Biosystematics and Classification

Cell Biology (BI-1113)

A Textbook Of Botany (Angiosperms) S. Chand And Co. New Delhi

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• To make the students know about: • Basic concepts of Systemetic and classification • To know about animal and plant kingdom and their division and sub division • To get awareness and understanding of Morphology and various morphological characters root, stem, leaf, inflorescence, flower, placentation and fruit types • To get the Importance and relationship with other sciences,like Phases of plant taxonomy.

A student after taking this course will be able to:

Classification:  brief history of various systems of classification

Introduction  to  animal & plant nomenclature,  importance  of  Latin  names  and binomial  system  with  an  introduction  to  International  Code  of  Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN).Vienna code.

Will understand the Morphology: a detailed account of various morphological characters root, stem, leaf, inflorescence, flower, lacentation and fruit types.

Enable to understand the Morphology: a detailed account of various morphological   characters root, animal kingdom

• Introduction to Plant Systematic:
• Aims, objectives and importance.
• Classification:  brief history of various systems of classification with emphasis on pak.
• Brief introduction to nomenclature
• Importance of  Latin  names  and binomial  system  with  an  introduction  to  International  Code  of  Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN).Vienna code.
•  Morphology: a detailed account of various morphological characters root, stem, leaf, inflorescence, flower, placentation and fruit types.
• Introduction: Importance and relationship with other sciences,
•  Phases of plant taxonomy.
• Origin and radiation of angiosperm, their probable ancestors,
•  Concept  of  Species:
• What is a species?
• Taxonomic  species,
• Biological species,
• Micro  and  macro  species,
•   Species aggregate.
• Infra specific categories.
• Speciation: Mechanism of speciation,
•  Mutation and hybridization Geographical isolation,
•  Reproductive isolation, Gradual and abrupt.
•  Variation: Types  of  variation,  Continuous  and  discontinuous  variation
•  Systematic  and  Genecology  /  Biosystematics: Introduction  and  importance,
• Methodology  of conducting  biosystematics  studies
• Various  biosystematics
• Taxonomic  Evidence: Importance  and  types  of  taxonomic  evidences:
• Anatomical, cytological, molecular, palynological, geographical and embryological
• Nomenclature  : Important  rules  of botanical  nomenclature  including  effective
• Valid publication, typification, principles of priority and its limitations, author citation,
• Rank of main taxonomic categories, conditions for rejecting names.
• Classification: Why classification is necessary? Importance of predictive value.
• Brief  history,  Different  systems  of  classification  with  at  least  one  example
• Brief introduction of Numerical taxonomy.