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School Of Natural Sciences

Plant PhysiologyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 14409.1

Discipline: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Student Contribution Band: NP

Level: 2

Credit Points: 10

Assumed Knowledge
300221 - Biology 1 and 300222 - Biology 2

About this Unit
This unit covers aquatic and terrestrial plants, photosynthesis, regulating gas exchange, transport and support in terrestrial plants, vegetative and sexual reproduction, plant growth, water movement and transpiration, nitrogen uptake and fixation, plant symbiosis, auxins and plant growth, cytokinins, cell division hormones, abscisic acid, growth-slowing hormone, flowering hormones.