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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Biological Sciences : Plant Science

Undergraduate Course: Plant Evolution (PLSC10020)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Biological Sciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course deals with the evolutionary processes that have led to the current diversity of land plants. We use a combination of lectures, reviews and research papers to provide material for group discussion of the forces promoting plant diversity and constraints on the pathways evolution can take.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 33, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 63 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Seminar presentation of paper (25%)
Written summaries of papers (65%)
Questions on other student's written summaries (10%)
Feedback Written feedback will be supplied.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Appreciation of the diversity of flowering plants and the drivers behind this
  2. Understanding of the effects of domesticaton on plants and the history of major crops
  3. Understanding how breeding systems affect evolution
  4. Ability to dissect, criticise and present primary literature
  5. Construction and defence of hypothesis based on primary literature
Reading List
Recommended background texts:
Plant Variation and Evolution Briggs and Walters 1997
Speciation Coyne and Orr (2004)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsPLSCPlaEvol
Contacts
Course organiserDr Catherine Kidner
Tel: (0131 6)51 3316
Email: Catherine.Kidner@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Karen Sutherland
Tel: (0131 6)51 3404
Email: Karen.Sutherland@ed.ac.uk
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