Wrocław, Poland

Genetics and Experimental Biology

Bachelor's
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⇑Genetics and Experimental Biology at UWr

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: biology
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: uni.wroc.pl/en/

⇑Test: Is Genetics and Experimental Biology the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. In biology you’re learning how traits such as eye colour are inherited. How do you react?

2. You want to find out whether light affects how cress grows. How do you go about it?

3. How do you get on with chemistry?

4. Lectures, lab classes, protocols and research papers will all be in English, and you’ll work in the lab with people from many countries. How does that sound?

5. Your experiment doesn’t give the result you expected. What do you do?

6. You hear on the news about a new gene-editing technique. What do you do?

7. In a lesson, you look at onion skin cells under a microscope. How do you find it?

8. Your class discusses the ethical limits of genetic research. How do you get involved?

9. Where do you see yourself in the future?

10. What motivates you most to study Genetics and Experimental Biology?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Biology
Biology is the natural science that involves the study of life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution. Modern biology is a vast field, composed of many branches. Despite the broad scope and the complexity of the science, there are certain unifying concepts that consolidate it into a single, coherent field. Biology recognizes the cell as the basic unit of life, genes as the basic unit of heredity, and evolution as the engine that propels the creation of new species. Living organisms are open systems that survive by transforming energy and decreasing their local entropy to maintain a stable and vital condition defined as homeostasis. See glossary of biology.
Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms. It is generally considered a field of biology, but intersects frequently with many other life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems.
Genetics
Transferring genes between utterly unrelated species takes us into the realms that belong to God, and to God alone.
Charles, Prince of Wales, cited in Awake! magazine 2000, 4/22.
Genetics
It is an article of passionate faith among 'politically correct' biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway.
Richard Dawkins, in The Economist, Vol. 328 (1993)
Biology
What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built with chemical components and that are often modified by other, later, mechanisms added to the earlier ones. While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology.
Francis Crick (1988) What Mad Pursuit
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