Lessons programm
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY Teacher Dr Manuela Viola
Atomic structure, orbital and electron configuration
isotopes, chemical bonds, Lewis theory, IUPAC and traditional nomenclature; solutions: properties and concentrations, chemical reactions, kinetics, thermodynamics, acids and bases, buffers; Carbon hybridization, sigma and pi bonds, isomerism and chirality; functional groups; aa, proteins and lipids simple and complex; carbohydrates, simple and complex, nitrogenous bases, ATP, NAD and FAD,
Metabolism of glucose, triglycerides and proteins.
Haemoglobin and myoglobin.
Bioenergetics
Lipoproteins metabolism
Cholesterol metabolism
Nitrogen metabolism
Hormone metabolism and cellular activation

GENERAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICAL GENETICS. Docente Roberto Valli
The molecules of life. The cell: Introduction, prokaryotes-eukaryotes differences. Membrane structure. The Cytoskeleton. The nucelus. The cellular organelles. Mitosis and Meiosis. Gametogeneis. Mendel’s laws. Allelism and chromosomic theory of heredity. Chromosomic determination of sex. Morgan’s experiments. Linkage theory. DNA: Structure and duplication. mRNA, tRNA, rRNA: structure and trascription. The mechanism of translation. Structure of chromosomes, classification and evolution. Genic and chromosomal mutations, biological menaing and association with pathologies in human. Heredity study of human pathologies: pedigrees for autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant and X-linked disorders. Cytogenetics techniques introduction.

Tipologia delle attività didattiche
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY Docente Manuela Viola
The teaching consists in frontal lessons and in a test exam with discussion of the questions.
GENERAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICAL GENETICS: The teaching consists in frontal lessons