Pharmacognosy

 The book has ten chapters and contains to the point information regarding each topic mentioned in the syllabus:  Chapter 1 - Describes definition, branches of biology, its under disciplinary subjects and branches of botany. It also discuss about relevance of biology to Pharmaceutical Sciences. Chapter 2 - Elaborates all aspects of Genetics such as History, structure of nucleic acid, proteins and transfer of genetic information.  Chapter 3 - The details of plant cell, cell contents and the phases of cell division are covered . chapter 4 and chapter 5 - Covers the different types of cells, plant tissue systems, morphological and microscopical details of crude drugs.  Chapter 6 - Focuses on different modes of plant nutrition and important physiological plant processes.  Chapter 7 - Explains about need of classification of plants along with natural and artificial systems of plant classification, Binomial nomenclature and divisions of plant kingdom.  Chapter 8 -  Deals with different aspects of Ecosystem including types of pollution, Biodiversity, Global warming and Phytoremediation.   chapter 9 - Various aspects of crop improvement like mutation, Hybridization and polyploidy have been covered.   Chapter 10 - Detailed about History, scope, development of Pharmacognosy. It also describes about classification of crude drugs.