Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2023-24

La Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I es una asignatura fundamental en el Grado de Medicina, ya que proporciona los conocimientos básicos de los procesos bioquímicos que ocurren en los organismos vivos, incluyendo el cuerpo humano. Esta disciplina se enfoca en el estudio de las moléculas y reacciones químicas que son esenciales para el funcionamiento de las células y los sistemas biológicos.

En un curso de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I en el Grado de Medicina, bioquímica general en medicina, los estudiantes aprenderán sobre una amplia gama de temas, que incluyen:

-Estructura y función de los biomoléculas: Los estudiantes aprenderán sobre los componentes básicos de las células, como los carbohidratos, lípidos, proteínas y ácidos nucleicos, y comprenderán cómo estas moléculas interactúan entre sí para llevar a cabo las funciones celulares.

-Biología Molecular: Se abordará la estructura y función de los ácidos nucleicos, así como los mecanismos de replicación, transcripción y traducción. Los estudiantes también aprenderán sobre la regulación de la expresión génica y su relevancia en las enfermedades.

Todo esto les preparará para el estudio de las vías metabólicas principales, como la glucólisis, la gluconeogénesis, la beta oxidación de ácidos grasos, el ciclo de Krebs y la fosforilación oxidativa, así como los mecanismos de regulación de las vías metabólicas, incluyendo la retroalimentación, la inhibición y activación enzimática, y la señalización celular, que se abordarán en la asignatura de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular II.

A través de la Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I, los estudiantes de Medicina adquieren una comprensión profunda de los fundamentos moleculares de la vida y su relevancia para el campo médico. Estos conocimientos son esenciales para entender los mecanismos de las enfermedades, los efectos de los fármacos y las opciones terapéuticas disponibles.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2023-24

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : To read and understand texts in English.
  • CT2 : Show computer and information system skills and abilities.
  • CT3 : Show oral and written communication skills.

 

General Competences

  • CG10 : Understand and identify the causative agents and risk factors that induce the states of health and the development of the disease.
  • CG11 : Understand and identify the effects of growth, development and aging on the individual and their social environment.
  • CG25 : Identify the determinants for health in the population: genetic; sex and lifestyle dependent; demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological and cultural.
  • CG34 : Adopt a critical, creative, constructively sceptical and research-oriented standpoint in professional practice. in professional practice in professional practicein professional practice
  • CG35 : Understand the importance and limitations of scientific thought in the study, prevention and management of diseases.
  • CG36 : Be able to formulate hypotheses, collect and critically assess information for problem solving, following the scientific method.
  • CG5 : Acknowledge their own limitations and the need to maintain and update their professional competence, with special emphasis on the autonomous learning of new knowledge and techniques and the motivation for quality.
  • CG7 : Understand and discern the normal structure and function of the human body, at the molecular, cellular, tissue, organic and systems level, in the different stages of life and in both sexes.
  • CG9 : Understand and recognize the effects, mechanisms and manifestations of the disease on the structure and function of the human body.

 

Specific competences:>>Module I: Morphology, structure and function of the human body

  • CE1.01 : Understand the cell: structure and function.
  • CE1.02 : Understand biomolecules, metabolism and metabolic regulation and integration.
  • CE1.06 : Understand the information, expression and gene regulation.
  • CE1.07 : Understand the mechanisms of inheritance.
  • CE1.12 : Handling of lab material and basic laboratory techniques.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

Students should demonstrate the following outcomes: 1) Know the properties of water and buffer solutions. 2) Identify and know the structure of different biomolecules, as well as the interactions that occur between them to form supramolecular complexes. 3) Establish the relationship between the structures of these biomolecules and their functions in biological processes. 4) Know the fundamentals of replication, transcription and translation of genetic material, as well as the mechanisms of regulation of gene expression. 5) Describe the processes that can produce changes in genetic information and the mechanisms of repair. 6) Explain recombinant DNA technology. 7) Interpret, evaluate, process and synthesise data and information in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 8) Recognise and assess the biochemical processes underlying health and pathological processes. 9) Manage in a biochemical laboratory and carry out the most basic biochemical techniques.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2023-24

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General

Code: 27202
Lecturer responsible:
Marhuenda Egea, Frutos Carlos
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,40
Practical credits: 1,00
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND SOIL AND AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY
    Area: BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 1,4
    Practical credits: 1
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught