| Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
| Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2010) |
 Subjects |
| BIOPHYSICS |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2010_11 |
| Subject | BIOPHYSICS | Code | 20635224 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 2.5 | Optional | Only annual |
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| Competences | Learning aims | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| I PROCESSES |
1. Physics of biological world. How biological energy is produced and consumed. Flow of biologic information. 2. Thermodynamics of biological world. Energy and entropy of living matter. Phosphates as energy carriers. 3. Membrane transport. Diffusion. Fick’s law. Sodium pump 4. ATP synthesis 5. Light harvesting systems. Photosystems and photosynthesis. Photophosphorylation. 6. The eye as optical instrument. Rodopsin. 7. Membrane potentials. The nerve impulse and synaptic transmission. 8. Muscles. Energetics of muscle contractions. 9. Cytoskeleton, cilia and flagella. Bacterial movements |
| II TEMPORAL VARIATIONS | 10. Second law of thermodynamics in open systems. 11. Deterministic systems. Lotka–Volterra equation. 12. Biological oscillations. Periodical behaviour of biological systems. Chaos 13. Stochastic analysis of biological dynamics. Simulation of stochastic processes. Montecarlo model. 14. Evolution as irreversible process. Prebiotic evolution. 15. Models of molecular evolution. |
