UNIT I: DIVERSITY OF LIVING ORGANISMS
- Concept of species and taxonomical hierarchy
- Five kingdom classification
- salient features and classification of Monera
- Protista and Fungi into major groups
- Lichens; Viruses and Viroids
- Salient features and classification of plants into major groups - Algae, Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae and Angiospermae (salient and distinguishing features and a few examples of each category)
- Angiosperms - classification up to class, characteristic features and examples
- Salient features and classification of animals, non-chordates up to phyla level and chordates up to class level (salient features and distinguishing features of a few examples of each category). (No live animals or specimen should be displayed.)
UNIT II: STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION IN ANIMALS AND PLANTS
- Morphology of Flowering Plants
- Anatomy of Flowering Plants
- Anatomy and functions of different tissues and tissue systems in dicots and monocots
- Structural Organisation in Animals
- of an insect-cockroach (a brief account only)
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