General Biology

NAME OF THE COURSE General Biology

Code

KTC101

Year of study

0.

Course teacher

Prof Nada Bezić

Credits (ECTS)

4.0

Associate teachers

Assoc Prof Valerija Dunkić

Type of instruction (number of hours)

P S V T

30

0

15

0

Status of the course

Mandatory

Percentage of application of e-learning

0 %

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course objectives

Students learn to:
- Introduce students to the relationships of animate and inanimate nature
- Understand the basic principles of cell biology
- mastering the basics of genetics and ecological relationships among organisms

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

 

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

Students will after the course unit power:
- Recognize the importance of living organisms in relation to the environment
- To master the basic knowledge of cell biology and evolution of organisms
- Know the basic genetic principles
- Know how environmental changes affect the ecosystem changes

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

Content - hours L V
Animate and inanimate nature. 3 1
Prokaryotes, eukaryotes, relationships between plants-animals 3 1
Membranes and transport through the membrane, nucleus, nucleolus 3 1
DNA, RNA, CD-biology, Endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, lysosomes
3 1
Mitochondria - breathing, chloroplasts - photosynthesis, peroxisomes
3 1
Cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis (spermatogenesis, oogenesis), fertilization
3 1
The embryonic development model operon differentiation in plants and animals
3 1
Aging and death, viruses (HIV), tumors 3 1
The basics of inheritance, Mendel’s laws, mutations 3 1
Ecological concepts and relationships of organisms in the biocenosis 3 1

Format of instruction:

Student responsibilities

Admission to the lectures of at least 70%, as well as seminars and seminar work in 100% of scheduled classes.

Screening student work (name the proportion of ECTS credits for eachactivity so that the total number of ECTS credits is equal to the ECTS value of the course):

Class attendance

0.0

Research

0.0

Practical training

2.0

Experimental work

0.0

Report

0.0

 

 

Essay

0.0

Seminar essay

0.0

 

 

Tests

0.0

Oral exam

0.0

 

 

Written exam

3.0

Project

0.0

 

 

Grading and evaluating student work in class and at the final exam

The obligation is to the students during the course of hearing preparation seminar that also must know the present. Upon completion of the lecture can be the time to take the entire test period courses in writing.

Required literature (available in the library and via other media)

Title

Number of copies in the library

Availability via other media

Autorizirana predavanja na webu PMF-a

0

G. M. Cooper, Stanica: molekularni pristup, Medicinska naklada, Zagreb, 2004.

0

Optional literature (at the time of submission of study programme proposal)

A. Delić i N. Vijtiuk, Prirodoslovlje, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2004.

Quality assurance methods that ensure the acquisition of exit competences

Quality assurance will be performed at three levels:
(1) University Level;
(2) Faculty Level by Quality Control Committee;
(3) Lecturer’s Level.

Other (as the proposer wishes to add)