Syllabus year 10

1st Term
I. Genetics

• Introduction to genetic problems.
• Introduction to nucleic acids; genetic information and its expression; DNA and  chromosomes.
• Cellular Cycle. 

2nd Term

• Cellular reproduction: mitosis and meiosis. 
• Mendelian genetics: principal concepts, resolution of problems.

II. The new genetics

• genetic engineering, cloning, the genome, bioethics
  

3rd Term

IV. Evolution

• Origin of life: theories. 

• Creationism and evolutionism.
• Contributions of Lamarck and Darwin. 
• Current theories of evolution. 
• Problems with evolution.

V. Ecology

• The concept of an ecosystem. 
• Levels of organization. 
• Adaptations of living beings. 
• The ecosystem in time: successions. 
• The action of man in the ecosystem.
  

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III. The History of life on Earth

• Geological time. 
• Geochronology. 
• The fossil and stratigraphic record. 
• Geological eras.

VI. Internal Geodynamics 

• Geological cycle. 
• Methods of investigation. 
• Crust, mantle and core. 
• Geodynamic model: Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere and Endosphere. 
  

VII. Interpretation of relief. Introduction to external geodynamics

• External geological agents. 
• Factors that affect the shape of relief: climate, rock structure and time. 
• Karst relief. 
• Littoral areas of relief. 
• Morphoclimatic systems of temperate and desert areas