Ch 13Applied Biology — Class 12 Zoology, concept-first.

Applied biology looks at how the principles of biology are put to practical use in everyday economic and medical life. This unit covers two broad areas.

Dairying — running a dairy farm to produce milk profitably — depends on four broad factors working together: breeding, selecting and breeding cows/buffaloes with a high genetic potential for milk yiel…

Rather than leaving reproduction to chance natural mating, livestock improvement programmes increasingly rely on controlled breeding techniques, of which the two most important are artificial insemina…

Poultry farming is organised around two distinct purposes, each with its own management focus. Layers are hens bred and managed specifically for sustained egg production over a long laying life, so th…

Apiculture is the practice of rearing honey bees, usually in man-made hives, for the commercial production of honey and other bee products.

Fishery is the industry and activity concerned with catching, processing and marketing fish and other aquatic organisms.

Human insulin, the hormone that regulates blood glucose, is a small protein made of 51 amino acids arranged in two polypeptide chains: chain A, of 21 amino acids, and chain B, of 30 amino acids, held…

Cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell division, and cancers are classified by the type of tissue they arise from.

Several imaging and monitoring techniques let clinicians look inside the body or track an organ's activity without surgery.

Sample papers and previous-year board questions for this subject.