Bio-MV Profile

Second-year mathematics curriculum, portion taught at Lycée Joffre:

# Review of Linear Algebra and Additional Concepts in Euclidean Geometry

# Advanced Probability

# Further Analysis of Functions of a Single Variable

# Functions of Several Variables

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General Knowledge (Epistemology and Philosophy):

# History of Ideas

# Epistemology of Science and Digital Technology

#Argumentation and Communication

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Introduction to the Use of Data Mining Methods:

# Motivations, Areas of Application

# Data mining tasks (classification, estimation, prediction, etc.)

# Data Processing (Pre- and Post-Processing)

# Supervised learning (Bayesian method, k-nearest neighbors, neural networks, etc.)

# Unsupervised Learning (k-means)

# Evaluation of Methods

# Data mining software (R, Scikit, Weka, etc.)

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The “Physiology of Major Body Functions” course in the fourth semester of the CPES program is designed to complement the course devoted to the study of the roles and interactions of the body’s various systems that work together to maintain a constant internal environment. This course is taught through laboratory sessions and tutorials.

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This course continues to provide students with training in applied mathematics, particularly in the use of statistical tools:

# Concepts of Populations and Random Samples.

# Estimators.

#Mean Square Error and Bias-Variance Decomposition.

# Empirical estimators of the mean and variance. Construction of estimators using the method of moments. Maximum likelihood.
Interval estimation.

# Hypothesis testing: null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis. Type I and Type II errors. Test power. Test statistic, rejection region. Examples of classic tests.

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The objective of this course unit is to understand evolutionary processes at both the micro- and macro-evolutionary scales.

Using examples, hands-on activities, and accessible modeling, the course will aim to present, in a concrete and quantitative way, the effects of the four evolutionary forces operating at the individual and population levels (mutation, migration, selection, and genetic drift). The integration of these microevolutionary processes into larger timescales (e.g., lineage differentiation, speciation) will then be addressed. Finally, the course unit will include an introduction to phylogenetic tools (interpreting and constructing phylogenetic trees) that enable the study of macroevolutionary events (diversification, extinction) and the tracing of changes in character states, particularly by incorporating fossil data.

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- Physiology of Major Body Systems: Anatomy and Functions of the Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Renal, and Digestive Systems.

- Cellular and Molecular Biology 3: cytoskeletal function, cell adhesion, protein trafficking and methods of study, cell cycle regulation, immunoprecipitation, fluorescence video microscopy, RNA interference, overexpression, regulation of gene expression: transcriptional regulation (repressors, activators) and attenuation in prokaryotes, mechanisms of expression regulation in eukaryotes.

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The 10th-grade computer science course offered at the high school focuses on advanced concepts in algorithms and programming:

# Tree Data Structures: Binary Trees, Heaps, ABR, Priority Queues

# Sorting into piles, lower bound on the sort

# Graph Structures: Representations (Adjacency Matrices, Edge Lists, Neighbor Lists)

# Basic Algorithms (Connectivity, Breadth-First and Depth-First Search, Topological Sorting)

# Distance Calculation (Dijkstra, Heap Implementation)

# Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (encapsulation, late binding, classes, methods, etc.)

# Python Programming

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This modern language course focuses on the written and spoken use of English, with a particular emphasis on speaking.

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This required course will enable students to build on the skills they acquired in “Biochemistry S3.” It will help them understand cellular metabolism by:

-an understanding of bioenergetics in order to study the processes by which living cells transport, transmit, utilize, store, and release energy;
-the study of the catabolism and anabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, nucleotides, and amino acids, as well as the metabolic interactions between these pathways.

- a description of metabolic disorders.

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In this introductory course on genetic analysis, the objectives are to become familiar with the terminology, principles, concepts, and methods used in formal genetics, as well as their applications, particularly in human and medical genetics. This course covers the genetics of inheritance (Mendelian and non-Mendelian), quantitative genetics, and basic concepts of population genetics. Throughout the course, close connections are drawn between classical genetics and molecular genetics.

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This course unit aims to expand on previously acquired knowledge in various fields of microbiology, particularly microbial ecology.

It will cover pathogenic relationships, but will also present examples of symbiotic associations. It will address the applications of microorganisms in biotechnology. It will describe how antibiotics work and the associated resistance phenomena, as well as their impact.

The EU will address the concept of viral ecology by presenting the place and role of viruses in ecosystems. Bacteriophages will be discussed in greater detail, and the mechanisms by which bacteria resist phage infection will be explained. The various types of viral infections in animals will be presented (acute and persistent infections) and illustrated through the study of the pathogenesis of selected viral infections.

Knowledge of microorganisms will be expanded through the study of archaea and a model eukaryotic organism, yeast.

The lab sessions will focus on performing and interpreting an antibiogram, and on titrating bacteriophages.

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This course, similar in spirit to the first-year project, is an introduction to the research process that goes deeper than the first-year course: it includes immersion in a research laboratory, a literature review, and the completion of a project involving the study of a biological context, the collection of experimental or observational data, and the implementation of a modeling and/or numerical simulation approach.

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