APPLIED BIOLOGY

Paper Code: 
HSC 301
Credits: 
1
Contact Hours: 
15.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 

This course will enable the students

  • To make students familiar with various groups of animals and plants.
  • To know about parasites insects and their harmful effects.
  • To equip the students with the knowledge of genetics.
  • To make the students aware of the economic uses of plants.
  • Normal garden operations and ecology of Rajasthan.

3.00
Unit I: 
Applied Botany

 

Economic use of lower plants with special reference to Spirulina, the single cell protein and mushroom cultivation.

Economic use of angiosperms: origin, plant part used and economic use of:

Vegetables:- potato, tomato, onion, spinach.

Fruits:- mango, guava, papaya, pomegranate

Spices and condiments:- cardamom, pepper, asafetida, turmeric, clove, ginger, cumin, garlic, coriander.

Beverages:- Tea and coffee

Oil seeds:- Groundnut, mustard, sunflower and soybean.

Medicinal plants:- Rauwolfia and Withania                                

3.00
Unit II: 
Home Gardening

 

 

Garden planning: garden , operations , types of gardens , landscape designs and  miscellaneous growing techniques Bansai, terrarium, pot culture and hydro 

 

3.00
Unit III: 
Cytology and Genetics;

 

Structure of cell, cell division, Mendel’s laws of inheritance, transgenic plants, edible vaccines, human chromosomes, human genome hereditary diseases-kleinfelter’s syndrome, superfemale, turner’s syndrome haemophilia, color blindness phenyl ketonuria and sickle cell anemia, study of twins,  ABO blood groups and Rh factor.                                                                                      

3.00
Unit IV: 
Culture Techniques

 

Apiculture, sericulture,  pearl culture, vermin composting and poultry keeping.                                                                                  

                                                  
 

3.00
Unit V: 
Parasitic Protozoa:
  • Entamoeba, Plasmodium, Giardia and Leishmania (morphology, parthenogenesis and control)
  • Parasitic helminthes: Taenia and Ascaris
  • Pinworm, Hookworm ( external features, parthenogenesis and control)
  • Life cycle and preventive measures to control  mosquitoes, housefly, silverfish, termites, cockroach.
  • Insect parasites- bed bug louse
  • AIDS, hepatitis, tuberculosis, tetanus:- general study and causative agents, pathogenesis mode of transmission, treatment and control.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015
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