APPLIED BIOLOGY

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                                

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

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.                                                                                     

Culture Techniques

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

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.