Plant Structure and Function
Course, Bachelor's level, 1BG206
Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 100%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 15 January 2024–17 March 2024
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
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Completed courses worth 60 credits in biology including 1) The Evolution and Diversity of Organisms (15 credits, course completed), Molecular Biology and Genetics (10 credits, course completed), and the courses Cell Biology (15 credits, course taken) and Physiology (15 credits, course taken), or 2) Biology A: Patterns and Processes (22.5 credits, course completed), or Biology A: Patterns, Processes and Science Education (22.5 credits, course completed), and the courses Cell Biology (15 credits, course taken) and Physiology (15 credits, course taken).
- Selection
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Higher education credits in science and engineering (maximum 240 credits)
- Fees
-
Du som inte är medborgare i ett EU-/EES-land eller Schweiz måste betala anmälnings- och studieavgift.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 32,500
- Total tuition fee: SEK 32,500
- Application deadline
- 16 October 2023
- Application code
- UU-67409
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 14 December 2023–14 January 2024
- Information on registration from the department
Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English For exchange students
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 100%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 15 January 2024–17 March 2024
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
Completed courses worth 60 credits in biology including 1) The Evolution and Diversity of Organisms (15 credits, course completed), Molecular Biology and Genetics (10 credits, course completed), and the courses Cell Biology (15 credits, course taken) and Physiology (15 credits, course taken), or 2) Biology A: Patterns and Processes (22.5 credits, course completed), or Biology A: Patterns, Processes and Science Education (22.5 credits, course completed), and the courses Cell Biology (15 credits, course taken) and Physiology (15 credits, course taken).
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 14 December 2023–14 January 2024
- Information on registration from the department
Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 100%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 20 January 2025–23 March 2025
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
60 credits in biology including 1) The Evolution and Diversity of Organisms (15 credits), Molecular Biology and Genetics (10 credits) and Cell Biology (15 credits, course taken) and Physiology (course taken, 15 credits, including 4 credits plant physiology), or 2) Biology A: Patterns and Processes (22.5 credits), Processes (22.5 credits), or Biology A: Patterns, Processes and Science Education (22.5 credits), and Cell Biology (15 credits, course taken) and Physiology (course taken, 15 credits, including 4 credits plant physiology).
- Selection
-
Higher education credits in science and engineering (maximum 240 credits)
- Fees
-
Du som inte är medborgare i ett EU-/EES-land eller Schweiz måste betala anmälnings- och studieavgift.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 32,500
- Total tuition fee: SEK 32,500
- Application deadline
- 15 October 2024
- Application code
- UU-67409
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 20 December 2024–19 January 2025
- Information on registration from the department
Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 100%, On-campus, English For exchange students
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 100%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 20 January 2025–23 March 2025
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
60 credits in biology including 1) The Evolution and Diversity of Organisms (15 credits), Molecular Biology and Genetics (10 credits) and Cell Biology (15 credits, course taken) and Physiology (course taken, 15 credits, including 4 credits plant physiology), or 2) Biology A: Patterns and Processes (22.5 credits), Processes (22.5 credits), or Biology A: Patterns, Processes and Science Education (22.5 credits), and Cell Biology (15 credits, course taken) and Physiology (course taken, 15 credits, including 4 credits plant physiology).
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 20 December 2024–19 January 2025
- Information on registration from the department
About the course
How do plants function? How and why did they obtain their features? Those are the main questions to be dealt with during this course. The emergence of the vasculature, i.e. the ability to actively transport water and products of photosynthesis, and the emergence of the flower are two evolutionary events that, with hindsight, have been crucial in shaping all land-based life as we know it today. This course is based on these and other important evolutionary innovations and examines them in detail in terms of function, history, and development.
Lectures, seminars and laboratory work in the subjects of plant physiology, plant systematics, evolutionary functional genomics, and ecology, are integrated in relation to the current issue, and you will be able to discuss your questions and thoughts with experienced teachers in these areas. The course includes a section on histological preparations and light microscopy methods used in laboratories in many biological disciplines.
The course is intended both for those who are considering further and more advanced studies in botany, and those who more generally wish to broaden and deepen their knowledge of plant biology. The course is relevant to prospective biology and science teachers or if you intend to focus on research on plants, in conservation biology or in ecology.
The field trip to the west coast of Sweden is planned to take place 6-15 November 2024.
Reading list
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2024
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2023
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2019
- Reading list valid from Spring 2013, version 2
- Reading list valid from Spring 2013, version 1
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2012
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2011
- Reading list valid from Autumn 2007