BOTN 433 — Fresh Water Biology
Plant and Environmental Biology · University of Ghana
Chemical aspects of rain water, ionic composition of lakes and rivers; oxygen, carbon dioxide and pH and chemical stratification. Biological aspects: primary production, population dynamics and correlation with physico-chemical aspects. Pollution: effects of pollution on inland waters; eutrophication. Fresh water macrophytes: types/classification, zonation, biological adaptations of hydrophytes; succession; production. Algal physiology. Bacteria morphology and physiology. Aquatic fungi. Economic aspects of fresh water plants (micro-and macrophytes): aquatic weed problems including toxic algae; aquatic weed control; value of aquatic plants (algae and macrophytes); beneficial and harmful bacteria and fungi in fresh water.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- BIOL 201 — Introductory Plant Morphology
- BIOL 315 — Principles of Genetics
- BIOL 318 — Aquatic Biology
- BOTN 325 — Bacteria and Viruses
- BOTN 400 — Project Work
- BOTN 410 — Language for Scientists II
- BOTN 411 — Fungi and Lichens
- BOTN 413 — Cell Ultra Structure and Function
- BOTN 414 — Economic Botany
- BOTN 417 — Microbiology
- BOTN 418 — Plant Pathology
- BOTN 419 — Advanced Plant Taxonomy
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).