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MI2031 - Marine Microbiology
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2012 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
4 |
Administered by: |
School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences |
The ecological role of microbes in the marine and estuarine environments; their role
in nutrient cycles including chemotropism, symbiosis, fouling, degradation of pollutants
and maricultural ecology; bacteria, cyanobacteria, fungi, viruses and picoplankton
in the marine environment; introduction to disease-causing microbes.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate the role of microbes in marine symbioses;
- instil in students the importance of marine microbes to the biosphere;
- introduce how marine microbes impact on human activities;
- introduce the students to the culture methods for the major ecological groups of marine
bacteria.
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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MI5003 |
Availabilities
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Townsville,
Study Period 1,
Internal
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Census Date 22-Mar-2012 |
Coord/Lect: |
Assoc. Professor Leigh Owens. |
Workload expectations: |
- 26 hours lectures
- 11 hours tutorials
- 36 hours practicals
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Assessment: |
end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%). |
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