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Syllabus

Unit-1

DIVERSITY IN THE LIVING VING WORLD

Chapter 1 : The living world

What is living? Diversity in the living world; Taxonomic categories and taxonomical aids.

Chapter 2 : Biological Classification

Five kingdom classification - Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia, Three domains of life (six kingdom classification), Viruses, Viroids, Prions & Lichens.

Chapter 3 : Science of Plants - Botany Origin, Development, Scope of Botany and Branches of Botany.

Chapter 4 : Plant Kingdom

Salient features, classification and alternation of generations of the plants of the following groups –Algae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms.

Unit-2

STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION IN PLANTS- MORPHOLOGY

Chapter 5 : Morphology of flowering Plants

Vegetative :

Parts of a typical Angiospermic plant; Vegetative morphology and modifications- Root, Stem and Leaftypes; Venation, Phyllotaxy.

Reproductive:

Inflorescence – Racemose, Cymose and special types ( in brief).

Flower : Parts of a flower and their detailed description; Aestivation, Placentation.

Fruits : Types- True, False and parthenocarpic fruits.

Unit-3

REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS

Chapter 6 : Modes of Reproduction

Asexual reproduction, binary fission, Sporulation, budding, fragmentation, vegetative propagation in plants, Sexual reproduction in brief, Overview of angiosperm life cycle.

Chapter 7 : Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Stamen, microsporangium, pollen grain. Pistil, megasporangium (ovule) and embryo sac; Development

of male and female gametophytes.

Pollination – Types, agents , Out breeding devices and Pollen – Pistil interaction.

Double Fertilization; Post fertilisation events: Development of endosperm and embryo; development of seed, Structure of Dicotyledonous and Monocotyledonous seeds, Significance of fruit and seed.

Special modes – Apomixis, parthenocarpy, polyembryony.

Unit-4

PLANT SYSTEMATICS

Chapter 8 : Taxonomy of Angiosperms

Introduction

Types of Systems of classification (In brief).

Semi-Technical description of a typical flowering plant

Description of Families: Fabaceae, Solanaceae and Liliaceae.

Unit-5

CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Chapter 9 : Cell – The Unit of Life

Cell- Cell theory and cell as the basic unit of life- overview of the cell. Prokaryotic cells, Ultra Structure of Plant cell (structure in detail and functions in brief), Cell membrane,

Cell wall, Cell organelles: Endoplasmic reticulum, Mitochondria, Plastids, Ribosomes, Golgi bodies, Vacuoles, Lysosomes,

Microbodies, Centrosome and Centriole, Cilia, Flagella, Cytoskeleton and Nucleus.

Chromosomes: Number, structural organization; Nucleosome.

Chapter 10 : Biomolecules

Structure and function of Proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids and Nucleic acids.

Chapter 11 : Cell cycle and Cell Division

Cell cycle, Mitosis, Meiosis - significance.

Unit-6

INTERNAL ORGANISATION OF PLANTS

Chapter 12 : Histology and Anatomy of Flowering Plants

Tissues - Types, structure and functions: Meristematic;

Permanent tissues - Simple and Complex tissues.

Tissue systems - Types, structure and function: Epidermal, Ground and Vascular tissue systems.

Anatomy of Dicotyledonous and Monocotyledonous plants - Root, Stem and Leaf.

Secondary growth in Dicot stem and Dicot root.

Unit-7

PLANT ECOLOGY

Chapter 13 : Ecological Adaptations, Succession and Ecological Services

Introduction.

Plant communities and Ecological adaptations: Hydrophytes,

Mesophytes and Xerophytes.

Plant succession.

Ecological services – Carbon fixation, Oxygen release and pollination (in brief).