Mycology, classification and characteristics of fungi: zygomycetes, basidiomycetes, ascomycetes, deuteromycetes, lichens and mycorrhize, morphology, life cycle, ecological and economic importance, local examples. Fungi and human affairs. Algology, classification of algae. Criteria: photosynthetic pigments, food reserves, nature of cell wall, flagella, cytology. Morphology and vegetative organisation: unicellular, protococcoidal, flagellate unicells, colonial, flagellate colonies, non-flagellate coenobia, filamentous, siphonaceous and parenchymatous. Vegetative, asexual, sexual reproduction.Life cycles. Cyanobacteria, dinophyta, bacillariophyta, euglenophyta, chlorophyta, charophyta,... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: 312365 (v.1)<br/> Plant Biology 102<br/> <br/> or any previous version<br/> <br/> <br/><br/> <br/> OR<br/><br/> <br/> 1756 (v.8)<br/> Plant Biology 102<br/> <br/> or any previous version<br/> <br/> <br/><br/> <br/> OR<br/><br/> <br/> 313537 (v.1)<br/> Bio