Last modified: 02 Oct 2024 15:46
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The first part of the course deals with the basic biochemistry of genetic material, including an examination of DNA replication, including cell cycle, chromosome organisation, recombination and repair. We progress into the core central dogma by dealing with both prokaryotic and eukaryotic mechanisms for the transcription of DNA into RNA and the subsequent synthesis of proteins encoded in mRNA. The focus then moves first to protein molecules, dealing with protein processing, targeting and turnover, and then to cell biological aspects of protein trafficking, membrane transduction and cell signalling. The course concludes with a discussion of cell structure. Laboratory work and assignments are designed to complement and extend the lecture topics. Additional learning opportunities are provided in the staged series of Workshops, which allow the opportunity to actively employ understanding of a topic in a workshop/small group learning environment.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 60 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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Practical reports and essays will be marked with written comments. Problem solving questions will be discussed during a lecture/feedback session. Students are given general feedback on performance during PRS revision sessions. Students receive on-line feedback on completion of the tests. PRS MCQ assessment answers discussed at the end of assessment session. Feedback on problem-based learning exercise. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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Essay analysis and essay |
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There are no assessments for this course.
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| Conceptual | Understand | Describe aspects of cell signalling in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. This will include kinases, G-proteins, Ras, nuclear receptor, steroids, 2-component systems in microorganisms. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Students will be able to abstract information and understanding from complex literature and analyse and interpret data. |
| Factual | Understand | Students will be able to describe the structure and propagation of mobile genetic elements (mobile DNA). |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students will be able to describe the complex intracellular architecture of higher eukaryotic cells. |
| Factual | Understand | Students will be able to describe various selected aspects of protein biochemistry including protein folding, turnover, targeting and trafficking within the cell. |
| Factual | Understand | Students will be able to describe the main features of chromosomal organisation, recombination and repair. |
| Procedural | Create | Students will gain an understanding of, and training in, laboratory skills and how to observe and record scientific data. |
| Factual | Understand | Students will be able to describe the main features of transcription, including post-transcriptional processing, and translation in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. |
| Factual | Understand | Student will be able to describe the main features of DNA structure and replication. |
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