Life cycle 1

In the lectures for this course, we describe each stage of the life cycle, starting with embryonic development (including organ formation, cell differentiation, and growth processes), moving on to the acquisition of reproductive capacity (including the stages associated with meiosis and gametogenesis), and ending with fertilization. This life cycle is discussed in detail in metazoans and angiosperms, allowing you to consolidate your knowledge of genetic information transmission. This will enable us to solve Mendelian genetics problems, including effects related to sex or epistasis, during the tutorials in this course unit.

By completing this course, you should be able to describe the different stages in the life cycle of an organism (vertebrate or angiosperm), define the stages of alternation between the haploid and diploid phases, characterize the stages of cell differentiation, and solve Mendelian genetics problems, including those related to sex effects or epistasis.

Among the L1S1 course units, you must have validated:

HAV101V From molecules to cells: a good understanding of cell components and their functions is expected.

HAV107B From cells to organisms: students are expected to have a good understanding of the functions performed by all multicellular biological organisms and an understanding of the diversity of these organisms.

HAV108B From organisms to ecosystems: a minimum level of knowledge about the relationship between an organism and its environment is expected.

Recommended prerequisites:

Beyond the knowledge acquired in L1S1, it is recommended that students have solved Mendelian genetics problems at the high school level and are familiar with the processes of mitosis and meiosis and the differences between these two processes.

The acquisition of skills in this EU will be assessed in a final exam.

• Chapter 1 Embryonic Development
• Chapter 2 Post-embryonic development
• Chapter 3 Reproduction function
• Chapter 4 Meiosis and its products
• Chapter 5 Fertilization
• Chapter 6 Transmission of Genetic Information
• Chapter 7 Evolution of Development and Diversity of Cycles

Hourly volumes:

            CM: 24 hours

            TD: 12 p.m.

            TP: -

            Land: