ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Description
Evo-devo is an evolutionary approach to developmental genetics. This discipline seeks to shed light on the changes in developmental mechanisms that explain current and past morphological diversity, and thus opens up an important bridge between biology and paleontology.
In the course of the module, we will use articles to discuss a number of evolutionary issues relevant to Evo-Devo approaches: the question of homology, the establishment and evolution of repeated structures, the genetic bases of development and the links between genome evolution and the evolution of form. We will illustrate these concepts using examples from metazoans and the green lineage, and apply them to the scale of today's major groups and populations.
Objectives
- know how to gather scientific information, mainly in the field of life and environmental science (concepts, examples, approaches, methods), and how to teach it to a variety of audiences, using different communication tools
- know how to integrate different scales of study to address the same problem in relation to biological interactions
- know developmental genetics techniques and analyze the results obtained with these techniques, be able to relate developmental genetics results to knowledge of the evolution of organisms
Knowledge control
100% continuous assessment