Tissue and tissue system
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Nutrition and Digestive System : Basic constituents of food and their nutritional significance. Vitamins – dietary sources, functions and deficiency symptoms of water and fat soluble vitamins. Structure and functions of the alimentary canal and the digestive glands.
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Functions of life :
Photosynthesis :
Biotechnological application of microbes
Biotechnological application of microbes : (a)Agricultural – Rhizobium and other Nitrogen fixing bacteria, Biofertilizers and Bio-pesticides ; (b) Industrial – Production of curd; tanning and brewery; synthesis of antibiotics, vitamin. (c) Cloning of microbial genes.
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Virus and Bacteria : Morphological characteristics of Bacteriophage (T2),Plant virus (TMV);Animal virus (influenza), Bacterial cell (E. coli).
Staining : Gram staining for bacteria.