BIOLOGY Lecture Notes - Golden Pages 2003

PREFACE

1. THE CELL

  Fundamentals of Cell Theory

  Structure of the Plasma Membrane

  Functions of the Plasma Membrane

  Glycocalyx

  Cell Organelles

  Mitochondria

  Lysosomes

  Non-membranous Cell Structures

  Ribosomes

  Regulation of Cellular Functions

2. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE CELLULAR NUCLEAR APPARATUS

  Chromosome Structure and Classification

3. CELL DIVISION

  Cell Life Cycle

  Mitosis

4. REPRODUCTION

5. FUNDAMENTALS OF EMBRYOLOGY

  Cleavage: Establishing Multicellularity

  Gastrulation: Cell Redistribution (in Mammals)

  Neurulation

  Differentiation of Embryonic Ectoderm into Various Tissues

  Early Development of Mesodermal and Endodermal Derivatives

  Formation of extraembryonic membranes

6. FUNDAMENTALS OF HEREDITY

  Genotype as an integrated system

  Main types of non-allelic gene interaction

  Inheritance of linked traits

  Core principles of the chromosomal theory of heredity

7. FUNDAMENTALS OF VARIABILITY

8. BASICS OF MEDICAL GENETICS. METHODS FOR STUDYING HEREDITY AND VARIABILITY IN HUMANS

  Pharmaceutical aspects of medical genetics

9. TERATOLOGY

10. MEDICAL PARASITOLOGY

  Subject matter and tasks of medical parasitology

  Classification of parasitism

  Adaptations to a parasitic lifestyle

  Parasite life cycles

  Medical arachnoentomology

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