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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2024/2025

Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination: 50% SIR3041 MARINE AND ESTUARINE MICROBIOLOGY
Sampling techniques and seawater analysis.
SIR3033 APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL Characteristics of marine and estuarine habitats. Bacteria,
MICROBIOLOGY algae, protozoa, zooplankton, virus and fungi in seas.
Microbial interactions in marine and estuarine ecosystems.
Understanding the role of microbes and its biochemistry for Nutrient cycles (C, N, P, Si) in marine ecosystems.
processing industrial products, microbiological principles in Microbiology and geochemistry of mangrove and coral reef
biogeochemical cycle, use of biosensors and biochips in ecosystems
industrial and environmental microbiological processes,
application of intellectual property principles in industrial Assessment Methods:
and environmental microbiology. Continuous Assessment: 60%
Final Examination: 40%
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 50% SIR3042 PLANT MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR
Final Examination: 50% BIOLOGY
An introduction to the basic principles and current
SIR3034 APPLIED GENOMICS IN ANIMAL BREEDING development on plant molecular biology. Covering
theoretical and practical aspects that are important for
The course covers how genomic tools with emphasis using current approaches in plant improvement and plant
molecular genetic markers are to be applied in various biotechnology. This course also introduces basic principles
animal breeding programmes as an aid for genetic of plant genetic engineering and the techniques involved.
identification, monitoring inbreeding effects, parentage Issues related to GMO will be discussed.
identification, stock assignment and construction of genetic
maps for animal improvement for selected traits in Assessment Methods:
domesticated animals which is preferred in livestock Continuous Assessment: 50%
production. Final Examination: 50%
Assessment Methods: SIR3043 CONSERVATION GENETICS
Continuous Assessment: 100%
This course covers the following topics: Biological diversity
(ecosystem, species, genetics), resources and ownership
SIR3035 ANIMAL GENETICS AND GENE of the Malaysian forest, estimating and characterizing
MANIPULATION genetic diversity, inbreeding depression, population
fragmentation, genetic management in the wild and
The course is an introduction to the genetic principles, captivity, units of conservation, use genetic tools in forensic
mining functional animal traits using genomic selection, and conservation management, climate change
manipulation of genes for genetic improvement of animals
and biosafety regulations related to animal research. The Assessment Methods:
students develop skills in collecting, analysing and Continuous Assessment: 40%
disseminating information and data related to animal Final Examination: 60%
genetics and gene manipulation.
SIR3044 MOLECULAR EVOLUTION AND
Assessment Methods: PHYLOGENETICS
Continuous Assessment: 40%
Final Examination: 60% This course will give an overview of processes in molecular
evolution and how past evolutionary events and processes
can be understood from the analysis and interpretation of
SIR3036 FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY molecular data. This course covers the following topics:
evolutionary processes in populations, evolution of genes
Elaborate microbial and biochemical aspects in and genome, concept of species, speciation, evolution of
fermentation processing, principles and kinetics of genetic systems, homology and sequence alignment,
fermentation, types of bioreactors and generation of models of evolution, phylogenetic, neutral evolution,
fermentation products coalescent theory, rate of evolutionary change and concept
of molecular dating
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 50% Assessment Methods:
Final Examination: 50% Continuous Assessment: 40%
Final Examination: 60%
SIR3037 PHARMACEUTICAL MICROBIOLOGY
SIR3045 ADVANCED MYCOLOGY
Antimicrobial agents: types of antibiotic, mode of action,
resistance and other problems in antibiotics utilisation. New Fungi are important decomposer in ecosystem and also
sources of antibiotics.Vaccines: mode of action, pro and play role in human lives. This course covers the
cons of vaccines utilisation. Disinfectants and evolutionary genetics, recent developments and application
preservatives. Introduction to Pharmacopeias. Commercial of fungi.
production of antibiotics. Sterility testing. Good practices for
pharmaceutical microbiology labs. Quality assurance Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 50%
Assessment Methods: Final Examination: 50%
Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination: 50%

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