Biology XI Part-I

By Dr. Sunita Farkya | DESM, NCERT, New Delhi

Learners enrolled: 6642

Biology is the science of life forms and living processes. The living world comprises a wide diversity of organisms. The observation of the diverse forms of life on earth was made initially through the naked eyes and later by using instruments such as magnifying lenses and microscopes. The organisms were described on the basis of observed structural features, both external and internal. The detailed description of life forms on the basis of appearance external and internal features brought out their concept of diversity. It is the cell theory that emphasised the unity underlying this diversity of forms, i.e., the cellular organisation of all life forms. Cell theory also created a sense of mystery around living phenomena, i.e., physiological and behavioural processes. This mystery was the requirement of integrity of cellular organisation for living phenomena to be demonstrated or observed.

The course will deal with “Diversity in the Living world”, “Structural Organization in Plants and Animals” and “Cell Structure and Function” from class XI Biology.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	24 weeks
Category :	School
Credit Points :	2
Level :	School
Start Date :	15 May 2020
End Date :	29 Oct 2020
Enrollment Ends :	31 Aug 2020
Exam Date :	15 Oct 2020 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Weeks	Module
Week 0	How to access the course?
Week 1	The Living World – Part 1 (kebo_10101)
Week 2	Classification – Part 2 (kebo_10102)
Week 3	Biological Classification – Part 1 (kebo_10201)
Week 4	Biological Classification – Part 2 (kebo_10202)
Week 5	Kingdom Plantae (Introduction) Thallophyta – Part 1 (kebo_10301) Kingdom Plantae – Bryophyta & Pteridophyta – Part 2 (kebo_10302)
Week 6	Kingdom Plantae – Seed Plants (Gymnosperms and Angiosperms) – Part 3 (kebo_10303)
Week 7	Biodiversity and Classification – Part 1 (kebo_10401) Animal Kingdom – Part 2 (kebo_10402)
Week 8	Animal Kingdom – Part 3 (kebo_10403)
Week 9	Introduction To Plant Morphology, Morphological Study of Plant Roots and Stem – Part 1 (kebo_10501) Introduction to Plant Morphology, Morphological Study of Leaf – Part 2 (kebo_10502)
Week 10	Morphology – Inflorescence And Flower – Part 3 (kebo_10503) Morphology – Seed, Fruit, Floral Diagram & Floral Formula – Part 4 (kebo_10504)
Week 11	Anatomy of Flowering Plants – Part 1 (kebo_10601)
Week 12	Tissue Systems and Anatomy of Organs – Part 2 (kebo_10602)
Week 13	Secondary Growth – Part 3 (kebo_10603)
Week 14	Tissue system in Animals – Part 1 (kebo_10701)
Week 15	Structural Organisation in Animals – Part 2 (kebo_10702) Structural Organisation in Frog – Part 3 (kebo_10703)
Week 16	Cell: The Unit of Life – Part 1 (kebo_10801) Cell: The Unit of Life – Part 2 (kebo_10802)
Week 17	Cell: The Unit of Life – Part 3 (kebo_10803) Cell: The Unit of Life – Part 4 (kebo_10804)
Week 18	Biomolecule – Part 1 (kebo_10901)
Week 19	Biomolecule – Part 2 (kebo_10902)
Week 20	Biomolecule – Part 3 (kebo_10903)
Week 21	Interphase – Part 1 (kebo_101001)
Week 22	Interphase – Part 2 (kebo_11002) Meiosis – Part 3 (kebo_11003)
Week 23	Meiosis – Part 4 (kebo_11004) Feedback and Discussion

Books and references

NCERT "Biology" for Class - XI

url:- https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php?kebo1=0-22

Instructor bio

Dr. Sunita Farkya

DESM, NCERT, New Delhi

Dr. Sunita Farkya is presently working as a Professor in the Department of Education in Science and Mathematics, NIE, NCERT, New Delhi. She has around 28 years of Research/ Teaching experience. She has been CSIR fellow since 1991, Later on she worked as Research Associate and Pool Scientist of CSIR. She has persuaded her Post Doctoral Research in Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Professor Farkya has completed several research projects in Biology and science education and published papers in indexed journals. She has coordinated number of books in Science for school students. She is executive editor of Journal of NCERT, School Science.. Her areas of interest are Plant Biotechnology, Production of Secondary metabolites, Applied Microbiology, Biological Control of weeds, science education and Biology education (Content cum pedagogy in teaching for improving learning at all stages of school education). Presently she is working of several research projects and popularisation of science) Her special interests in the experimental Techniques and Skills are Plant tissue culture techniques: Development of cultures, genetic transformation, production of secondary metabolites from plant cell cultures, cultivation in bioreactors; upstream and downstream processing (Chromatography – TLC, HPLC, Column chromatography, Electrophoresis – Gel and Paper electrophoresis,), extraction, isolation and structure elucidation of phytoconstituents. Molecular Biology Techniques: Genomic DNA extraction, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), plasmid isolation, genetic confirmation. Microbial Techniques: Aseptic culture handling, in-vivo efficacy testing. And miscellaneous: enzyme extraction and activity assay, toxicity studies.

Course certificate

The participant will get participation / completion certificate.

CO-INSTRUCTORS

1. Dr. Yash Paul Sharma: Dr. Yash Paul Sharma has been working in the Central Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT, New Delhi. With Ph.D. degree in Zoology and PostDoc (SRF-Extended) from CSIR, Dr. Sharma has interests in Taxonomy, evolutionary Biology and integrating ICT to teach biological concepts. Dr. Sharma has discovered several new species of ants from high altitude region of Himalaya with co-workers. Dr. Sharma has two books in his credit and published his Research work in International journals of repute with impact factor. A tech enthusiast, working on integrating futuristic technologies like Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Artificial learning in education. Dr. Sharma has developed many eResources and won awards like Jury appreciation award for Virtually Reality resources in Education and one of his documentary was selected for National Science Film Festival. He has been actively involved in training programme across the country on eContent development and MOOCs.

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