Note: For the Students taken admission in B.Sc. after 2015-16
Paper- I Taxonomy of Angiosperms M.M-33
1- A general account of the origin and evolution of angiosperms.
2- Basic principles and broad outline of the classification proposed by Bentham and Hooker
and Hutchinson.
3- International code of Botanical nomenclature.
4- Botanical gardens and herbaria.
5- Botanical survey of India.
UNIT-II
Distinguishing features of the following families with special reference to the local flora.
DICOTYLEDONS:
1- POLYPETALAE: Ranunculaceae, Brassicaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Malvaceae, Rutaceae, Fabaceae, Rosaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Apiaceae.
2- MONOCHLAMUDEAE:
Euphorbiaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Polygonaceae.
UNIT- III
1- GAMOPETALAE: Rubiaceae, Asteraceae, Solanaceae, Acanthaceae, Verbenaceae, Lamiaceae, Apocynaceae.
2- MONOCOTYLEDONS: Orchidaceae, Liliaceae, Poaceae.
PAPER-II- ANATOMY, EMBRYOLOGY AND MORPHOGENESIS M.M-33
1- Meristems-Primary and econdary meristems, characteristics and functions.
2- A brief account of root, shoot and leaf anatomy.
3- Root-stem transition.
4- Secondary growth, secondary xylem, secondary phloem-structure-function, growth rings,
sapwood, heartwood, periderm and anamolous secondary growth in Dicot, Monocot stem
and roots.
UNIT-II
1- Microsporogenesis and male gametophyte.
2- Megasporogenesis and female gametophyte.
3- Pollination and fertilization, self incompatibility, double fertilization, triple fusion.
4- Formation of seed-Endosperm and embroyo.
UNIT-III
1- General concept of morphogenesis.
2- Seed germination and dormancy.
3- Seed is an unit of genetic recombination and replenishment.
4- Elementary movements.
5- Plant growth regulators-Auxins, Gibberellins, Cytokinins and Abscissic acid.
6- Physiology of flowering-photoperiodism and vernalization.
PAPER-III ECOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS M.M-34
1- Brief history of ecology.
2- Plant and environment:Principals of environments, atmosphere, light, temperature, water,
soil and biota.
3- Morphological, anatomical and physiological responses of plants to water (hydrophytes
and xerophytes): temperature (thermoperiodicity and vemalization): light (heliophytes
and sciophytes).
4- Population: Growth curve, ecotypes and ecads.
5- Definition of community, structure and attributes of community: frequency, density,
cover, life-forms and biological spectrum, ecological succession.
UNIT-II
1- Ecosystem concept, energy flow, food chain, food web and ecological pyramids.
2- Biogeochemical cycles-brief discussion of concept by giving examples of carbon,
nitrogen, phosphorus and Hydrological cycle.
3- Brief idea of biogeographical regions and vegetation types of India: Forests and
grasslands.
4- Preliminary idea of environmental pollution-air, water, soil, noise and Radio active
pollutions.
UNIT-III
1- Introduction, definition, scope and importance of statistics.
2- Sampling: aim, simple random sampling, stratified random sampling, systematic
sampling.
3- Measures of central tendency, mean, median and mode.
4- Classification, tabulation and graphic presentation of data.
5- Measures of dispersion-range, standard deviation, standard error.
6- Correlation : Correlation coefficient.
7- Chi-square (X2 ) test.
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