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Presentation
Presentation
To provide fundamental knowledge and develop skills within the history and epistemiology of biology. Provide specific knowledge on the history and evolution of ideas and thought in biology; mais advances in the area of biology and impact oof ethical nature, which are associated. To have a global perspective of the scientific advances from different historical eras, and in particular the present time (XX-XXIth century). To capacitate the students for future projects that may investigate History of Biology (in particular in Portugal),
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 2
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
3 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT101-4541
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
Apresentação da disciplina; método de avaliação; bibliografia. Uma visão global da história da Ciência; o progresso da descoberta. A Evolução como eixo central do pensamento em Biologia; da História Natural de Aristóteles à revolução darwinista, ao pós-darwinismo A Genética: do conceito primordial de hereditariedade à revolução mendeliana, pós-mendeliana; a Genética Molecular. Biologia celular e de desenvolvimento; a teoria celular e a organização celular e histológica; da observação microscópica ao entendimen O mundo dos micróbios: da ideia da geração espontânea à observação microscópica; Pasteur, Koch. A moderna Microbiologia e as suas Fisiologia: a transição do pensamento descritivo da Biolgia, para o conceito funcional (da célula, tecido, órgão); evolução do conhecimenPlantas. Síntese final.
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Objectives
Objectives
1. To know the history and development of ideas and biological thought; main scientific advances in biology, and the impact of their applicaethical nature. 2. To understand the main applications of biology in curative and forensic medicine, in bio-industries and other branches of binformation based on modern technologies of communication and information. 4. Improve mastering of the English language applied to biololine platform Moodle, in use at ULHT. Students who complete this course should: acquire an integrated perspective of Biology, and of the evotime, such as to contextualize its changes and recent advances.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
Visits to Natural History Museums and the Academy of Sciences have taken place.
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References
References
Magner, L. 1994. A History of the Life Sciences. Ed. Marcel Dekker. Fitas, A.J.S., M.A.E. Rodrigues e M.F. Nunes. 2008. Filosofia e História da Ciência em Portugal no Séc. XX. Caleidoscópio. 295pp.
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No