Telangana Board Class 11 Botany Syllabus 2026-27, Topics & Download PDF

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Board

Telangana Board of Intermediate Education

Class

Class 11 (Intermediate First Year)

Subject

Botany-I

Academic Year

2026-27

Total Units

7

Official Website

tsbie.cgg.gov.in 

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Name of Topics and sub topics

UNIT-I : DIVERSITY IN THE LIVING WORLD

Chapter 1 : The living World

1.1 What is ‘Living’?

1.2 Diversity in the Living World

1.3 Taxonomic Categories : Species; Genus; Family; Order; Class; Division or phylum; Kingdom

1.4 Taxonomical Aids : Herbarium; Botanical Gardens; Museum

Chapter 2 : Biological Classification

2.1 Kingdom Monera: Archaebacteria; Eubacteria; Mycoplasmas; Actinomycetes

2.2 Kingdom Protista : Chrysophytes; Dinoflagellates; Euglenoids; Slime Moulds; Protozoans

2.3 Kingdom Fungi : Phycomycetes; Ascomycetes; Basidiomycetes; Deuteromycetes

2.4 Kingdom Plantae

2.5 Kingdom Animalia

2.6 Six Kingdom classification

2.7 Viruses, Viroids, Prions and Lichens : Viruses, Viroids, Prions, Lichens

Chapter 3 : Science of Plants- Botany

3.1 Origin

3.2 Development

3.3 Scope

3.4 Branches of Botany

Chapter 4 : Plant Kingdom

4.1 Algae: Chlorophyceae; Phaeophyceae; Rhodophyceae

4.2 Bryophytes : Liverworts; Mosses

4.3 Pteridophytes

4.4 Gymnosperms

4.5 Angiosperms

UNIT-II : STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION IN PLANTS - MORPHOLOGY

Chapter 5 : Morphology of Flowering Plants

5.1 The Root : Regions of the Root; Modifications of Root

5.2 The Stem : Modifications of Stem

5.3 The Leaf : Venation; Types of Leaves; Phyllotaxy; Modifications of Leaves

5.4 The Inflorescence

5.5 The Flower : Parts of a Flower; Calyx; Corolla; Androecium; Gynoecium

5.6 The Fruit

5.7 The Seed

UNIT-III : REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS

Chapter 6 : Modes of Reproduction

6.1 Reproduction and its Types

6.2 Asexual Reproduction

6.3 Sexual Reproduction : Events in sexual reproduction; Pre-fertilisation Events; Gametogenesis; Gamete Transfer; Fertilisation; Post-fertilisation Events

6.4 An Overview of the Angiosperm Life Cycle

Chapter 7 : Sexual Reproduction in Flowering plants

7.1 Pre-fertilisation structures and events : Stamen, Microsporangium and Pollen Grain; The Pistil, Megasporangium (ovule) and Embryo sac

7.2 Pollination : Agents of Pollination; Outbreeding Devices

7.3 Pollen-pistil interaction : Artificial Hybridisation

7.4 Double fertilisation

7.5 Post-fertilisation structures and events : Endosperm; Embryo; Structure of a Dicotyledonous Seed; Structure of Monocotyledonous Seed; Significance of Fruit and Seed

7.6 Apomixis, parthenocarpy and polyembryony

UNIT-IV : PLANT SYSTEMATICS

Chapter 8 : Taxonomy of Angiosperms

8.1 Systems, types of Classification

8.2 Semi-technical Description of a Typical Flowering Plant

8.3 Description of some Important Families : Fabaceae; Solanaceae; Liliaceae

UNIT-V : CELL: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS

Chapter 9 : Cell: The Unit of Life

9.1 What is a Cell?

9.2 Cell Theory

9.3 An Overview of Cell

9.4 Prokaryotic Cells : Cell Envelope and its Modifications; Ribosomes and Inclusion Bodies;

9.5 Eukaryotic Cells : Cell Membrane; Cell Wall; Endomembrane System; The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER); Golgi apparatus; Lysosomes; Vacuoles; Mitochondria; Plastids; Ribosomes; Cytoskeleton; Cilia and Flagella; Centrosome and Centrioles; Nucleus; Microbodies (Peroxisomes and Glyoxysomes)

Chapter 10 : Biomolecules

10.1 How to analyse chemical composition

10.2 Primary and secondary metabolites

10.3 Biomacromolecules

10.4 Proteins

10.5 Polysaccharides

10.6 Nucleic Acids

10.7 Structure of Proteins

10.8 Nature of Bond linking Monomers in a polymer

10.9 Dynamic state of body constituents - concept of Metabolism

10.10 Metabolic basis for living

10.11 The living state

Chapter 11 : Cell Cycle and Cell Division

11.1 Cell Cycle : Phases of Cell Cycle

11.2 M Phase: Prophase; Metaphase; Anaphase; Telophase; Cytokinesis

11.3 Significance of Mitosis

11.4 Meiosis : Meiosis I; Meiosis II

11.5 Significance of Meiosis

UNIT-VI : INTERNAL ORGANISATION OF PLANTS

Chapter 12 : Histology and Anatomy of Flowering Plants

12.1 The Tissues: Meristematic Tissues, Permanent Tissues, Simple Tissues, Complex Tissues.

12.2 The Tissue Systems : Epidermal Tissue System, The Ground Tissue System, The Vascular Tissue System.

12.3 Anatomy of Dicotyledonous and Monocotyledonous Plants : Dicotyledonous Root, Monocotyledonous Root, Dicotyledonous Stem, Monocotyledonous Stem, Dorsiventral (Dicotyledonous) Leaf, Isobilateral (Monocotyledonous) Leaf.

12.4 Secondary Growth : Vascular Cambium; Formation of cambial ring; Activity of ‘The Cambial Ring’ ; Spring Wood and Autumn Wood; Heartwood and Sapwood; Cork Cambium.

UNIT-VII : PLANT ECOLOGY AND ECONOMIC BOTANY

Chapter 13 : Plant Communities and Ecological Adaptations

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Plant communities and ecological adaptations : Hydrophytes; Ecological adaptations in Hydrophytes; Mesophytes; Xerophytes; Ecological adaptations in xerophytes

Chapter 14 : Economic Botany

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Plant Products - Cereals (Rice), Millets (Ragi), Pulses (Red gram), Oil seeds (Sunflower), Fibres (Cotton), Phytomedicines (Neem), Spices (Black pepper), Beverages (Non-alcoholic) (Coffee), Timber (Teak), Biodiesel (Jatropha)