| Academic Unit: |
Molecular Biology and Genetics |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
None |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
- - |
| Course Objectives: |
This course aims to provide students with the evolutionary chronicle of various life forms. How these life forms originated, diversified, and extinct will be dissected by focusing on the evolutionary mechanisms involved in these processes. Students will experience how to analyze biological facts in the light of evolution. |
| Course Contents: |
Darwin’s Theory, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Phylogenetic Trees, Origin of Species, Microevolution, Macroevolution, Molecular Evolution, Human Evolution |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- considering evolution as the core theme of biology
- 2- learning how to develop an evolutionary perspective that they can benefit from in other research topics
- 3- being able to criticize primary and secondary sources about evolutionary biology
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
PowerPoint presentations, which are also shared with the students through the KHAS Learn platform, will introduce the concepts. Watching mechanistic/explanatory videos during lectures and discussing with students. Questions integrating the previously covered lectures into ongoing lecture content and discussing to figure out an answer will allow students better understand how the concepts are related to each other. JoVE platform, selected review/ research articles will support the course content and help students review the lecture and visualize the subject. |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
| 1 |
The Timeline of Evolutionary Thought |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 2 |
Evolutionary Tree of Life |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 3 |
Struggle for Existence |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 4 |
Phylogenetics |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 5 |
The Origin of Prokaryotes |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 6 |
The Origin of Eukaryotes |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 7 |
Midterm Exam Week: The exact date/time will be announced later. |
The midterm exam will include everything covered in the lectures. The students are also responsible for the material uploaded to the KHAS Learn. |
| 8 |
Evolutionary Processes |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 9 |
Molecular Evolution |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 10 |
Evolution of New Genes |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 11 |
Evolution of Complex Traits |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 12 |
Speciation and Macroevolution |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 13 |
Human Evolution |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
| 14 |
Cooking Makes Us Human |
The students should follow the KHAS Learn pages to examine the assigned material before and after the lecture hours. |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High
