CUET UG 2024 Biology Syllabus: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has so far reduced the syllabus for NEET UG 2024 and JEE Main 2024 and hence, it is expected that the syllabus for CUET UG will be reduced as well. NTA has not yet made any official announcement regarding the reduction of the syllabus. Based on the topics deleted from NEET UG syllabus, an expected list of topics that may be scraped from CUET 2024 biology syllabus is detailed on this page in a unit-wise format. Check the complete syllabus as it was for the previous year here: CUET UG Biology Syllabus (Unreduced).

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List of Topics Expected to be Deleted from CUET UG 2024 Biology Syllabus

For each unit, the topics and sub-topics that may be deleted from the syllabus are enlisted here:

Unit I: Reproduction

1. Reproduction in organisms

• Reproduction, a characteristic feature of all organisms for the continuation of species
• Modes of reproduction – Asexual and sexual
• Asexual reproduction
• Modes – Binary fission, sporulation, budding, gemmule, fragmentation
• Vegetative propagation in plants

2. Sexual reproduction in flowering plants

• No topic is expected to be deleted

3. Human Reproduction

• No topic is expected to be deleted

4. Reproductive health

• No topic is expected to be deleted

Unit II: Genetics and Evolution

1. Heredity and variation

• No topic is expected to be deleted

2. Molecular Basis of Inheritance

• No topic is expected to be deleted

3. Evolution

• No topic is expected to be deleted

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Unit III: Biology and Human Welfare

1. Health and Disease

• No topic is expected to be deleted

2. Improvement in food production:

• Plant breeding, tissue culture, single-cell protein, Biofortification
• Apiculture and Animal husbandry

3. Microbes in Human Welfare

• No topic is expected to be deleted

Unit IV: Biotechnology and Its Applications

1. Principles and Process of Biotechnology

• No topic is expected to be deleted

2. Application of Biotechnology in health and agriculture

• No topic is expected to be deleted

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Unit V: Ecology and Environment

1. Organisms and environment:

• Habitat and niche
• Population and ecological adaptations

2. Ecosystems:

• Nutrient cycling (carbon and phosphorous)
• Ecological succession
• Ecological Services– Carbon fixation, pollination, oxygen release

3. Biodiversity and its conservation

• No topic is expected to be deleted

4. Environmental issues:

• Air pollution and its control
• Water pollution and its control
• Agrochemicals and their effects
• Solid waste management
• Radioactive waste management
• Greenhouse effect and global warming
• Ozone depletion
• Deforestation
• Any three case studies as success stories addressing environmental issues

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