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GENERAL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
cod. 1000100

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Biologia applicata (BIO/13)
Field
Scienze biomediche
Type of training activity
Basic
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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Integrated course unit module: BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

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Learning objectives

<p align="left" style="text-align: left;" class="MsoTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;">The aim of this course is to give the student the ability to: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;" class="MsoTitle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;">acquire the basic principles of<span style="">  </span>biological sciences and methods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;" class="MsoTitle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;">learn and apply an evolutionary logic and perspective to interpreting the biological phenomena at different levels of organization (molecular, cellular, organismic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;" class="MsoTitle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;">understand the correlation between structure and function at the different organizational levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;" class="MsoTitle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;">Acquire a biological perspective to the analysis of human behavior<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="left" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;" class="MsoTitle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">         </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: normal;">Appraise the implication of human evolution for the bio-medical research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Course unit content

 <span lang=""EN-US"" style="">1. </span><span lang=""EN-US"">The Nature of science and biology: methods and organizing concepts<span style="">. Diversity and unity of<span style="">  </span>Life on Earth, emergent properties, correlation between structure and function, the Scientific method. The unifying principle of biology: The Theory of Evolution. <o:p></o:p></span></span>
<p class=""MsoNormal"" style=""><span lang=""EN-US"" style="">2. </span><span lang=""EN-US"">The chemical context of life<span style="">: water and the structure and function of macromolecules. </span>Origins and evolution of life on Earth<span style="">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal"" style=""><span lang=""EN-US"" style="">3. </span><span lang=""EN-US"">Cell Biology<span style="">. Procaryotic ed Eucaryotic cells. Membrane structure and function. Cell metabolism and energy trasformations. The reproduction of cells and cell cycle (binary scission and mitosis).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align=""left"" class=""MsoTitle"" style=""><span lang=""EN-GB"" style="">4. </span><span lang=""EN-GB"" style="">Sexual Riproduction</span><span lang=""EN-GB"" style="">. Meiosis and sexual life cycles. Oogenesis, Spermatogenesis and Hormonal regulation of reproduction in mammals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal"" style=""><span lang=""EN-US"" style="">. – The molecular basis of inheritance: DNA structure and replication. From gene to protein: Transcription, Translation and the genetic code. Point mutations. Regulation of gene expression in Procaryotic and eucaryotic cells. The Genome project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal"" style=""><span lang=""EN-US"" style="">6.<span style="">  </span></span><span lang=""EN-US"">Evolution</span><span lang=""EN-US"" style="">. The Darwinian theory. Evidence from many fields validates the evolution theory. The modern evolutionary synthesis. The Hardy-Weinberg Theorem. Microevolution and its caueses<em style="">. </em><span style="">The origin of species. </span>Macroevolution and Phylogeny.<span style="">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoBodyText"" style=""><span lang=""EN-US"" font-weight:="" style="">7. </span><span lang=""EN-US"" style="">Human</span><span lang=""EN-US"" font-weight:="" style=""> </span><span lang=""EN-US"" style="">Evolution</span><span lang=""EN-US"" font-weight:="" style="">. Vertebrate diversity and phylogeny: an overview. Mammalian characteristics<span style="">  </span>and Evolution of Primates. Early Anthropoids, Australopitecines and the genus Homo. Evolution of brain and language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Bibliography

Solomon et al. Biology. THomson

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