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| Department of Botany Introduction | Admissions | Faculty | Courses | Research | Contact |
Courses
The department offers over 70 different courses of studies at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels to cater to the manpower requirements of teaching and research in the fields of education, agriculture, pharmaceutics and other industries.
In the first and second year the students begin by taking Botany as a major subject together with 2 subsidiary subjects like Chemistry, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, BioStatistics, Geology and Zoology. Starting with the diversity of plant life, an outline of the classification of plants, their identification, structure and function, it continues with genetic basis of variation and evolution of plants.
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the 3rd and 4th years, the subsidiary subjects are not continued and
the students studying Botany for B.S. degree take up different courses
in Botany. Students with a B.Sc. (Pass) degree in Botany seek admission
to B.S. 3rd year. In B.S. Final year, the students specialize in one
of the branches of Botany and offer courses in Applied Botany, Mycology
& Plant Pathology, Plant Physiology, Plant Ecology, Phycology &
Marine Botany and Plant Taxonomy.