UMH - GENETICS

GENETICS

Course

Code: 1144

Degree: Bachelor's in Biotechnology

Faculty of Experimental Sciences

Year: Year 1 of Bachelor's in Biotechnology

Semester: Spring

Type: Core

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 6

Lecture: 3

Laboratory: 3

Hours: 150

Directed: 60

Shared: 15

Autonomous: 75

Subject matter: Biology

Module: Biology

Degree website

Department: Applied Biology

Area: GENETICS

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

Nature, structure, function, and transmission of hereditary material. Mutation. Recombination. Linkage. Microbial genetics. Population genetics.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
ROBLES RAMOS, PEDRO	■	■	■
JOVER GIL, SARA			■
SARMIENTO MAÑUS, RAQUEL			■

Professional interest

Living beings share a common mode of storage and transfer of genetic information which has allowed us to successfully colonize the planet and preserve the constancy of species at a time to evolve. For any graduate related to life sciences is essential to know the basics of heredity and the role of Genetics as a unifying discipline of modern Biology. We must not forget that thanks to the accumulated knowledge on molecular genetics it was possible to develop genetic engineering tools that laid the foundation for the birth of modern biotechnology.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Acquisition of basic scientific knowledge.
Capacity to identify, formulate, and resolve basic problems.
Capacity to apply analytical and numerical methods for the analysis of problems.
Ability to implement efficient tools for troubleshooting within the field of knowledge.
Capacity for continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation.
Critical and analytical skills in the realm of the sciences.
Creative capacity within the field of the branch of knowledge.
Capacity for evaluating, optimizing, and comparing criteria in decision making.
Capacity to draft, represent, analyze, and interpret scientific documentation and relevant data within the branch of science.
Ability to transmit knowledge acquired in expert and non-expert environments.
Ability to work with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
Ability to update knowledge within the branch of sciences.
Social, ethical, and environmental commitment for the development of scientific solutions that are compatible and sustainable with the realities of human and natural environments.
Ability to adapt to and update new knowledge and scientific advances, adopting an ethical, innovative, and creative attitude in the practice of the profession.

Specific competencies

Ability to recognize and understand the molecular bases of biotechnological processes.
Ability to analyze and apply the fundamentals of the structure, function, and manipulation of living things.
Capacity to comprehend chemical compositions and the interactions on a molecular level in living beings.
Capacity to analyze the structure, variation, expression mechanisms in genes, and the methods for their study and handling.
Ability to apply molecular procedures to increase the biotechnological potential in plants.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

01To know the history of genetics as a science and from this to appreciate the importance of genetics in today's society.
02To approach to the molecular basis of genetics in order to understand how the genetic material behaves regarding its distribution over the different types of cell division (mitosis and meiosis) and its storage, variation and the flow of the information that contains.
03To assess the relevance of the work of Mendel and understand the formulation of the laws that allowed to establish Transmission Genetics.
04To understand and apply the methods used in genetic analysis in order to elucidate the transmission and function of genes.
05To distinguish the different types of inheritance patterns in diploid organisms: autosomal, sex-linked, sex-influenced, etc.
06To analyze the modifications of Mendel¿s laws and understand why they occur.
07To learn to detect linkage between genes and understand that recombination frequencies between linked genes allows to estimate map distances.
08To differentiate between bacterial and eukaryotic genomes as well as different types of genetic material exchange between bacteria.
09To understand that population genetics is based on the calculation of allelic and genotypic frequencies.
010To discuss the importance of genetic variation in evolution and the causes, nature and consequences of mutations

Teaching units

Association between objectives and units

Objective/Unit	U1	U2	U3	U4
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
010

Schedule

Week	Teaching units	Directed hours	Shared hours	Autonomous hours	Total hours
1	U1	5	1	3	9
2	U1	5	1	3	9
3	U3	5	1	6	12
4	U3	4.5	1	5	10.5
5	U3	4.5	1	6	11.5
6	U3	4	1	5	10
7	U3	4.5	1	5	10.5
8	U3	3	0	5	8
9	U3	4	1	5	10
10	U4	4.5	1	5	10.5
11	U4	3	0	5	8
12	U2	4.5	1	5	10.5
13	U2	3.5	1	5	9.5
14	U2	2.5	2	6	10.5
15	U2	2.5	2	6	10.5

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Problem-based learning: Develop active learning strategies through problem solving that promote thinking, experimentation, and decision making in the student.

Grading

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT. The subject can be passed by achieving a maximum of 100 points that accumulate throughout the course by scoring different activities (maximum 100 points, equivalent to 10 of 10).

VERY IMPORTANT: The minimum score for passing the continuous assessment is 50 points (equivalent to 5 of 10). In order to pass the course and the continous assessment is considered, it is necessary to obtain at least 17.5 points in the final exam.

Academics: GENETICS