• TFBG1002
  • Biology 2

  • Credits (ECTS): 5
  • Food Science and Environmental Health

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Overview

Module Description

This module will provide a foundation in biological science and aims to develop an overview of the structure, functions and organisation of biotic systems and to refine a questioning attitude appropriate to scientific enquiry and systematic methodology. The module provides a basic understanding of the organisation of the human body and how the body works.The lectures are synchronised with laboratory work in which the student is familiarised with living and prepared biological material, and with the instruments appropriate to its scrutiny.

Indicative Syllabus

Indicative syllabus covered in the module and / or in its discrete elements
Introductory genetics
Nucleic acids, DNA structure and replication, protein synthesis,
The genetic code,
Introductory biotechnology, monoclonal antibodies
Photosynthesis and plant histology
Enzymology
Human Physiology.

Total Contact Teaching Hours:60

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