Botany is an integral part of Natural Sciences, easier to understand related with everyday human life. It will have a lot of scope for scoring maximum marks, need only to have foundation clear and also conceptual clarity is important to write good answers.
Junior Inter botany exam will be held for 60 Marks. The question paper has 3 Sections.
Section - A: This section contains 10 Very Short Answer type questions without any choice. Each question carries 2 marks.
Section - B: This section has 12 Short questions. You have to answer any six. Each question carries 4 marks.
In this section, few questions were related to diagrams.
Section - C: This section consists of 4 long questions. You have to answer any of the two. Each question carries 8 marks.
Deleted Topics:
Unit 1: Living World - Taxonomic categories, Taxonomic aids
Unit 4: Plant Kingdom - Angiosperms
Unit 5: Morphology of flowering plants - Root, Stem, Fruit, Seed
Unit 6: Modes of Reproduction - Totally deleted
Unit 7: Plant systematics - Fabaceae
Unit 12: Histology and anatomy of flowering plants - Tissues, The tissue systems, Dorsiventral leaf, Isobilateral leaf, Secondary growth
Unit 13: Plant Ecology - Plant succession, ecological services topics were deleted
Hence no need to study the above topics. Keep in mind blue print and unitwise weightage of marks for preparation.
Blueprint
Unit Marks
I. Diversity in the living world 18 M
II. Structural organization in plants 16 M
III. Reproduction in plants 16 M
IV. Plant systematics 12 M
V. Cell structure and functions 20 M
VI. Internal organization of plants 8 M
VII. Plant Ecology 12 M
Unitwise weightage of marks
Unit - 1: Diversity in the living world
* It covers 18 marks. Comprises three 2 M and three 4 M questions.
2 Marks: ICBN, Metabolism types, a unit of classification, Mango Scientific Name, Diatom cell wall, Difference of viroid, viruses, uses of cyanobacteria, bacteria, mycoplasma, Explain term Botany, parasava books, Herbalists, Mendal, Paleobotany, Mycology, Phycology, Lichenology, Pteridology, Bracyology, Classification of the Algae, Amphibians of the plant kingdom
4 Marks: Binomial nomenclature, Euglenoids, Cryscophyles Dinoflagellates, the role of fungi in daily like the scope of botany in relation to agriculture, horticulture, medicine and plant physiology, Branches of Morphology, Red Algae, Brown Algae, Heterospory, Difference between Manocots, Dicots Prothallus
Unit - II: Structural organization in plants morphology
It covers 16 marks, comprises two 2 M and three 4 M questions.
2 Marks: Racemose, cymose features, the morphology of cyathium cup Blastophagavisit, Actionomorphic and Zygomorphic, Petals arrangement in pea, Epipetalcus, Apocarpous and Syncarpous, Placentation
4 Marks: Aestivation types, types of placentation, special types of Inflorescences, flower types based on arrangement floral members in relation to thalamus
Unit-III: Reproduction in plants
It covers 16 marks, comprises mainly two 8 M questions.
8 Marks: Pollinations in chasmogamous flowers, Description of embryosac with diagram, Microsporangium, Process of fertilization, Agents of pollination
Unit-IV: Plant Systematics
It covers 12 marks, comprises two 2 M and two 4 M questions.
2 Marks: Omega taxonomy, Natural System, Numerical Taxonomy, Floral Formula of solanum, Ovary in Solanum nigrum, Anthers of allium cepa
4 Marks: Description of flowering plant, Floral diagram, Floral parts of Liliaceae, Bentham and Hookers classification, essential organs of Solanaceae
Unit-V: Cell structure and functions
It covers 20 marks includes one 8 M, two 4 M and two 2 M.
2 Marks: Vacuole, Ribosomes, Lysosome, Polysome, Satellite, Metacentric chromosomes, Microbodies, middle lamella, Osmosis example for amino acids, Sugars, Nucleotides, Fatty acids, Zwitterion, DNA bonds, Phases of the cell cycle, Cycles required for mitotic, Meiotic divisions
4 Marks: Chloroplast, Mitochondria, Cell theory, Plasma membrane, Nucleus, Types of chromosomes, Nucleosomes, Polysaccharides, Prophase I of meiosis, Key features of meiosis, Interphase
8 Marks: Various stages of meiotic, prophase I, Events of mitosis and meiosis
Unit-VI: Internal organization of plants
It covers 8 marks and comprises mainly one 8 M.
8 Marks: Ts of a dicot stem, monocot stem, dicot root, monocot root
Unit-VII- Plant Ecology
It covers 10 marks, comprises one 2 M and two 4 M questions.
2 Marks: land plant can tolerate salinity, heliophyte and sciophyte, population and community, types of communities, reduced xylem in hydrophytes
4 Marks: types of hydrophytes, morphological and anatomical adaptations of hydrophytes, types of xerophytes and its morphological anatomical adaptations