Educational guide 2023_24
Facultade de Bioloxía
Grado en Biología
 Subjects
  Pollution
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. INTRODUCION To THE CONTAMINATION - Definition. Basic concepts. Types and categories of contaminants.
- Sources and roads of entrance to the environment and biota.
- Dynamic of contaminants: distribution and flow.
- Bioindicators, biomonitors.
- Legislation and normative
2. BIODEGRADABLE WASTE -Organic matter
-Oil and derivative
3. ORGANIC POLLUTANTS -PAHs, Hydrocarbons halogenados, PCBs
4. SOLID WASTE AND DISSIPATE - Plastic and other solid waste
- heat
4. INORGANIC POLLUTANTS
-Acidity
-Elements potentially toxic
5. MICROBIAL POLLUTION -Concept and sources of pollution of microbial origin
-Microorganisms indicators of pollution
-Dynamic of microbial pollution in atmosphere, floor and water
-residual Waters and treatment. Treatment anoxic of lick.
-Impact of the pollution in environment.
-Legislation and normative on microbiological pollution
6. TREATMENT OF WASTE And PROCESSES OF RECOVERY
- Biorremediation.
- Composting.
- Reuse of waste through the system am used to-plant
- Recovery of floors contaminated

7. BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF The CONTAMINANTS -Exhibition of alive organisms the contaminants. Routes of entrance. Toxicocinética. Bioaccumulation, Biotransformation.
-Effects of the contaminants to physiological level.
-Molecular and cellular mechanisms of action of the contaminants.
-Essays of toxicity.
-Effects of the contaminants to populational level and of communities of organisms.
-Evolution of resistance.
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