Botany Papers

The University of Lucknow faculty have redesigned their botany papers to include more inquiry-based instruction.   The table below provides the STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES as well as lesson plans for how to teach the subject matter.   The lesson plans also include grading rubrics for evaluating the quality of the student performance of the learning activities.

Paper 1: Plant Physiology

   
Student Learning Outcomes for the Botany Paper
  1. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of plant cell structure, its organelles and functions.
  2. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of plasma membrane, its structure and function.
  3. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the principles of water movement in soils and plants, its conduction, transpiration and role of stomata.
  4. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the concept of ion uptake and translocation.
  5. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of photosynthesis, photosynthetic pigments, light reactions –Electron Transport and Photophosphorylation, dark reactions- CO2 fixation and Calvin cycle, concept of C3, C4 and CAM metabolism.
  6. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the concept of aerobic and anaerobic respiration, respiratory substrates and pathways involved in respiration- Kreb’s cycle, Oxidative Phosphorylation, Pentose Phosphate Pathway.
  7. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of nitrogen metabolism- nitrogen cycle, nitrogen fixation, biosynthesis of amino acids and proteins.
  8. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding growth, flowering, concept of photoperiodism and vernalization, senescence, abscission, parthenocarpy, germination, dormancy and plant movements.
  9. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of structure, properties and mode of action plant growth regulators (auxins, gibberellins, kinins, ethylene and abscicic acid).
  10. Be able to organize and perform experiments and analyze results related to physiological processes.
Botany Lesson Plan Photosynthesis: Dark Reactions

This lesson plan provides a description of how you would teach and conduct the learning activities in order to achieve one or more of the STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES.
Faculty Author Nalini Pandey
Department of Botany
University of Lucknow, UP, India
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Paper 2: Plant Biochemistry

   
Student Learning Outcomes for the Botany Paper
  1. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of the classification, structure, properties and functions of carbohydrates- monosaccharide, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides (structural and storage).
  2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of classification, structure, properties and functions of lipids- simple (oils and waxes), compound (Phospholipid, glycolipid, sphingolipids) and derived (sterols, terpenes).
  3. Demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of lipid metabolism- synthesis and breakdown of fatty acids and sterols.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of classification, structure and properties of amino acids and proteins, structural levels of protein organization (primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary) and their functions.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of enzymes, their classification, mechanism of action, kinetics, factors affecting their catalytic efficiency, regulation of enzymatic activity.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of structure, properties and functions of the nucleic acids -DNA and RNA.
  7. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the nucleotide metabolism, synthesis and degradation of pyrimidine and purine nucleotides, replication of nucleic acids.
  8. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of principles of bioenergetics, laws of thermodynamics and their application, concept of Gibb’s free energy, coupled and redox reactions, high energy compounds. Be able to organize and perform experiments to identify the bimolecules.
  9. Be able to organize and perform experiments to identify the biomolecules.
  10. Demonstrate an ability to analyze and present results
Botany Lesson Plan Carbohydrates: Monosaccharides

This lesson plan provides a description of how you would teach and conduct the learning activities in order to achieve one or more of the STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES.
Faculty Author Nalini Pandey
Department of Botany
University of Lucknow, UP, India
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Paper 3: Stress Physiology

   
Student Learning Outcomes for the Botany Paper
  1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concept of stress, plant responses to abiotic stress and role of stress proteins.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of concept of mineral nutrition and nutrient stress in plants (deficiency and toxicity).
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of salinity stress- its causes and mechanism of tolerance.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of drought stress- its causes and mechanism of tolerance.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of temperature stress (low and high) - its causes and mechanism of tolerance, concept of acclimation.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of light stress (UV, high irradiance) - its causes and mechanism of tolerance.
  7. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of oxygen stress- anoxia and mechanism of tolerance.
  8. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of oxidative stress- reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species, antioxidative defense mechanism.
  9. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of ozone stress and mechanism of tolerance.
  10. Demonstrate ability to devise experiments, collect and analyze data to display stress in plants.
Botany Lesson Plan Nutrient Stress: Visual Diagnosis of Nutrient Disorders

This lesson plan provides a description of how you would teach and conduct the learning activities in order to achieve one or more of the STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES.
Faculty Author Nalini Pandey
Department of Botany
University of Lucknow, UP, India
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Paper 4: Plant Genetics

   
Student Learning Outcomes for the Botany Paper
  1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the stages of mitosis and meiosis, cell cycle, and also the significance of each.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the basic structure and function of chromosomes and how they govern heredity and evolution.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Mendel’s laws and how they relate to Cytogenetics and predict the outcome of crosses including the use of the Punnett square.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of chi square analysis for determination of mode of inheritance and use of test cross to determine genotypes.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of quantitative inheritance and polygenes.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the chromosomal basis of sex determination and apply that understanding to predict the sex of individuals with normal and abnormal complements of sex chromosomes.
  7. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of multiple alleles, multiple loci and multiple effects of a single gene.
  8. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of cytoplasmic inheritance and how it differs from Mendelian genetics.
  9. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of linkage and linkage maps.
Botany Lesson Plan Linkage and Mapping

This lesson plan provides a description of how you would teach and conduct the learning activities in order to achieve one or more of the STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES.
Faculty Author Alka Srivastava Ph.D.
Department of Botany
University of Lucknow, UP, India
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Paper 5: Molecular Genetics

   
Student Learning Outcomes for the Botany Paper
  1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the structure of DNA and RNA
  2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of DNA function, and flow of information from DNA to proteins.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the Genetic Code.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the molecular structure of eukaryotic chromosomes and repetitive DNA.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of transcription control in prokaryotes as illustrated by different operons.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of eukaryotic transcription control via the transcription factors, promoters and silencers.
  7. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of eukaryotic post-transcriptional processing, initiation of translation and post-translational modifications.
  8. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the similarities and differences in genome and transcriptome in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Botany Lesson Plan Eukaryotic gene expression and control

This lesson plan provides a description of how you would teach and conduct the learning activities in order to achieve one or more of the STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES.
Faculty Author Alka Srivastava Ph.D.
Department of Botany
University of Lucknow, UP, India
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Paper 6: Plant Breeding

   
Student Learning Outcomes for the Botany Paper
  1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts and principles of plant breeding.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of natural resources focusing on development and production in a sustainable manner.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how plant breeding affects the world economically, culturally, politically and environmentally.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of conservation of germplasm
  5. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of relevance of variability-artificial and induced, in improving the available germplasm.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of domestication of wild types and selection methods for identifying economically viable genotypes.
  7. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of mutation and its role in crop improvement.
  8. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of polyploidy and its role in crop improvement.
  9. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the process of hybridisation, its relevance in gene transfer and importance of out-crossing.
  10. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the breeding methods employed for important crop plants- wheat, rice etc.
Botany Lesson Plan Polygenic inheritance

This lesson plan provides a description of how you would teach and conduct the learning activities in order to achieve one or more of the STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES.
Faculty Author Alka Srivastava Ph.D.
Department of Botany
University of Lucknow, UP, India
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