IDENTIFYING DATA 2020_21
Subject (*) GENETICS Code 19204007
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in Biotechnology (2009)
 Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
6 Basic Course First 2Q
Language
Català
Department Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Coordinator
CORDERO OTERO, RICARDO ROMÁN
 E-mail montserrat.poblet@urv.cat
josemaria.simo@urv.cat
ricardo.cordero@urv.cat
enrique.calvo@urv.cat
carmen.portillo@urv.cat
xavier.gabaldo@urv.cat
isabel.fort@urv.cat
Lecturers
POBLET ICART, MARIA MONTSERRAT
SIMÓ SISÓ, JOSÉ MARÍA
CORDERO OTERO, RICARDO ROMÁN
CALVO MANSO, ENRIQUE
PORTILLO GUISADO, MARIA DEL CARMEN
GABALDÓ BARRIOS, XAVIER
FORT GALLIFA, ISABEL
Web
General description and relevant information Should there be a health emergency that requires the general public to be confined or which involves restricted mobility during the academic year, we shall attempt to adapt teaching and assessment. Should this situation arise, information about any changes will be given on the Moodle space for every subject. Basic subject of the 1st year, with the genetics basis, both Mendelian and molecular, which are necessary for the degrees of science.

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 A4 Know and understand in an integrated manner the organisms at molecular, cellular and metabolic level.
 A8 Analyse appropriately data and experimental results from the fields of biotechnology with statistical techniques and be able to interpret it.
 A10 Know how to apply the basic knowledge of structure and function of multicellular organisms in the production of biotechnological products.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 A4 Understand the cytological foundations of inheritance in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Recognise genes as the elements that contain the information needed for living beings to function and understand the laws of inheritance.
Understand the molecular foundations of the transmission and expression of genes.
 A8 Understand how genetic changes can occur in evolution.
Recognise genes as the elements that contain the information needed for living beings to function and understand the laws of inheritance.
 A10 Understand the different possibilities and mechanisms in genetic change.
Type B Code Learning outcomes
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Genetics introduction. DNA, genome and chromosomes. Genetic variation. Relations genotype, environment and phenotype.
2. Inheritance patterns. Principles of Mendel. Monohybridism. Dihybridism. Inheritance associated to sex. Human genetics: analysis of genealogies.
3. Chromosomal bases of inheritance. Mitosis and meiosis. Topography of chromosomes. Structure of eukaryotic chromosomes.
4. Gene Interactions. Gene Interactions. Penetrance and expressiveness. Test of chi-square.
5. Binding and recombination. Binding and recombination. Ligament maps. Genetic maps.
6. Fungi genetics. Cellular cycle. Mating type. Analysis of tetrad. Gene mapping. Except as a genetic model.
7. Transcription regulation. Regulation of the transcription. Prokaryotic operons. Regulation of expression in eukaryotes. Epigenetic inheritance.
8. Gene mutations. Transposons. Gene mutations. Type of mutants. Mutagen-carcinogenic relationship. Transposons.
9. Chromosomal mutations. Chromosomal mutations. Numerical mutations: euploidy and aneuploidy. Structural mutations of chromosomes.
10. Population's genetics. Population's genetics. Selection. Polymorphism. Quantitative genetics.

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
 Hours outside the classroom
 (**) Total hours
Introductory activities
CE4
CE8
 2 0 2
Lecture
CE4
CE8
 25 50 75
Seminars
CE4
CE8
A10
 19 25 44
Personal attention
CE4
CE8
 10 4 14
 
Short-answer objective tests
A4
 4 4 8
Practical tests
A8
A10
 1 6 7
 
(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities Activities designed to make contact with students, collect information from them and introduce the subject.
Lecture Description of the contents of the subject.
Seminars In-depth work on a particular topic. Further discussion of the lecture content, which is linked to professional skills
Personal attention The students’ doubts will be answered, both in personal interviews and through e-mail.
One hour per week of attention to the teacher's dismissal is included for questions and lectures.

Personalized attention
Description
The students’ doubts will be answered, both in personal interviews or through e-mail. There is included an hour per week of attention to the teacher's dismissal for questions and lectures.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Practical tests
A8
A10
 Proves individuals de resolució de problemes 50%
Short-answer objective tests
A4
 These tests ask direct questions about particular issues. Students have to reply directly using their knowledge of the subject. The answers they give must be brief. 50%
Others  
 
Other comments and second exam session

To be evaluated in the 1st call, it must be presented in all the individual written tests on-site, although there is no minimum grade in any of them.

The 2nd exam will be an individual written test that will include the theoretical contents and problems of the whole subject, for the equivalent of 80% of the final grade. The 20% obtained in the problem solving activity will be maintained.

Sources of information

Basic

Virtual environment of the subject Genetics of the Degrees of Biotechnology, Enology and Biochemistry-and-Biology-Molecular: MOODLE, URV: http://moodle.urv.cat/ . In this virtual environment the teachers leave available to the students all the information related to the subject::

  • -PowerPoint of the different units.
  • -Questions of each unit to solve at the problems sessions.
  • -Seminars and more tools.

-More websites related to the subject
Complementary
  • Klug WS, Cummings MR (1999) Conceptos de Genética. Prentice Hall Iberia
  • Pierce BA (2006) Genética, un enfoque conceptual. Panamericana
  • Moltó MD, Pascual L (1999) Però, què és això de la genètica ?  Univ. València
  • Ménsua JL (2003) Genética. Problemas y ejercicios resueltos. Pearson-Prentice Hall
Recommendations

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously
BIOCHEMISTRY/13214008
CELL BIOLOGY/13214006

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
BIOLOGY/13214005
STATISTICS/13214004
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.