Courses Handbook 2009

8975 (v.8) Algology and Mycology 202


Area: Department of Environmental Biology
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.5
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork: 2 x 1 Days Yearly
Anti Requisite(s): 310818 (v.1) Aquaculture Principles 202 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 1756 (v.7) Plant Biology 101 or any previous version
Syllabus: Mycology, classification and characteristics of fungi: zygomycetes, basidiomycetes, ascomycetes, deuteromycetes, lichens and mycorrhize, morphology, life cycle, ecological and economic importance, local examples. Fungi and human affairs. Algology, classification of algae. Criteria: photosynthetic pigments, food reserves, nature of cell wall, flagella, cytology. Morphology and vegetative organisation: unicellular, protococcoidal, flagellate unicells, colonial, flagellate colonies, non-flagellate coenobia, filamentous, siphonaceous and parenchymatous. Vegetative, asexual, sexual reproduction. Life cycles. Cyanobacteria, dinophyta, bacillariophyta, euglenophyta, chlorophyta, charophyta, phaeophyta, rhodophyta: reproduction and life cycle, ecologicaland economic importance, local examples.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010900 Biological Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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