In today's lecture, I started ¡­

In today's lecture, I started with a gentle introduction to biology and covered theory of evolution and the basic chemical reactions that underly life. Transcription, translation, metabolism and cell division were introduced.

In the next lecture: i will continue describing the history of life with the evolution of eukaryotic cells, multicellular organisms and different phyla. Core cellular and developmental processes will be highlighted.

The reference book for the first part of the course is ''an introduction to systems biology" by Uri Alon, Chapman and Hall CRC.