Tamilnadu Board Class 11 Bio-Botany Chapter 1
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Unit I: Diversity of Living World Chapter 1 Living World Learning Objectives The learner will be able to, • Differentiate living and non-living things. • Appreciate the attributes of living organisms. • Compare the different classifications proposed by biologists. • Recognize the general characters, structure and reproduction of Bacteria. • Identify the characteristic features of Archaebacteria, Cyanobacteria, Earth was formed some 4.6 billion years Mycoplasma and Actinomycetes. ago. It is the life supporting planet with • Describe the characteristic features land forms like mountains, plateaus, of fungi. glaciers, etc., Life on earth exists within • Discuss on the structure and uses a complex structure called biosphere. of Mycorrhizae and Lichens. There exist many mysteries and wonders in the living world some are not visible but the activity of some capture the attention of all. For example the response Chapter Outline of sun flower to the sunlight, the twinkling 1.1 Attributes of Living firefly in the dark forest, the rolling water organisms droplets on the surface of lotus leaf, the closure of the leaf of venus fly trap on 1.2 Viruses insect touch and a squid squeezing ink to 1.3 Classification of escape from its predator. From this it is Living world clear that the wonder planet earth harbors 1.4 Bacteria both landforms and life forms. Have you 1.5 Fungi thought of DNA molecule? It is essential for the regulation of life and is made up 1 TN_GOVT_BOTANY_XI_Page 001-041 CH01.indd 1 02-06-2018 13:43:38 of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen cells. Therefore, growth in living thing is and phosphorus thus nonliving and living intrinsic. In unicellular organisms like things exist together to make our planet bacteria and amoeba growth occurs by cell unique. division and such cell division also leads According to a survey made by to the growth of their population. Hence, Mora et al., 2011 the number of estimated growth and reproduction are mutually species on earth is 8.7 million. The living inclusive events. world includes microbes, plants, animals Cellular structure and human beings which possess unique and distinct characteristic feature. All living organisms are made up of cells which may be prokaryotic or eukaryotic. 1.1 Attributes of living organisms Prokaryotes are unicellular, lack membrane bound nuclei and organelles The attributes of living organisms are given like mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, below and is represented in Figure 1.1 golgi bodies and so on (Example: Bacteria and Blue green algae). In Eukaryotes a Growth Nutrition Movement definite nucleus and membrane bound organelles are present. Eukaryotes may ATTRIBUTES Metabolism OF LIVING Reproduction be unicellular (Amoeba) or multicellular ORGANISMS (Oedogonium). Reproduction Respiration Irritability Excretion Reproduction is one of the fundamental Figure 1.1: Attributes of living organisms characteristic features of living organisms. It is the tendency of a living organism Growth to perpetuate its own species. There are two types of reproduction namely Growth is an intrinsic property of all asexual and sexual. Asexual reproduction living organisms through which they can (Figure 1.2) refers to the production of increase cells both in number and mass. the progeny possessing features more Unicellular and multicellular organisms or less similar to those of parents. The grow by cell division. In plants, growth sexual reproduction brings out variation is indefinite and occurs throughout through recombination. Asexual their life. In animals, growth is definite reproduction in living organisms occurs and occurs for some period. However, by the production of conidia (Aspergillus, cell division occurs in living organisms Penicillium), budding (Hydra and Yeast), to repair and heal the worn out tissues. binary fission (Bacteria and Amoeba) Growth in non-living objects is extrinsic. fragmentation (Spirogyra), protonema Mountains, boulders and sand mounds (Mosses) and regeneration (Planaria). grow by simple aggregation of material Exceptions are the sterile worker bees and on the surface. Living cells grow by the mules addition of new protoplasm within the 2 TN_GOVT_BOTANY_XI_Page 001-041 CH01.indd 2 02-06-2018 13:43:38 is essential for the living organism to maintain internal condition to survive in the environment. Movement, Nutrition, Respiration and Excretion are also considered as the property of living things. (a) (b) The levels of organization in living organism begin with atoms and end in Biosphere. Each level cannot exist in isolation instead they form levels of integration as given in Figure 1.3. Metabolism The sum total of all the chemical reactions taking place in a cell of living (c) (d) organism is called metabolism. It is broadly divided into anabolism and Figure 1.2: Types of Asexual Reproduction catabolism. The difference between (a) Conidia formation-Penicillium, anabolism and catabolism is given in (b) Budding-Yeast, (c) Fragmentation- Table 1.1 Spirogyra, (d) Regeneration-Planaria Table 1.1: Difference between Response to stimuli anabolism and catabolism All organisms are capable of sensing their Anabolism Catabolism environment and respond to various physical, chemical and biological stimuli. Building up Breaking down Animals sense their surroundings by sense process process organs. This is called Consciousness. Smaller Larger molecule Plants also respond to the stimuli. Bending molecules break into smaller of plants towards sunlight, the closure of combine together units leaves in touch-me-not plant to touch are to form larger some examples for response to stimuli molecule in plants. This type of response is called Chemical energy The stored chemical Irritability. is formed and energy is released Homeostasis stored and used Property of self-regulation and tendency Example: Example: to maintain a steady state within an Synthesis of Breaking down of external environment which is liable proteins from glucose to CO2 and to change is called Homeostasis. It amino acids water 3 TN_GOVT_BOTANY_XI_Page 001-041 CH01.indd 3 02-06-2018 13:43:41 Biosphere Did you go through the headlines of news papers in recent times? Have you heard Ecosystem III Ecosystem of the terms EBOLA, ZIKA, AIDS, SARS, H1N1 etc? There are serious entities which Community are considered as “Biological Puzzle” Population and cause disease in man. They are called viruses. We have learnt about the attributes Individual organism II Individual organism of living world in the previous chapter. Organ systems Now we shall discuss about viruses which Living connect the living and nonliving world. Organs The word virus is derived from Tissues Latin meaning ‘Poison’. Viruses are Living cells sub-microscopic, obligate intracellular Living cells I parasites. They have nucleic acid core Organelles Colloids surrounded by protein coat. Viruses in their native state contain only a single Molecules & Crystals Compounds type of nucleic acid which may be either DNA or RNA. The study of viruses is Mixture Living Non Atoms called Virology. Figure 1.3: The levels of organization and integration in living organism Activity 1.1 Collect Vallisneria leaves or Chara from nearby aquarium and observe a leaf or Chara thallus (internodal region)under the microscope. You could see cells clearly under the microscope. Could W.M. Stanley you notice the movement of cytoplasm? (1904-1971) The movement of cytoplasm is called An American Scientist obtained virus cytoplasmic streaming or cyclosis. in crystallised form from infected tobacco juice in the year 1935. 1.2 Viruses He was jointly awarded “Nobel Prize” in Chemistry in 1946 with J.H. Northrop. 1.2.1 Milestones in Virology 1796 Edward Jenner used vaccination for small pox 1886 Adolf Mayer demonstrated the infectious nature of Tobacco mosaic virus using sap of mosaic leaves 4 TN_GOVT_BOTANY_XI_Page 001-041 CH01.indd 4 02-06-2018 13:43:41 1892 Dimitry Ivanowsky proved that 1.2.3 Characteristic features of Viruses viruses are smaller than bacteria Living Characters 1898 M.W. Beijierink defined the infectious agent in tobacco leaves • Presence of nucleic acid and protein. as ῾Contagium vivum fluidum’ • Capable of mutation 1915 F.W.Twort identified Viral infection • Ability to multiply within living cells. in Bacteria • Able to infect and cause diseases in 1917 d’Herelle coined the term living beings. ‘Bacteriophage’ 1984 Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo • Show irritability. discovered HIV (Human Immuno • Host –specific Deficiency Virus). Non-living Characters 1.2.2 Size and shape • Can be crystallized. Viruses are ultramicroscopic particles. They • Absence of metabolism. are smaller than bacteria and their diameter range from 20 to 300 nm (1nm = 10-9metres). • Inactive outside the host. Bacteriophage measures about 10-100 nm in • Do not show functional autonomy. size. The size of TMV is 300×20 nm. • Energy producing enzyme system is absent. Generally viruses are of three types based on shape and symmetry (Figure 1.4). 1.2.4 Classification of Viruses i. Cuboid symmetry – Example: Among various classifications proposed Adenovirus, Herpes virus. for viruses the classification given by ii. Helical symmetry – Example: David Baltimore in the year 1971 is Influenza virus, TMV. given below. The classification is based iii. Complex or Atypical – Example: on mechanism of RNA production, the Bacteriophage, Vaccinia virus. nature of the genome (single stranded –ss RNA Head Fibre DNA Capsid Collar DNA Sheath Protein Basal plate Tail fibre (a) (b) (c) (a) Adenovirus (b) Tobacco Mosaic