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Description of Individual Course Units| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | ORG113 | General Biology | Compulsory | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| | Level of Course Unit | | First Cycle | | Objectives of the Course | | The objective of this course is to give basic concepts related to Plant world, in other words, Plant Biology to the beginner students and provide comprehension of these concepts and subjects. | | Name of Lecturer(s) | | | Learning Outcomes | | 1 | Comprehending definitions and basic concepts related with living world | | 2 | Comprehending and giving meaning to hierarchical organization from primitive to advanced in plant world in the context of biological concepts | | 3 | Comprehending the structural and functional properties of plant organization and relating to each other | | 4 | Comprehending and giving meaning to reproduction and structure and process related with reproduction in plant world | | 5 | Compherending and examining working mechansims of living events in plants and relations with other lives | | 6 | Compherending the grow and development events in plants and relating these events with environment | | 7 | Compherending and interrogating the definitions and concepts related with heritage and evolution in plants |
| | Mode of Delivery | | Normal Education | | Prerequisites and co-requisities | | None | | Recommended Optional Programme Components | | None | | Course Contents | | The objective of this course is to give basic concepts related to Plant world, in other words, Plant Biology to the beginner students and provide comprehension of these concepts and subjects. | | Weekly Detailed Course Contents | |
| 1 | Introduction, The Living World concept, The meaning and importance of Botany Science: The properties of living organisms forming the investigation object of Biology as being a Life Science [structural hierarchial order (from cell structure to ecosystem), chemical composition, matter ve energy transferring (metabolism), growing-diversity, adaptation, regeneration, movement, mutation and related opinions]; The classification of Living World; Biological sciences, Plants and their imporance are given. | - | - | | 2 | The Classification and Naming of Plants; Cell Concept and Cell Theory; Cell Structure of Plant: The subjects of the classification of plant world in the view of “division”, the naming principals of plant species; The investigation of plant cell structure (cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm (cytosol and ER systems ve Golgi ), hücre organelles (mitochondria, plastids, peroxisome, glioxisome), cell skeleton system; Nucleus and chromosome structures; Vakuol and its function; Cell Division (Mitotic Division) are given | - | - | | 3 | Plant Tissues: The subjects of the classification and functions of meristems; The classification and essential functions tissues (Epidermis and derivatives (stomata and tricomes); Support tissue (collenchyma and sclerenchyma), Secration tissue (Secration hairs, glands and canals); Conducting tissue structures and types (floem ve xylem components) are given. | - | - | | 4 | Plant Organs: The subjects of root and stem morphology, metamorphosis and anatomy (with differences between monocotyledones and dicotyledones) are given. | - | - | | 5 | Plant Organs: The subjects of root and stem morphology, metamorphosis and anatomy (with differences between monocotyl and dicotyl) are given. | - | - | | 6 | The Structures of Reproductive Organs at Higher Plants: The subjects of the structures of flower, fruit and seed are given. | - | - | | 7 | Plant Structural Mechanisms (Examination at Plant Physiology introduction level): The subjects of mineral element composition of plants and the functions of mineral nutrition on plants are given | - | - | | 8 | Plant Structural Mechanisms (Examination at Plant Physiology introduction level): The subjects of mineral element composition of plants and the functions of mineral nutrition on plants are given Midterm | - | - | | 9 | Water and Matter Uptake and Conducting Mechanisms at Plants: The subjects of diffusion, osmosis and turgidity events related to water metabolism; permeability at cell membrane; Active and passive water and mineral uptake and conducting mechanisms; Transpirasion and its importance are given. | - | - | | 10 | Water and Matter Uptake and Conducting Mechanisms at Plants: The subjects of diffusion, osmosis and turgidity events related to water metabolism; permeability at cell membrane; Active and passive water and mineral uptake and conducting mechanisms; Transpirasion and its importance are given. | - | - | | 11 | Energitic Events at Plants, Aerobic Respiration and Fermentation: The subjects of the definiton and concept of aerobic and anaerobic respiration; cell alignment and metabolic functional mechanism of respiration; oxidative photophosphorilasion energy production; fermentation event and basic concepts related to its importance in plants are given | - | - | | 12 | Enzymes, Nitrogen Metabolism and Metabolic Product Synthesis: The subjects of enyzmes’ structures, types and operations at metabolism; the importance of nitrogen for plants, its metabolism and symbiotic nitrogen fixation; photosynthesis products at plants and basic information about transformation to other products and transmission of metabolits on floem are given. | - | - | | 13 | Grow and Development Events at Plants: The subjects of the grow, diversity and development concepts of plants at cell, tissue and organ levels; vegetative and reproductive grow; Photoperiod and phytocrome activities at flowering are examined | - | - | | 14 | Plant Hormones and Movement: The subjects of basic information regarding to the roles of plant hormones on grow and development and basic meaning and importance of movement fact at plants are examined. | - | - | | 15 | FINAL EXAM | - | - | | 16 | | | |
| | Recommended or Required Reading | | • Vardar,Y. Seçmen, Ö. Bitki Morfolojisinde Temel Bilgiler. Barış Yayınlar.İzmir. 1993 Vardar,Y. Güven, A. Bitki Fizyolojisine Giriş. Barış Yayınları. İzmir. 1993 Işık, K.(ed.). Bitki Biyolojisi. Palmae Yayınları. 2004 Gündüz, E., Demirsoy, A., Türkkan, İ (Eds). Biyoloji. Palmae Yayınları.İzmir.2006 | | Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods | | | Assessment Methods and Criteria | |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 100 | | SUM | 100 | |
| Final Examination | 1 | 100 | | SUM | 100 | | Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 40 | | End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 60 | | SUM | 100 |
| | Language of Instruction | | | Work Placement(s) | | None |
| | Workload Calculation | |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Final Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Attending Lectures | 14 | 3 | 42 | | Practice | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Question-Answer | 14 | 2 | 28 | | Field Work | 1 | 6 | 6 | | Self Study | 14 | 2 | 28 | | Individual Study for Mid term Examination | 1 | 8 | 8 | | Individual Study for Final Examination | 1 | 8 | 8 | |
| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes | | LO1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | | LO2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | | LO3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | | LO4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | LO5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | | LO6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | | LO7 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| | * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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