Ecology and Biology - AB240006
Title: Ecology and Biology
Guaranteed by: Department of Environmental Chemistry (240)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:5
E-Credits: winter s.:5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Mocová Klára Anna Mgr. Ph.D.
Classification: Biology > Theoretical Biology
Interchangeability : B240006, N240022
Examination dates   
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
Acual information for 2024/25 academic year: Please, contact the teacher via email: Klara.Mocova@vscht.cz for further information on time and place of lectures. The lecture includes description of general biological processes on cellular, organ, organism and population level. Introduction to all organism groups from non-cellular viruses through unicellular to multi-cellular organisms. Focus on ecosystem structure and relationships among organisms including chemical communication. Special emphasis is put on the topics related to impact of toxic compounds and environment protection (as stress physiology, immune system, classic and molecular genetics, population growth and evolution of ecosystems). The lecture content is modified for students of non-biological specializations.
Last update: Mocová Klára Anna (25.08.2024)
Aim of the course -

Students will be able to:

Describe cell structure and hierarchical organization of biotic components of ecosystem.

Principles of classical and molecular genetics, imunology and stress physiology.

Classify food chains and other interspecies relationships in ecosystems.

Find nomenclature and classification of organisms for practical purposes (e.g. for Bc. or Diploma thesis).

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)
Course completion requirements -

Examination requirements:

The exam starts with written part (student must get min 50 points from 100). After successful written part the oral exam follows. The exam is focused on topics within the syllabus and the recommended literature.

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • Essential cell biology, Alberts, Bruce, Hopkin, Karen, Johnson, Alexander, Morgan, David, Roberts, Keith, Walter, Peter, Heald, Rebecca, 2023
  • Esseentials of Ecology, 4th edition, Townsend, Colin R., Begon, Michael, Harper, John, L., 2014
  • Kimball's Biology Pages [online]. Dostupné z: https://www.biology-pages.info/

Last update: Mocová Klára Anna (25.08.2024)
Requirements to the exam -

Examination requirements:

The exam starts with written part (student must get min 50 points from 100). After successful written part the oral exam follows. The exam is focused on topics within the syllabus and the recommended literature.

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)
Syllabus -

1. History of biology and ecology. Basic characteristics of living structures. Biotic components.

2. Community. Interspecies relationships.

3. Structure of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Unicellular organisms. Prokaryotes. Protists.

4. Systems ecology. Individuals. population. Population growth.

5. Reproduction and ontogenesis. Sexual selection.

6. Mendelian genetics.

7. Structure and ecology of multicellular organisms. Plants, animals and fungi.

8. Genetic information. Structure of nucleic acids. Replication. Proteosynthesis. Regulation of gene expression.

9. Selected methods of molecular biology. Structure and reproduction of viruses.

10. Stress physiology. Immune system of animals.

11. Bioms and ecosystems - characterization of basic types, evolution of ecosystems.

12. Chemical ecology. Chemical communication.

13. Applied ecology.

14. Selected chapters from evolutionary biology.

Last update: Mocová Klára Anna (29.08.2024)
Learning resources -

PDF presentations available on: e-learning.vscht.cz

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)
Registration requirements -

No

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)