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

Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 0
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 33, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 63 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 70 %, Coursework 30 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	70% Exam 30% Coursework mark based on Weekly Discussions
Feedback	Written feedback will be supplied.
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Plant Evolution Exam		120

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