Botany- NEET- (U.G

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Cell - The Unit of Life

• CELL THEORY

• AN OVERVIEW OF CELL

• PROKARYOTIC CELLS

• EUKARYOTIC CELLS

Cell Cycle and Cell Division

• CELL CYCLE

• Phases of Cell Cycle

• Significance of Mitosis

• MEIOSIS I

• MEIOSIS

• MEIOSIS II

• Significance of Meiosis

The Living World

• WHAT IS ‘LIVING’?

• DIVERSITY IN THE LIVING WORLD

• Binomial nomenclature

• TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES

Biological Classification

• Types of Classification

• KINGDOM MONERA

• KINGDOM PROTISTA

• KINGDOM FUNGI

• KINGDOM PLANTAE

• KINGDOM ANIMALIA

• acellular organisms

• Symbiotic organisms

Plant Kingdom

• Classification system

• Taxonomy

• ALGAE

• BRYOPHYTES

• PTERIDOPHYTES

• GYMNOSPERMS

Morphology of Flowering Plants

• THE ROOT

• THE STEM

• THE LEAF

• THE FLOWER

• THE FRUIT

• THE SEED

• SEMI-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF A TYPICAL FLOWERING PLANT

• DESCRIPTION OF SOME IMPORTANT FAMILIES

Anatomy of Flowering Plants

• THE TISSUES

• Simple Tissues

• Complex Tissues

• THE TISSUE SYSTEM

• Anatomy of Plants

Photosynthesis in Higher Plants

• EARLY EXPERIMENTS

• WHERE DOES PHOTOSYNTHESIS TAKE PLACE?

• HOW MANY TYPES OF PIGMENTS ARE INVOLVED IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS?

• WHAT IS LIGHT REACTION?

• Dark Reaction

• THE C4 PATHWAY

• PHOTORESPIRATION

• FACTORS AFFECTING PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Respiration in Plants

• RESPIRATION IN PLANTS

• GLYCOLYSIS

• FERMENTATION

• AEROBIC RESPIRATION

• THE RESPIRATORY BALANCE SHEET

• AMPHIBOLIC PATHWAY

• RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT

Plant Growth and Development

• GROWTH

• Growth Rates

• DIFFERENTIATION, DEDIFFERENTIATION AND REDIFFERENTIATION

• DEVELOPMENT

• PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plant

• FLOWER – A FASCINATING ORGAN OF ANGIOSPERMS

• PRE-FERTILISATION : STRUCTURES AND EVENTS

• Pollen grain

• Female gametophyte

• Pollination

• POST-FERTILISATION : STRUCTURES AND EVENTS

• Embryo

• Seed

• Fruit

• APOMIXIS AND POLYEMBRYONY

Principle of Inheritance and Variation

• Genetics

• MENDEL’S LAWS OF INHERITANCE

• INHERITANCE OF ONE GENE

• INHERITANCE OF TWO GENES

• POLYGENIC INHERITANCE

• PLEIOTROPY

• SEX DETERMINATION

• MUTATION

• GENETIC DISORDERS

• Mendelian Disorders

• Chromosomal Disorders

Molecular Basis of Inheritance

• THE DNA

• THE SEARCH FOR GENETIC MATERIAL

• RNA WORLD

• THE DNA

• DNA Replication

• TRANSCRIPTION

• GENETIC CODE

• RNA– the Adapter Molecule

• TRANSLATION

• REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION

• HUMAN GENOME PROJECT

• DNA FINGERPRINTING

Microbes in Human Welfare

• MICROBES IN HUMAN WELFARE

• MICROBES IN SEWAGE TREATMENT

• MICROBES IN PRODUCTION OF BIOGAS

• MICROBES AS BIOCONTROL AGENTS

• MICROBES AS BIOFERTILISERS

Organisms and Population

• ORGANISM AND ITS ENVIRONMENT

• POPULATIONS

• Population Growth

• Life History Variation

• Population Interactions

Ecosystem

• ECOSYSTEM – STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

• ENERGY FLOW

• ECOLOGICAL PYRAMIDS

Biodiversity and Conservation

• BIODIVERSITY

• Patterns of Biodiversity

• Loss of Biodiversity

• BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

• Why Should We Conserve Biodiversity?

• BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION