- Docente: Silvia Canaider
- Credits: 6
- SSD: BIO/13
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Exercise and Sport Sciences (cod. 8512)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student should know: the organization and the main molecular mechanisms of eukariotic cells; the organization of genetic information, its transmission and expression; the reproduction of cells and organisms; the bases of inheritance in man and living beeings and the relationship between ambient and organisms. Moreover the student shoud aquire a scientific language and the concept of scientific method.
Course contents
THE STUDY OF LIFE
Concept of living being and properties; the cellular doctrine; the scientific method; outlines of evolution.
THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE
Biological role of elements, molecules and macromolecules; structure and properties of water; proteins, nucleic acids, ATP.
THE EUKARYOTIC CELL
Shape, size and structure of the eukaryotic cell; the plasma membrane: the cytoplasm; intracellular membrane system: rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, lysosome, peroxisome; the nucleus: DNA, chromatine and chromosomes; the mitochondria; the ribosomes; the cytoskeleton: actin filaments, intermediate filaments and microtubules; cellular junctions; cell-cell communication.
The skeletal fiber, the cardiac and smooth muscle cell.
THE GENETIC INFORMATION
DNA structure; the human genome; the eukaryotic gene; the DNA replication; the gene expression: transcription, genetic code and traslation.
Mendelian inheritance; complete and incomplete dominance; codominance; multiple alleles; Sex-Determining Genes; mutations.
THE REPRODUCTION
The cell reproduction: cell cycle, necrosis, apoptosys and mitosis.
The organisms reproduction: meiosis, spermatogenesis, ovogenesis, ovarian cycle, uterine cycle, fertilization.
HABITAT
Physical, chemical and biotic factors that define habitat; relationship between genes and habitat.
Readings/Bibliography
Solomon, EdiSES, Elementi di Biologia, VII edizione
with specific topics added in the online version
Teaching methods
Lessons and Laboratory.
Assessment methods
Written (multiple choice and/or open questions) and oral examination.
Teaching tools
book, scientific papers, slides of topics not described in the book
Office hours
See the website of Silvia Canaider