Our Toppers in Indian Forest Service Exam with Botany Optional. As Botany is a specialised science subject, mostly bioscience graduates pursue it as an optional. Plant Microbiology, Cryptogams, Phanerogams, Plant Resource Development, Morphogenesis, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Plant Breeding, Biotechnology, Physiology & Biochemistry, Ecology and Plant Geography are the important units studied in Botany.
Classes aligned to the requirements of the UPSC syllabus starting from the basics in a structure friendly to a fresher.
High quality class-notes, study material and lecture handouts.
Course Extension without further payment.
10 Unit wise Tests & 2 Full tests on the lines of the UPSC Main Examination.
Special sessions on PYQ discussion and answer writing.
Personal mentoring on enhancing your performance.
Flexible in Test Series Timings.
Why Botany Optional?
As Botany is a specialised science subject, mostly bioscience graduates pursue it as an optional. Plant Microbiology, Cryptogams, Phanerogams, Plant Resource Development, Morphogenesis, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Plant Breeding, Biotechnology, Physiology & Biochemistry, Ecology and Plant Geography are the important units studied in Botany.
It’s a fascinating subject with a lot of potential for the UPSC exam, and it has the capacity to produce higher scores in the examination. Students must put some effort in practising answer writing.
Advantages of Botany as an Optional.
- Scoring Nature – Botany is considered as a scoring subject as it is accurate and scientific in nature. Presenting the answers correctly and neatly will help you to fetch high grades.
- Syllabus – The syllabus is conceptual and well-defined.
- Less competitive – The subject is less competitive as the students from a science background usually chooses Botany as an optional in UPSC.
- Figures and diagrams – Botany is a subject in which figures and diagrams can be drawn to fetch more marks.
- Direct Questions – In Botany questions are asked direct in nature no need to brainstorm much.
- Being a science subject, nothing is left to the interpretation of examiner point of view.
Our Toppers in Indian Forest Service Exam with Botany Optional.
One can easily score high marks in Botany Optional. In the last year (2021), this fact is testified by our student Devipriya Ajith who secured All India Rank 51 in Indian Forest Service Exam under our guidance.
Courses Offered for Botany Optional.
- Classroom Course – Yearly two batches are announced for Botany Optional mentored by Morison Job. The venue for these batches is Trivandrum, Kerala.
- Interactive Online Course – Online Courses are also offered for Botany Optional. The content, faculty and subject matter is exactly the same as in the Classroom programs.
- You can join it in any one of the modes.
Course Duration.
The course duration for both Online & Offline course is 1 Year from the date of enrollment (Validity can be extended without further payment).
Highlights of Botany Optional at Gallant IAS.
- Classes aligned to the requirements of the UPSC syllabus starting from the basics in a structure friendly to a fresher.
- High quality class-notes, study material and lecture handouts.
- Course Extension without further payment.
- 10 Unit wise Tests & 2 Full tests on the lines of the UPSC Main Examination.
- Special sessions on PYQ discussion and answer writing.
- Personal mentoring on enhancing your performance.
- Flexible in Test Series Timings.
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Course Curriculum
Botany Optional 2023 | |||
Orientation | Botany Optional | 2023 | FREE | 01:04:00 | |
Botany Optional PYQs.pdf | FREE | 00:10:00 | |
Botany Optional PYQs2.pdf | FREE | 00:10:00 | |
Botany Optional PYQs3.pdf | FREE | 00:10:00 | |
Paper 1 | Unit 1 | |||
Introduction to Unit 1 – Microbiology |Botany Optional 2023 | 00:20:00 | ||
Structure and multiplication of viruses | Module – 1 | Part – 1 | Botany Optional | 01:23:00 | ||
Structure and multiplication of viruses | Module – 1 | Part – 2 | Botany Optional | 00:44:00 | ||
Module – 1 Structure & Multiplication of Viruses.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Plant Viruses | Module – 2 | Part – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:41:00 | ||
Plant Viruses | Module – 2 | Part – 2 | Botany Optional | 00:50:00 | ||
Viroids | Module – 3 | Botany Optional | 00:32:00 | ||
Viroids | Module – 3.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Prions | Module – 4 | Botany Optional | 00:58:00 | ||
Prions | Module -4.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Structure & multiplication of Bacteria | Part 1|Botany Optional 2023 | 00:41:00 | ||
Structure & multiplication of Bacteria | Part 2 |Botany Optional 2023 | 00:30:00 | ||
Structure & multiplication of Bacteria | Part 3 |Botany Optional 2023 | 00:30:00 | ||
Structure & multiplication of Bacteria | Part 4 |Botany Optional 2023 | 00:40:00 | ||
Mycoplasma | Module-5 |Botany Optional 2023 | 00:27:00 | ||
Mycoplasma| Module -6 | Botany optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Applications of Microbiology in Agriculture | Module -6 | Botany optional | 00:33:00 | ||
Applications of Microbiology in Agriculture | Module -6 | Botany optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Applications of Microbiology in Medicine | Module- 7 | Part -1 | Botany Optional 2023 | 00:40:00 | ||
Application of Microbes in Industry & Microbes in control of Soil & water | Module- 7 | Botany Optional 2023 | 00:40:00 | ||
Materials | Paper 1 | Unit 1 | |||
Applications of Microbiology in Industry| Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Applications of Microbiology in Medicine | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Paper 1 | Unit 2 | |||
General Introduction to Fungi and Lichens |Unit – 2 | Botany Optional | 00:35:00 | ||
General Characteristics of Fungi | Module – 2.2 | Botany Optional | 00:51:00 | ||
General Characteristics of Fungi | part – 2 | Module – 2.2 | Botany Optional | 01:10:00 | ||
General Characteristics of Fungi | Part – 3 | Module – 2.2 | Botany Optional | 00:42:00 | ||
Phylum Oomycota | Botany Optional 2023 | 01:08:00 | ||
Phylum Oomycota | Part – 2 | Module – 2.3 | Botany Optional 2023 | 00:38:00 | ||
Phylum Zygomycota | Module – 2.7 | Botany Optional | 01:17:00 | ||
Phylum Basidiomycota | Part-1| Botany Optional | 00:57:00 | ||
Phylum Basidiomycota | Part-2 | Botany Optional | 00:49:00 | ||
Phylum Ascomycota | Part-1 | Botany Optional | 00:52:00 | ||
Phylum Ascomycota | Part-2 | Botany Optional | 00:50:00 | ||
Phylum Ascomycota | Part-3 | Botany Optional | 00:51:00 | ||
Phylum Ascomycota | part – 4 | Botany Optional | 00:47:00 | ||
Phylum Ascomycota | part – 5 | Botany Optional | 00:37:00 | ||
Phylum Ascomycota | Part – 6 | Botany Optional | 00:37:00 | ||
Phylum Ascomycota | part – 7 | Botany Optional | 00:48:00 | ||
Parasexuality & Heterothallism | Botany Optional | 01:07:00 | ||
Algae General Orientation & Introduction to algae | Botany Optional | 01:33:00 | ||
Heterocyst | Botany Optional 2023 | WN 42 | 00:21:00 | ||
Cyanobacteria | Botany Optional 2023 | WN 42 | 00:54:00 | ||
Cyanobacteria | Botany optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Xanthophyceae (Vaucheria) | Botany Optional | WN42 | 00:41:00 | ||
Xanthophyceae – Vaucheria | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Polysiphonia | Part 1 | Botany Optional | WN42 | 00:51:00 | ||
Polysiphonia | Part 2 | Botany Optional | WN42 | 00:28:00 | ||
Chlorophyceae | Botany Optional 2023 | WN42 | 00:53:00 | ||
Chlorophyceae | Part – 1 | chlamydomonas | Botany Optional | WN43 | 00:53:00 | ||
Chlorophyceae | Part – 2 | volvox | Botany Optional | WN43 | 00:47:00 | ||
Chlorophyceae | Part- 3 | Coleochaete | Botany Optional | WN43 | 00:41:00 | ||
Chlorophyceae | Part- 4 | Oedogonium | Botany Optional | WN43 | 00:48:00 | ||
Chlorophyceae | Part – 5 | Chara | Module 2.21 | Botany Optional | 00:51:00 | ||
Phaeophyceae| Ectocarpus and Fucus | Botany Optional | 00:49:00 | ||
General Introduction to Bryophytes | Module 2.22 | Botany Optional | 00:31:00 | ||
Riccia | Botany Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Riccia | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Marchantia | Paper 1 | Botany Optional | 00:52:00 | ||
Marchantia | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Sphagnum | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:39:00 | ||
Sphagnum | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Anthoceros | Paper 1 | Botany Optional | 00:52:00 | ||
Anthoceros | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Sporophyte of Funaria & Polytrichum | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 01:04:00 | ||
Sporophyte of Funaria & Polytrichum | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Introduction to Pteridophytes and Rhynia | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:40:00 | ||
Stelar Structure in Pteridophytes | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:40:00 | ||
Stelar System | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Telome Theory | Module | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:46:00 | ||
Telome Theory | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Lycopodium | Module | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:28:00 | ||
Selaginella | Paper 1 | Botany Optional | 00:38:00 | ||
Equistem | Paper 1 | Botany Optional | 00:37:00 | ||
Azolla and Salvinia | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:28:00 | ||
Marsilea | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:55:00 | ||
Materials | Paper 1 | Unit 2 | |||
Xanthophyceae – Vaucheria | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Volvox | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Rhodophyceae – Polysiphonia | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Oedogonium | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Coleochaete | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Chara | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Chlorophyceae – Chlamydomonas | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Cyanobacteria | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Ectocarpus & Fucus | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Paper 1 | Unit 3 | |||
Introduction to Gymnosperm and Cycas | Part – 1 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 01:06:00 | ||
Introduction to Gymnosperm and Cycas | Part – 2 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:56:00 | ||
Pinus | Part – 1| Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:58:00 | ||
Pinus | Part – 2 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 01:07:00 | ||
Gnetum | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:57:00 | ||
Embryo and it’s Development | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:36:00 | ||
Somata & It’s Types, Ovule – Structure & Types | Paper – 2 | Botany Optional | 00:55:00 | ||
Embryo – It’s Types and Different Tpes of Embryo Sac | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:36:00 | ||
Polyembryony | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:21:00 | ||
Endosperm and its development | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:11:00 | ||
Development of Male & Female Gametophyte | Paper – 1 | Unit – 3 | Botany Optional | 00:25:00 | ||
System of Classification | Paper – 1 | Unit – 3 | Botany Optional | 00:43:00 | ||
Angiospermic Families | Paper – 1 | Unit – 3 | Botany Optional | 00:26:00 | ||
Angiospermic Families | Unit 3 | Paper1 | Materials | |||
Asteraceae | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Brassicacae | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Magnoliaceae | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Rosaceae | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Apiaceae | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Asclepiadaceae| Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Dipterocarpaceae | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Euphorbiaceae | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional..pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Malvaceae | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional..pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Verbenaceae | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional..pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Musaceae | Unit 3 Paper1 | Botany Optional | pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Liliaceae | Unit 3 Paper1 | Botany Optional | pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Arecaceae | Unit 3 Paper1 | Botany Optional | pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Poaceae | Unit 3 Paper1 | Botany Optional | pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Cucurbitaceae | Unit 3 Paper1 | Botany Optional | pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Rubiaceae | Unit 3 Paper1 | Botany Optional | pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Orchidaceae | Unit 3 Paper1 | Botany Optional | pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Materials | |||
Relationships of Gnetum with Gymnosperms & Angiosperms | botany.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Embryology | Unit 3 | Paper1.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Glandular & Non-glandular Trichomes | Unit 3 | Paper1.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Anomalous Secondary Growth | Unit – 3 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional..pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Palynology | botany.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Morphological Nature of Ovuliferous Scale | botany.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Secondary Thickening in Dicot Stem | botany.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Distribution of Gymnosperms | botany.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Systematics & Taxonomy | botany.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Polyembryony | botany.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
General_Account_on_Cycadofilicales,_Bennettiales_&_Cordaitales | botany.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Economic Importance of Gymnosperms | botany.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Angiosperms, Origin & Evolution | Unit 3 | Paper1.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Paper 1 | Unit 4 | |||
Vavilov’s Centre of origin | Paper – 1 | Unit – 4 | Botany Optional | 00:20:00 | ||
Plant Sources | Paper – 1 | Unit – 4 | Botany Optional | 00:25:00 | ||
Materials | Unit -4 Paper -1 | |||
Vavilov Centre of Origin | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Plant Sources – Timber | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Plant Sources – Spices & Condiments | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Plant Sources – Latex | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Plant Sources – Gums, Resins & Dyes | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Plant Sources – Food | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Plant Sources – Fibres | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Plant Sources – Edible Oil | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Plant Sources – Beverages | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Herbaria | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Energy Plantations | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Botanical Garden | Unit -4 Paper -1 | Botany Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Paper 1 | Unit 5 | |||
Introduction to Morphogenesis | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:16:00 | ||
Micropropagation | Paper – 2 | Botany Optional | 00:31:00 | ||
Protoplast Isolation, Culture and fusion | Module 5.4 | Paper – 1 | Botany Optional | 00:56:00 | ||
Somaclonal Variation | Paper – 2 | Botany Optional | 00:25:00 | ||
Pollen Haploids | Paper – 2 | Botany Optional | 00:39:00 | ||
Paper 2 | Unit 1 | |||
Paper 2 | Unit 2 | |||
Paper 2 | Unit 3 | |||
Paper 2 | Unit 4 | |||
Paper 2 | Unit 5 |