CARRILLO, ELENA / FERRERO, LUIS / GONZÁLEZ LÓPEZ DE GUEREÑU, JOSÉ / JOSÉ HIDALGO, ANTONIO / MARTÍNEZ
THE CELL
1 Science
1. Science and research
2. The scientific method
3. The communication of science
4. The utility of science
5. Correlation and causation
The challenge: Science in our environment: do your own experiment
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In movies
# The importance of science: Carmen Hermosín Gaviño and advances in agrobiology
2 Cell and cell functions
1. Living things are made of cells
2. The cell theory
3. Not all cells are identical
4. The process of nutrition in cells
5. Processes of interaction and reproduction in cells
6. The origin of eukaryotic cells
7. Structure of the nucleus
8. Chromosomes
9. The karyotype
10. The genome and the C-value paradox
11. The cell cycle
12. Cell reproduction
13. Meiosis
14. Differences between mitosis and meiosis
The challenge: Create a karyogram
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In media
# The importance of science: Telomerase, cancer and
ageing
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GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
3 Genetic traits and their inheritance
1. Mendel's experiments
2. Key terms in genetics
3. Interpreting Mendel's results today
4. Intermediate dominance, co-dominance and multiple alleles
5. Human traits and Mendel's laws
6. Heredity of sex and expression of genes
7. Chromosomal mutations
The challenge: Carry out a genetic study
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In movies
# The importance of science: Mary Lyon and X chromosome inactivation
4 Gene expression
1. Hereditary material
2. The discovery of DNA
3. The structure of nucleic acids
4. DNA replication
5. From DNA to proteins
6. The expression of genetic information
7. Mutations and cancer
8. Changes in DNA and its effects on the nucleotide sequence
9. Biotechnology
10. Genetic engineering
11. The applications of biotechnology The challenge: Find the mutant
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In movies
# The importance of science: Nobel Prize for the
CRISPR-Cas9 molecular scissors
5 Evolution
1. Evolution as an engine of change
2. Early evolutionary theories
3. Evidence of evolution
4. Neo-Darwinism or the synthetic theory of evolution
5. Gradualism versus saltationism
6. Natural selection and genetic drift
7. Phylogenetic trees
8. Species emergence
9. Speciation
10. Evolution of the human species
11. Traits of our species
The challenge: Become a palaeontologist
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In movies
# The importance of science: The three female scientists who changed our view of primates
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THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE
6 Astronomy
1. The relative position of the Earth
2. Measuring distances in the sky
3. Composition of stellar matter
4. Origin and evolution of stars
5. The structure of the Universe
6. The origin of the Universe
7. Dark matter and dark energy
8. The origin of the Solar System
9. The structure of the Solar Sytem
10. The relationship between the Moon and Earth
The challenge: Build a model of a black hole
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In media
# The importance of science: Ana Guijarro and the tilted
galaxies
7 Astrobiology
1. Chemical composition of living matter
2. Hypotheses on the origin of life
3. The first steps to achieve life on Earth
4. The conditions needed to support life
5. Life beyond the habitable zone
The challenge: Design a colony on Mars
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In literature
# The importance of science: Carl Sagan, astronomer and science communicator
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GEOLOGY
8 The Earth's interior and plate tectonics
1. Surface samples of Earth's interior
2. Earth's interior: structure and composition
3. Earth's internal energy
4. Earth's magnetic field
5. Evidence of continental drift
6. Theory of continental drift
7. The expansion of the ocean floor
8. La disappearance of the ocean floor: subduction
9. Plate tectonics
10. Volcanoes
11. Earthquakes
12. The risks of volcanic and seismic activity
The challenge: Analyse earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In media
# The importance of science: Beno Gutenberg, Inge Lehmann, and the journey to the centre of the Earth
9 Topography and landscape
1. The processes that change topography
2. The geological action of water
3. The geological action of ice
4. The geological action of the wind
5. The natural landscape
6. Human action on the natural landscape
7. Climatic and hydrological risks
8. Gravitational risks
9. Human-induced risks
10. Reliefs and landscapes in Andalucía
The challenge: Create a flood risk map
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In literature
# The importance of science: Geoethics
10 The history of the Earth and life
1. Interpretation of past geological phenomena
2. Temporal classification of rocks
3. Temporal ordering of geological processes
4. Methods to date rocks and fossils
5. Temporal distribution of Earth's history
6. Earth in the Precambrian
7. Earth in the Phanerozoic aeon
8. The Mesozoic
9. The Cenozoic: the age of mammals
10. Earth's geography in the future
The challenge: Create an animated model of Earth's history
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In movies
# The importance of science: Irene del Real, the
'detective' of the origin of minerals in Chile
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ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
11 Environmental impact.
1. Environmental impacts of human activities
2. Air pollution
3. Environmental impacts on the hydrosphere
4. Environmental impacts on soil
5. Main environmental issues in Andalucía
The challenge: Analyse the environmental impact of forest fires
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In media
# The importance of science: The power of the small
12 Sustainability
1. Environment and human beings
2. Transition towards sustainable development
3. Types of waste
4. Waste management
5. The issue of waste
6. The 7R rule
7. Responsible consumption habits
The challenge: Calculate your ecological footprint
Review Let's practise
# True or false? In media
# The importance of science: Wangari Maathai, #Tree Woman#
Research project
Annex. The geological map
Objective:
Interpret the nearest reality by field observation, experimentation and searching different sources to solve questions and contrast hypothesis.
Revuela gets it by:
- Competency approach. Approach to scientific questions based on direct or indirect observation of the world in common situations and contexts.
- Understand to learn. Establishing connections with everyday situations awakening the creative and entrepreneurial spirit to develop scientific thinking.