L1 - SVSE PCAV

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The first objective of this teaching unit is to allow students to discover scientific ecology in all its diversity. Particular attention is paid to the definition of scientific ecology, in relation to the meaning of the term "ecology" (political ecology or ecologism) in the media and for the general public. The place of the environment in the scientific study of ecology is also clarified. With the help of tutorials and practical exercises, three major themes of ecology are covered: paleoecology, functional ecology& evolutionary ecology. It is important to note that these themes are supported by a particularly active scientific community in Montpellier.

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This unit of instruction is designed to provide a general context for understanding Earth science and biology while considering the Humanities and Social Sciences fields. Today's Earth is not detached from its past. To understand the impacts of environmental and climatic transformations on planet Earth, a diachronic (long time, change over time) and synchronic (spatial variations) approach is necessary.

Accordingly, this EU presents the history of the Earth through geological time. It discusses the structure, composition and processes of the Earth. Issues, concerns and problems related to natural hazards are also included. These will also be lessons providing the foundation for students to understand the societal issues around climate and environmental issues. The benefits of this course are essential for the well-being of tomorrow's society, enabling the training of young citizens or future workers capable of analyzing, criticizing and thinking about past, present and future environmental and climate issues and of participating in decision-making in societal debates dealing with environmental risks. This course has been designed by teacher-researchers from different scientific fields (Earth and Water Sciences, Ecology, Philosophy, Political Science) showing that approaches ranging from the fundamental to the operational are necessary.

Hourly volumes:

CM : 36h

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This EU is divided into two parts. 

The first one aims at consolidating the high school knowledge that is essential for the pursuit of higher studies in science: understanding proportionality and linearity, calculating with powers, manipulating fractions, and solving simple equations. 

The second part will be devoted to the study of functions of one real variable: the emphasis will be on the usual functions, the graphical representation of functions, and the mathematical notion of derivative (or instantaneous rate of increase). 

Most of the concepts discussed will be illustrated with concrete examples from biology. 

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This teaching unit is a specific UE of the preparation for the B agro-Véto competitive examination. It completes the UE HAV105C of general chemistry which approaches the basic notions. It is intended to serve as a basis for the continuation of the UE HAV310C and HAV412C which complete the preparation for the B Agro-Véto competitive examination.

The following courses will be taught in parallel:

In chemistry-physics and general:

The basics of chemical thermodynamics, essentially:

• The progress of the reactions
• The first principle applied to chemistry. A very first approach of the second principle.
• Reaction quantities.
• Chemical equilibrium applied to simple reactions (homogeneous gas equilibria). Law of mass action.

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The aim of the "From molecules to cells" course is to provide L1 students with the basic notions of biology that will be necessary to follow the biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, virology and microbiology courses of the following semesters. The structure of biomolecules (nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and sugars) and the structural organization of the cell will be detailed with a view to understanding the origin of life and the organization of viruses, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

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Introductions to simple physics concepts (optics, mechanics), applied to problems of biological interest.

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This module for PCAV Competition B students aims to provide the fundamental concepts of general ecology integrating the evolutionary and functional approach and the evolutionary processes. The aim is to enable them to understand the interactions of organisms with their environment at different scales of space, time and hierarchical levels of organization.

The objective is to enable them to better understand the major current issues such as the erosion of biodiversity, the impact of human activity, and global changes.

The courses will allow to set a certain number of milestones, but the tutorials will allow to confront the students with scientific texts and articles in order to familiarize them progressively with the scientific approach.

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Computer base:

1- Information and data

Conducting research and monitoring information (search engine, social networks...)

Manage data (file manager, databases...)

Process data (spreadsheet)

2- Communication and collaboration

Interact (e-mail, video-conferencing, etc.)

Share and publish (sharing platforms, forum and comment space...)

Collaborate in a group (collaborative work platform and document sharing...)

Enter the digital world (develop a public presence on the web...)

3- Content creation

Develop text documents (word processing, presentation...)

Develop multimedia documents (image/sound/video/animation capture and editing...)

Adapt documents to their purpose (format conversion tools...)

Programming (simple computer development, solving a logical problem...)

4- Protection and security

Secure the digital environment (protection software, encryption...)

Protect personal data and privacy (privacy settings...)

Protecting health, well-being and the environment

5- Environment and digital

Solve technical problems (software configuration and maintenance...)

Build a digital environment (operating system, installation of new software...)

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The "Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Cell 1" course is the continuation of the S1 course "From Molecules to Cells" which will have laid the structural foundations of life. In this course, students will be introduced to the basics of biochemistry, replication, transcription, translation, intracellular movements and bioenergetics.

This UE will be completed by the UE HAV204V for the L1 SVSE.

It will be followed by the L1 TEE and the L1 Chemistry.

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The course will address various biological processes from a physical perspective.                  

Special attention will be given to the comparison of different energy scales in biology, with the introduction of key concepts of thermodynamics in relation to molecular biology. Different passive and active processes will be treated with examples relevant to biology and health. The proposed lab concerns the observation of Brownian motion and will be linked to the HAV102P course (for its optics concepts).

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 The brain is at the center of human behavior. It is the control tower of the organism. It continuously receives a flow of information from the external environment as well as from the body. This information must be processed and analyzed rapidly in order to propose an appropriate response. All of these mechanisms, which at first glance appear complex, are based on simple biological mechanisms.

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This compulsory course is intended for all students of the Licence SV. It presents the main tools of discrete probabilities which are useful to the biologist for the understanding of random phenomena involving counting variables. The course is placed at a level accessible to a student having as a pre-requisite only the basics of probability calculus approached in high school. The course is based on concrete examples and leads to modeling. 

• A first preliminary part introduces the notion of sets, operations on sets and the simple formalization of propositions.
• The second part introduces the vocabulary of probabilities and covers the elementary calculation of probabilities (tables, trees) and conditional probabilities. The examples are based on concrete situations: calculation of probabilities in a population stratified by age, gender, diagnostic tests (sensitivity/specificity)
• The third part is devoted to the presentation of the main discrete law models: binomial, geometric, fish and their applications. The notion of independent variables is presented in a heuristic way, the objective being to provide tools to compute the expectation and variance of the sum of random variables.
• Some numerical simulations can be presented to illustrate the notion of fluctuation of a random variable or the convergence of the binomial distribution to the normal distribution or the fish distribution.

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In the lectures of this course, we describe each stage of the life cycle, starting with embryonic development (including organ development, cell differentiation and growth processes), through 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, and allows you to consolidate your knowledge of the transmission of genetic information. This will allow us to solve Mendelian genetics problems including sex and epistasis effects during the tutorials of this course.

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Organic chemistry is a branch of chemistry that deals with the study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions and synthesis of natural or synthetic organic compounds that, by definition, contain carbon. This course provides an introduction to organic chemistry and lays the foundation for the basic concepts necessary for students pursuing scientific careers, particularly in chemistry, biology, biochemistry and health studies.

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This course, mandatory for all L1 students, will present the basics of epistemology and the scientific process as well as the tools necessary to analyze controversies surrounding the sciences and the modalities presented as alternatives. It will address the scientific investigation of so-called paranormal phenomena, pseudoscience, pseudo-medicine, psychological aberrations, sectarian alienation, etc. in order to make students aware of our cognitive biases and the rhetorical manipulations that can be used to convince or deceive. The ultimate goal of this course is to ensure that everyone can make informed choices, know how to research and sort information, and be able to protect themselves from techniques of influence and manipulation.

This course will be based on lectures and the viewing of various resources available on the internet. You will be required to complete a course of study on Moodle and in class, which will then be evaluated by an MCQ.

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The UE "Biochemistry and molecular biology of the cell 2 " comes in complement of the UE "Biochemistry and molecular biology of the cell 1 " which will take place in parallel. In this course, the students will have to put into practice and deepen the theoretical knowledge acquired in "Biochemistry and molecular biology of the cell 1".

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Description*:

This teaching unit is a specific course in the preparation for the B agro-Véto competitive examination. It completes the organic chemistry course HAC202C, which covers the basic concepts.

The following courses will be taught in parallel:

Deepening: electronic effects (inductive, mesomeric) and their consequences on the reactivity of molecules.

Application to Aromatic Chemistry:

• Aromaticity and Hückel's rule
• Addition reactions
• SEAr Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution Reactions: Mechanisms and Holleman's Rule of Orientation
• Main SEAr
• Reactivity of the hydrocarbon chain of aromatic compounds: importance of the benzyl position

Beginning of functional organic chemistry

• Halogenoalkanes and organometallics.

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Computer base:

1- Information and data

Conducting research and monitoring information (search engine, social networks...)

Manage data (file manager, databases...)

Process data (spreadsheet)

2- Communication and collaboration

Interact (e-mail, video-conferencing, etc.)

Share and publish (sharing platforms, forum and comment space...)

Collaborate in a group (collaborative work platform and document sharing...)

Enter the digital world (develop a public presence on the web...)

3- Content creation

Develop text documents (word processing, presentation...)

Develop multimedia documents (image/sound/video/animation capture and editing...)

Adapt documents to their purpose (format conversion tools...)

Programming (simple computer development, solving a logical problem...)

4- Protection and security

Secure the digital environment (protection software, encryption...)

Protect personal data and privacy (privacy settings...)

Protecting health, well-being and the environment

5- Environment and digital

Solve technical problems (software configuration and maintenance...)

Build a digital environment (operating system, installation of new software...)

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