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Entrance Exam : Joint Entrance Test (JET) 2017
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JET Syllabus :
Agriculture : Unit I :
General proficiency and general knowledge in Agriculture : General knowledge of the physio graphic conditions of Rajasthan.Contribution of major arable crops and livestock to state exchequer, major endowments of Rajasthan and relief measures provided in the successive plans; Major handicaps to agricultural and horticultural production.Elements of climate and weather and their effect on crop growth.
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Agroclimatic zones of Rajasthan. Soil fertility and productivity. Saline and alkaline soils, acidic soils and their management. Soil typesof Rajasthan.Soil erosion, methods of soil and water conservation. Essential plant nutrients, their functions, availability and sources. Importance and types of organic manures and fertilizers, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, straight, mixed and compound fertilizers. Methods of fertilizer application.
Importance of irrigation in crop production, sources of irrigation, water requirement of crops and factors affecting it, scheduling of irrigation. Drainage and its importance, types of drainage. Characteristics of weeds, classification of weeds, weed- crop interference, prevention, control and eradication of weeds, methods of weed control.Use of herbicides for weed control in crops.
Study of the following crops with reference to climate and soil requirements, land preparation, varieties, seed treatment, seed rate, time of sowing, fertilizer application, irrigation, intercultural operations, plant protection, harvesting and threshing, yield, storage and crop rotations keeping in view the agro-climatic conditions of Rajasthan.
Cereals – Paddy, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, wheat and barley. Pulses – Green gram, cowpea, pigeonpea, black gram, kidney bean, gram and pea. Oil seeds – Groundnut, sesame, soybean, mustard, linseed, safflower, sunflower and taramira. Cash crop – Sugarcane, potato and tobacco. Fiber crops – Cotton and Sunhemp. Fodder crops – Berseem, lucerne, oat, cluster-bean and pearl millet.
Spices – Fenugreek, cumin and coriander. Characteristics of quality seed, seed germination and factors affecting it. Seed production-nucleus, foundation and certified seeds. Dry farming- importance, characteristics and principles. Crop production technology in dry farming areas. Mixed cropping, its types and benefits. Crop rotation, its principles and advantages.
Tillage: objectives, primary and secondary tillage. Sowing methods. Seed treatment, seed dormancy and ways to remove it.
Biology Section I :
Botany Unit A :
Unity of Life: Structural organization of the cell. Electron Microscopic structure of cell. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Plant and animal cells. Cell organelles and their functions-nucleus (including DNA and RNA structure), mitochondria, chloroplast, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi complex, lysosomes, microbodies, microfilaments, ribosomes, centriole, cell wall, cilia and flagella, vacuoles, cell inclusions-starch grains, mineral crystals.
Cell division : amitosis, mitosis and meiosis. Comparison of mitosis and meiosis. Significance of meiosis, cell cycle.
Continuity of Life : Mendel’s experiments with pea and the reasons for his success. Mendel’s laws of inheritance, Mono and dihybrid crosses.Chromosome structure and morphology, chromosomes and genes, chromosome hypothesis. Linkages and crossing over. Mutations. Sex determination, genetic code, transcription and translation
Section – II : Zoology
(A) Invertebrates
(1) Description of animals and their economical importance with special reference to Agriculture;
(i) Protozoa – Amoeba
(ii) Helminthes – Soil Nematode
(iii) Annelida – Earthworm
(iv) Platy helminthes – Liver fluke
(v) Mollusca – Snail & Slug
(vi) Arthropoda (various classes)
(a) Arachnida – Mites
(b) Crustacea – Prawns, Lobsters
(c) Diplopoda – Millipede
(d) Chilopoda – Centipedes
(e) Insecta – Cockroach
(2) Important insects of crops and storage (General introduction, importance, host plants, losses, life cycle and their control).
(i) Red hairy caterpillar
(ii) White grub
(iii) Termites
(iv) Locust
(v) Pod borers
(vi) Khapra beetle
(3) Methods of insect control (Insect control: General introduction)
(i) Physical and mechanical control
(ii) Cultural control
(iii) Chemical control (pesticides, insecticide formulation, classification of insecticides, miticides, nematicides, rodenticides) and safe use of chemicals
(iv) Bio-control Natural enemies of insects: Predators and parasitoids, pheromone traps, Trichoderma, NPV, botanical Insecticides.
(v) Integrated pest management
(vi) Sprayers and Dusters