GENETICA

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Professional education
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2016/2017
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2016/2017
Course type: 
Basic compulsory subjects
Credits: 
2
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
20
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (20 hours)
Requirements: 

BIOLOGY AND GENETICS: minimal knowledge of the basis of biolgy

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

BIOLOGY AND GENETICS Teacher dr Roberto Valli.
Goal of the course: to give the basis of the knowledge of general biolgy and medical genetics, foundamental subjects of other future disciplines

Program of the course

BIOLOGY AND GENETICS. Teacher Dr. Roberto Valli
The molecules of life. The cell: Introduction, prokaryotes-eukaryotes differences. Membrane structure. The Cytoskeleton. The nucelus. The cellular organelles. Mitosis and Meiosis. Gametogeneis. Mendel’s laws. Allelism and chromosomic theory of heredity. Chromosomic determination of sex. Morgan’s experiments. Linkage theory. DNA: Structure and duplication. mRNA, tRNA, rRNA: structure and trascription. The mechanism of translation. Structure of chromosomes, classification and evolution. Genic and chromosomal mutations, biological menaing and association with pathologies in human. Heredity study of human pathologies: pedigrees for autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant and X-linked disorders. Cytogenetics techniques introduction.

Didactic activity structure
BIOLOGY AND GENETICS: The teaching consists in frontal lessons

Books

BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
Bonaldo, Duga, Pierantoni, Riva, Romanelli “Biologia e Genetica” EdiSES
SADAVA D. “Elementi di Biologia e Genetica” Zanichelli
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