This module will provide students with an understanding of the structure and function of plant organs, the cytological, histological and anatomical organization of vascular plants in connection with various forms of plant adaptation, and aspects of plant growth, photoperiodism, and mechanisms of resistance to drought, heat and cold.
The module will provide students with basic theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to implement a Geographic Information System (GIS) project: basic concepts, tools and methods to capture, store, query, analyze, display and output spatial data (geo-information, basic processes of remote sensing) with focus on biodiversity conservation.
The aim of this module is to equip students with skills that help them strengthen their observational and critical thinking about the inter-links between living organisms and their surrounding environment with a focus on climate change, its causes and impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems and humans. Students will also learn how to mitigate and adapt to climate change and the role of research in achieving sustainable mitigation and adaptation.
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to
demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Climate change: the science of climate change, and the body of evidence
- Impacts of climate change globally and locally
- Impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Adaptation and mitigation strategies
- Climate resilience
- Global policies and multilateral agreements on Climate change and Biodiversity
- Local policies and strategies on climate change and Biodiversity
- Research agenda for monitoring biodiversity and climate change
This course explores the manipulation of nucleic acids and demonstrates how gene-level understanding can help answer biological questions, using Recombinant DNA Technology as a key tool.
Indicative content:
- Transformation
- Gene Expression