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Plant sciences - Faculty of Science

Contact: Associate Professor Jenny Read (School of Biological Sciences)

The discipline

Plant science is the study of plants, their diversity and structure, and how they function. It involves studying plants living on land, in the sea and in freshwater environments, from the scale of genes and molecules to ecology.

Sequence requirements

Minor sequence in plant sciences (24 points)

• BIO1011 and one of BIO1022 or BIO1042
• Two of BIO2181, BIO2282, BIO3082# or BIO3091

Major sequence in plant sciences (48 points)

• BIO1011 and one of BIO1022 or BIO1042
• BIO2181 and BIO2282
• BIO3091* and BIO3082#, and two of BIO2022, BIO3021, BIO3011, BIO3111, GEN3030, GEN3040, BTH3611 or SCM3022

A list of related units are provided in the `Biological sciences' entry in this section of the handbook.

*This unit has level-two prerequisites beyond those listed at level two.
# The version of these units at level three cannot be taken if the corresponding version at level two has been completed.