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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

SIE2004 MYCOLOGY herbivory, predation, community, trophic
structure and control, community
An introductory to fungal classification, diversity, and maintenance of diversity.
biology, diversity, ecology and taxonomy. Identify the processes affecting abundance
This course will discuss sampling and of organisms and how population
culture techniques in mycology, inventory abundance changes through time,
and documentation aspects for demographic characteristics of a
conservation purpose and importance of population and the techniques used for
fungi in biotechnology. quantifying these characteristics. The
impact of abiotic factors on the nature of
Assessment Methods: population change at small and large scale
Continuous Assessment : 60% will be discussed.
Summative Assessment: 40%
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 60%
SIE2005 VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY Summative Assessment: 40%

An introduction to vertebrate biology
including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, SIE2010 URBAN ZOOLOGY
and mammals. The course will explore the
evolution of these vertebrates and their Natural history of urban area. Ecosystems:
adaptations that allow them to live in natural and man-made, their main
almost every habitat on Earth. Lecture features and differences. The urban
materials will emphasize on phylogeny, ecosystem: a classification of the habitats.
taxonomy, morphology, evolution, The animal component in urban areas:
ecology, and selected aspects of the biodiversity and adaptations. Pest types
natural history and behaviour. Laboratory and control strategies. Nature
exercises will utilise natural history conservation in urban habitats. Animal
museum collections to focus on taxonomy species and habitat fragmentation. Alien
and identification of local fishes, species and related problems (invasive
amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. species). Feral species and wildlife. Animal
Welfare Act 2015. Methods for pest
Assessment Methods: control and wildlife animal. Zoological data
Continuous Assessment: 60% and urban planning. Case studies: the
Summative Assessment: 40% fauna of Kuala Lumpur, the insect fauna of
residential area. Involvement of
government and private agencies in
SIE2006 PHYCOLOGY wildlife management and pests.

This course covers the diversity and Assessment Methods:
ecology of algae. Characteristic features of Continuous Assessment: 60%
major groups of algae will be discussed Summative Assessment: 40%
together with their ecological and
economic importance.
SIE2011 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 50% Major elements of terrestrial ecology: the
Summative Assessment: 50% physical world, plants, animals, microbes.
Energy and trophic levels. Time as a
dimension.
SIE2007 POPULATION AND COMMUNITY General vegetation categories and
ECOLOGY dependent organismal assemblages. Life
forms and general adaptations among
Introduction to population growth and terrestrial organisms: autotrophs and
dynamics of age‐structured populations, heterotrophs in different environments;
population control, theory of competition,

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