Current Electricity : Electric current, drift velocity and mobility, Ohm’s law, resistivity, combination of resistances in series and parallel, combination of cells.
Kirchoffs laws, Wheatstone bridge, Metre bridge, potentiometer.
Heating effect of current, thermoelectricity, Seebeck and Peltier effect.
Chemical effect of current, Faraday’s law of electrolysis, primary and secondary cells.
Taxonomy and Classification : Definition; Importance of Taxonomy, Binomial Nomenclature, Law of Priority (Homonym & Synonym)
Origin, Evolution and Diversity of Life : Haldane and Oparin’s concept on origin of life. Modern concept of Natural selection, Biological Species concept.
Human evolution – An outline.
Mutation – Definition and Types; Replication of DNA, Transcription and Translation (Brief idea).
Genetics : Laws of Heredity : (Monohybrid and dihybrid crosses; Mendel’s laws). Back cross, Test cross, Linkage, Crossing over, Sex linked inheritance – Colour blindness, Haemophilia.
Chromosomes and Cell Division : Morphology of chromosomes; Euchromatin and Heterochromatin.
Nucleic acid as genetic material (Examples : Bacterial Transformation and Viral Transduction).
