| Educational guide Faculty of Chemistry |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry (2009) |
 Subjects |
| BIOLOGY |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| Subject | BIOLOGY | Code | 13204005 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Basic Course | First | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction | 1. Biology: the science of life. Characteristics of living beings. Levels of organization. Water as a universal solvent. The forces of life. |
| Amino acids and proteins | 2. Classes of proteins and their functions. Monomers of proteins: Amino acids. Peptide bond. Peptides. Structural levels of proteins. |
| Carbohydrates and polysaccharides |
3. General characteristics and functional groups. Monosaccharides, aldoses and ketoses. Stereoisomery. Polysaccharides. |
| Nucleotides and nucleic acids | 4. Nucleotide structure. Nucleosides and deoxynucleosides. Primary structure of nucleic acids. Secondary structure of DNA: Watson and Crick model and alternative structures. Tertiary structure: DNA supercoiling. Chromosomal organization: DNA-protein junctions and chromosomal structures. Secondary and tertiary RNA structures. |
| Lipids | 5. Nature and function of lipids. Lipids of energy storage and membrane structural lipids. Other lipids with biological activity: protection, waxes, hormones, vitamins. |
| Evolution | 6. Evolution Origin of terrestrial life. Paleobiologist. Diversity of life. The evolutionary classification of organisms. |
| Virus. Prokaryotes | 7. Viruses: structure and type. The prokaryotes: bacteria and methanobacteria. |
| Eukaryotes |
8. Protests and origin of eukaryotes. Fungi: characteristics and types. |
| Plants | 9. Plants: structures and functions. Classification. Gymnosperm and angiosperm plants. |
| Animals | 10. Animals: structures and functions. Classification. Invertebrate and vertebrate animals. |
| Ecology | 11. Ecology. Dynamics of the populations. Communities and their interactions. Ecosystems. |
