[Molecular biology].
The Molecular Biology course will carry out a study in depth about the structure and function of nucleic acids and the experimental foundations on which the different subjects of Molecular Biology are based will be specifically addressed in this course.
Abstract
The students of the Biochemistry degree have previously acquired some descriptive knowledge of Molecular Biology. The Molecular Biology course will carry out a study in depth about the structure and function of nucleic acids. The subjects of the course are listed in the contents. The most important objective of the course is to get a good knowledge of the fundamentals and acquire the ability to assess the current state of scientific knowledge of the different subjects of Molecular Biology. For this reason, the experimental foundations on which the different subjects of Molecular Biology are based will be specifically addressed in this course. The foundations of genetic engineering will be also presented in this course, but they will be treated in detail in the course of Recombinant-DNA Technology (third year / second semester).