The living world | Taxonomy and systematics |
Tools to study Taxonomy |
Plant Kingdom | Angiosperm – classification up to class, characteristics features and examples |
Structural organization in animals | Morphology, Anatomy and Functions of Different Systems of an insect |
Morphology of flowering plants | Morphology and modification, Morphology of different parts of flowering plants – root, stem, leaf, fruit and seed |
Description of families – Fabaceae |
Cell – The unit of life | NIL |
Biomolecules | NIL |
Cell cycle and Cell division | NIL |
Mineral nutrition | Essential minerals, macro and micronutrients and their role, deficiency symptoms, mineral toxicity, elementary idea of hydroponics as a method of study mineral nutrition, nitrogen metabolism, nitrogen cycle, biological nitrogen fixation. |
Photosynthesis in higher plants | NIL |
Respiration in plants | NIL |
Plant – Growth and Development | Seed germination, phases of plant growth and plant growth rate, conditions of growth, differentiation, differentiation and redifferentiation, sequence of developmental processes in a plant cell, Seed dormancy, vernalisation, photoperiodism |
Anatomy of flowering plants | Anatomy and functions of different tissues and tissue systems in dicots and monocots secondary growth |
Chemical coordination and integration | Reflex actions, Sensory perception, Sense organs, Elementary structure and functions of eye and ear |
Transport in Plants | Movement of water, gases and nutrients; cell-to-cell transport; diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport, plan-water relation, imbibition, water potential, osmosis, plasmolysis, long-distance transport of water, transport of food |
Digestion and Absorption | Alimentary canal and digestive glands, role of digestive enzymes and gastrointestinal hormones, Peristalsis, Digestion, Absorption and assimilation of proteins, Carbohydrates and fats, Calorific value of proteins, Carbohydrates and Fats, Egestion, Nutritional and digestive disorders – PEM indigestion, constipation, vomiting, jaundice, diarrhoea |
Locomotion and movement | Types of movement, ciliary flagellar, muscular, Skeletal system and its function joints, a disorder of the muscular and skeletal system, myasthenia gravis, tetany, muscular dystrophy, arthritis, osteoporosis, gout |
Neural control and coordination | NIL |
Biological classification | NIL |
Excretory products and their elimination | NIL |
Breathing and exchange of gases | NIL |
Body fluids and circulation | NIL |
Animal Kingdom | NIL |
