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BIOLOGY
COURSE STRUCTURE
CLASS First Year PUC, Karnataka (Theory)
One Paper Three Hours Max Marks. 80
Unit Titles Weightage
I Diversity in living world 07
II Structural organization in animals and plants 12
III Cell: Structure and function 15
IV Plant physiology 18
V Human Physiology 18
VI Practical Oriented Questions 10
Total 80


UNIT I: DIVERSITY IN LIVING WORLD
What is living?
  • Concept of Biodiversity
  • Classification of the living organisms
    - Need for classification
    - Three domains of life
    - Five kingdoms of life and basis of five kingdom classification
    - Lichens
    - Virus and Virioids

    Systematics and binomial System of nomenclature
    - Taxonomy & Systematics
    - Concept os species & taxonomic heirarchy
    - Binomial nomenclature
    - Salient features of classification of Monera, Protoctista (Protista) and Fungi into major groups
    - Salient features of classification of plants into major groups: Algae, Bryophytes,Pteriodophytes, Gymnosperms and features of each category and at least two examples of each
    - Angiosperms: classification upto class, characterisation features and examples
    - Salient features of animals: Major non-chordates phyla and chordate classes. Three to five salient features and at least two examples
    - Tools for study of biodiversity: Museums, Zoos, Herbaria, botanical gardens

    UNIT II: STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION IN ANIMALS AND PLANTS
    - Tissues in animals and plants
    - Morphology including modifications, microscopic anatomy and functions of different parts of flowering plants: Root, Stem, leaf, inflorescence, flower, fruit and seed (To be dealt along with the relevant Practicals of the Practcal Syllabus)
    - Morphology, anatomy and functions of different systems (digestive, circulatory, respiratory, nervous and reproductive) of an insect (cockroach) (Brief account only)

    UNIT III: CELL: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
    - Cell and its three major parts: Cell Membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus
    - Cell theory and the cell as the basic unit of life
    - Structure of the Prokanyotic and eucaryotic cell
    - Plant cell and animal cell (brief)
    - Cell Organelles:Cell envelope, cell membrane, cell wall structure and
    function: mitochondria, Golgi bodies/dictyosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, lysosomes, vacuoles, plastids, microbodies
    - Cytoskeleton, cilia, flagella, centrioles (Ultrastructure and function)
    - Nucleus: nuclear membrane, chromatin, nucleolus
    - Chemical constituents of living cells
    - Biomolecules: Structure and functions of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, lipids and nucleic acids
    - Enzymes: types, properties, function and enzyme action
    - Cell division: Cell cycle, significance of, and differences between Mitosis and Meiosis

    UNIT IV: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
    Movement of water, food, nutrients and gases
    - Absorption of water, gases and nutrients
    - Cell to Cell transport
    - Diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active transport
    - Plant-Water Relations
    - Imbibition, water potential, osmosis, plasmolysis
    - Long Distance Transport
    - Apoplant, symplast, root pressure, transpiration pull
    - Transportation and Guttation
    - Opening and closing of stomata
    - Role of K+ ions
    -Uptake of mineral and their translocation
    - Transportation through xylem and phloem
    -Plants and mineral nutrition
    - Essential minerals, macro- and micronutrients and their role
    - Defficiency symptoms
    - Mineral toxicity
    - Elementry idea of Hydroponics as a Method to study mineral nutrition
    - Nitrogen metabolism: Nitrogen cycle, biological nitrogen fixation
    -Plants Respiration
    - Exchange of gases
    - Cellular respiration: glycolysis, fermentation (anaerobic)
    - Energy Relation: Number of ATP molecules generated
    - Amphibiotic pathways
    - Respiratory quotient of nutrients
    -Photosynthesis
    - Autotropic nutrition
    - Site of photosynthesis
    - Photosynthetic pigments (Elementary idea)
    - Photosynthetic and biosynthetic phases of photosynthesis
    - Cyclic and non-cyclic photophosphorylation
    - Chemismotic hypothesis
    - Phototrespiration
    - C and C pathways
    - Factors affecting photosynthesis
        - Law of Limiting Factors
    -Plant Growth and Development
    - Phases of plant growth and plant growth rate
    - Condition fo Growth
    - Differentiation, dedifferentiation and redifferentiation
    - Sequence of developmental process in a plant cell
    - Growth regulators: auxin, gibberellin, cytokinin, ethylene, ABA
    - Photomorphogenesis including brief account of phytochromes
    (Elementary Idea)
    - Seed germination
    - Seed dormancy
    - Vermalisation
    - Photoperiodism

    UNIT V: HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
    Digestion and Absorption
    - Human alimentary canal and Digestive glands
    - Role of digesitive enzymes and gastrointestinal hormones
    - Peristalsis
    - Digestion, absorption and assimilation of proteins, carbodydrates and fats
    - Calorific value of proteins, carbodydrates and fats
    - Egestion
    - Nutritional and digestive disorders – P E M, indigestion, constipation, vomiting, jaundice

    Breathing and Respiration
    - Respiratory organts in animals (Recall only)
    - Respiratory system in humans
    - Mechanism of Breathing and its regulation in humans
    - Exchange of gases, transport of gases and regulation of respiration in humans
    - Respiratory volumes
    - Disorders related to respiration – Asthma, Emphysema, Occupational Respiratory disorders

    Body fluids and Circulation
    - Composition of blood, Blood groups, Coagulation of blood
    - Composition of Lymph and function
    - Human circulatory system
    - Structure of human heart and blood vessels
    - Cardiac cycle, Cardiac output, ECG
    - Double circulation
    - Regulation of cardiac activity
    - Disorders of circulatory system – Hypertension, Coronary artery disease, Angina pectoris, heart failure

    Excretory products and their elimination
    - Modes of excretion – Ammonotelism, ureotelism, uricotelism
    - Human excretory system-structure and function
    - Urine formation, Osmoregulaion
    - Regulation of kidney function, Renin-angiotensin, Antinatriuretic factor, ADH and Diabeters insipidus
    - Role of other organs in excretion
    - Disoders – Uraemia, Renal failure, Renal calculi, Nephritis
    - Dialysis and artificial kidney

    Locomotion and Movement
    - Types of movement – ciliary, flagellar, muscular
    - Skeletal muscle _ contractile proteins and muscle contraction
    - Skeletal system and its functions. (to be dealt with the relvent practical of practical syllabus)
    - Joints
    - Disorders of muscular and skeletal systm – Myasthenia gravis, Tetany, Muscular dystrophy, Arthritis, Osteoporosis Gout

    Neural control and coordination
    - Neural and nerves
    - Nervous system in humans
    - Central Nervous system, Peripheral Nervous system and Viseral Nervous system
    - Generation and conduction of nerve impulse
    - Reflex action
    - Sensory Perception
    - Elementary structure and function of eye and ear and general idea of other sense organs

    Chemical coordination and regulation
    - Endocrine glands and hormones
    - Human endocrine system – Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Pineal, Thyroid, Parathyroid, Adrenal, Pancreas, Gonads
    - Mechanism of hormone action (Elementary Idea)
    - Role of hormones as messengers and regulators
    - Hypo- and hyperactivity and related disorders, (Common disorders eg. Dwarfism, Acromegaly, Cretinism, goiter, exopthalmic goiter, diabetes, Addison’s disease)

    IMP: Diseases related to all the human physiology systems to be taught in brief.

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