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4th SEMESTER


12
03
2009

EVOLUTION WITH ELEMENTS OF POPULATION GENETICS

Lesson code: 
GM.04.20
Teaching Units: 
4
Credits (ECTS): 
5
Teachning (hours): 
3
Practical (hours): 
1
Laboratory (hours): 
0


Teaching Methods: 

Teaching includes lectures and tutorials.

Course Contents: 

Theories on the origin of life. The role of mass extinctions in evolutionary process. Homogeneity and heterogeneity. Genetic continuity and change. Mutations and genetic variability. Differentiation. Adaptation and adaptiveness. Natural selection: normalizing, balancing and directional  (examples from laboratory experiments and nature). Artificial selection. Frequency-dependent selection. Genetic drift and founder effect. Populations, races, subspecies, semispecies, superspecies and sibling or cryptic species. Individual and group discontinuity. Reproductive isolation (pre- and post-zygotic mechanisms).  The evolutionary process in parthenogenetic organisms. Speciation and its patterns. Biological species concept. Evolutionary schemes. Evolution as a creative process: progressive, “retrogressive” or changing. Molecular techniques applied on population studies. Contemporary views on genotype and phenotype in relation to environment.

Lecturers: 
ABATZOPOULOS THEODORE JOHN
SCOURAS ZACHARIAS G.
Recommended books: 

1. Ernst Mayr 2001. What Evolution is? Published by Basic Books, New York.

2. S.N. Alachiotis 2007. Introduction to Evolution. Published by A.A. Livanis.

Learning Activities: 

Attending lectures, practising technical or laboratory skills.

Assessment Methods: 

Written examination, participation in tutorial teaching. Optional presentation of contemporary topics.

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12
03
2009

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Lesson code: 
GM.04.19
Teaching Units: 
3
Credits (ECTS): 
6
Teachning (hours): 
2
Practical (hours): 
0
Laboratory (hours): 
3

  Training students on key issues of

Teaching Methods: 

Teaching includes lectures and laboratory work – exercises.

Course Contents: 

General principles of Developmental Biology. Gametogenesis-Fertilization. Early development, developmental commitment, cytoplasmic determinants and induction in Drosophila, C. elegans, sea urchin, Xenopus, chick and mouse.  Development of the nervous system. Development and communication of plant cells. Cell recognition and fertilization. Plant hormones and development.

 

 

Lecturers: 
HADZOPOULOU-CLADARAS MARGARITA
FOUNDOULI ATHINA
Laboratory Exercises: 

1. Amphibian oogenesis, separation of frog oocytes at various stages of maturation. 2. Observation of frog embryos at various stages of development with the use of stereoscope. 3. Observation of frog histological sections at various stages of development using the microscope. 4. In vitro fertilization of frog eggs and separation of embryos at various developmental stages. 5. Computer study of techniques and developmental stages in model organisms ( sea urchin, Drosophila, chick and amphibians). 

 

 

Recommended books: 

1. J.M.W. Slack. Essential developmental Biology. Academic Publications, 2007

2. A. Anagnostopoulou-Bei.  Developmental  Biology.  Art of Text 1993, ISBN: 960-312-024-3

Learning Activities: 

Attending lectures, practising laboratory skills.

Assessment Methods: 

Written examination. Written examination on laboratory work.

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12
03
2009

SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Lesson code: 
BO.04.18
Teaching Units: 
4
Credits (ECTS): 
7
Teachning (hours): 
3
Practical (hours): 
0
Laboratory (hours): 
3

Cognitive

Teaching Methods: 

Teaching includes lectures, laboratory work and fieldwork

Course Contents: 

  Principals of plant taxonomy and nomenclature. Plant species concept. Taxonomic characters. Plant classification systems. Basic morphological characters of the seven Divisions of the Plant Kingdom. Diagnostic characters of important families of the greek flora. Characteristic species of the main Greek ecosystems. Angiosperms origin and evolution.

Lecturers: 
KOKKINΙ STELLA
KARAGIANNAKIDOU VASSILIKI
KAROUSOU REGINA
HALNLIDOU EFFIE
TSIRIPIDIS IOANNIS
DROUZAS D. ANDREAS
Laboratory Exercises: 

1. Familiarization with Angiosperm families using Internet resources, 2. Conifers, 3. Angiosperms-Dicots, 4. Angiosperms-Monocots, 5. Construction of plant families indentification keys. 

Υπαίθριες ασκήσεις: 

A three days lasting fieldwork “on Aristotle’s mountain”, a Greek Natura      2000 site (Oros Stratonikon, GR1270005), which includes collection and recognition of plants using different identification tools, construction of a personal plant collection and presentation of the results.

 

 

Recommended books: 

Babalonas, D., Kokkini, S. 2004. Systematic Botany: Phylogenetic-Phenetic approach of plant taxonomy. Aivazis Publ., Thessaloniki.

Stace, C.A., 2003. (Editor of the Greek translation Economou-Amilli A.)Plant taxonomy and biosystematics. Ektypon EPE-aei, Athens

Learning Activities: 

Attending lectures, practising technical or laboratory skills, fieldwork, organising and presenting a plant collection

Assessment Methods: 

Written examination, Report on fieldwork, Examination of the plant collection??

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12
03
2009

POPULATION ECOLOGY

Lesson code: 
EC.04.16
Teaching Units: 
4
Credits (ECTS): 
7
Teachning (hours): 
3
Practical (hours): 
0
Laboratory (hours): 
3
Teaching Methods: 

Teaching includes lectures and laboratory practicals.

Course Contents: 

Population dynamics. Deterministic and stochastic models. Life strategies. Population interactions. Intra- and interspecific competition. Predation, parasitism, symbiosis. Ecological succession.

Lecturers: 
STAMOU GEORGE P.
PAPATHEODOROU EFIMIA
Laboratory Exercises: 

Field and laboratory exercises: Population dynamics; Population dynamic models. Predation. Life table. Competition. Density dependent responses. Community matrix. Community parameters

Recommended books: 

1.   Στάμου Γ.Π. (2008). Εισαγωγή στην οικολογία των πληθυσμών. Εκδόσεις Ζήτη.

      Θεσσαλονίκη.

2.   Pianka E. (Ελληνική έκδοση) (2006). Εξελικτική Oικολογία. Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης. Ηράκλειο. 

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12
03
2009

ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY II

Lesson code: 
ZO.04.17
Teaching Units: 
3
Credits (ECTS): 
6
Teachning (hours): 
2
Practical (hours): 
0
Laboratory (hours): 
3

 

Teaching Methods: 

Attending lectures, laboratory skills, writing lab reports, reading books and papers

Course Contents: 

 

Respiratory system: mechanic of breathing, ventilation transport, gas exchange, regulation and control of respiration. Osmoregulation. Excretion and Secretion. Renal physiology, tubular reabsorption, secretion and excretion. Nutrition: transport mechanisms. Digestion. Gastroenteric tract; movement,  secretion and absorption. Endocrine system: hormones, receptors, feedback mechanisms, endocrine glands. Hypothalamus. Pituitary gland. Thyroid gland. Adrenal Cortex and Medulla. Endocrine control of calcium metabolism. Hormones of Islet of Langerhans. Sexual hormones. Reproductive system: Sexual hormones, puberty, pregnancy, menopause, menstrual cycle.

 

 

Lecturers: 
KALOYIANNI MARTHA
PAPADOPOULOS Ι. ATHANASIOS
ANTONOPOULOU EFTHIMIA
VASARA ELENI
Laboratory Exercises: 

 

1. Osmoregulation in invertebrates. 2. Respiration. 3. The oxygen dissociation curve of haemoglobin. 4. Pituitary gland. 5. Hormonal measurement. 6. Effect of adrenaline and glucocorticosteroids on the hepatic glycogen and on the blood glucose levels.  7. Effect of fasting on the hepatic metabolism. 8. Digestive enzymes in mammals. 9. Glucose intestine uptake. 10. Simulation on the excretion system.

 

Recommended books: 

 

Vander A., Sherman J. & Luciano D. 2001. Human Physiology. The mechanisms of Body function.

Berne R.M. & Levy M.N. 2002. Principles of Physiology Laboratory manual.

Recommended reading: 

On blackboard for every lesson

Learning Activities: 

Attending lectures, laboratory skills, writing lab reports, reading books and papers

Assessment Methods: 

written examination, report on labwork

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