Week - 1 |
Apomorphies in the plants (Viridioplantae). |
Week - 2 |
Life cycle in the green algae. |
Week - 3 |
Life cycle in mosses, development in their gametophyte and sporophytes, and adaptations for the terrestial environment |
Week - 4 |
Reproduction in ferns and allies, life cycles in isosporic and heterosporic Pteridophyta members. Tissues and organs of fern and allied groups such as Lycopsida, Sphenopsida, Pteropsida |
Week - 5 |
Gymnosperms: Structure of cones, development of pollen and arkegonium, fertilization and seed development. |
Week - 6 |
Structure and development of organs in Gymnosperms |
Week - 7 |
Reproduction of Angiosperms: Microsporogenesis and megasporogenesis |
Week - 8 |
Pollination and fertilization |
Week - 9 |
Zigot and embrio, polyembriony, apomixis |
Week - 10 |
Domancy in plants. |
Week - 11 |
Physiologic and anatomic stages in seed germination |
Week - 12 |
Essential tissue types in plants, differentiation. Root, development of root in some plant groups. |
Week - 13 |
Stem, development of stem in some plant groups, shoot types, apical dominancy |
Week - 14 |
Leaf, development of leaf in some plant groups, mechanism of abscision. |