Biology for Non-Biologists

Objectives

The target group are students of other subjects who are interested in biology - biology is an increasingly interdisciplinary science that works more and more intensively with chemistry, physics, engineering and computer science. This lecture is designed to facilitate this interdisciplinary dialog. Students will learn the most important concepts without which modern biology cannot be understood:

• What is a gene?
• How are proteins produced?
• How does evolution work?
• According to which principles are living organisms structured?
• According to which laws do they interact with each other?

Details are kept to the necessary minimum - students should be able to understand further biology textbooks and publications independently.

How is it intended?

It is not a "lecture" in the sense that something is "read out" to you - we assume that you know how to read. For the lecture to be useful to you, you need to prepare and follow up regularly. Rule of thumb: the lecture has a workload of 1 ECTS point, which corresponds to 30 hours of real time, 10 x 1.5 hours of which are lecture time, i.e. 15 hours, so you should therefore set aside 15 hours for preparation and follow-up work. You should therefore invest around 1.5 hours per week to prepare and follow up the material.

Preparation: there is a script for each lecture, which briefly outlines the content that we expect you to master. For legal reasons, access to this script is protected; you will be given the access data during the O phase.