BIOLOGIA VEGETALE E BIOLOGIA ANIMALE M - Z

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Valeria SORRENTI
Credit Value: 7
Scientific field: BIO/15 - Pharmaceutical biology
Taught classes: 49 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

Provide the student with adequate knowledge on the morphology and physiology of animal and plant cells


Course Structure

Face-to face-lesson


Detailed Course Content

Composition and organization of living matter.

Chemical composition of the cell: water, minerals, amino acids, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids.

Principles of classification of living organisms: Virus, prokaryotes and eukaryotes and the relationship with the ecosystem.

Morphology of animal and vegetable cells.

Cell wall, growth of the cell wall. Changes in the cell wall: lignification, mineralization, gelation, pigmentation.

Structure and function of the plasma membrane: cell permeability, transport, exocytosis and endocytosis.

Intracellular structures: Nucleus, Endoplasmic reticulum, Ribosomes, Golgi complex, Lysosome, Vacuoles (microbodies), Mitochondria, Cytoskeleton, Chloroplasts, chromoplasts, leucoplasts.

Biochemical mechanism of photosynthetic light reactions, photorespiration.

Metabolism: primary metabolites, intermediate metabolites and secondary metabolites.

Characters tissue. Systems of tissues and their classification. Meristematic tissues or cells.

Adult tissues or definitive: system parenchyma, tegument system, conducting system, segregators system and mechanical system.

Cell cycle. DNA replication, mitosis, meiosis, mutations in the DNA.

Overview of genetics: concepts of heterozygous, homozygous and hemizygous, dominant and recessive characters, genotype, phenotype and karyotype, Mendel's laws.

Genetic code, transcription, translation.


Textbook Information

1. N.L. Campbell. -Biologia- Ed. Zanichelli

2. Solomon, Martin, Martin, Berg -Biologia- VII EDIZIONE Ed. Edises

3. Solomon, Martin, Martin, Berg -Elementi Biologia- VII EDIZIONE Ed. Edises integrated with

4. Solomon, Martin, Martin, Berg -Evoluzione e Biodiversità- VII EDIZIONE Ed. Edises and with

5. Solomon, Martin, Martin, Berg-Struttura e processi vitali nelle piante- VII EDIZIONE Ed. Edises

6.Hardin, Bertoni- Becker. Il mondo della cellula- IX Edizione, Ed. Pearson

7.Sadava,Hillis, Craig Heller, Hacker.Biologia , Volumi 1,2,3,4 Ed. Zanichelli