B.Sc. Part-I, Semester-II

Paper I: Bot-101: Viruses, Bacteria, cyanobacteria, Algae, Fungi and Lichens

On completion of the course, students are able to:

1. Understand the scope of microbiology in terms of human welfare

2. Understand the role of Bacteria and Cyanobacteria

3. Understand the Diversity among Algae.

4. Know the systematic, morphology and structure of Algae.

5. Understand the life cycle pattern of Algae.

6. Understand the useful and harmful activities of Algae.

7. Understand the Biodiversity of Fungi, Morphology, taxonomy

8. Know the Economic Importance of Fungi

9. Know the systematic, structure, economic importance of Lichens

10. Understand the disease symptoms, etiology and control measures of plant diseases caused by fungi, viruses and bacteria.

11. Understand the applications of various microbes as agents of Bioprospecting.

B.Sc. Part-I, Semester-II

Paper II: Bot-201: Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Paleobotany and Gymnosperms

On completion of the course, students are able to:

1. Understand the morphological diversity of Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms.

2. Understand the economic importance of the Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms.

3. Know the evolution of Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms.

4. Understand the habit of the Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms plant body.

5. Know the vegetative characteristics of the plant.

6. Understand the economic importance of the lower plants.

7. Know the taxonomic position, occurrence, thallus organization, reproduction of Bryophytes, Pteridophytes and gymnosperms.

8. Become aware of applications of different plants in various industries.

9. To highlight the potential of these studies to become an entrepreneur.

10. To equip the students with skills related to laboratory as well as industries based studies

11. Know the scope of Paleobotany, types of fossils, its role in global economy and geological time scale.

12. Understand the various fossil genera representing different fossil groups.

B.Sc. Part-II, Semester-III

Paper III: Bot-301: Histology, Anatomy, Embryology and Palynology

On completion of the course, students are able to:

1. Understand the different kinds of tissues associated with plants

2. To analyses and prepare hypothesis to know the tissue system and their adaptations among the different group of plants

3. Understand the conducting system of the plants

4. Know the internal structure of monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants with typical examples

5. Understand the normal and abnormal secondary growth and development of wood in plants

6. Know the different Indian embryologists contributions to the field of plant science

7. Understand the development of male and female gametophyte, double fertilization and triple fusion among the angiosperms.

8. Understand the different agents involved in the pollination and its significance

9. Know apomixis and polyembryony and their significance in the plant developmental biology

10. Understand the pollen morphology of the angiosperms

B.Sc. Part-II, Semester-IV

Paper IV: Bot-401: Ecology and Environmental Biology

On completion of the course, students are able to:

1. Understand the Aims and scope of ecology with respect to plant growth and survival

2. Know the different ecological factors such as abiotic and biotic factors

3. Understand the adaptations of the plants to various conditions or stress

4. Understand the concept of ecosystem and its functioning

5. Know the flow of energy in the nature through food chain, trophic level or food web

6. Understand the ecological succession

7. Know the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus

8. Understand the community ecology through quadrates and transects

9. Practically they are able to understand the anatomical modifications of the plants for various stress created by the nature itself

10. Understand the methods of determination plant vegetation richness

11. Understand the scope and importance of natural resources such as renewable and non renewable resources.

12. Know the significance of conservation ecology

13. Understand the soil erosion control methods

14. Know the conservation and management of wild life and their importance in ecological balance

15. Know the phyto-geographical regions of India and Karnataka

B.Sc. Part-III, Semester-V

Paper V: Bot-501: Morphology, Taxonomy and Economic Botany

On completion of the course, students are able to:

1. Understand the plant morphology and basic taxonomy.

2. Know the vegetative characteristics of the plant.

3. Know the concept of methodology in taxonomy.

4. Know the conceptual development of „taxonomy‟ and „systematics‟

5. Understand the Phylogeny of angiosperms -A general account of the origin of Angiosperms.

6. Understand the general range of variations in the group of angiosperms.

7. Trace the history of development of systems of classification emphasizing angiospermic taxa.

8. To learn the wide activities in angiosperm and trends in classification.

9. Learn about the characters of biologically important families of angiosperms.

10. Know the floral variations in angiospermic families, their phylogeny and evolution.

11. Understand various rules, principles and recommendations of plant nomenclature produces in plant identification.

12. Understand major evolutionary trends in various parts of angiospermic plants

13. Know the technique of herbarium preparation and its importance

14. Understand the recent classifications methods used for classification angiosperms

15. Understand the role plants in human welfare.

16. Gain knowledge about various plants of economic use.

17. Know importance of plants & plant products.

18. Understand the chemical contents of the plant products.

19. Know about the utility of plant resources.

B.Sc. Part-III, Semester-V

Paper VI: Bot-502: Cell Biology and Cytogenetics

On completion of the course, students are able to:

1. Gain knowledge about “Cell Science”.

2. Understand Cell wall Plasma membrane, Cell organelles and cell division.

3. Learn the scope and importance of molecular biology.

4. Understand the biochemical nature of nucleic acids, their role in living systems, experimental evidences to prove DNA as a genetic material.

5. Understand the process of synthesis of proteins and role of genetic code in polypeptide

formation.

6. The concept of operon and its structure and regulation.

7. Know about the genomic organization or living organisms, study of genes genome, chromosome etc.

8. Gain knowledge about the mechanism and essential component required for prokaryotic DNA replication.

9. Mendelian and Neo-mendelian genetics

10. To study the phenomenon of dominance, laws of segregation, independent assortment of genes.

11. To understand the different types of genetic interaction, incomplete dominance, codominance, inter allelic genetic interactions, multiple alleles and quantitative inheritance etc.

12. Understand sex determination in plants and organisms

B.Sc. Part-III, Semester-VI

Paper VII: Bot-601: Plant breeding, Biotechnology and Plant tissue culture

On completion of the course, students are able to:

1. 1. Understand the science of plant breeding.

2. To introduce the student with branch of plant breeding for the survival of human being from starvation.

3. To study the techniques of production of new superior crop verities.

4. Understand the modern strategies applied in Genetics and Plant Breeding to sequence and analyze genomes

5. Get the detail knowledge about modern strategies applied in Plant Breeding for crop improvement i.e. Mass selection, Pureline Selection, Recurrent and Clonal selection.

6. Know about exploitation of Heterosis, hybrid and variety development and their release through artificial hybridization.

7. Understand the fundamentals of Recombinant DNA Technology.

8. Know about the Genetic Engineering.

9. Understand the principle and basic protocols for Plant Tissue Culture.

10. Understand the applications of biotechnology for human welfare

11. Know the gene mapping, DNA finger printing, and production of monoclonal antibodies.

12. Understand the ELISA method to detect the plant diseases

13. Understand the importance of Transgenic plants

B.Sc. Part-III, Semester-VI

Paper VIII: Bot-602: Plant Physiology

On completion of the course, students are able to:

1) Know importance and scope of plant physiology.

2) Learn and understand about mineral nutrition in plants.

3) Understand the growth and developmental processes in plants.

4) Know the nitrogen metabolism and its importance.

5) Understand the plants and plant cells in relation to water.

6) Understand the process of photosynthesis in higher plants with particular emphasis on light and dark reactions, C3 and C4 pathways.

7) Understand the respiration in higher plants with particular emphasis on aerobic and anaerobic respiration.

8) Understand the rate of transpiration and its significance in plants

9) Learn about the movement of sap and absorption of water in plant body

10) Understand the process of translocation of solutes in plants

11) Understand the plant movements.

12)Structure and general features of enzymes.

13)Concept of enzyme activity and enzyme inhibition.