BZ5420:03
Genetics and Biodiversity Conservation
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
33 hours lectures, 6 hours tutorials, 24 hours practicals. Semester 2.
Staff: Assoc. Professor D Blair.
Knowledge and techniques derived from genetics and related fields are having an increasing impact on the study of biology. In particular, genetic methods are making it possible to answer questions in ecology and evolution that were previously intractable. This subject will build on material provided in undergraduate subjects to show how genetics and evolutionary biology can provide new insights into biodiversity, human biology and conservation biology.
Learning Objectives:
- to understand the basis of and methods for studying genetic diversity;
- to understand the origins and radiation of life in the context of evolutionary genetics;
- to understand the application of genetic techniques to human biology, breeding of domestic animals and plants, population biology and conservation.
Assessment by examination (45%); practical reports and on-course tests (40%); major report (15%).