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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

SIR3043 CONSERVATION GENETICS genetics, recent developments and
application of fungi.
This course covers the following topics:
Biological diversity (ecosystem, species, Assessment Methods:
genetics), resources and ownership of the Continuous Assessment: 50%
Malaysian forest, estimating and Summative Assessment: 50%
characterizing genetic diversity, inbreeding
depression, population fragmentation,
genetic management in the wild and
captivity, units of conservation, use genetic
tools in forensic and conservation
management, climate change

Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 40%
Summative Assessment: 60%

SIR3044 MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
AND PHYLOGENETICS

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 molecular data. This
course covers the following topics:
evolutionary processes in populations,
evolution of genes and genome, concept of
species, speciation, evolution of genetic
systems, homology and sequence
alignment, models of evolution,
phylogenetic, neutral evolution,
coalescent theory, rate of evolutionary
change and concept of molecular dating

Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 40%
Summative Assessment: 60%

SIR3045 ADVANCED MYCOLOGY

Fungi are important decomposer in
ecosystem and also play role in human
lives. This course covers the evolutionary

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