2025
Toxicology of most relevant pollutants
Name: Toxicology of most relevant pollutants
Code: QUI13552M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Biochemistry
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. To know and understand theoretical and experimental information on the toxicity of some pollutants at the individual, populations and
communities, identifying classes, origin, distribution and persistence of pollutants, supporting factors and mechanisms of action.
2. To know and understand methods to evaluate toxicity of pollutants that includes obtention and interpretation of relevant data in determining
the risk of toxicity.
3. To apply the acquired knowledge to new situations in the field of environmental toxicology in relation to the use of concepts, laws, methods,
ethics and environmental ethics.
4. Ability to outline in a team, using databases, experimental strategies to extend the knowledge on the toxicity of pollutants with application to
risk processes useful in environmental management.
communities, identifying classes, origin, distribution and persistence of pollutants, supporting factors and mechanisms of action.
2. To know and understand methods to evaluate toxicity of pollutants that includes obtention and interpretation of relevant data in determining
the risk of toxicity.
3. To apply the acquired knowledge to new situations in the field of environmental toxicology in relation to the use of concepts, laws, methods,
ethics and environmental ethics.
4. Ability to outline in a team, using databases, experimental strategies to extend the knowledge on the toxicity of pollutants with application to
risk processes useful in environmental management.
Contents
1. Origin, distribution and persistence of pollutants with toxicological relevance.
2. Toxicity of pollutants on individuals, populations and communities.
3. Methods for assessing the toxicity of pollutants.
4. Routes, methods of exposure and toxicity factors supporting cast.
5. Principles for assessment of toxic hazards. Markers of exposure and toxicity.
6. Biological mechanisms of response and adaptation.
7. Integration of knowledge from the molecular to the global level, the individual to the ecosystem.
2. Toxicity of pollutants on individuals, populations and communities.
3. Methods for assessing the toxicity of pollutants.
4. Routes, methods of exposure and toxicity factors supporting cast.
5. Principles for assessment of toxic hazards. Markers of exposure and toxicity.
6. Biological mechanisms of response and adaptation.
7. Integration of knowledge from the molecular to the global level, the individual to the ecosystem.
Teaching Methods
The plenary lectures are structured lessons in scientific method, where the exposure of subjects related to environmental toxicology,
articulated for competence, strategies to understand and apply methodologies to identify and understand the action of pollutants on living
organisms. Practical classes take place in a laboratory where students perform experiments to support the teaching of literature in toxicology
and database, which will produce a report and prepare a project.
Conditions and criteria for evaluating: Project - Monograph (30% of final classification); Oral presentation and discussion (30% final classification); Report and discussion of experimental results (40% final classification).
articulated for competence, strategies to understand and apply methodologies to identify and understand the action of pollutants on living
organisms. Practical classes take place in a laboratory where students perform experiments to support the teaching of literature in toxicology
and database, which will produce a report and prepare a project.
Conditions and criteria for evaluating: Project - Monograph (30% of final classification); Oral presentation and discussion (30% final classification); Report and discussion of experimental results (40% final classification).
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