Objectives and competences

It is expected that the students expand and consolidate their knowledge on genetics. Students are oriented towards an improved insight of the importance of genetics to understand biological diversity, the complexity of relationship genotype-phenotype.  In a first contact with genetics laboratory, students practice some basic procedures as DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction and electrophoresis on agarose gel.

Teaching Methodologies

Lectures, exercises, seminars, laboratory work.

Syllabus

Classroom:
Introduction to molecular genetics
Heredity (Mendel and the multiple exceptions)
Mutations
Open seminars (nutrigenetics; evolution; conservation)

Lab:
DNA extraction and purification.
Physicochemical properties of DNA.
Polymerase Chain Reaction
DNA electrophoresis