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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2023/2024
Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2023/2024

SIO 2001 APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY including techniques to enhance speaker presentations.
Topics will include cultural conventions and speech,
This course covers the topics including role and application perceptions of others, verbal and nonverbal messages, and
of industrial importance microorganisms in medicine, techniques of oral presentation and persuasion. Students
industry, agriculture, waste management and environment. will learn how to research, outline, and deliver short,
informal presentations and also sharpen their skills in
Assessment Methods: critical thinking and listening.
Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination: 50% Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 100%

SIO 2002 ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
SIO 2015 PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
This course covers the principles, techniques and
applications of animal biotechnology, including assisted This course introduces the fundamental concepts and
reproductive technologies, breeding, and genetic principles of plant biotechnology that are applicable to crop
engineering. This course also discusses the ethics and improvement. It covers an array of topics such as gene
safety of animal biotechnology as well as implications on expression and advanced methods in plant biotechnology.
sustainability and animal welfare. Students will be given a group assignment focusing on a
specific case related to plant biotechnology, which requires
Assessment Methods: literature searches and understanding of recent advances
Continuous Assessment: 40% in plant biotechnology.
Final Examination: 60%
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 50%
SIO 2003 HIGHER PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Final Examination: 50%

This course covers explaination on how plants function and
grow. This includes metabolism (photosynthesis, SIO 2016 PLANT CELL AND TISSUE CULTURE
respiration, mineral nutrition), water relations, gas
This course covers explanation on how to regenerate
exchange, response to environmental stresses, growth and complete plants from various plant cells, tissues and organs
development in response to environmental cues and using tissue culture system. Various topics such as media
biochemical control of growth. preparation and factors affecting cell’s, tissue’s and organ’s
growth and ultimately plant regeneration are
Assessment Methods: covered. Other than that, production of disease-free plants
Continuous Assessment: 40% through meristem culture, various culture pathways such as
Final Examination: 60% organogenesis and somatic embryogenesis, production of
haploid and triploid plants as well as in vitro production of
secondary plant metabolites are also discussed in this
SIO 2012 BIOINFORMATICS DATA MANAGEMENT course.

This course provides an introduction to data management Assessment Methods:
with an emphasis on biological data. In this course students Continuous Assessment: 40%
will learn all of the fundamental aspects of data Final Examination: 60%
management including acquisition, modelling, storage,
integration, analysis and interpretation of diverse data types
including structured and unstructured data that necessary SIO 2017 SCIENTIFIC WRITING
for managing biological data using software. By the end of
the course students will be able to practice a systematic and This course will teach students to become more effective
efficient methodology in managing biological data. writers, using practical examples and exercises. Topics
include: principles of good writing, the format of a scientific
Assessment Methods: manuscript, and issues in publication and peer review. It will
Continuous Assessment: 60% also introduce students to basic research writing skills
Final Examination: 40% including aspects of a high-impact manuscript or proposal,
how to write clearly, editing and the submission process.
SIO 2013 BIOPROCESS DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Assessment Methods:
The course is designed for instruction in basic principles Continuous Assessment: 100%
involved in bioprocess design and associated technology.
Among the topics included are introduction to engineering
calculation, analysis and presentation of data, mass and SIO 3016 BIOLOGICAL DATA ANALYTICS
energy balances, fluid flow, mixing, heat and mass transfer,
and unit operations. This course provides a practical introduction to the writing
of R and Python programs for beginners. Students are
Assessment Methods: introduced to the statistical analysis using R and are lead
Continuous Assessment: 40% through the core aspects of Python illustrated by a series of
Final Examination: 60% example programs for solving bioinformatics problems. An
introduction to machine learning is also included. Upon
completion of the course, students will be able to write
SIO 2014 PUBLIC SPEAKING AND ORAL simple R and Python programs and customize more
COMMUNICATION complex code to fit the needs of bioinformatics problem
solving. At the end, students will be able to create stand
This course is an introduction to speech communication alone Python programs to process biological data.
which emphasizes the practical skill of public speaking,

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