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Academic discipline: Biologia applicata (BIO/13)
Field: Scienze biomediche
Type of training activity: Basic

8 hours
of face-to-face activities

1 credits

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Integrated course unit module: BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES II

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"><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><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"><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><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"><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><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"><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><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>
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Course unit content

<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="">1. Evolution, consequences and adaptive significance of sexual reproduction. Parental Investment and sexual selection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">2. Origins and evolution of life on Earth. Procaryotic cells and evolution of<span style=""> </span>Eucaryotic cells and methazoa. Evolution, consequences and adaptive significance of sexual reproduction. Evolution of Vertebrates. Evolutionary trends in Primates. <span style="">Human evolution</span><strong style="">. </strong>The evolution and consequences of<span style=""> </span>bipedal locomotion in Ominids. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">3. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">Biological Basis of human behavior</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">: Basic concepts of genetic and evolution of behavior. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Full programme

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Bibliography

Solomon et al. Biology. Thomson

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