Undergraduate Course: Plant Evolution (PLSC10020)

Course Outline
School	School of Biological Sciences	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course deals with the evolutionary processes that have led to the current diversity of land plants. We use a combination of lectures, reviews and research papers to provide material for group discussion of the forces promoting plant diversity and constraints on the pathways evolution can take.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Appreciation of the diversity of flowering plants and the drivers behind this Understanding of the effects of domesticaton on plants and the history of major crops Understanding how breeding systems affect evolution Ability to dissect, criticise and present primary literature Construction and defence of hypothesis based on primary literature