312390 (v.1) Algology and Mycology 202

Area:	Department of Environmental and Aquatic Sciences
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.5
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Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork:	1 x 1 Days Once-only
Prerequisite(s):	1756 (v.8) Plant Biology 102- Activated in Error, Use 312365. 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.
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Field of Education:	010999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

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