Genetics play a crucial role in addressing societal challenges - solving medical mysteries & feeding the world’s population. This course focusses on 5 main areas: medical genetics to improve health, population genetics to understand evolutionary forces & changing environments, agriculture to produce quality food, bacterial/viral genetics & bioinformatics to overcome disease challenges, & genetics & applications in society. You will learn modern concepts & apply acquired knowledge to undertake your own inquiry into the nature of future research & development in this area of science.
Course detail
- Prerequisite
- LFS100 or SCI102 or (LFS103 and enrolled in program SC355, SC357 or SC354)
- Semester of offer Subject to change
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- Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
- Moreton Bay: Semester 2
- Units
- 12.00
- Tuition fee
- 3.2:Science, Engineering, Environmental Studies
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