Units
| Chapters
| Important Topics
|
| Unit-I Plant Physiology | Chapter 1: Transport in Plants | Means of Transport, Phloem Transport: Flow from Source to Sink, Long Distance Transport of Water, etc. |
| Chapter 2: Mineral Nutrition | Methods to Study the Mineral Requirements of Plants, Essential Mineral Elements, Metabolism of Nitrogen, etc. |
| Chapter 3: Enzymes | The concentration of Substrate, Classification, and Nomenclature of Enzymes, etc. |
| Chapter 4: Photosynthesis in Higher Plants | Early Experiments, Site of Photosynthesis, Pigments Involved in Photosynthesis, Factors affecting Photosynthesis, etc. |
| Chapter 5: Respiration of Plants | Cellular respiration, Glycolysis, Fermentation, Aerobic Respiration, Amphibolic Pathway, Respiratory Quotient, etc. |
| Chapter 6: Plant Growth and Development | Development, Plant Growth Regulators, Seed Dormancy, Photoperiodism, Vernalisation, etc. |
| UNIT II: Microbiology | Chapter 7: Bacteria | Morphology of Bacteria, Bacterial cell structure, The importance of Bacteria to Humans, etc. |
| Chapter 8: Viruses | Multiplication of Bacteriophages- The Lysogenic Cycle, Viral diseases in Plants, etc. |
| UNIT III: Genetics | Chapter 9: Principles of Inheritance and Variation | Mendel’s Experiments, Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance, Linkage and Recombination, Mutations, etc. |
| UNIT IV: Molecular Biology | Chapter 10: Molecular Basis of inheritance | The DNA, Transcription, Translation, Regulation of Gene Expression, etc. |
| UNIT V: Biotechnology | Chapter 11: Principles and processes of Biotechnology | Principles of Biotechnology, Processes of Recombinant DNA Technology, etc. |
| Chapter 12: Biotechnology and its applications | Biotechnological Applications In Agriculture, Transgenic plants, Biosafety and Ethical issues, etc. |
| UNIT VI: Plants, Microbes and Human welfare | Chapter 13: Strategies for enhancement in food production | Plant breeding, Single-cell protein, Tissue culture, etc. |
| Chapter 14: Microbes in Human Welfare | Primary treatment, Secondary treatment or Biological treatment, Microbes as Biofertilizers, Challenges posed by Microbes, etc. |