Print syllabusBiological coordinate systems
General data
| Course ID: | 1000-715BSK |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: | (unknown) / (unknown) |
| Course title: | Biological coordinate systems |
| Name in Polish: | Biologiczne systemy koordynacji |
| Organizational unit: | Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics |
| Course groups: | |
| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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| Language: | Polish |
| Type of course: | obligatory courses |
| Short description: |
Educational content: tissues, organs, organ systems in plants and animals, populations; growth and differentiation of plants and animals; elements of immunology; plant and animal reproduction; plant responses to environmental changes; animal behavior; systemic signaling in plants and animals; regulation of metabolism; population dynamics. |
| Full description: |
Topics covered in lectures: The organism in the environment. Energy transformations in plants and animals Transport processes in plants and animals Water and mineral management in plants and animals Signal transmission in plants and animals Tropisms, nasties and autonomic movements in plants Motor system in animals - skeleton and muscles Reproduction in plants and animals Stress in plants and animals Regulatory processes at the population, organism and tissue level Topics developed by students in conversation classes Application of virtual populations in biology Concepts: coevolution, the arms race and the Red Queen Insect societies as biological systems. Transformations of plant communities Metabolic diseases, as an example of disruption of coordination systems Inborn metabolic diseases Mechanisms of reception and processing of information from the environment and their role in homeostasis Participation of symplastic domains in plant development The use of hormones in plant production Evolution of organisms' sensitivity to light and its influence on the origin of the molecular clock Molecular basis of biological rhythms in plants |
| Bibliography: |
Alberts B i wsp. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th edition, (2008) Garland Science Devlin TM, Textbook of Biochemistry With Clinical Correlations 7th edition. (2010) Wiley and sons. Fizjologia roślin. Pod red. Jana Kopcewicza i Stanisława Lewaka, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2002 Futuyma, D.J., Ewolucja. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa. 2008. Ganon William F. g, Fizjologia, PZWL Krebs, C.J. Ekologia. PWN, Warszawa, 1997. Nelson DL i Cox MM: Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry. 5th Edition WH Freeman, 2008. Plant Physiology. Lincoln Taiz, Eduardo Zeiger (red) Sinauer Associates, Inc.Publishers, Sunderland, Massachusetts, 2006. Silver Dee Unglaub, Fizjologia człowieka. Zintegrowane podejście, PZWL 2018 Symplasmic Transport in Vascular Plants; Sokołowska, K., Sowiński, P., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, USA, 2013. Skwarło-Sońta K., 2001, Powiązania funkcjonalne między układami odpornościowym a nerwowym i hormonalnym, w: Fizjologia zwierząt. Zagadnienia wybrane. pod red. J. Sotowskiej-Brochockiej, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, str. 167 – 190; Sokół, M. Minipodręcznik programowania populacji, układów populacji, dziedziczenia i ewolucji w języku C++ dla studentów ekologii i ochrony środowiska. Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Biologii, on line: www.biol.uw.edu.pl/informatyka, C++ - minipodręcznik. 2009. Sokół, M. Minipodręcznik programowania populacji, układów populacji, dziedziczenia i ewolucji w języku Pascal dla studentów ekologii i ochrony środowiska. Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Biologii, on line: www.biol.uw.edu.pl/informatyka, Pascal-Minipodręcznik, 2009. Stanley, S.M. Historia Ziemi. PWN, Warszawa. 2002. Wilson E.O. Społeczeństwa owadów. PWN, Warszawa. 1979. |
| Learning outcomes: |
Knowledge: Student: Identifies and defines the tools of mathematics, computer science and statistics necessary to understand the laws of nature and to describe the processes of life and gives examples of their application. Knows the functioning of cellular structures and presents the most important functional relationships both between the components of a cell and between cells Knows the morphological and anatomical structure of organisms and understands the functioning of the organism as a whole Understands the principles of the hierarchical organization of life, from the molecule to the biosphere, and applies the concepts necessary to understand and describe them Understands natural phenomena and processes occurring at the level of the individual, population and ecosystem Knows the general environmental conditions of life and the influence of environmental factors on the development and functioning of living organisms; identifies the most important threats to the state of aquatic, terrestrial and atmospheric environments Skills Student: Applies basic techniques and research tools of experimental biology and knows how to explain the principles of their operation Reads with understanding scientific and popular science biological texts in native and foreign language Knows how to analyze the obtained results and discuss them on the basis of the available literature Knows how to work out a selected biological problem on the basis of literature data under the supervision of the tutor Is able to present the obtained results in the form of a written paper or a multimedia presentation Learns independently the issues indicated by the mentor Social competence Student: Expands interests within the natural sciences Feels the need for continuous education and updating their knowledge concerning mathematical and natural sciences Understands the need for professional improvement Critically analyzes information appearing in the mass media and professional literature |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
The requirement for successful completion of the course is to attend at least 70 % of the lectures and to obtain at least 55 % of the points on the test covering the knowledge provided in the lectures (single choice test and open questions). |
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