RULES AND REGULATIONS
GENERAL BIOLOGY COURSE
Credit for Seminars
The following are the requirements to obtain a credit from seminars/practical exercises:
1) acceptation of theoretical exercises made in the textbook (Medical Biology (A. Buczek, Ed.),
Koliber, Lublin 2007); exercises are placed after each chapter; ATTENTION: the textbook
is copyrighted, x-copies and computer transcribes are prohibited);
2) acceptation of practical exercises (schemes and descriptions of analyzed microscopic slides;
patterns of work-cards are available at the website: http://biolmolgen.sum.edu.pl.)
3) delivering all required small lectures/presentations; the presentation topics are allocated
individually based on the list of students;
4) requirements for passing an individual small test (1 – Microscopic structure of the living
organism, 2 – Biology of development, 3 – Animal structure and function, 4 – Biological
hazards of natural environment); the following are the grades: 27-30 correct answers out 30
questions = A (5 points), 23-26/30 = B (4 points), 19-22/30 = C (3 points), 18/30 or less = F
(2 points, a test is failed).
5) The test questions are based on the theoretical material comprised in a) textbooks
recommended in the syllabus, b) seminar abstracts when available (see the website), c)
presentations.
6) Each small test may be retaken ONLY ONE TIME; to retake a small test a student should
make an individual appointment with the teacher; all failed tests have to be retaken until the
end of the semester.
7) The dates of presentations and tests are fixed and it is not possible to make any changes by
students.
Final credit for the course
To successfully complete the course a student is required to pass the final exam covering
both General Biology and Cell Biology courses. The final grade will be calculated according to the
formula: (XGen Biol//Cell Biol +2Y)/3, where: Y – the final test grade, XGen Biol/Cell Biol – the arithmetic
mean of both course averages (XGen Biol/Cell Biol=(XGen Biol+XCell Biol/2), the course average (XGen
Biol) is based on: (a) the average grade for delivered presentations, (b) the small test average;
the formula is (a+2b)/3).
Course manager,
Zbigniew Pokora, Ph.D.