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