Syllabus
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Course Code: BOT -301 Course Name: Plant Anatomy |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Diversity in plant forms: Annuals, biennials and perennials. Tissues: Meristematic and permanent (simple and complex). Leaf: Types of leaves (simple and compound); phyllotaxy. Epidermis: Uniseriate and multiseriate, epidermal appendages and their morphological types. Anatomy of typical monocot and dicot leaf and cell inclusions in leaves; Leaf abscission. Stomatal apparatus and their morphological types. |
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| 2 | Shoot system: Shoot apical meristem and its histological organizations (monocot and dicot stem); Cambium: Structure and functions; secondary growth in dicot stem; characteristics of growth rings; sap wood and heart wood, periderm. Anomalous secondary growth (Achyranthes&Boerhaavia) Root system:Root apical meristem; histological organization of monocot and dicot roots. Secondary growth in dicot root. Structural modifications in roots:Storage (Beta), respiratory (Rhizophora), epihytic (Vanda). Anatomical aspects of adaptations in xerophytes, hydrophytes, halophytes. |
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