| Area: |
School of Biomedical Sciences |
| Credits: |
25.0 |
| Contact Hours: |
5.0 |
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| ** 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. ** |
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| Lecture: |
1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Tutorial: |
1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Practical: |
1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Prerequisite(s): |
11600 (v.2) Microbiology 232
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| Syllabus: |
Molecular biology and biotechnology of animal, plant, insect and bacterial viruses. Use of viruses as models for studying gene regulation and nucleic acid replication. Contribution of viruses to molecular biotechnology - strategies for the development of antiviral agents and vaccines, cloning and expression vectors, insecticides, tools for studying oncogenesis and apoptosis, tools for diagnosis of viral infection and epidemiology of viral diseases. Molecular biology and biotechnology of prions, viroids,fungi, algae and protozoa. One section is devoted to cutting edge technology used to study micro-organisms including nucleic acid sequencing, proteomics and micro-arrays. |
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| ** 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. ** |
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| Field of Education: | 10900 Biological Sciences (Narrow Grouping) |
| Funding Cluster: | 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying |
| SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Not Categorised
*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 |
| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Semester 1 |
Y |
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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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