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Course code: NBSS10015o12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Cell Biology
Major: Biotechnology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Anna Rodziewicz, prof. nadzw. UP
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes:

Competences: Students are able to explain the way of cooperation between DNA, RNA, protein and other substances molecules with appriopriate organelle of a cell creating living systems, are able to predict factors upsetting that systems. That knowledge contributes to getting known and explanation of molecular basis of diseases, to new medicines obtaining, proper choice of procariotic and eucariotic microorganisms for various biotechnological processes, possibility of application of e.g. archae and cyanobacteria and other organisms in various biotransformations and so on. Moreover, the obtained knowledge may be used in new scientific disciplines like genomics or proteomics.

Prerequisites: Biology at the level of secondary school.

Course content: Features of living organisms, evolution of pro- and eucariotic organisms. Uniformity and diversity in a structure of cell of prokaryotes (archaebacteria, eubacteria, cyanobacteria) and plant and animal eucaryotes. Structure and functioning of a cell on a molecular level (chemical components of a cell, structure and functions of proteins, role of lipids, polysaccharides, structure and functions of nuclear, plastidic and mitochondrial DNA, replication, reconstruction and recombination of DNA, expression of genes); sub- and microscopic level (structure and function of membranes, organelles, cytoskeleton, division of a cell and controlling mechanisms of cell cycle, development and decease of a cell, apoptosis). Recognizing of systems of intra and intercellular communication. Diversity of a structure and function of cells in different kinds of tissues.

Recommended literature: 1.Podstawy biologii komórki, 1 i 2 tom,Praca zbiorowa: (B.Alberts; D. Bray; K. Hopkin; A. Johnson; J. Lewis; M. Raff; K Roberts; P. Walter, PWN, 2005; 2.Cytobiochemia, Autor: L. Kłyszejko-Stefańska; PWN; 20002, 3.Strukturalne podstawy biologii komórki, Autor: W. Kilarski PWN, 2005; 4.Podstawy biologii komórki roślinnej, Praca zbiorowa: (A. Woźny; J. Michejda; L. Ratajczak). WN UAM 2001; 5.Plant Biology, Pracazbiorowa: (L. E., Graham, J. M. Graham, L. W. Wlcox), Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.

Assessment methods: An obligatory exam.

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