- Lecturer
- Hongoh Yuichi Takahashi Masayuki
- Place
- Thr1-2(H118)
- Credits
- Lecture2 Exercise0 Experiment0
- Code
- 1706
- Syllabus updated
- 2015/6/1
- Lecture notes updated
- 2015/6/1
- Access Index
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- Semester
- Spring Semester / Recommended semester:1
Outline of lecture
Introduction to biology
Purpose of lecture
My main objective is to show you the amazing way (complex but well organized) in which life is made, and how biologists study this complicated system.
Plan of lecture
1. Guidance and Introduction to Biology
2. Inheritance and gene, Mendel窶冱 work
3. Cell division, chromosomes and genes
4. Cell structure, cell function and protein
5. DNA and gene
6. DNA structure and DNA replication
7. Gene to protein (transcription and translation)
8. Regulation of gene expression
9. Cell differentiation, epigenetics and stem cells
10. Cancer and cell division
11. DNA repair
12. Evolution
13. Immune systems
14. Drug discovery
15. Review and future of biology
Textbook and reference
Open courses 窶廬ntroduction to Biology窶 of MIT
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-012-introduction-to-biology-fall-2004/video-lectures
Related and/or prerequisite courses
No condition.
Knowledge about Biology is not required.
Evaluation
Examination at the end of semester
Comments from lecturer
Please, understand the lecture during the lecture (without translating it into Japanese). If you do not understand the lecture, interrupt me and ask for further explanation (you can even ask in Japanese).
