This course will enable the students
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
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.
Apiculture, sericulture, pearl culture, vermin composting and poultry keeping.