HEPL

Elementary biology

To acquire knowledge on the eukaryotic animal cell as well on the used vocabulary as on the role of the various elements which constitute it. All this allowing a better comprehension of the phenomenon “life”.

Molecular biology :

· Inorganic and organic components of the « living matter ».

· DNA replication

· Expression of genetic information

· Regulation of the expression of the genetic message

Cell structure and physiology :

· Cellular periphery and transmembrane transports.

· Cytoplasm and cellular machinery

· The cell nucleus and the flow of genetic information.

· The cell cycle and its regulation.

Genetics :

· Definitions

· Mendel’s laws and exceptions

· Mutations

· Exercices

Histology :

· Epithelial tissue.

· Connective tissue ( loose, dense, cartilage, bone and ossification, growth and remodeling of bone, blood )

· Nerve tissue

Muscular tissue.

BROUSSAL G., VIAUD P., Exercices et problèmes de génétique,

Médecine-Sceinces, Ed. Flammarion, 1997.

CAMPBELL, Biologie, Ed. De Boeck, Bruxelles, 1995.

COOPER, La cellule, Ed. De Boeck Université, 1999.

GRIFFITHS-MILLER, SUZUKI-LEWONTIN-GELBART, Introduction à l'analyse génétique, Ed. De Boeck Université, 1997.

STEVEN, LOWE, Histologie humaine, Ed. De Boeck Université, 1997.