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Degree in Biology

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• E01: Understand the fundamentals of enzyme catalysis, the biological processes of energy production and transformation, metabolic pathways and their regulation.
• E02: Interpret the functioning of the mechanisms of biological inheritance and the applications in recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering.
• E03: Understand the historical nature of the evolutionary process in terms of unrepeatability, contingency and/or necessity and apply the principles and methods for the interpretation of the fossil record and its use in dating, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and evolutionary inferences.
• E04: Analyse the evolutionary mechanisms, processes and models at different levels of biological organisation, and understand their relationship with organic and environmental diversity.
• E05: Know the place of ecology within scientific knowledge as a whole and in the understanding of human relationships with nature. Know how to analyse and interpret the evolutionary, physiological and demographic responses of living beings to environmental factors and their interactions, as well as the functioning of ecosystems and the main human impacts that affect them.
• E06: Understand and relate the structure and function of biomolecules and interpret the functioning of the mechanisms of replication, transcription, translation and mutation. Be familiar with the techniques, methodologies and basic instruments of the molecular biology laboratory.
• E07: Understand the main stages and patterns of development of various groups of metazoans and the molecular, genetic and cellular bases for developmental changes in the embryo, including programmed cell death.
• E08: Correctly apply the specific terminology of microbiology and understand the theories, history and trends of this science, being able to relate all these to other scientific disciplines; integrate knowledge of the biology of the main groups of microorganisms in terms of structural, metabolic, genetic, ecological, taxonomic, evolutionary and applied characteristics; use basic microbiological laboratory techniques and use and analyse documentary sources in the field of microbiology.
• E09: Explain the major events in evolutionary history from the origin of cellular complexity including the role of symbiosis to present-day diversity including that of the human species by applying the main models, theories and experimental observations with palaeontological, morphological, archaeological and genetic data.
• E10: Understand the diversity of living organisms and the various classification systems to interpret the historical nature of the evolutionary process and apply methods for reconstructing the evolutionary process so as to place major evolutionary events on the geological time scale.
• E11: Know how to analyse the diversity of living beings and ecosystems and global, regional and local environmental problems. Know how to relate the structure and function of biomolecules and to apply the methodologies of global structural and functional analysis of genomes and cellular processes.
• E12: Be able to integrate knowledge of the structure and function of cells, tissues and animal and plant organs.
• E13: Understand the morphological and functional diversity of living beings. Understand the functions of the basic underlying mechanisms from an integrative point of view and their adaptations to the environment throughout their history.
• E14: Assimilate the process of constructing scientific knowledge: experimentation in the laboratory and field studies, gathering, handling and analysis of data and preparation of scientific documents. Use of information and communication technology (ICT) in biology.
• E15: Be able to analyse the data obtained in different biological experiments by using appropriate statistical software.
• E16: Know how to obtain, process and analyse material of biological origin by applying histological techniques for light and electron microscopy.
• E17: Be able to integrate the biological processes of energy production and cell signalling mechanisms.
• E18: Understand the phylogenetic and geographical relationships of living organisms, as well as their taxonomy and systematics. Apply current scientific techniques to identify organisms and discern their phylogenetic relationships.