Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500253 Biotechnology | OT | 4 | 1 |
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It is recommended to review the basic concepts of Plant Physiology
The general objective of this subject is to introduce the students into the functional mechanisms and techniques that will improve the yield of the crop plants and their agricultural and industrial applications.
The specific training objectives are:
Lectures
Seminars
Different projects
Laboratory practices
Field trips
Visit an agrotechnological research center or a biotechnological company
Lectures
During the lectures, the professor explains the functional mechanisms and techniques that allow to improve the yield of crop plants and their agricultural and industrial applications, establishing the functional and mechanistic relationships clarifying the basic concepts necessary for their understanding. The methodology is mainly based on verbal communication, accompanied by visual schemes. Teacher's direct questions to students during the class will warn the teacher to know the student's degree of follow-up. Bibliographical references and other sources of information are given to foster self-study.
Seminars
The main purpose of the seminars in this subject is to promote the knowledge of the general and transversal competences of the students. The teaching methodology is based on projects where students divided into groups of 3-5 will have to design a scientific experiment, to look for a scientific article according to quality requirements, among others.
Laboratory practices
Some of the topics covered in the theory class are visualized through laboratory testing. The student became familiar with protocols and techniques of Applied Plant Physiology and have to analyze the results from their own experiments.
The student will be able to access the protocols and guides of practices through the Virtual Campus.
Field trips
A visit to an plant agrobiotechnology research center or a biotechnological company.
Tutorial
In tutorials, the professor tries to help the students to solve their doubts about the concepts of the subject and guide them in their studies.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lab practice | 16 | 0.64 | 6, 4, 9, 7, 5, 10 |
Lectures | 28 | 1.12 | 6, 1, 4, 5 |
Seminars | 6 | 0.24 | 2, 8, 3, 1, 9, 7, 10 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Field trip | 4 | 0.16 | 6, 5 |
Tutorials | 6 | 0.24 | 2, 9, 7 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Personal study | 70 | 2.8 | 2, 8, 1, 9, 7, 10 |
Preparation of homework and/or seminars | 11 | 0.44 | 2, 8, 1, 10 |
Preparation of lab practice report | 5 | 0.2 | 6, 4, 5, 10 |
The contents of the theoretical classes will be evaluated with written exams. There will be two partial exams of the two equal parts into which the content has been divided.
In order to pass the subject, the student must obtain a minimum mark of 5 in each of these parts. The weight of each partial exam in the theory part is 50%.
The weight of the theory mark in the final mark is 70%.
To improve the mark, or to recover failure exams lower than 5, it is possible to retake each exam at the end of the course in a final exam. A minimum mark of 5 is required to pass the final exam.
In the case of attending the final exam to improve the mark, the previously obtained mark is waived and only the grade of the final exam will be counted.
To take part in the final exam, students must have previously been assessed in a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of two-thirds of the total mark of the subject. Therefore, the student will obtain the qualification of "Not evaluated" when the assessment activities carried out have a weighting of less than 67% in the final qualification.
Laboratory practices will be evaluated through a theoretical exam that will be done individually on the last day of laboratory work and that will represent 80% of the practical mark. The preparation of the lab notebook will be done by groups and will represent the remaining 20% of the practical mark. The lab notebook will be delivered via Virtual Campus one week after the end of the practical part.
The practical mark represents 20% of the final mark of the subject. Attendance at practices is mandatory. In the case of justified non-attendance, it can be made up by attending the session of another group or, if this is not possible, through substitute work. There is no practical recovery exam.
Seminars are mandatory and there is no recovery of seminars. Participation in seminars counts for 10% of the final mark.
The subject will be approved when the student obtains a minimum final mark of 5 points out of 10 in each of the parts (theory, laboratory practices and seminars).
Students who cannot attend an individual assessment test for justified reasons (such as illness, death of a first-degree relative or accident) and provide the corresponding official documentation to the Degree Coordinator, will have the right to take the test in question on another date.
Students who choose the single evaluation must do the laboratory practices (PLAB) in face-to-face sessions together with the students of the continuous evaluation. It is a mandatory requirement to approve the practical part, which will have a weight of 20%. Attendance at the seminars (SEM) will not be compulsory and students who choose for this option will have to attend 3 of the 6 seminars included in the subject in the continuous evaluation format. It will be the teaching staff who will choose the seminars to be taken by the students in the single evaluation option. The delivery of the SEM assignments will take place on the same day that has been set for the synthesis test.
The single evaluation consists of a unique test (with questions to develop and relate concepts and solve real cases) on the contents of the entire theory program.
The grade obtained in the synthesis test is 70% of the final grade of the subject, the grade obtained in the practical is the 20%, and the seminars the remaining 10%.
The single evaluation test will coincide with the same date set for the last continuous assessment test and the recovery will be done similarly as for the continuous assessment.
To pass the subject you must obtain a final mark of at least 5 points out of 10 in each of the parts (synthesis test, PLAB and SEM).
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Evaluation of lab practice | 20% | 1 | 0.04 | 2, 6, 4, 9, 7, 5, 10 |
Evaluation of seminar | 10% | 0 | 0 | 2, 8, 3, 9, 7, 10 |
Examination of lecture program | 70% | 3 | 0.12 | 6, 1, 4, 9, 7 |
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