AIPMT Syllabus Biology
AIPMT Syllabus Biology
Unit : 1 The Living World
Nature and scope of Biology. Methods of Biology. Our place in the universe. Laws that govern
the universe and life. Level of organization. Cause and effect relationship.
Being alive - what does it mean? Present approach to understand life processes; self
duplication and survival; adaptation; death as a positive part of life. An attempt to define life in
the above.
Origin of life and its maintenance. Origin and diversity of life. Physical and chemical principles
that maintain life processes, the living crust and interdependence. The positive and negative
aspects of progress in biological sciences. The future of the living world, identication of human
responsibility in shaping our future.
Unit : 2. Unity of life
Know More About :- All India Pre Medical Test Biology Syllabus


Exams.Edurite.com
Page : 1/3

---

Cel as a unit of life. Small biomolecules; water, minerals, mono and oligosaccharides, lipids,
amino acids, nucleotides and their chemistry. Cel ular location and function. Macromolecules
in cells-their chemistry, cellular location and functional significance.
Polysaccharides, proteins and nucleic acids. Enzymes; chemical nature, classification,
mechanism in action - enzyme complex, al osteric modulation (brief), irreversible activation.
Biomembranes. Fluid mosaic model of membrane in transport recognition of external
information (brief).
Structural organization of the cel ; light and electron microscopic views of cel , its organelles
and their functions; Nucleus mitochondria, chloroplasts, endoplasmic reticulum. Golgi
complex, Lysosomes, microtubules, cel wall, cilia and flagella, vacuoles, cel inclusions, A
general account of cel ular respiration. Fermentation, biological oxidation (A cycle outline),
motochondrial electron transport chain, high energy bonds and oxidative phosphorylation, cel
reproduction; Process of mitosis and meiosis.
Unit : 3 Diversity of Life
Introduction. The enormous variety of living things, the need for classification to cope with this
variety; taxonomy and phylogeny; shortcoming of a two kingdom classification as plants and
animals; a five kingdom classification. Monera, Protista, Plantae, Fungi and Animalia. The
basic features of five kingdom classification; modes of obtaining nutrition-autotrophs and
heterotrophs.
Life styles : producers, consumers and decomposers, Unicel ualarity and multicellularity
phylogenetic relationships. Concepts of species, taxon and categries-hierarchical levels of
classification; binomial nomenclature; principles of classification and nomenclature;
identification and nature of viruses and bacteriophages and organisms. Kingdom Monera-
archaebacteria-life in extreme environments: Bacteria, actinomycetes, Cyanobacteria,
Examples to oil ustrate autotrophic and heterotrophic life style; mineralizer-nitrogen fixers;
Monera in cycling matter; symbiotic forms; disease producers.
Read More About :- AIPMT Books For Physics


Exams.Edurite.com
Page : 2/3

---

ThankYou
Exams.Edurite.com

---

Document Outline

• 
• ﾿

---