Osmania University - M.Sc Botany- 3 -(T)(P) Pratical Cell Biology, Genetics, Ecology and Phytogeogra

Practicals

Section - A:

1. Squash preparation of onion root tips to study mitosis.
2. Smear preparation of maize or onion flower buds to study meiosis.
3. Problems in Genetics:
2 Mendelian inheritance and gene interaction.
3 Chromosome mapping in eukaryotes
4. Maintenance of Practical Record.

Section -B:

1. Determination of minimum size quadrates by species area curve.
2. Determination of quantitative characters by random quadrate method. Abundance, density, basal cover, canopy cover, frequency, IVI and dominance, diversity and similarity.
3. Evaluation of life form classes of local flora. Preparation of frequency diagram of plant community by Raunkier’s method and preparation of biological spectrum.
4. Morphology and anatomy of common hydrophyte and xerophyte adaptations.
5. Interpretation of environmental data and climatogram and plotting techniques with reference to life forms and vegetational types.
6. Determination of pH of soil and water samples.
7. Estimate of chlorides, carbonates and bicarbonates and dissolved oxygen in water.
8. Maintenance of Practical Record.

List of books recommended

Section - A:

1. A. K. Sharma and A. Sharma. 1990. Chromosome techniques. Butterworths. 1990 Ed.
2. Edward. S. Lenhoff. 1990. Tools of Biology Mc Millan Company.
3. E.D.P. De Robertis and E. M. F. De Robertis. 1987. Cell and Molecular biology. 8th Ed.. (Indian Edition is also available..Varghese Company), Ed.
4. G. M. Cooper. 1997. The Cell and Molecular approach. ASM Press. Ed.
5. Strickberger. Genetics. 3rd Ed. 1990. Ed.
6. Snustad and Simmons. 1997. Principles of Genetics. Ed.
7. Benjamin Lewis. 1999. Genes VII.
8. Daniel Hartl. 1994. Basic Genetics. Ed.
9. Griffiths, Miller, Suzuki, Lewontin and Gelbert . 1999. An introduction to Genetic analysis.
10. Winter, Hicky and Fletcher . 1999. Instant notes in Genetics. Ed.
11. A.V.S.S. Sambamurthy. 1999. Genetics.
12. Ahluwalia. 1993Genetics.
13. P.K. Gupta. 1990. Genetics.
14. U. Sinha and S. Sinha. 1994. Cytogenetics, Plant Breeding & Evolution. Ed.
15. K. K. De. 1992. Plant tissue culture.
16. Narayanaswamy. 1994. Plant cell & tissue culture.
17. Y.P.S. Bajaj. 1986 to 1990. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry. Vol. 1 to 16. Ed..
18. I. Vasil. 1995. Plant tissue culture. Vol. 1 to 4. Ed.

Section B:

1. E. P. Odum. 1996. Fundamentals of Ecology.
2. E. J. Koromondy.1996. Concepts of Ecology.
3. Champion and Seth. Forests of India.
4. P. D. Sharma. 1996. Ecology and Environment.
5. B. K. Sharma. 2000.Environmental Chemistry.
6. Robert Leo Smith. 1995. Ecology and Field Biology.
7. H. N. Parket. Air Pollution.
8. S. P. Mahajan. Pollution control in process industries.
9. P. S. Welch. 1976. Limnology.
10. G. S. Puri et al. Forest Ecology.
11. Vollenreider. Productivity in freshwater Ecosystems.
12. Todev G. Kudrev. Water and plant productivity.
13. Turk and Turk. Environmental Science.
14. R. S. Ramalho. Introduction to waste water treatment process.
15. Pollution control handbook. 1986.

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