards, O. W. e Davies, R. G., Tratado de Entomología Imms. 1 Estructura, Fisiología y Desarrollo, ed. Omega, Barcelona, 1983.
Richards, O. W. e Davies, R. G., Tratado de Entomología Imms. 2. Clasificación y Biología, ed. Omega, Barcelona, 1984.
Rodríguez, Mª C., P. De Sáa; R.A. Vázquez. 2004. Citología, Histología y Organografía Vegetal. In: Rodríguez, F. (Ed.). Galicia Naturaleza. Tomo XLI, Botánica I: 17-134. Hércules Ediciones, A Coruña.
Vaughan, T. A., Mamíferos, Interamericana, México, 1988.
Weichert, C. K. e Presch, W., Elementos de anatomía de los cordados, Ed. McGraw-Hill, México, 1981.
Wessels, N. K., Adaptaciones estructurales de los vertebrados en Scientific American: Vertebrados: estructura y función, Ed. Blume, Madrid, 1979.
Web-grafía (July 2020)
The Joy of Science. Richard A. Lockshin. 2007. http://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-1-4020-6099-1. https://www.slideshare.net/Rafamartin/biodiversidad-y-evolucin-71976319
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacterial_morphology_diagram-es…
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diatoms_through_the_microscope.j…
Curtis, H. & N. Sue Barnes. 2001. Biología. 6ª edic. Ed. Panamericana (http://www.intercambiosvirtuales.org/software/biologia-sexta-edicion- %e2%80%93-curtis-barnes)
http://botweb.uwsp.edu/anatomy/Default.htm#parenchyma
Basic skills:
CB1: That the students have demonstrated to possess and understand knowledge in a study area that starts from the general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the forefront of their field of study.
CB5: That the students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Xerais skills:
CG1: Possess and understand fundamental knowledge about the organization and function of biological systems at the cellular and molecular levels.
CG2: Think in an integrated way and approach problems from different perspectives, both technically and professionally, as well as their relationship with social / economic problems involving a biochemist.
Cross-cutting competences
CT1: Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CT3: Ability to work in a team.
CT11: Ability for autonomous learning.
CT15: Ability for oral and written communication
Specific competences
CES2: Know and understand the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, as well as the structure and function of different cell types (in multicellular organisms) and their subcellular organelles.
CES10: Know and know how to apply the structural, functional and taxonomic foundations of biological systems, as well as the concept of biological diversity and its importance for the maintenance of life on Earth
EXPENSE OF ATTENDANCE: there is no exemption from attendance at the sessions corresponding to interactive classroom teaching
SCENARIO 1 (all teaching will be face-to-face)
Theoretical teaching will take place during the first semester, according to the schedule approved by the center; the material used in each theory class will be available to students in advance on the virtual platform. The theoretical classes will consist of the explanation of the contents of the subject, by the teachers using the blackboard and the audiovisual media.
Seminars are complementary activities on various aspects of the subject.
Practical teaching (it will serve to illustrate the theoretical contents of the subject and will be fundamentally oriented towards the students acquiring practical skills and experience); Its development will be as follows:
- Brief introduction by the teacher.
- Carrying out practice, according to the guidelines set by a script, under the supervision and supervision of the teaching staff.
- Delivery of a paper on what was done during practice.
All the tasks of the student body (study, works, readings) will be guided by the academic staff in the tutoring sessions.
USC-virtual:
- The tools available in the virtual USC will be used to provide students with the necessary material for the development of the subject (presentations, notes, supporting texts, bibliography, etc.) and to establish fluid communication between students and teachers.
Skills worked
1. Expository classes: CB1, CB5, CG1, CG2, CT1, CT11, CT15, CES2, CES 10
2. Seminars: CB5, CG2, CT1, CT3, CT11, CT15
3. Practices: CB5, CG2, CT1, CT3, CES10
4. Group tutoring: CT3, CT15
5. Individual tutorials: CT1
6. Assessment activities: CES2, CES 10
Contingency plan for remote teaching activities (scenario 2 and 3):
They would be carried out, synchronously / asynchronously and always according to the schedule established by the center, through the different telematic means available at the USC, preferably the Virtual Campus and Ms Teams.
Due to the nature and content of this subject, as well as the methodology used, the main difference between face-to-face teaching and remote teaching is that in scenario 2 the practices will be face-to-face, while in scenario 3 all the teaching It will be telematic.
To carry out the tutorials, as well as to maintain direct communication both between the students themselves and between them and the teaching staff, they will be carried out through the Virtual Campus forum, through Ms. Teams or by email
SCENARIO 2
Teaching methodology
Expository classes, seminars and tutorials will have telematic teaching according to the approved schedules.
The practical classes will be face-to-face with practice groups of no more than 10 students. All hygienic-sanitary measures must be taken, including the mandatory use of a mask when it is not possible to maintain the safety distance.
SCENARIO 3
Teaching methodology
All teaching will be non-face-to-face, following the hours approved by the center
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for evaluating student academic performance and reviewing grades” will apply.
ORIXINALIDADE TWO WORKS PRESENTED
In preparing the work and the questionnaires carried out during the course, certain rules must be followed:
1. Any literal quotation of text and / or figures taken from a book, reprint, class notes or from a web page, must be correctly referenced. Otherwise, it will be considered that plagiarism is being carried out (action and effect of copying, not substantial, other people's works giving them as their own).
2. It will also be considered plagiarism if the copy is from another partner, or a work written by another person is presented, posing as its author.
3. The detection of any of these forms of plagiarism will mean that said work is not taken into consideration and must be redone; In addition, if plagiarism is repeated, the final grade for the subject will be absent.
4. In the case of the questionnaires, if a copy is detected in the responses of a part of the students, it will lead to the absence of the corresponding grade in the final grade of the subject for all the cases detected.
REPEATERS: the grades achieved in the different activities during an academic year will not be saved for subsequent courses, so they will have to be repeated in their entirety
Scenario 1
The final grade of the subject will be the sum of the points achieved in the following sections:
1. Theoric exam (50% of the final grade, divided into 20% for Botany and 30% for Zoology). It is essential to pass both parts to add the rest of the scores.
Skills assessed: CB1,CG1,CT11,CT15,CES2,CES10
2. Attendance, attitude and use of the practices as well as the elaboration of a memory of each one of them and the preparation of a glossary of terms in Galician, Spanish and English (30% gives final note). Practices will be compulsory and not attending them will mean having to take a practical exam at the end of the course.
Skills assessed: CB5,CT3,CT11, CES10
3. Preparation and presentation of a work (10%).
Skills assessed: CES2,CG2, CT1,CT3
4. Continuous evaluation by answering some questionnaires at the end of each topic and the seminars, along with active participation in classes (10% of the final grade) . At the end of the exhibition class time, there will be a new possibility to answer the questionnaires.
Skills assessed: CG1,CG2,CT1,CES2
The qualifications obtained, in the ordinary opportunity, sections 3 and 4 will be the same in the second opportunity; that is, there is no possibility of submitting a new job or of answering the questionnaires again.
Contingency plan for evaluation of activities (scenario 2 and 3):
SCENARIO 2 and 3
Evaluation
1. Theoric exam (50% of the final grade, divided into 20% for Botany and 30% for Zoology). It is essential to pass both parts to add the rest of the scores.
Skills assessed: CB1,CG1,CT11,CT15,CES2,CES10
2. Attendance, attitude and use of the practices as well as the elaboration of a memory of each one of them and the preparation of a glossary of terms in Galician, Spanish and English (30% gives final note). Practices will be compulsory and not attending them will mean having to take a practical exam at the end of the course.
Skills assessed: CB5,CT3,CT11, CES10
3. Preparation and presentation of a work (10%).
Skills assessed: CES2,CG2, CT1,CT3
4. Continuous evaluation by answering some questionnaires at the end of each topic and the seminars, along with active participation in classes (10% of the final grade) . At the end of the exhibition class time, there will be a new possibility to answer the questionnaires.
The qualifications obtained, in the ordinary opportunity, sections 3 and 4 will be the same in the second opportunity; that is, there is no possibility of submitting a new job or of answering the questionnaires again.
Contact hours:
Exhibition classes: 30 hours
Interactive classes (laboratory and seminars): 15 + 3 hours
Tutoring: 3 hours
Evaluation activities: 4 hours
Total classroom hours: 55
Students' personal work
Reading and preparation of topics: 30 hours
Reading and preparation of interactive classes: 15 hours
Preparation of other evaluation activities: 20 hours
Exam preparation: 30 hours
Total non-contact hours: 90 hours
- Total student work hours: 150 hours
- Face-to-face and participatory assistance in theory classes and, especially, in laboratory practices since they are compulsory.
- Consultation of the recommended bibliography as well as the material available on the Virtual Campus.
- Use of teacher tutoring hours for queries and clarifications
Contingency plan
Teaching methodology
EXPENSE OF ATTENDANCE: there is no exemption from attendance at the sessions corresponding to interactive classroom teaching
SCENARIO 1 (all teaching will be face-to-face)
Theoretical teaching will take place during the first semester, according to the schedule approved by the center; the material used in each theory class will be available to students in advance on the virtual platform. The theoretical classes will consist of the explanation of the contents of the subject, by the teachers using the blackboard and the audiovisual media.
Seminars are complementary activities on various aspects of the subject.
Practical teaching (it will serve to illustrate the theoretical contents of the subject and will be fundamentally oriented towards the students acquiring practical skills and experience); Its development will be as follows:
- Brief introduction by the teacher.
- Carrying out practice, according to the guidelines set by a script, under the supervision and supervision of the teaching staff.
- Delivery of a paper on what was done during practice.
All the tasks of the student body (study, works, readings) will be guided by the academic staff in the tutoring sessions.
USC-virtual:
- The tools available in the virtual USC will be used to provide students with the necessary material for the development of the subject (presentations, notes, supporting texts, bibliography, etc.) and to establish fluid communication between students and teachers.
Skills worked
1. Expository classes: CB1, CB5, CG1, CG2, CT1, CT11, CT15, CES2, CES 10
2. Seminars: CB5, CG2, CT1, CT3, CT11, CT15
3. Practices: CB5, CG2, CT1, CT3, CES10
4. Group tutoring: CT3, CT15
5. Individual tutorials: CT1
6. Assessment activities: CES2, CES 10
Contingency plan for remote teaching activities (scenario 2 and 3):
They would be carried out, synchronously / asynchronously and always according to the schedule established by the center, through the different telematic means available at the USC, preferably the Virtual Campus and Ms Teams.
Due to the nature and content of this subject, as well as the methodology used, the main difference between face-to-face teaching and remote teaching is that in scenario 2 the practices will be face-to-face, while in scenario 3 all the teaching It will be telematic.
To carry out the tutorials, as well as to maintain direct communication both between the students themselves and between them and the teaching staff, they will be carried out through the Virtual Campus forum, through Ms. Teams or by email
SCENARIO 2
Teaching methodology
Expository classes, seminars and tutorials will have telematic teaching according to the approved schedules.
The practical classes will be face-to-face with practice groups of no more than 10 students. All hygienic-sanitary measures must be taken, including the mandatory use of a mask when it is not possible to maintain the safety distance.
SCENARIO 3
Teaching methodology
All teaching will be non-face-to-face, following the hours approved by the center
Evaluation system
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for evaluating student academic performance and reviewing grades” will apply.
ORIXINALIDADE TWO WORKS PRESENTED
In preparing the work and the questionnaires carried out during the course, certain rules must be followed:
1. Any literal quotation of text and / or figures taken from a book, reprint, class notes or from a web page, must be correctly referenced. Otherwise, it will be considered that plagiarism is being carried out (action and effect of copying, not substantial, other people's works giving them as their own).
2. It will also be considered plagiarism if the copy is from another partner, or a work written by another person is presented, posing as its author.
3. The detection of any of these forms of plagiarism will mean that said work is not taken into consideration and must be redone; In addition, if plagiarism is repeated, the final grade for the subject will be absent.
4. In the case of the questionnaires, if a copy is detected in the responses of a part of the students, it will lead to the absence of the corresponding grade in the final grade of the subject for all the cases detected.
REPEATERS: the grades achieved in the different activities during an academic year will not be saved for subsequent courses, so they will have to be repeated in their entirety
Scenario 1
The final grade of the subject will be the sum of the points achieved in the following sections:
1. Theoric exam (50% of the final grade, divided into 20% for Botany and 30% for Zoology). It is essential to pass both parts to add the rest of the scores.
Skills assessed: CB1,CG1,CT11,CT15,CES2,CES10
2. Attendance, attitude and use of the practices as well as the elaboration of a memory of each one of them and the preparation of a glossary of terms in Galician, Spanish and English (30% gives final note). Practices will be compulsory and not attending them will mean having to take a practical exam at the end of the course.
Skills assessed: CB5,CT3,CT11, CES10
3. Preparation and presentation of a work (10%).
Skills assessed: CES2,CG2, CT1,CT3
4. Continuous evaluation by answering some questionnaires at the end of each topic and the seminars, along with active participation in classes (10% of the final grade) . At the end of the exhibition class time, there will be a new possibility to answer the questionnaires.
Skills assessed: CG1,CG2,CT1,CES2
The qualifications obtained, in the ordinary opportunity, sections 3 and 4 will be the same in the second opportunity; that is, there is no possibility of submitting a new job or of answering the questionnaires again.
Contingency plan for evaluation of activities (scenario 2 and 3):
SCENARIO 2 and 3
Evaluation
1. Theoric exam (50% of the final grade, divided into 20% for Botany and 30% for Zoology). It is essential to pass both parts to add the rest of the scores.
Skills assessed: CB1,CG1,CT11,CT15,CES2,CES10
2. Attendance, attitude and use of the practices as well as the elaboration of a memory of each one of them and the preparation of a glossary of terms in Galician, Spanish and English (30% gives final note). Practices will be compulsory and not attending them will mean having to take a practical exam at the end of the course.
Skills assessed: CB5,CT3,CT11, CES10
3. Preparation and presentation of a work (10%).
Skills assessed: CES2,CG2, CT1,CT3
4. Continuous evaluation by answering some questionnaires at the end of each topic and the seminars, along with active participation in classes (10% of the final grade) . At the end of the exhibition class time, there will be a new possibility to answer the questionnaires.s.
The qualifications obtained, in the ordinary opportunity, sections 3 and 4 will be the same in the second opportunity; that is, there is no possibility of submitting a new job or of answering the questionnaires again.
Teresa Cornide Paz
- Department
- Botany
- Area
- Botany
- teresa.cornide [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University School Lecturer
Maria Teresa Rodriguez Lopez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology
- Area
- Zoology
- teresa.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Rosa Ana Vázquez Ruiz De Ocenda
- Department
- Botany
- Area
- Botany
- Phone
- 982822466
- rosana.vazquez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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