Department of Plant Sciences, UoH

Proposed Syllabus for CBCS-Foundation Biology (3 Credits = 36 Hrs)

Part -A (Irfan A Ghazi) No. of hours

1. General Classification 1
2. Plant Kingdom 2
3. Basics of Plant Morphology: Root, Stem, Leaf, Fruit and Seed 3
4. Reproduction in Flowering Plants 1
5. Plants and Environment, Basic concept of Environment 1
6. Ecosystem: Grassland, Forest, Desert, Marine & Freshwater 3
7. Environmental Pollution: Air, Water & Soil; Pollution control with Plants 3
8. Microbes in Nature: Friend or Foe (Bacteria, Fungi, Parasite and Viruses) 4
9. Antibiotics & Chemotherapy: An Introduction 1

Part-B (Santhosh R. Kanade) No. of hours

1. Basics of Genetics 2
2. Evolutionary Biology 2
3. Photosynthesis and Plant respiration 2
4. Plant Growth and Development 2
5. Plant Cell: Cell Cycle & Cell division 3
6. Biomolecules (Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids, Nucleic Acids, Enzymes etc) 4
7. Plant Tissue Culture and its applications, Transgenic Plants 2
8. Biotechnology and its applications 1