Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
Enrolment code: KPA080
Unit description: For details, contact Faculty of Science and Engineering
Enrolment code: KPA150
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2
Special note: (i) students enrolled for the first time in Botany and Zoology concurrently at first year level must enrol in KPA150 Botany 1G and KZA151
Zoology 1E.
(ii) students who have passed KZA150 Zoology 1G, and now wish to study
Botany at first year level, must enrol in KPA151 Botany 1E.
(iii) students are advised to seek course advice at enrolment.
Unit description: Provides an introduction to Botany and covers topics including: the structure and origin of flowering plants; sexual reproduction in flowering plants; the physiology of flowering plants; the fine structure of plant cells; and a systematic survey of land plants (mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants), with emphasis on life-histories and evolutionary trends. A core component, shared with Zoology 1G, will cover topics including: cell biology, algal biology, genetics molecular biology and evolution.
Staff: Dr A Koutoulis (Coordinator), Assoc Prof GM Hallegraeff, Mr PJ Dalton,
Dr RJE Wiltshire, Dr RE Vaillancourt, and School of Zoology staff
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 3 lectures , 3-hr lab session weekly, some lectures and/or practicals may be taught in tutorial mode
Prereq: 2 of: *CH856, (*MT841 or *MT730), *BY826, (*PH866 or *SC786) or from
Year 12 with a TCE score of 80 or above (subject to counselling and approval from HoS
Mutual excl: KPA151, KZA150, KPA100, KPA116, KPZ101, KPZ160
Assess: 3-hr exam at the end of each sem (60%), sem work throughout the year
(40%)
Required texts, etc: a laboratory manual
Raven PH, Evert R and Eichhorn S, Biology of Plants, ISBN 1572590416
Campbell NA, Biology, ISBN 0805319573
Courses: S3G S3GD1 S3GD2 S3GD3 S3T
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Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
Enrolment code: KPA151
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2
Special note: (i) this unit is only offered to students who have passed
KZA150 Zoology 1G.
(ii) students enrolled for the first time in Botany and Zoology concurrently at first year level must enrol in KPA150 Botany 1G and KZA151 Zoology 1E.
(iii) students who have passed KZA150 Zoology 1G, and now wish to study
Botany at first year level, must enrol in KPA151 Botany 1E.
(iv) students are advised to seek course advice at enrolment.
Unit description: Provides an introduction to Botany and covers topics including: the structure and origin of flowering plants; sexual reproduction in flowering plants; the physiology of flowering plants; the fine structure of plant cells; and a systematic survey of land plants (mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants), with emphasis on life-histories and evolutionary trends. A core component, shared with Zoology 1E, will introduce fundamental concepts in ecology and experimental design.
Staff: Dr A Koutoulis (Coordinator), Mr PJ Dalton, and School of Zoology staff
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 3 lectures , 3-hr lab session weekly, some lectures and/or practicals may be taught in tutorial mode
Prereq: 2 of: *CH856, (*MT841 or *MT730), *BY826, (*PH866 or *SC786) or from
Year 12 with a TCE score of 80 or above (subject to counselling and approval from HoS
Mutual excl: KPA150, KZA151, KPA100, KPA116, KPZ101, KPZ160
Assess: 3-hr exam at the end of each sem (60%), sem work throughout the year
(40%)
Required texts, etc: a laboratory manual
Raven PH, Evert R and Eichhorn S, Biology of Plants, ISBN 1572590416
Campbell NA, Biology, ISBN 0805319573
Courses: S3G S3T
Enrolment code: KPA152
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
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Special note: offered subject to sufficient student enrolment. Students wishing to pursue a degree course in life sciences are advised to enrol in KPA150
Unit description: An understanding of the biodiversity of natural vegetation communities and the processes that shape them is essential for appropriate land management, whether it is sustainable forest production or natural vegetation and wilderness management and eco-tourism. The unit provides an opportunity for students with no formal background in biology to become familiar with the form, structure and reproduction of plants; it introduces them to the diversity (mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants) of the Tasmanian flora. Special emphasis is placed on the important characteristics of the main families of flowering plants, with students learning how to identify plants and understand their important role in contributing to the main community types found throughout Tasmania. A suitable grade in this unit may provide the prerequisite for the third-year unit KPA375, Field Botany, with is a more extensive treatment of the ecology and biodiversity of plants in Tasmania.
Staff: Mr PJ Dalton (Coordinator), Dr MJ Hovenden, Dr RJ Wilshire, Prof JB
Reid
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 19 lectures, 26 hrs lab, 3 days field excursion (East Coast of Tasmania)
Mutual excl: KPA150, KPA151, KPA200
Required texts, etc:
Reid JB, Hill RS, Brown MJ, Hovenden MJ (eds) Vegetation of Tasmania, ISBN
0642568014
A set of Course Notes.
Courses: R3J S3G S3T
Enrolment code: KPA160
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Introduces Botany and covers topics including: the structure and origin of flowering plants; sexual reproduction in flowering plants; the physiology of flowering plants; the fine structure of plant cells; and a systematic survey of land plants (mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants), with emphasis on life-histories and evolutionary trends.
Staff: Dr A Koutoulis, Mr PJ Dalton
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 3 lectures and 3-hr practical weekly (13 wks), some lectures and/or practicals may be taught as tutorials
Coreq: KZA160
Mutual excl: KPA150, KPA151, KPZ120, KPA100, KAP116
Assess: 3-hr exam (60%), semester work (40%)

Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
Required texts, etc: a laboratory manual
Raven PH, Evert R and Eichhorn S, Biology of Plants, ISBN 1572590416
Courses: S3A S3B S3C
Enrolment code: KPA200
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2
Unit description: Explores the similarities and diversity of interactions of plants with their environments. Semester 1: students investigate a range of the structural and physiological adaptations displayed by plants in coping with environmental extremes and extreme environments; they examine the range of plant communities to be found in Tasmania (involving a weekend excursion to
East Coast) and some of the more important environmental factors that have produced them; and they look at how plants interact with their environment during growth. Semester 2: students look at how plants have changed over time, at the molecular and morphological levels. They examine the genetic basis of change in plants in response to the environment, changes that can occur independent of the environment, and changes imposed by human intervention.
They also trace the history of the nature of changes in plants at the geological time scale, and how plants have been classified to aid identification and use.
Staff: Dr RJE Wiltshire (Coordinator), Dr RE Vaillancourt, Dr GJ Jordan, Dr MJ
Hovenden, Mr PJ Dalton
Unit weight: 33.33%
Teaching: 3 lectures and 6 hrs practical weekly; weekend excursion in sem 1
Prereq: KPA150
Assess: theory exams (60%), practical assessment (40%)
Required texts, etc: a laboratory manual, and
Curtis WM, The Students Flora of Tasmania, Parts 1 (2nd edn), 2 and
3, Government Printer, Tas.
Recommended reading:
Reid JB, Hill RS, Brown MJ, Hovenden MJ (eds) Vegetation of Tasmania, ISBN
0642568014
Courses: S3G S3GD1 S3GD2 S3GD3 S3T
Enrolment code: KPA371
Offered: Not offered in 2001
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Unit description: Examines a number of groups of very diverse organisms most often called fungi which have evolved along very different pathways when compared to dominant terrestrial plants. Initial emphasis in both lectures and practical classes is placed on phylogenic and taxonomic relationships of these organisms. This is followed by a survey of the symbiotic associations with many other living organisms, an analysis of selected attributes of the physiology of some locally isolated fungi, an introduction to fungal ecology and an introduction to simple industrial mycology.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 28 lectures, 39 hrs lab work, one-day field excursion
Prereq: KPA200 or equiv as arranged with School
Mutual excl: KPA323
Assess: 2-hr exam (60%), practical work and assignments (40%)
Required texts, etc:
Deacon JW Introduction to Modern Micology, 3rd edn, Blackwell, Oxf.
Courses: S3G S3GD3 S3T
Enrolment code: KPA372
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Provides instruction in the biodiversity and phylogeny of algal groups and allied protists, physico-chemical limnology and oceanography, phytoplankton ecology, micropaleontology, seaweeds, harmful algal blooms and aquatic food webs. Particular reference is made to studies in
Australian, Antarctic and Southern Ocean waters. Applied phycological research and implications for environmental monitoring and aquaculture are emphasised.
Staff: Assoc Prof G Hallegraeff, Assoc Prof A McMinn
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 26 lectures/tutorials, 13x3-hr practical sessions; Microscopy, full-day
Derwent River cruise, a seaweed excursion, and a demonstration of electron microscopes will be a major part of the practicals
Prereq: KPA200 or equiv as arranged with School
Mutual excl: KPA346
Assess: assignment (25%), end-of-sem written exam (50%), practical exam
(25%)
Recommended reading:
Lee RE, Phycology, ISBN 0521638836
Courses: S3G S3GD2 S3GD3 S3T

Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
Enrolment code: KPA373
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Examines a range of cell biological processes currently being researched in laboratories across the world. Topics include: the cytoskeleton, the eukaryote flagellum, cell motility, molecular motors, mitosis, cell division, cell cycle control, spatial organisation, plant cell development, organogenesis, plant sexual reproduction, plant tissue culture and gene transfer systems.
Students will: (i) be provided with information concerning current approaches to these research areas; and (ii) gain practical experience with some current biotechnology techniques. This course is designed to provide students with a general understanding of cell biology and will include discussions on future directions.
Staff: Dr A Koutoulis
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 26 lectures (some of which will take the form of tutorials), 39 hrs practical work.
Prereq: KPA200 or (KPA150 and CBA250); alternative prereqs may be accepted after consultation with the lecturer
Mutual excl: KPA354, KPA355
Assess: 2-hr theory exam (60%), sem work (40%)
Courses: S3G
Enrolment code: KPA374
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Australia is one of the botanically megadiverse continents, and this is largely the result of a unique combination of events over the past 65 million years. The most important of these were connection to Gondwana during a time of rapid speciation followed by long isolation, major climatic change as a result of changes in ocean currents and Australia’s movement through tens of degrees of latitude, increasingly low soil nutrient levels, and a developing fire regime. In this course the response of the living vegetation to factors such as drought, frost, low soil nutrients, fire, photoperiod and atmospheric CO<d>2<dz> levels is combined with an examination of the plant fossil record to reconstruct the development of the living vegetation. Major migration pathways for the Southern Hemisphere flora are examined, as are evolutionary patterns in response to climate change within key taxa.
Staff: Dr GJ Jordan
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 21 lectures, 7 tutorials, 13x3-hr practical sessions; most of the practical time is devoted to project work
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Prereq: KPA200
Mutual excl: KPA360
Assess: 2-hr exam (60%), written practical report (25%), essay (10%), tutorial performance (5%)
Courses: S3G S3GD1 S3GD3 S3T
Enrolment code: KPA375
Offered: Hbt, s-sch
Unit description: Students are exposed to the diversity of plants found in environments that range from near sea level to alpine, from rich basalt soils to ancient weathered quartzite, and from sites ravaged by clearfelling and burning to 4,000-year-old cool, temperate rainforest, all in close proximity to the Mt
Field National Park and Southwest World Heritage Area. This unit is essential for students interested in botany, ecology and land management of both wilderness and production forestry areas.
Staff: Prof JB Reid, Dr RJE Wiltshire (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 12–21 Feb, 2001; informal lectures through unit and 8 days of field work
Prereq: KPA200
Mutual excl: KPA304
Assess: internal assessment by report and plant collection
Required texts, etc:
Reid JB, Hill RS, Brown MJ, Hovenden MJ (eds) Vegetation of Tasmania, ISBN
0642568014
Courses: S3G S3GD1 S3GD3 S3T
Enrolment code: KPA376
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Examines the fields of developmental genetics, gene regulation, genetic control of hormone production and hormone physiology.
The unit aims to provide a broad understanding of control of plant development from the molecular level through to the whole plant level. It uses the power of genetics to dissect these processes since this is the method of choice amongst contemporary researchers. The practical work involves a research project to suit individual student interests based upon either glasshouse or laboratory studies using state-of-the-art techniques.
Staff: Prof JB Reid
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Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 26 lectures, 13x3-hr practical sessions
Prereq: KPA200 or (KPZ101 or 160 and CBA211); alt prereq may be accepted after consultation with lecturer
Mutual excl: KPA336
Assess: 2-hr exam (60%), research project (40%)
Courses: S3G S3GD1
Enrolment code: KPA377
Offered: Hbt, sem 2
Unit description: Provides theoretical and practical experience on the use of molecular tools to study evolution and natural history. The first part of the lecture series will introduce modern laboratory techniques and describe the nature of the genetic data provided by each method. The second part will focus on the evolution of macromolecules. The third and largest lecture series will cover specific examples and topics where molecular markers have been used, such as: spatial distribution of clones; paternity and maternity analysis
(fingerprinting); gene flow; speciation and hybridisation; phylogeny; conservation genetics; and plant improvement. The practical component will provide training for students interested in research and the application of molecular methods.
Staff: Dr R Vaillancourt
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 26 lectures, 39 hrs practical/tutorial
Prereq: KPA200
Mutual excl: KPA370
Assess: 2-hr exam (70%), research project (30%)
Required texts, etc:
Avise JC, Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution, Chapman Hall, NY,
1994.
Courses: S3G S3GD1
Enrolment code: KPA378
Offered: Hbt, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: Involves a semester long research project, supervised by a member of the Plant Science staff. It will involve an average of 6 hours per week spent planning and completing an individual research project. The aim of the unit is to give students some experience in individual research in an area of

Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002) 9 their own choosing. They are encouraged to speak to the course coordinator or individual members of staff before they enrol. Students can expect that staff will have some suggestions for projects, so that they do not need to have well developed ideas before beginning discussions. Students can undertake this unit in either semester, but it must be completed within that semester.
Staff: Assoc Prof GM Hallegraeff (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: KPA200, and be part of a major in Plant Science
Assess: research report submitted at end of sem (100%)
Courses: S3G S3GD1
Enrolment code: KPA379
Offered: Hbt, sem 1
Unit description: Provides an understanding of the processes shaping plant communities and populations. Students develop practical skills in the analysis of vegetation, the elucidation of environmental controls of species distribution and abundance and the population ecological approaches to studying disturbance, rare plants and environmental change. The unit involves the study of ecophysiology of individual plants, the dynamics of plant populations and interactions within plant communities. The practicals provide field-based skills in the collection of ecological data and laboratory based instruction in data analysis and interpretation.
Staff: Dr NS Davidson, Dr MJ Hovenden (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 26 lectures, 13x3-hr practical sessions (5 in the field)
Prereq: KPA200
Coreq: KPA375
Mutual excl: KPA335
Assess: 2-hr exam (60%), internal assessment (40%)
Courses: S3G S3GD1 S3GD3 S3T
Enrolment code: KPA400/401
Full time/Part time
Offered: Hbt
Special note: full-time students enrol in KPA400 (100%); part-time students in
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Unit description: Is designed to provide the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in plant science research beyond that experienced in an undergraduate degree course. Students are assessed in the following and are required: (a) to carry out an intensive research project on an approved topic under a supervisor approved by the Board of Studies in Science, and to submit the findings in a thesis. Three copies of the research thesis (typed on A4 paper and bound) shall be submitted about nine and a half months from the date of commencing study. The normal starting date is in February; but alternative starting dates, such as mid-year, will be considered; (b) to undertake a literature review in a prescribed topic of plant science; (c) to present a seminar which describes the aims and result of the student’s research work; and (d) to write a research proposal within the framework of currently accepted guidelines for research application. At the discretion of the Head of School, students may also undertake additional coursework.
Staff: Mr P Dalton (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 100%/50%
Prereq: a Science degree with a Plant Science major. Special cases will be considered on their individual merits.
Courses: S4E S6X
Enrolment code: KPA410/411
Full time/Part time
Offered: Hbt
Special note: full-time students enrol in KPA410 (100%); part-time students in
KPA411 (50%)
Unit description: Is designed to provide the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in research oriented towards genetics and/or molecular studies, beyond that experienced in an undergraduate degree course. Students are assessed in the following and are required: (a) to carry out an intensive research project on an approved topic under a supervisor approved by the
Board of Studies in Science, and to submit the findings in a thesis. Three copies of the research thesis (typed on A4 paper and bound) shall be submitted about nine and a half months from the date of commencing study. The normal starting date is in February; but alternative starting dates, such as mid-year, will be considered; (b) to undertake a literature review in a prescribed topic of plant science; (c) to present a seminar which describes the aims and result of the student’s research work; and (d) to write a research proposal within the framework of currently accepted guidelines for research application. At the discretion of the Head of School, students may also undertake additional coursework.

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Staff: Mr P Dalton (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 100%/50%
Prereq: a science degree with an appropriate major which has included genetically orientated units. Appropriate majors include botany, zoology or biochemistry. A solid background in chemistry, microbiology or mathematics is required. Alternative prerequisites will be considered on their merits
Courses: S4E S6X
Enrolment code: KPA450/451
Full time/Part time
Offered: Hbt
Special note: full-time students enrol in KPA450 (100%); part-time students in
KPA451 (50%)
Unit description: Students who have completed a BSc and have satisfied the course prerequisites will be permitted to enrol in honours in Marine,
Freshwater and Antarctic Biology provided (a) they have achieved an adequate standard, normally at least 33.33% of credits in Group 3 units, and (b) there are a suitable project and a supervisor available. The honours year includes: (a)
Directed studies and attendance at seminars given mainly by scientists and administrators from outside the University, eg. CSIRO Divisions of Fisheries
Research and Oceanography, the Antarctic Division, Inland Fisheries
Commission, interstate and international visitors; (b) an evaluation of literature in a prescribed field of study; (c) A research project of about 9 months duration; and (d) a presentation of a seminar and a research proposal. (Microbiology students enrol in KLA455 or 456; Plant Science students in KPA450 or 451; and
Zoology students in KZA450 or 451).
Staff: Mr P Dalton (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 100%/50%
Enrolment code: KPA460/461
Full time/Part time
Offered: Hbt

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Special note: full-time students enrol in KPA460 (100%); part-time students in
KPA461 (50%)
Unit description: Students who have completed a BSc and have satisfied the course prerequisites will be permitted to enrol in honours in Forest Ecology provided: (a) they have achieved an adequate standard, normally at least 50% of credits in Group 3 units, and (b) there are a suitable project and a supervisor available. The honours year includes: (a) a research project of nine months duration, normally be carried out in the School of Plant Science, but after consultation with the course coordinator may be carried out in other appropriate schools such as Zoology, Agricultural Science, Geography and
Environmental Studies or Mathematics; (b) a review of literature on a prescribed topic; (c) a grant proposal; (d) a presentation of a seminar; and (e) other activities as directed by the head of school, such as attendance at seminars given by research scientists working in the field (eg CSIRO Forestry and Forest
Products and the Ecological Society of Australia or the CRCSPF).
Staff: Mr P Dalton (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 100% /50%
Enrolment code: KPA500/501
Full time/Part time
Unit description: Has the same objectives as KPA400/401. Full time/part time
‘umbrella’ code.
Courses: S6X
Enrolment code: KPA510
Special note: for those enrolling in the Graduate Diploma in Science with
Honours (Forest Ecology) the unit has the same objectives as KPA460/461
Unit description: Has the same objectives as KPA410/411. Full time
‘umbrella’ code.
Courses: S6X

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Enrolment code: KPA520/521
Full time/Part time
Unit description: Aims at training or retraining technical/research workers for the forest industry. The topics available cover a range of disciplines including: tree breeding and genetics, tissue culture, insect or animal ecology, tree physiology and ecology, soil or tree nutrition, and modelling. The unit can be tailored to suit the requirements of each applicant, but generally comprises the following components: course work (15%), a literature review (25%), research thesis (50%), and seminar (10%). The unit may be taken on a part-time or full-time basis.
Staff: Mr P Dalton (Coordinator)
Prereq: a science degree or equiv with at least passes in units appropriate to the proposed research topic. Special cases may be considered on their individual merits