Content
- Lectures: 30 hours
- Independent work: 60 hours
Subject carrier
Description
– General on cell and research in cell biology: formation and evolution of the cell, light and electron microscope, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell, model organisms
– Molecular composition of the cell: water and inorganic substances, proteins, carbohydrates, nuclear acids, polysaccharides
– Cell metabolism: catabolism, anabolism, cellular respiration, photosynthesis, enzymes
– Structure and function of cell organelles: nucleus, chromosomes, genes, DNA, transcription, DNA duplication, repair and recombination, ribosomes and translation, cell membrane, membrane transport, endomembrane system: endoplasmatis reticulum, Golgy aparatus, vacuoles, membrane cycling, endocytosis, exocytosis, intracellular digestion, lysosomes, energy transformation organelles: mitochondria and chloroplasts, cytosol, cytoskeleton: microtubules, actin filaments, intermediary filaments, cell wall
– Cell communication: receptors, signal molecules
– Cell cycle: interphyse and M phase, regulation
– Cell division: mitosis and cytokinesis
– Cell death: apoptosis, necrosis
– Meiosis, sexual reproduction, stem cells
– Basics of inheritance
– Selected cell types: muscle cell, neuron, erythrocyte, epithelial cell, stem cell
Basic methods in molecular biology
