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General information

 

Course unit name: Laboratory Practice in Human Biology I

Course unit code: 568581

Academic year: 2021-2022

Coordinator: Araceli Rosa de la Cruz

Department: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Credits: 2,5

Single program: S

 

 

Estimated learning time

Total number of hours 62.5

 

Face-to-face and/or online activities

16
 

-  Laboratory session

Face-to-face

  

16

Supervised project

16.5

Independent learning

30

 

 

Learning objectives

 

Referring to knowledge

— Identify the biological characteristics of human nature at all levels of organisation.

— Identify skeletal remains.

— Describe individual characteristics of identification.

— Apply the protocols used in a human biology laboratory.

— Use chromosome analysis techniques.

— Interpret analyses.

 

 

Teaching blocks

 

1. Skeletal anthropometry (4 hours)

*  Applications to osteobiography, variability studies and human identification

2. Kinanthropometry (3 hours)

*  Health applications, nutritional status assessment, study of growth and development patterns and human identification.

3. Dermatoglyphics (3 hours)

*   Applications to human health and identification.

4. Chromosomes (6 hours)

*  SEM image analysis and FISH probes

 

Note that the total completion of this content may be subject to official COVID-19 restrictions.