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Course title
Evolution
Course code
PMB241
Type of course
Lectures
Level of course
Basic course
Year of study
5. year
ECTS
(Number of
credits allocated)
3 ECTS
Name of lecturer
Dr. sc. Jasna Puizina, asistant professor
Learning
outcomes and
competences
At the end of course the learner is expected to know facts and laws of development
of life on Earth.
Prerequisites
All courses from the field of botanical and zoological systematics and physiology,
Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular biology
Historical overwiev of evolutionary ideas. Importance of Charles Darwin for
development of evolution. Modern evolutionary synthesis. Punctuated equilibrium
theory. Richard Dawkins. Evidences of evolution: paleontological, comparativeanatomical, phisiological, biogeographical, genetical, molecular-biologyical.
Reconstruction of history of life on Earth; origin of Earth and life on Earth.
Chemical evolution. Origin of first macromolecular systems, origin of first cells.
Aerobic and autotrophic organisms. Endosymbiontic theory about origin of
eucariotic cells. Development of multicellular organisms. The evolutionary tree
and revision of the systematics of prokaryotes. Basics of molecular taxonomy.
Evolution of the genome. Principle forces of evolution: variability, natural
selection. Speciation, evolution over the lever of the species. Evolution of the man.
1. Kalafatić, M.: Osnove biološke evolucije. Hrvatsko prirodoslovno društvo,
Časopis Priroda, 1998.
Course contents
Recommended
reading
Supplementary
reading
Semester/trimestar
9.semester
1. Ebringer, l., Krajčović, J.: Cell Origin and Evolution. Publishing House
VEDA, Bratislava, 1994.
2. Skeleton, P.: Evolution: Biological and Paleontological Approach, Addison-
Teaching methods
Wesley Publishing Company, 1993.
3. Campbell, N.A.: Biology. The Benjamin/Cumming Publishing Company,
Menlo Park, 1996.
Lectures (30 hours). Audiovisual facilities and computer is used in teaching.
Assessment
methods
Two partial tests during the course. Oral and written examination. If the learner has
been successfully passed both partial tests, he is free of written exam.
Language of
instruction
Croatian and English.
Quality assurance
methods
Student’s questionnaires.