Introduction to basic up-to-date biology. This course is designed to significantly and sensitively expand biological horizonts of overspecialized persons.
Subject
Evolution. How to survive survival of the fittest? Short list of evolutionary basics.
Phylogenetics – Short cookbook for beginners.
History of Life. From origin of Earth to recent ice ages.
Archaeal & bacterial view of life – mamavirus and other viruses also included.
Eukaryota – their origin and diversity.
Great story of plastid lineages – Primary vs. secondary endosymbiosis. Archaeoplastida.
Land plants – Conquering land with green cells. Embryophyta.
Origin and diversity of flowering plants.
Metazoa. Flourishing world of animals.
Origin and diversity of chordates.
Ecology. Key adaptations and strategies for successful life.
