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 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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
- Elementi di Biologia, Sadava et al Zanichelli editore
Atlante di Istologia e Anatomia microscopica
di Ross - Pawlina - Barnash - Educational objectives
- Structure and function of eukaryotic cell and main tissues.
- Prerequisites
- nd
- Teaching methods
- frontal lessons
- Other information
- Attendance is strongly recommended
- Learning verification modality
- written test and oral exam
The examination procedures are illustrated in detail in a file present in Unistudium. The file describes the modalities of the ongoing tests, the written test and the oral test.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or SLD, visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - 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.