Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Causes of Human Disease: Exploring Cancer and Genetic Disease
This online course explored the scientific background to DNA and how genetic factors can lead to human disease, including cancer.
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. By completing the course the learner has achieved 14 hours of CPD time.
2 weeks, 4 hours per week
Phil Burns
Senior Lecturer in Tumour Biology
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore how some diseases are caused by problems with our genes.
- Identify what genes are and the role they can play in human disease.
- Explain the basis of inherited disease and cancer.
- Describe what cancer is.
- Summarise the main risk factors for cancer.
Syllabus
- The chemical structure of DNA, genes and chromosomes.
- The importance of DNA in understanding the causes of genetic diseases.
- DNA replication and cell reproduction.
- The role of genes and proteins in controlling the activities of the cell and the cell cycle.
- How genes and chromosomes can be permanently altered when mistakes happen during DNA replication.
- The wide variety of different agents that can cause cancer.
- The differences between normal cells and cancer cells.
- Causes of genetic disease.
- Different types of genetic diseases and how they may arise.
Accreditation
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. By completing the course the learner has achieved 14 hours of CPD time.
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Issued on 18th December 2019
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