Unit (CYTOLOGY AND HISTOLOGY
- Course
- Biological sciences
- Study-unit Code
- GP004015
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Livia Lucentini
- Teachers
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- Livia Lucentini
- Hours
- 56 ore - Livia Lucentini
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline biologiche
- Academic discipline
- BIO/06
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Structure and function of eukaryotic cell and main tissues.Virus and prokaryotic cells. Molecules and macromolecules of biological interest: water, protein, nucleic acids, lipids, ..Protein synthesis, cells communication, mitosis and meiosis. Tissues structure and ultrastructure.
Principal tissues - Reference texts
- L'essenziale di biologia molecolare della cellula, Alberts et al 2021
Atlante di Istologia. CEA. 2010 - Educational objectives
- Structure and function of eukaryotic cell and main tissues.
- Prerequisites
- nd
- Teaching methods
- l
- Other information
- Attendance is strongly recommended
- Learning verification modality
- written test and oral exam
- Extended program
- Cell principal characteristics. Cell morphology. Prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Animal cell vs vegetal cell. Cellular constituents: water, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates. Genetic code. RNA. Protein synthesis. Cellular membrane. Cytoplasm. Cytoskeleton. Cellular signalling. Autotroph and heterotroph organisms. ATP. Mitochondria. Nucleus. Cellular cycle. Mitosis. Structure, ultrastructure and function of the following tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, nervous.