14I1O07 - Plant biology
| Course specification | ||||
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| Course title | Plant biology | |||
| Acronym | 14I1O07 | |||
| Acronym | Veterinary Medicine | |||
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| Type of study | Integrated academic studies | |||
| Lecturer (for classes) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for practice) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for OTC) | ||||
| ESPB | 1.5 | Status | ||
| Condition | - | |||
| The goal | The acquisition of basic knowledge about plants that are: basic food for animals (introduction to forage plants), the source of medicinal substances (introduction to medicinal plants), spices (introduction to herbs) and a source of highly toxic substances whose consumption can lead to poisoning of animals ( Dating with poisonous plants). | |||
| The outcome | After completed exam student should be able to: know all plants that are used in animal feeding, their nutritive values and way of production, to be familiar with most significant plants and their active principles, to be familiar with most toxic plant species and symptoms in animals cause with them after consuming, to be familiar with spice plants which are most often used in meat industry. | |||
| Contents | ||||
| Contents of lectures | Importance of plant аnd hemical composition of plants (3). Plant morphology and ecology (4). Forages (general characteristics of feed). Meadows and pastures (extensive and rotational grazing system). Poaceae and Fabaceae – characteristics аnd significance in nutrition. Radical, root crops plants (6). Medical and toxic plants, which are wide - spread on pastures and meadows (2). | |||
| Contents of exercises | In the practical part are taught basic morphological structure of plants based on herbar plants: I, II, III class meadow-pasture grasses and grains (6). Clower, alfalfa and other branches of the family of legumes (2), Medical plants (1), Toxic plants (4). Herbs (1). | |||
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| Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year | ||||
| Lectures | Exercises | OTC | Study and Research | Other classes |
| 1 | 1 | |||
| Methods of teaching | For lecture video beam is being used with presentations of al lectures. Graph scope with 100 foils with plant photos, herbarium with over 100 species. | |||
| Knowledge score (maximum points 100) | ||||
| Pre obligations | Points | Final exam | Points | |
| Activites during lectures | 3 | Test paper | 14 | |
| Practical lessons | 7 | Oral examination | 56 | |
| Projects | 0 | |||
| Colloquia | 20 | |||
| Seminars | 0 | |||