WELCOME
TO NEW
ACADEMIC
SESSION
2025-2026
1.Monika Chauhan
2. Nerve
3. Ecosystem
4. Micrbiology
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BIOLOGY CHAPTERS
Ch-5 The Fundamental Unit of Life
Ch-6 Tissues
Ch-12 Improvement in Food Resources
PRACTICAL SYLLABUS
Preparation of stained temporary mounts of (a) onion
peel, (b) human cheek cells & to record observations
and draw their labeled diagrams.
Identification of Parenchyma, Collenchyma and
Sclerenchyma tissues in plants, striped, smooth and
cardiac muscle fibers and nerve cells in animals, from
prepared slides. Draw their labeled diagrams.
Which story
book do you
like the most?
CLASS – IX BIOLOGY
The Fundamental Unit
of Life
Module -1
By Ruchita Tiwari
Cells : building blocks of organisms
Basic unit
Basic unit
Cell
Learning objectives:
Students will be able to-
• Interpret cell is the basic structural and functional
unit of life.
• Define cell.
• Explain discovery of cell.
• Predict why cell is called the structural and functional
unit of life?
Cell is the basic structural unit of a living organism
All living organisms are made of cells.
What is the difference in Group A and Group B?
A B
Where do living
organisms carry out
basic life functions?
Organ systems
Levels of organisation
Organ Living
Cell Tissue Organ
System organism
Analogy of Levels of Organisation
One student of Class IX C
All Students of Class IX C
All Sections of Class IX
Primary section, middle section etc.
School
To be done in
Levels of organisation notebook –ruled
sheet
Cell : Basic functional unit of an organism
All basic life functions are carried out in a cell.
Unicellular organisms
• Uni: one cellular : cell
• made up of only one cell.
• Single cell carries all life processes.
Amoeba
Paramecium
Multicellular organisms
• Multi : many cellular : cell
• made up of only many cells.
• Group of specialised cell carries all basic functions.
Learning check:
Is the following statement, correct? If it is wrong, correct the
statement :
“Unicellular organisms do not respire; only multicellular
organisms respire”
Variation in number of cells
ORGANISMS
Unicellular Multicellular
Organisms Organisms
Consist of a No division of Consist of Division of
single cell labour many cells labour
Read topic 5.1 from NCERT textbook