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SYLLABUS FOR BCS (WRITTEN) EXAMINATION
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BOTANY
(POST RELATED)
Subject Code: 581
Total Marks-200
Part-I
Marks: 100
Plant Diversity: Morphology, Anatomy and Reproduction. (Microbiology, Mycology and Plant pathology,
Phycology, Higher Cryptogams, Angiosperms, Plant anatomy, Embryology of Angiosperms)
Microbiology:
1. Nature and structure of simple RNA virus (TMV) and DNA virus ( T2 Phase), multiplication and
transmission.
2. Prion and viroid: Structure, properties and importance.
3. Bacteria: Classification (different types), reproduction, bacterial photosynthes is, transformation and
transduction.
4. Economic importance of microbes
Mycology and Plant pathology:
1. Modern classification of fungi and the bases of classification;
2. Economic importance of fungi,
3. Concept and causes of plant diseases,
4. Stages in the development of plant diseases : Inoculation, infection, growth and reproduction of the
pathogens, dissemination of pathogens, over-wintering and over summering of pathogens)
5. Control of plant diseases.
6. Symptom, causal agents, disease cycle control measures of the following diseases: i. Blast of rice, ii.
Stem rust of wheat, iii. Late blight of potato, iv. Stem rot of jute, v. Red rot of sugarcane, vi. Tungro
disease of rice, vii. Panama disease of banana.
Phycology:
1. Modern classification of algae based on different characters.
2. General characteristics of all the major division of algae.
3. Range of vegetative structures in algae.
4. Phytoplankton-General features, biological and economic importance.
Higher Cryptogams:
1. Characteristic features and methods of reproduction with examples.
2. Distribution of bryophyte and pteridophyte genera in Bangladesh with examples.
Angiosperms:
1. Concept about ICN, cytotaxonomy, chemotaxonomy, ecotype and biosystematics.
2. Different systems of classification (i) Artificial; (ii) Natural and (iii) Phylogenetic.
3. Definition and importance of herbarium. Information and activities of world herbaria including
Bangladesh.
Plant anatomy:
1. Stele in Pteridophyte
2. Vascular tissue system in angiosperms.
3. Meristem (origin, classification, structure, development and function).
Embryology of Angiosperms:
1. Mega-sporogenesis and Mega-gametogenesis.
2. Micro-sporogenesis and Micro-gemetogenesis.
3. Different types of embryo sac and their development (with examples).