Degree in Biology

  • Understand the basic procedures and techniques to ensure the care, health, handling, and welfare of the laboratory animal.
  • To assimilate the process of constructing scientific knowledge: laboratory experimentation and field studies, data acquisition, handling and analysis, and writing scientific documents. Use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
  • Ability to analyze data obtained in different biological experiments, using appropriate statistical software.
  • To understand the place of ecology within the body of scientific knowledge and in comprehending the relationship between humankind and nature. To be able to analyze 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.
  • Understanding the process of constructing scientific knowledge: laboratory experimentation and field studies, data acquisition, management and analysis, and writing scientific documents. Use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in biology.
  • Understanding the morphological and functional diversity of living beings. Understanding their functions, the basic underlying mechanisms from an integrative point of view, and their adaptations to the environment throughout their life history.
  • To correctly apply the specific terminology of Microbiology and understand the theories, history and trends of this science, being able to relate them to other scientific disciplines; to integrate the knowledge of the biology of the main groups of microorganisms in their structural, metabolic, genetic, ecological, taxonomic, evolutionary and applied aspects; to be proficient in basic microbiological laboratory techniques, and to handle and analyze documentary sources of Microbiology.
  • I will understand and relate the structure and function of biomolecules and interpret the functioning of the mechanisms of replication, transcription, translation and mutation, together with knowing the techniques, methodologies and basic instrumentation of the Molecular Biology laboratory.
  • To explain the major events in evolutionary history from the origin of cellular complexity, including the role of symbiosis, to current diversity including human cultural diversity, applying the main models, theories and experimental observations with paleontological, morphological, archaeological and genetic data
  • Understanding the morphological and functional diversity of living beings. Understanding their functions, the basic underlying mechanisms from an integrative point of view, and their adaptations to the environment throughout their life history.
  • Efficient use of command-line software and computer scripts, as well as GIS applications, for data analysis and the resolution of specific biological problems, such as sequence analysis or the interpretation of ecological processes using georeferenced data.
  • Knowing how to integrate knowledge between the structure and function of cells, tissues and animal and plant organs.
  • Apply methodologies for census and monitoring of vertebrates and know how to observe, identify, and handle specimens both in the laboratory and in the field.
  • Interpret molecular, genetic and biochemical parameters of clinical interest, and interpret biochemical analyses in relation to pathologies of organs or functional systems, as well as analyses of pathological genomic variation and the identification of individuals.
  • Knowing how to integrate the biological processes of obtaining energy and the mechanisms of cell signaling.
  • To know how to interpret the biological bases of nervous and mental function, its pathological alterations and the pharmacological strategies for its treatment.
  • Understanding the evolutionary lineages of protists, as well as their importance in ecosystems, understanding their environmental, economic and health relevance.
  • Knowing how to integrate the biological processes of obtaining energy and the mechanisms of cell signaling.
  • Apply knowledge of geochemistry and biogeochemical cycles to the management of pollution produced by human activity and have the ability to understand the present climate moment from the inference of the past and extrapolate to future changes.
  • Know how to evaluate and interpret the structure and dynamics of populations, communities, natural ecosystems and their threats, in order to propose conservation, restoration and management strategies at global, regional and local levels.
  • Understanding the morphological and functional diversity of living beings. Understanding their functions, the basic underlying mechanisms from an integrative point of view, and their adaptations to the environment throughout their life history.
  • Understand the main characteristics of the marine environment and biodiversity, characteristics, structure and functioning of its main ecosystems.
  • Understanding the costs and limitations of adaptations of living beings to the environment and knowing how to interpret these adaptations from an evolutionary point of view.
  • Understanding the biological basis of the endocrine system during different stages of life and its dysfunctions. Understanding the mechanisms of fertilization, its possible alterations, and the fundamentals of human and animal reproductive technology.
  • Interpret the molecular, genetic and biochemical parameters of clinical interest, and interpret the biochemical analyzes in relation to pathologies of organs or functional systems, together with the analysis of pathological genomic variation and the identification of individuals.
  • Analyze the current geographical distribution of plants and their historical causes, as well as the evolutionary aspects of both the plants themselves and the chorological patterns, and interpret the landscape and characterize plant communities, taking into account their structure, dynamics and interactions
  • Understand the biology of pest and disease agents and their vectors. Design and implement integrated pest and disease management programs using safe and sustainable techniques, methods, and strategies.
  • Assimilate the historical process of construction of scientific knowledge.
  • Understanding the molecular, cellular, and histological bases of innate and specific (humoral and cellular) immune responses, as well as the biological bases of immune system dysfunctions and strategies for their treatment.
  • Understand the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity, biogeography, and interactions with other organisms, as well as the biotechnological applications of fungi. Apply taxonomic and molecular identification techniques for fungi.
  • Knowing how to obtain, process and analyze material of biological origin applying histological techniques for optical and electron microscopy.
  • Recognize the main infectious and parasitic diseases and their etiological agents, as well as understand the host-pathogen interaction mechanisms and the fundamentals of the main therapeutic strategies.
  • To assess the short- and long-term geographical dynamics and the main processes that affect the distribution of species
  • To appreciate the role of behavior as an essential aspect of the animal phenotype, to know the main characteristics of the ethological approach to the study of animal and human behavior, and to know the observations and results that have contributed to the advancement of ethology, as well as the controversies, debates and new research that are expanding the discipline.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Understand the fundamentals of enzyme catalysis, the biological processes of energy production and transformation, metabolic pathways and their regulation.
  • Interpret the functioning of the mechanisms of biological inheritance and the applications in recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering.
  • 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.
  • Analyse the evolutionary mechanisms, processes and models at different levels of biological organisation, and understand their relationship with organic and environmental diversity.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Be able to integrate knowledge of the structure and function of cells, tissues and animal and plant organs.
  • Know how to obtain, process and analyse material of biological origin by applying histological techniques for light and electron microscopy.
  • Be able to integrate the biological processes of energy production and cell signalling mechanisms.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Be able to analyse the data obtained in different biological experiments by using appropriate statistical software.