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| ORM5610 | Principles of Identifying Vascular Plants | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Salih TERZİOĞLU | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | This course aims to provide graduate student how they identify tha vascular plant taxa and the prepareing the identification keys. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | understand different vegetative and generative organs of vascular plant taxa | 1,7,10 | 4, | | PO - 2 : | use different plant identification keys (Multi-access, dichotomous etc.) | 1,7,10 | 1 | | PO - 3 : | identify the families of vascular plants | 1,7,10 | 4 | | PO - 4 : | identify the living and/or herbarium materials of vascular plants | 1,7,10 | 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 | | |
| Vegetative and generative organs of Vascular plants (Spermotophyta (Gymnospermae, Angiospermae) and Pteridophyta) . The principles of identifying vascular plants. Preparing identification keys and their usage in identifying plant taxa. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction to Vascular Plants | | | Week 2 | Plant systematics | | | Week 3 | Leaves types and arrengement | | | Week 4 | Buds types and arrengement | | | Week 5 | Shoots types | | | Week 6 | Bark types and their diagnostic traits | | | Week 7 | Hair types and their diagnostic traits | | | Week 8 | Flower terminology | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Laboratuary | | | Week 11 | Laboratuary Exam | | | Week 12 | Fruit structure and development, Fruit types, Cone development and its diagnostic traits | | | Week 13 | Second mid-term exam | | | Week 14 | Types of identification keys | | | Week 15 | Field study | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Davis, P.H. 1965-2000; Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vols. 1-9 and two supplements, at the Edinburgh press, Edinburgh | | | 2 | Harris, J.G., Harris, M.W. 2007. Plant Identification Terminology (An Illustrated Glossary), 2 nd edition, Spring Lake Publishing, Utah, USA, 206 p. | | | |
| 1 | Hutchinson, J., 1967. The Genera of Flowering Plants, vols: 1-2. Oxford, at the Clarendon Pres., Oxford. | | | 2 | Gifford E M & Foster, A.S. 1988; Morphology and Evolution of Vascular Plants, Third Edition, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 626 p. | | | 3 | Akman, Y. , et al. 2007; Angiospermae (Kapalı Tohumlular) , Palme Yayıncılık, Ankara, 810 p. | | | 4 | Simpson, M.G. 2006; Plant Systematics. Elsevier Academic Pres, 590 p. | | | 5 | Hywood, W. H. 1968; Modern Methods in Plant Taxonomy, Botanical Society of the British Isles, New York, 312 p. | | | 6 | Rendle, A. B. 1971; The Classification of Flowering Plants, vols: 1-2, At the University Pres, Cambridge, 640 p. | | | 7 | Takhtajan, A. , Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants, Columbia Univesrsity Pres, New York. 643 p. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 20/11/2021 | 2 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 10 | 27/11/2021 | 1,3 | 15 | | Laboratory exam | 11 | 04/12/2021 | 1 | 5 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 15/01/2021 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 2 | 8 | 16 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 3 | 7 | 21 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 2 | 10 | 20 | | Ödev | 1 | 12 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 10 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | | Total work load | | | 138 |
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