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CSIR Syllabus Life Sciences

PAPER  II

1. Principles of Taxonomy as applied to the systamics and Classification of Plant Kingdom  :  Taxonomic structure ; Biosystematics ;  Plant  geography ;  Floristics.

2. Patterns of variation in morphology and life history in plants ;  Broad outlines of classification AND evolutionary trends among algae, fungi, bryophytes and pteridophytes ;  Principles of palaeobotany ; Economic importance of algae, fungi and lichens.

3. Comparative analomy and developmental morphology of gymnosperms and anglosperms  :  Histochemical and ultrastructural aspects of development ;  Differentiation and morphogenesis.

4. Androgensis and gynogenesis ;  Breeding system ;  Pollination biology ;  structural and functional aspects of polien and pistil ;  Male sterility ; Seil and inter-specific incompatibility ; Fertilization ; Embryo and seed development.

5. Plants and civilization ;  Centres of origin and gene diversity ; Botany, utilization, cultivation and improvement of plants of  food, drug, fibre and industrial values ; Unexploited plants of potential economic value ;  Plants as a source of renewable energy ;  Genetic resources and their conservation.

6. Water Relation ;  Mineral nutrition ;  Photosynthesis and photorespiration ; Nitrogen,  Phosphorous and Sulphur metabolism ; Stomatal physiology ; Source and sink relationship.
7. Physiology and biochemistry and seed dormancy and germination ;  Hormonal regulation of growth and development ;  Photoregulation ; Growth responses, Physiology of flowering ;  Senescence.

8. Principles of plant breeding ;  Important conventional methods of breeding self and cross pollinated and vegetatively propagated crops ; Non-conventional methods ; Polyploidy :  Genetic variability ;  Plant diseases and defensive mechanisms.

9. Principles of taxonomy as applied to the systematics and classification of the animal kingdom ;  Classification and interrelationship amongst the major invertebrate phyla ;  Minor invertebrate phyla, Functional anatomy of the nonchordates ;  Larval forms and their evolutionary significance.