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Dams and pond construction; Stocking and pond management; Cropping and marketing; Cage culture; raceways and closed circulation systems; Fish propagation; controlled natural and induced spawning; Hatchery organization and management; Feed formulation and evaluation; Culture of shell fishes

A review of plant diseases including distinction between bacterial diseases; fungal disease and viral diseases should be highlighted; Transmission of plant viruses: through insects; animals; mechanical transmission; vegetative propagation; seeds; dodder; fungi; etc; Physical and chemical properties of viruses; virus structure and chemistry; diseases - swollen shoot; cassava mosaic; pepper mosaic; Applications in plant breeding

Characteristics of various visco-elastic and Plastic material; Basic equations; Boundary Value Problems; Elastic-plastic problem

Weeds in relation to man; Origin and life cycles of weeds; Propagation and weed dissemination; Weed growth; development and establishment; Competitive ability of weeds; Weed-crop association in the tropics; Weed control (chemical; biological etc); selectivity of herbicides

Wildlife in relation to their environment; Factors affecting the distribution and abundance of wildlife; Inter-relationships between climate; soils; vegetation; history and wildlife populations; The wildlife resources of Nigeria; Movement; behaviour; life cycles; reproduction; food and food habits of wildlife; Natural and efficient usage of range lands in Africa; Methods of range assessment and management; Principles of biological conservation; Natural reserves

Natural and environmental toxicants; Food toxicology and carcinogens; Detoxification of toxicants; Drug and selective toxicity; Microbial and insects metabolism of xenobiotics; Resistance to drugs and pesticides; Metabolism as a determinant of toxicity; Assessment of toxicity

Brewing yeast structure; Yeast cell wall in relation to flocculence; fining and head retention; Yeast propagation and purification; Improvement of brewing strains by hybridization; rare mating; cytoduction; killer yeasts; mutation etc; Large scale manufacture of yeasts for commercial purposes; Yeast products and their uses; Biochemistry of fermentation: changes from wort to beer; Batch and continuous culture; Main fermentation rooms and vessels; Control and regulation of fermentation; Secondary fermentation