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 |
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Prerequisite(s): |
1756 (v.7) Plant Biology 101 or any previous version |
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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 organization - 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 - ecological and 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Funding Cluster: | 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result Type: | Grade/Mark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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