SLET Life Science Exam syllabus

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LIFE SCIENCE
PAPER - II
1. Cell Biology :
Structure and function of cells and intracellular organelles (of
both prokaryotes and eukaryotes) mechanism of cell division
including (mitosis and meisosis) and cell differentiation.
Cellcell interaction : Malignant growth; Immune response
Dosage compensation and mechanism of sex determination.

2. Biochemistry :
Structure of atoms, molecules and chemical bonds; Principles
of physical chemistry; Thermodynamics, Kinetics, dissociation
and association constants; Nucleic acid structure, genetic code,
replication, transcription and translation, Structure, function
and metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins; Enzymes
and coenzyme; Respiration and photosynthesis.

3. Physiology :
Response to stress : Active transport across membranes; Plant
and animal hormones; Nutrition (including vitamins);
Reproduction in plants, microbes and animals.

4. Genetics :
Principles of Mendelian inheritance, chromosome structure and
function; Gene Structure and regulation of gene expression;
Linkage and genetic mappings; Extrachromosomal inheritance
(episomes, mitochondria and chloraplasts); Mutation; DNA
damage and repair, chromosome aberration; Transposons;
Sexlinked inheritance and genetic disorders; Somatic cell
genetic; Genome organisation (in both prokaryotes and
eukaryotes).

5. Evolutionary Biology :
Origin of life (including aspects of prebiotic environment and
molecular evolution); Concepts of evolution; Theories of
organic evolution; Mechanisms of speciation; Hardyweinberg
genetic equilibrium, genetic polymorphism and selection;
Origin and evolution of economically important microbes;
plants and animals.

6. Environmental biology :
Concept and dynamics or ecosystem, components, food chain
and energy flow; productivity and biogeochemical cycles; Types
of ecosystems, Population ecology and biological control;
Community structure and organisation; Environmental
pollution; Sustainable development; Economic importance of
microbes, plants and animals.

7. Biodiversity and Taxonomy: Species concept; Biological
nomenclature, theories of biological classification, Structural
biochemical and classification, Structural biochemical and
molecular systematics; DNA finger printing, numerical
taxanomy, Biodiversity, characterization, generation
maintenance and loss; Magnitude and distribution of
biodiversity, economic value, wildlife biology, conservation
strategies, crypreservation.

PAPER - III
1. Principles of Taxonomy as applied to the systamics and
Classification of Plant Kingdom : Taxonomic structure;
Biosystematics; Plant geography; Floristics.
2. Patterns of variation in morphology and life history in plants, broad
outlines of classification phytes and pteridophytes; Principles of
palaeobotany; Economic importance of algae, fungi and lichens.
3. Comparative anatomy and developmental morphology of
gymnosperms and angiosperms, Histochemical and ultrastructural
aspects of development; Differentiation and morphogenesis.
4. Androgenesis and gynogenesis; Breeding system; Pollination
biology; structural and functional aspects of pollen and pistil; Male
sterility; Self and inter-specific incompatability; Fertilization,
Embryo and seed development.

5. Plants and civilization; Centres of origin and gene diversity;
Botany, utilization, cultivation and improvement of plants for food,
drug, fibre and industrial values, Unexploited plants of potential
economic value; Plants as a source of renewable energy; Genetic
resources and their conservation.
6. Water Relation : Mineral nutrition; Photosynthesis and
photorespiration; Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Sulphur metabolism;
Stomatal physiology; Source and sink relationship.
7. Physiology and biochemistry and seed dormancy and germination;
Hormonal regulation of growth and development; Photoregulation
: Growth responses, Physiology of flowering : Senescence.
8. Principles of plant breeding; Important conventional methods of
breeding self and cross pollinated and vegetatively propagated
crops; Non conventional methods; Polyploidy ; Genetic variability;
Plant diseases and defensive mechanisms.
9. Principles of taxonomy as applied to the systematics and
classification of the animal kingdom; Classification and
interrelationship amongst the major invertebrate phyla; Minor
invertebrate phyla, Functional anatomy of the nonchordates; Larval
forms and their evolutionary significance.
10. Classification and comparative anatomy of protochordates and
chordates; Origin, evolution and distribution of chordates groups
: Adaptive radiation.
11. Histology of mammalian organ systems, nutrition, digestion and
absorption; Circulation (open and closed circular, lymphatic
systems, blood composition and function); Muscular contraction
and electric organs; Excretion and osmoregulation : Nerve
conduction and neurotransmitters : major sense organs and
receptors; Homeostatis (neutral and hormonal); Bioluminiscence;
Reproduction.

SLET Life Science Exam syllabus