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| BIYL5930 | Phylogenetic Systematics | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of BIOLOGY | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Group study | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Hüseyin İNCEER | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | This course is designed to present an introduction to the general concept of phylogenetic systematics. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Explain the term systematic | 1,4 | 1, | | PO - 2 : | Summary the general properties of phylogenetic systematics | 1,4 | 1, | | PO - 3 : | Describe the traditional systematic and phylogenetic systematic | 1,4 | 1, | | PO - 4 : | Listed the general methods used in phylogenetic syetematics | 1,4 | 1, | | PO - 5 : | Listed the molecular marker used in phylogenetic systematic. | 1,4 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Aim and principles. Tasks and methods of taxonomy, the position of systematics among the biological sciences, the general concepts of systematics, taxonomic evidence and biological characters, phylogenetic methods, the evolution of phylogenetic systematics, the evolution of plants biodiversity. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | The general concept of Systematic | | | Week 2 | The position of Systematic among the Biological sciences
| | | Week 3 | Taxonomic evidence and Biological Characters: Morphology, anatomy, palynology, chromosomes, embryology.
| | | Week 4 | Taxonomic evidence and Biological Characters: Inflorescence, fruit, seeds, secondary compounds, proteins | | | Week 5 | Phylogenetic systematic
| | | Week 6 | Methods of Phylogenetic and Reconstruction
| | | Week 7 | Molecular Characters: Chloroplast DNA sequences, rbcl and other chloroplast genes
| | | Week 8 | Molecular Characters: Mitochondrial and nuclear genes | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Plants genomes
| | | Week 11 | Analysis of molecular data
| | | Week 12 | Preservation of diversity against gene flow
| | | Week 13 | Variation in plant species and populations.
| | | Week 14 | Variation in plants. | | | Week 15 | Evolution of Plant Diversity | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Phylogenetic Systematic. Translated by D.Dwight Davis & Rainer Zangeri, Illions Ressue, 1999. | | | |
| 1 | Plant systematics: A phylogemnetic Approach. Walter S. Judd, Christopher S. Camphell & Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Peter F. Stevens. Sinauer Associates Inc. USA. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 10/04/2022 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 12/06/2022 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 15 | 5 | 75 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 8 | 4 | 32 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 5 | 7 | 35 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 2 | 8 | 16 | | Diğer 2 | 2 | 11 | 22 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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