Bachelor's Degree in Biology
The work developed by a student during one academic year, according to the indicative plan of the course and on a full time basis, totals 60 ECTS.
Common Core
| Course unit title | Year | Regime | Type | Subject area | ECTS credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Diversity | 1 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 4.5 |
| Cellular Biology | 1 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 4.5 |
| Chemistry | 1 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | CHE | 6.0 |
| Mathematics | 1 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | MAT | 6.0 |
| Methods and Techniques in Cytology and Physiology | 1 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 4.5 |
| Zoology | 1 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 4.5 |
| Biochemistry | 1 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Evolution | 1 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 3.0 |
| Methods and Techniques in Molecular Biology | 1 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Molecular Biology | 1 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 3.0 |
| Physics | 1 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | PH | 6.0 |
| Plant Diversity | 1 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 | Course unit title | Year | Regime | Type | Subject area | ECTS credits |
| Algae and Fungi | 2 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Biostatistics | 2 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Cellular Phisiology | 2 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Genetics | 2 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Population and Community Ecology | 2 | 1st Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Animal Physiology | 2 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Diffentiation & Development | 2 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Functional Ecology | 2 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
| Plant Physiology | 2 | 2nd Semester | Compulsory | BIO | 6.0 |
Areas of expertise
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type Subject area ECTS credits Bioinformatics 3 01000648 1st Semester Compulsory BIO 6.0 Biology of Conservation 3 01000663 1st Semester Compulsory BIO 6.0 Microbiology 3 01001033 1st Semester Compulsory BIO 6.0 Metabolism 3 01000993 2nd Semester Compulsory BIO 6.0 Plant Development 3 01000773 2nd Semester Compulsory BIO 6.0 Aquaculture and Fisheries 3 01016137 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Behavioural Biology 3 01002268 1st Semester Elective * ANT 6.0 Human Phisiology 3 01000907 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Marine Biology and Ecology 3 01000691 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Plant Biotecnology 3 01000751 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Primatology 3 01002156 1st Semester Elective * ANT 6.0 Project in Applied Biology 1 3 01016163 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Project in Applied Biology I 3 01020728 1st Semester Elective * BIO 12.0 Societal Challenges - Health 3 01016152 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Ecological Indicators 3 01016530 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Ecophysiology 3 01000817 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Project in Applied Biology 3 01020739 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 12.0 Project in Applied Biology II 3 01016174 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Societal Challenges - Environment 3 01016148 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Translational Biology and Biomedicine 3 01016126 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Rules - The student should register in optional curricular units in a total of 36 ECTS, bearing in mind the maximum limit of optional ECTS, per subject area (ANT 12 ECTS, BIO 36 ECTS, BC 12 ECTS, GEO 24 ECTS and Free Option 6 ECTS). One of the optional curricular units may be chosen among those taught in the University, through the open list rule, subject to the approval of the course coordination.
Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type Subject area ECTS credits Limnology 01000971 Semestrial Elective * BIO 6.0 Physiological and Environmental Toxicology 01000894 Semestrial Elective * BIO 6.0 Cellular Biophysics 01004580 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Geomorphology 01003782 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Inorganic Biochemistry 01004496 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Laboratories of Enzymology and Chemistry of Proteins 01004605 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Metallic Mineral Resources 01003864 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Metals in Medicine and Environment 01004662 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Mineralogy 01003707 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Sedimentary Petrology 01003718 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Sedimentology 01003754 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Tectonics 01003853 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Chemical Ecology in Aquatic Systems 01009284 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Environmental Geology and Natural Risks 01003892 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Estuarine Benthic Ecology 01014638 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Geological Mapping I 01003746 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Hydrogeology 01003881 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Infection and Immunity 01004638 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Introduction to Forensic Anthropology 01002386 2nd Semester Elective * ANT 6.0 Introduction to Structural Biochemistry 01004574 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 3.0 Non-Metallic Minerals Resources 01003825 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Paleoanthropology 01002195 2nd Semester Elective * ANT 6.0 Paleontology 01003735 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Palinology 01001078 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Physical Biochemistry 01004548 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Scientific and Technical Communication 01002498 2nd Semester Elective * PH 3.0 Structural Geology 01003808 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0
Biology
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type Subject area ECTS credits Microbiology 3 01001033 1st Semester Compulsory BIO 6.0 Metabolism 3 01000993 2nd Semester Compulsory BIO 6.0 Aquaculture and Fisheries 3 01016137 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Bioinformatics 3 01000648 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Biology of Conservation 3 01000663 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Human Phisiology 3 01000907 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Marine Biology and Ecology 3 01000691 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Plant Biotecnology 3 01000751 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Project in Applied Biology 1 3 01016163 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Project in Applied Biology I 3 01020728 1st Semester Elective * BIO 12.0 Societal Challenges - Health 3 01016152 1st Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Ecophysiology 3 01000817 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Plant Development 3 01000773 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Project in Applied Biology 3 01020739 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 12.0 Project in Applied Biology II 3 01016174 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Societal Challenges - Environment 3 01016148 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Translational Biology and Biomedicine 3 01016126 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type Subject area ECTS credits Limnology 01000971 Semestrial Elective * BIO 6.0 Physiological and Environmental Toxicology 01000894 Semestrial Elective * BIO 6.0 Geomorphology 01003782 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Metallic Mineral Resources 01003864 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Mineralogy 01003707 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Sedimentary Petrology 01003718 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Sedimentology 01003754 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Tectonics 01003853 1st Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Chemical Ecology in Aquatic Systems 01009284 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Environmental Geology and Natural Risks 01003892 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Estuarine Benthic Ecology 01014638 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Geological Mapping I 01003746 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Hydrogeology 01003881 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Metals in Medicine and Environment 01004662 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Non-Metallic Minerals Resources 01003825 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Paleontology 01003735 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0 Palinology 01001078 2nd Semester Elective * BIO 6.0 Scientific and Technical Communication 01002498 2nd Semester Elective * PH 3.0 Structural Geology 01003808 2nd Semester Elective * GE 6.0
Biology with Minor
Minors
- Minor in Anthropology
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type ECTS credits Anthropology of Performance 01002342 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Anthropology of Religion 01015733 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Anthropology of the Body 01002375 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Behavioural Biology 01002268 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Culture and Cognition 01002358 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Ethnography and Fieldwork 01002178 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Evolutionary Anthropology 01002221 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Human Ecology and Adaptation 01002257 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Human Populations Genetics 01002303 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Introduction to Biological Anthropology 01002111 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Introduction to Forensic Anthropology 01002386 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Introduction to Social Anthropology 01002133 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Kinship, Gender and Ethnicity 01002243 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Material Culture and Museology 01002167 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Paleoanthropology 01002195 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Primatology 01002156 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Social Evolution 01002320 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Theory and History of Anthropology I 01015767 Semestrial Elective 6.0
- Minor in Biochemistry
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type ECTS credits Biochemistry I 01004468 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Biochemistry II 01004485 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Biochemistry of Metabolism 01015235 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Biochenistry of Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Lipids 01015207 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Biomolecular Spectroscopy 01004552 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Cellular Biophysics 01004580 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Inorganic Biochemistry 01004496 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Introduction to Structural Biochemistry 01004574 Semestrial Elective 3.0 Laboratories of Biochemistry II 01004479 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Laboratories of Enzymology and Chemistry of Proteins 01004605 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Laboratories of Physiology and Cell Biophysics 01004591 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Physical Biochemistry 01004548 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Practical classes of Molecular Biology 01004563 Semestrial Elective 6.0
- Minor in Biophysics
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type ECTS credits Biochemistry I 01004468 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Biomolecular Spectroscopy 01004552 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Biophysics 01003155 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Cellular Biology of the Human Development 01003645 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Cellular Biophysics 01004580 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Complements of Physics 01002528 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Electromagnetism I 01002618 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Modern Physics 01003134 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Optics 01003140 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Physical Biochemistry 01004548 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Thermodynamics 01002629 Semestrial Elective 6.0
- Minor in Chemistry
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type ECTS credits Bioelectrochemistry 01004882 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Biological Chemistry 01004818 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Chemistry Lab 01005207 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Inorganic Chemistry 01004846 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Organic Chemistry I 01004854 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Organic Chemistry II 01004860 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Physical Chemistry I 01005218 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Treatment of Water and Wastewater 01005091 Semestrial Elective 6.0
- Minor in Geological Engineering and Mines
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type ECTS credits General Geology 01003694 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Geological Mapping 01002424 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Geophysical Prospecting 01002441 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Metallic Mineral Resources 01003864 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Mineralogy and petrology 01002402 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Non-Metallic Minerals Resources 01003825 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Rock mechanics 01002430 Semestrial Elective 6.0
- Minor in Geology
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type ECTS credits Environmental Geology and Natural Risks 01003892 Semestrial Elective 6.0 General Geology 01003694 Semestrial Elective 6.0 General Mineralogy and Petrology 01003937 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Geological Mapping I 01003746 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Geology of Portugal 01004003 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Geomorphology 01003782 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Hydrogeology 01003881 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Paleontology 01003735 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Sedimentology 01003754 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Stratigraphy 01003793 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Tectonics 01003853 Semestrial Elective 6.0
- Minor in Mathematics
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type ECTS credits Commutative Algebra 01001297 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Complements of Mathematics 01001455 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Complex Analysis 01001359 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Curves and Surfaces 01001242 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Differentiable Manifolds 01001434 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Differential Equations and Modelling 01001203 Semestrial Elective 7.5 Mathematical Logic 01001324 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Numerical Mathematics I 01001275 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Numerical Mathematics II 01001341 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Topology and Linear Analysis 01001302 Semestrial Elective 6.0
- Minor in Physics
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type ECTS credits Atomic and Molecular Physics 01002671 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Classical Mechanics I 01002764 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Classical Mechanics II 01002781 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Complements of Physics 01002528 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Computational Physics 01002874 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Electromagnetism 01019239 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Electromagnetism I 01002618 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Electronics 01002660 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Elements of Astrophysics 01019543 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Foundations of Modern Physics 01018985 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Introduction to Astrophysics 01002837 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Laboratories I 01019008 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Laboratories II 01019047 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Laboratory Physics II 01002792 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Modern Physics 01003134 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Physics of Music 01008470 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Quantum Mechanics I 01002646 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Thermodynamics 01002629 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Waves and Optics 01002654 Semestrial Elective 6.0
- Minor in Sciences of the Space
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Course unit title Year Course unit code Duration Type ECTS credits Astronomy Elements 01002088 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Celestial Mechanics 01001398 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Geophysics 01003836 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Geosystems 01003948 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Introduction to Astrophysics 01002837 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Introduction to Physics 01002916 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Modern Physics 01003134 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Optics 01003140 Semestrial Elective 6.0 Spatial Systems of Positioning and Navigation 01002077 Semestrial Elective 6.0
The optional course units are offered on a yearly basis, depending on the availability of the Organic Unit