Courses

Use of computers: DOS, word processing spreadsheet, database, statistical packages, introduction to programming. For Plant Anatomy and Ecology: Database for ecological, ethnobotanical and taxonomic information in the Ghana Herbarium.      

Statistical methods:  analysis of variance; f actorial experimentation;  multivariate analysis.  Classification and ordination.  Algebra:  matrix algebra;  complex numbers. Calculus:  maxima and minima;  partial...

For year 2, each student will make a presentation soon after the Year I examinations on his/ her Thesis Research Proposal and also present a progress report midway into the second semester. These will be assessed for 3 credits.

Sources and applications of plant names.  The international code of Botanical Nomenclature: history, principles and provisions.

Tools in Eiosystematics:  variation and speciation plant identification.  Herbarium techniques and field practice.  Ethnobotany.

Types and sources of taxonomic data Relevance in classification.  Data handling and presentation.

Different classification approaches:  history, thought and processes.  Numerical Taxonomy. Cladistics.

Classification, Taxonomy and Systematics.  Concepts of taxa.  Assessment of relationship, concept and practice:  phenetic, phyletic, phytogenetic.

In year 1, each student in a Department or Programme is expected to attend all seminars specified and make his/her own presentation on selected topics to an audience.  Each student will be expected to make at least one oral presentation to be assessed...

Exploration of the role of plant physiology in resource restoration, maintenance and germplasm conservation practices in Ghana, the biosphere reserve concept, use of physiological knowledge (orthodox and tissue culture) in: the collection, storage,...