Base Knowledge
1) Biology
Teaching Methodologies
1. Classical exhibition of themes;
2. Performing of laboratory tasks and various exercises;
3. Execution of exercises of hereditary perspectivation;
4. Complementary and oriented bibliographic research.
Learning Results
1. To know the molecular and cytological basis of the cell and the mechanisms and structures involved in the phenomena of heredity, including heredopathology and phenotypic variability
2. Know the principles of Mendel, the different intergenic relationships, normal and special transmission patterns (including phenomena of inprinting) and related heredopathology.
3. To know the Hardy-Weinberg postulate and the principles of the quantitative approach applied to plant and animal genetic improvement
4. Understand the applicability in plant and animal production.
Program
Objective 1 – Cytogenetics & Molecular G. (15%): 1. cytogenetic & nuclear organization of eukaryotes and prokaryotes; 2. hereditary sexual transmission, exchanges, aberrations (deletions, inversions, translocations) and chromosomal anomalies (polysomies and polyploidy); 3. Genetic variability – polymorphisms (including SNPs) and epigenetics
Objective 2 – Mendel and special transmission patterns (30%): 1. Mendel principles, relationships of genes and special cases of heredity (including “inprinting”); 2. plant and animal traits; 3. Hereditary prediction exercises; Applications in the plant and animal kingdom
Objective 3 – Populations & Quantitative G. (30%): 1. Hardy-Weinberg, applications; 2. polygenic & phenotypic variability, components, heritability, breeding value, types & methods of selection and crossing, inbreeding & heterosis; 3. Exercises;
Objective 4 – Context of knowledge & applications in plants (25%): 1. particularities & specificities; 2 – bacteria & viruses in Agric
Grading Methods
- - Modulo 1 (Objectivos 1 a 3) - 75.0%
- - Módulo 2 (Objectivo 4) - 25.0%
- - Modulo 1 (Objectivos 1 a 3) - 75.0%
- - Módulo 2 (Objectivo 4) - 25.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
LEWIS Ricki – Human genetics: concepts and aplications. 2nd ed. Dubuque, IA: WCB Wm. C. Brown Publishers, C. 1997
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE – Eléments de génétique quantitative et application aux populations animales. Paris: INRA, 1992. (Productions animales. Numéro hors série. Génétique quantitative
HANDBOOK OF FORMULAS AND SOFTWARE FOR PLANT GENETICISTS AND BREEDERS – Handbook of formulas and software for plant geneticists and breeders / ed. Manjit S. Kang. New York: Food Products Press, cop. 2003
HERTL Daniel L. ; JONES Elizabeth W. – Genetics: principles and analysis. 4th ed. Sudbury, Massachusetts: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1998
FALCONER D. S. ; MACKAY Trudy F. C. – Introduction to quantitative genetics. Essex: Prentice Hall, 1996
AN INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC ANALYSIS – An introduction to genetic analysis / Anthony J. F. Griffiths…[et al.]. 7th ed. New York: W. H. Freeman, 2000
GARDNER Eldon John ; SIMMONS Michael J. ; SNUSTAD D. Peter – Principles of genetics. 8th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991
LEWIN Benjamin – Genes VII. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
HEDRICK Philip W. – Genetics of populations. 2nd ed. Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2000