BZ5420 - Genetics and Biodiversity Conservation
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
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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 Outcomes
- to understand the application of genetic techniques to human biology, breeding of domestic animals and plants, population biology and conservation;
- 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.
| Prerequisites: | Consult HoS |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | BS2010 and BT2290 and BT2300 and BZ2420 and ZL2101 |
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| Census Date 31-Aug-2005 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor David Blair |
| Lecturers: | Leone Bielig, Professor David Blair. |
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| Assessment: | (45%); (10%); (15%); (30%). |
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