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Department of Natural Sciences

Fundamentals of Biology (BSc)

Lecture

Lecture:

  • Introduction to the biology of cells and organisms.
  • The cell: cell organelles, biomembranes, energy metabolism, enzymes.
  • Proteins: structure and function
  • Nucleic acids: Biosynthesis, transcription and translation, human chromosomes the cell cycle, mitosis
  • Fundamentals of genetics: meiosis, polymorphisms, Mendelian genetics, sex-linked and mitochondrial inheritance
  • human biology: tissues, cell types, immunology

Practical Course

Laboratory course:

  • Microscopic analysis of cells from human blood and the mucosa of the mouth
  • forensic identification of saliva and blood, blood group analysis
  • Bradford assay, SDS-PAGE and Western blot of immunoglobulins

restriction digest, PCR analysis, agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA

Literature

John M. Butler: Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing (Elsevier)

William Goodwin, Adrian Linacre, Sibte Hadi: An Introduction to Forensic Genetics, 2nd Edition (Wiley-Blackwell)

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Nicole Strauß

Research associate, Equal opportunities representative

Location

Rheinbach

Room

A 132

Address

von-Liebig-Str. 20

53359, Rheinbach

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