APPLIED BIOLOGY 2
cod. 1000667

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
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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course unit
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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"><!--[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>
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Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<p class=""MsoNormal"" style=""><span lang=""EN-US"" style="">Evolution, consequences and adaptive significance of sexual reproduction. Parental I-nvestment and sexual selection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=""MsoNormal"" style=""><span lang=""EN-US"">- 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>
<span lang=""EN-US"" new="" font-family:="" style="">- <span style="">Biological Basis of human behavior</span>: Basic concepts of genetic and evolution of behavior</span>

Full programme

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Bibliography

Solomon etal. Biology. thomson

Teaching methods

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Other information

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