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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

shapes and adaptations (including various groups of animal examples,
propagation strategies) been relate to aspects of applied ethology.
assimilate partitioning and plant
Assessment Methods:
adaptation.
Continuous Assessment: 50%
Summative Assessment: 50%
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessement: 50%
Summative Assessment: 50%
SIE3006 ECONOMIC BOTANY

SIE2017 ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY Introduction to the origin of agriculture
and the history of distribution of present-
day agricultural crops. The importance of
Introduction and concept of physiology.
Understanding basic animal physiology fungi, algae & plants as sources for food,
such as importance of oxygen, food and beverage, medicine and others. Plant-
energy, temperature adaptation, water, based industries such as producing
reproduction and movement, information perfumes, furniture products, spices,
and integration. cosmetics, landscaping plants and etc.
Assessment Methods:
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 40% Continuous Assessment: 60%
Summative Assessment: 60% Summative Assessment: 40%

SIE3004 QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY SIE3007 ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
OF WEEDS
Principles of ecological sampling and data
collection. Introduction to ecology and population
Experimental and sampling designs, biology of weeds with emphasis on weed-
sample size, sampling layout, etc. Biotic crop plant interaction. Weed science in the
sampling methods. Population analysis contextof integrated weed management.
such as age structure, survivorship, life Weed management in agro-ecosystems
tables and growth. Methods for population and non-crop environments. Introduction
analysis, including capture-recapture to herbicides. Herbicide usage, actions in
methods. Community analyses including plants and soil, and effect to the
measurements of diversity, similarity and environment.
distance, and cluster analysis. Multivariate
methods and ordination techniques such Assessment Methods:
as principal components analysis. Continuous Assessment: 60%
Summative Assessment: 40%
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 60%
Summative Assessment: 40% SIE3009 PLANT PATHOLOGY
Introduction to plant pathology and its
importance. Concept of plant
SIE3005 BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY AND
ETHOLOGY diseases. Plant diseases caused by abiotic
factors and non-infectious
diseases. Interactions between pathogens
Behavioural concepts, historical
and plant hosts. Koch Postulate. Plant
perspectives of behavioural studies, diseases from infections by viruses,
behavioural diversity inclusive of social bacteria, mycoplasm-like organisms, fungi,
habits and ecoethology illustrating the algae / lichens, higher plants, protozoa,
functional aspects and adaptibility of nematodes and insects. Principles,
management practices and control of plant

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