Information Of Programmes

INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE / BYL 622 - BIOLOGY (MASTER'S DEGREE)

Code: BYL 622

Course Title: BRYOPHYT TAXONOMY

Theoretical+Practice: 3+0

ECTS: 6

Year/Semester of Study

1 / Spring Semester

Level of Course

2nd Cycle Degree Programme

Type of Course

Optional

Department

BIOLOGY (MASTER'S DEGREE)

Pre-requisities and Co-requisites

None

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Teaching Period

14 Weeks

Name of Lecturer

RECEP KARA (recepkara@nevsehir.edu.tr)

Name of Lecturer(s)

RECEP KARA,

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Objectives of the Course

To teach the morphological, anatomical and systematic features of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.

Learning Outcomes		PO	MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1	Mosses, liverworts and hornworts grasses horned morphology, anatomy, and makes the classification	PO-1 Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Biology, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods	Examination
LO-2	Describes the evolution of the first plants to emerge from the sea	PO-1 Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Biology, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods	Examination
LO-3	Molecular and cell biology of mosses used as a model name, tells	PO-1 Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Biology, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods	Examination
LO-4	Talk about eco-physiology of bryophytes	PO-1 Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Biology, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods	Examination
LO-5	geliştirdiği biyokimyasal ve moleküler mekanizmaları söyler Mosses developed against the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of drought, says	PO-1 Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Biology, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods	Examination
LO-6	Explain what is the biology of bryophytes protection	PO-1 Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Biology, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods	Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
The peculiar features of bryophyte life cycle, evolutionary and origin an the criteria for an evolutionary explanation, mosses, liverworts and hornworts morphology, anatomy and classification, Eco-physiology of bryophytes, biochemical and molecular mechanisms developed by mosses against drought, population and community ecologyof bryophytes, conservation biology of bryophytes.
Weekly Course Content
Week	Subject	Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1	Liverworts morphology and classification	Discussion Method Lecture Method
2	Mosses morphology, anatomy, and classification	Discussion Method Lecture Method
3	Morphology and Anatomy of Hornworts	Discussion Method Lecture Method
4	The evolution of the first land plants	Discussion Method Lecture Method
5	Molecular and cell biology of mosses as a model	Discussion Method Lecture Method
6	Eco-physiology	Discussion Method Lecture Method
7	Developed biochemical and molecular mechanisms of algae mosses against drought	Discussion Method Lecture Method
8	mid-term exam
9	Mineral nutrition and the ecology of the substrate	Discussion Method Lecture Method
10	Marshes bryophytes function	Discussion Method Lecture Method
11	Bryophytes population and community ecology	Discussion Method Lecture Method
12	Bryophytes speciation	Discussion Method Lecture Method
13	Conservation biology of bryophytes	Discussion Method Lecture Method
14	Bryophytes in a changing world	Discussion Method Lecture Method
15	Biogeography	Discussion Method Lecture Method
16	final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1	Goffinet, B., Shaw, A,J., 2009. Bryophyte Biology, Cambridge University Press, UK
2	Vanderpoorten, A., Goffinet, B., 2009. Introdiction to Bryophytes, Cambridge University Press, UK
Required Course instruments and materials

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment	Week	Hours	Weight(%)
mid-term exam	6	1	50
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam	14	1	50

Student Work Load
Type of Work	Weekly Hours	Number of Weeks	Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice)	3	42	126
Outside Class
a) Reading			0
b) Search in internet/Library			0
c) Performance Project			0
d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report			0
e) Term paper/Project			0
Oral Examination			0
Quiz			0
Laboratory exam			0
Own study for mid-term exam	1	14	14
mid-term exam	1	14	14
Own study for final exam	1	14	14
final exam	1	14	14
			0
			0
Total work load;			182