Biology Laboratory

Biology is an everyday experience. Our well–designed and well-equipped laboratory provides the best means to give students an opportunity for active learning and to know more about life.

We have audio-visual facilities to allow views from microscope or visual facilities demonstration. The laboratory has exotic specimens representing all the major plant groups, seeds, fruits. The entomology collection consists of a wide variety of insects, pests, insects and rare samples. Most invertebrate groups are well represented mostly by dry material and formalin preserved specimens. There is a wide variety of vertebrate material that includes articulated and disarticulated bones and skeletons.

Every class has one practical period every week in the Biology Laboratory. They are taken in small groups of 15-20 students. They have practical examinations in which they identify, classify and carry experiments and are given marks based on their practical skills. The Biology students learn to appreciate unicellular life under the microscope and the same cells in the form of tissues, organs, organ-systems and organisms amazes them no end. There are specimens showing various life stages of different groups like birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. The students feel that every group has a different story to tell. They are also shown the various internal organs of various animals through dissections. The various life processes are taught through various apparatuses. The various charts, models, specimens depicting life immediately arouse an interest in the students. The various queries arising in their minds are provided with solutions.

The preserved organs of humans (we even have a preserved gall bladder of our Principal), the skeletal system, the tissues and cells each tell us the story of a complex living being. The students learn about the evolution starting from simpler form to the more complex form and finally to Homo sapiens. The diversity among the living beings is simply amazing. One feels one has not had enough knowledge about them even after spending months in the laboratory that provides our students the relevant scientific literature of life.

Article Contributed by : Ms Gursharan Kaur