All India PMT/PDT Entrance Examination 2011
AIPMT 2011: BIOLOGY (BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY) SYLLABUS
Unit : 1 Diversity in Living World
Biology – its meaning and relevance to mankind
What is living; Taxonomic categories and aids (Botanical gardens, herbaria, museums, zoological parks); Systematics and Binomial system of nomenclature.
Introductory classification of living organisms (Two-kingdom system, Five-kingdom system); Major groups of each kingdom alongwith their salient features (Monera, including Archaebacteria and Cyanobacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia); Viruses; Lichens
Plant kingdom – Salient features of major groups (Algae to Angiosperms);
Animal kingdom – Salient features of Nonchordates up to phylum, and Chordates up to class level.
Unit : 2 Cell : The Unit of Life ; Structure and Function
Cell wall; Cell membrane; Endomembrane system (ER, Golgi
apparatus/Dictyosome, Lysosomes, Vacuoles); Mitochondria; Plastids; Ribosomes;
Cytoskeleton; Cilia and Flagella; Centrosome and Centriole; Nucleus;
Microbodies.