Biological Sciences

Unit I: Diversity of Living Organism. Contact Hours: 2. Topics: Biodiversity; need for classification; three domains of life; Taxonomy and Systematics; concept of species; taxonomical hierarchy; binomial nomenclature; tools for study of Biodiversity; museums; zoological and botanical gardens; herbaria.

Unit I: Diversity of Living Organism. Contact Hours: 5. Topics: Five kingdoms of classification; salient features and classification of Monera, Protista and Fungi into major groups; lichens, viruses, viroids and prions.

Unit I: Diversity of Living Organism. Contact Hours: 5. Topics: Classification of plants into major groups; salient and distinguishing features with examples of Algae, Bryophyta, Pteridophyta and Gymnosperm.

Unit I: Diversity of Living Organism. Contact Hours: 7. Topics: Salient features and classification of animals; non-chordates up to phyla level and chordates up to class level.

Unit II: Structural Organizations in Plants and Animals. Contact Hours: 8. Topics: Morphology of root, stem, leaf, inflorescence, flower, fruit and seed; description of Malvaceae, Solanaceae, Brassicaceae, Compositae, Leguminosae, Poaceae and Liliaceae.

Unit II: Structural Organizations in Plants and Animals. Contact Hours: 4. Topics: Plant tissue systems including mechanical tissue systems; anatomy and functions of tissue systems in dicots and monocots.

Unit II: Structural Organizations in Plants and Animals. Contact Hours: 4. Topics: Animal tissue systems; epithelial, connective, muscular and nervous systems; morphology, anatomy and functions of digestive, circulatory, respiratory, nervous and reproductive systems of frog.

Unit III: Cell Structure and Functions. Contact Hours: 7. Topics: Cell theory; cell as the basic unit of life; prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells; plant and animal cells; cell envelope, membrane and wall; endomembrane system; nucleus, ER, Golgi bodies, lysosomes, vacuoles, mitochondria, ribosomes, plastids, microbodies, cytoskeleton, cilia, flagella and centrioles.

Unit III: Cell Structure and Functions. Contact Hours: 9. Topics: Chemical constituents of living cells; biomolecules; structure and function of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids; enzymes, types, properties and enzyme action.

Unit III: Cell Structure and Functions. Contact Hours: 4. Topics: Cell cycle; mitosis; meiosis; significance of cell division.