MI2031 - Marine Microbiology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| 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: | MI5003 |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2009 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Leigh Owens. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%). |
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