Educational guide 2024_25 Facultade de Ciencias do Mar

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction to Botany	1.1. Definition of Botany 1.2. Groups of plants 1.3. Relationship with the degree
2. Plant reproduction	2.1. Asexual reproduction 2.2. Sexual reproduction
3. Procariotic algae	3.1. Main featuress of Cyanophyta 3.2. Main features of Prochlorophyta
4. Introduction to the eukaryotic algae	4.1. Origin of the main lines of photosynthetic organisms 4.2. Gaucophyta
5. Unicellular algae; main features of the main groups	5.1. Euglenophyta 5.2. Cryptophyta 5.3. Haptophyta 5.4. Pyrrophyta
6. Phylum Ochrophyta (Heterokontophyta) I	Main features and groups
7. Phylum Ochrophyta (Heterokontophyta) II	7.1. Bacillariophyceae
8. Phylum Ochrophyta (Heterokontophyta) III	8.1. Class Phaeophyceae. Main features
9. Phylum Rhodophyta (red algae)	9.1. Bangiophyceae 9.2. Floridophyceae
10. Phylum Chlorophyta (green algae)	10.1. Prasinophyceae 10.4. Main features of Ulvophyceae
11. Introduction to the flowering plants	11.1. Main features and life cycle 11.2. Adaptations to the coastal environment
12. Coastal vegetation	12.1. Introduction to the study of algal and plant communities