SYLLABUS UPDATES FOR NEET(UG) 2025
BOTANY_Class XI
Sr.No. Chapter Name To be Taught Not to be taught
1 Cell : The Unit of Life Entire Chapter -
2 Cell Cycle and Cell Division Entire Chapter -
What is living? Biodiversity; Need for
classification, Taxonomy and Systematics,
3 The Living World Taxonomical aids
Concept of species and taxonomical
hierarchy, Binomial nomenclature
4 Biological Classification Entire Chapter -
The Root, Stem, Leaf, Inflorescence,
Flower, Fruit, Seed, Family: Solanaceae,
Morphology of Flowering Malvaceae, Cruciferae, Leguminosae
5 -
Plants (Fabaceae), Compositae, Gramineae,
Liliaceae.
Tissues, Anatomy and functions of different
6 Anatomy of Flowering Plants Secondary growth
parts of flowering plants
Angiosperms, Plant
Introduction, Salient features and
life cycles and
7 Plant Kingdom classification of Algae, Bryophytes,
Alternation of
Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms
Generations
Photosynthesis in Higher
8 Entire Chapter -
Plants
9 Respiration in Plants Entire Chapter -
Plant growth and Development: seed
germination; Phases of plant growth and
plant growth rate; Conditions of growth;
Plant Growth and Differentiation, dedifferentiation, Photoperiodism and
10
Development redifferentiation; Sequence of Vernalisation
developmental process in a plant cell;
Growth Regulators-Auxin, Gibberellins,
Cytokinin, Ethylene, ABA
BOTANY_Class XII
Sr.No. Chapter Name To be Taught Not to be taught
Sexual Reproduction in
1 Entire chapter -
Flowering Plants
Principles of Inheritance and
2 Entire chapter -
Variation
Molecular Basis of
3 Entire chapter -
Inheritance
4
Microbes in Human Welfare Entire chapter -
5 Organisms and Populations Entire chapter -
Ecosystem: Patterns,
components; productivity and Ecological succession,
6 Ecosystem decomposition: Energy flow: Nutrient Cycling, Ecosystem
Pyramids of number, biomass. services
Energy
Biodiversity and
7 Entire chapter -
Conservation
