| Course title | |||||
| 生物学 [Biology] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Year | 1～ | Semester | Spring | |
| Course type | Spring | Course code | 01BO0801d | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 川合 伸也, 平岡 毅, 有江 力, 渋谷 淳 [KAWAI Shinya, HIRAOKA Tsuyoshi, ARIE Tsutomu, SHIBUTANI Makoto] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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The cell is an organism's basic unit of structure and function. The goal of this lecture is to learn the basic knowledge of the cells, and to understand ‘life’ at the molecular level. We focus on prokaryotic cells, and eukaryotic cells including plants and animals. In the beginning of this lecture, we will learn the structure and features of the biological molecules composing cells, structure and function of cells, and organelles and intracellular structures of cells. Furthermore, chemical and informational processing in the cell will be discussed, which leads to understand how biological activity functions within the cell. Here the chemical processing means metabolism of biomolecules and energy, and the informational processing means the transfer of genetic information from nucleic acids, especially DNA, to biomolecules. |
| Expected Learning |
| The students would lean the basic knowledge of the cells to understand ‘life’ at the molecular level. |
| Course schedule |
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Section 1 The Cell 1. A tour of the cell 2. Cell structure and function (1) 3. Cell structurs and function (2) 4. Cell communication 5. Cell cycle Section 2 The Chemistry of Life 6. Sugar and protein 7. Cellular respiration; Harvesting chemical energy (1) 8. Cellular respiration; Harvesting chemical energy (2) 9. Chloroplasts and their function (1) 10. Chloroplasts and their function (2) Section 3 Genetics 11. Structure, replication and repair of gene 12. From gene to protein 13. Regulation of gene expression (1) 14. Regulation of gene expression (2) 15. Review 16. Examination |
| Prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
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Campbell & Reece "Biology" 10th ed. The "Campbell biology". Slides contents used in the lecture are in compliance with this book. |
| References |
| Assessment/Grading |
| More than 80% of attendance is required. The same examination will be conducted in all classes at the end of this lecture. More than 60 out of 100 points are required to get the credit. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Course keywords |
| Cells, cell organelles, biomolecules, energy metabolism, photosynthesis, gene, protein synthesis |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 3/23/2017 3:56:00 PM |