Undergraduate Course: Plant Evolution (PLSC10020)
Course Outline
| School | School of Biological Sciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This 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
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 33,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
63 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| 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:
- Appreciation of the diversity of flowering plants and the drivers behind this
- Understanding of the effects of domesticaton on plants and the history of major crops
- Understanding how breeding systems affect evolution
- Ability to dissect, criticise and present primary literature
- Construction and defence of hypothesis based on primary literature
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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 |
| Keywords | PLSCPlaEvol |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Catherine Kidner
Tel: (0131 6)51 3316
Email: Catherine.Kidner@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Karen Sutherland
Tel: (0131 6)51 3404
Email: Karen.Sutherland@ed.ac.uk |
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