The book id prepared with the objective of keeping in mind the existing syllabus in the subject for undergraduate students of agriculture. The subject matter in this text has been presented in such a way that it can be easily grasped by the beginners. Inclusion of appropriate illustrations and diagrams according to the need of subject has been added to the usefulness of this publications. It furnishes the working steps and procedures in an extremely simplified manner so that students will have no difficulty in understanding and performing the exercise. This text offers clear, comprehensive and unique up-to-date coverage on the microscope and its working; plant materials selected as root tips and buds, fixation and preservation, study of mitotic and meiotic cell division, experiments on monohybrid, dihybrid, trihybrid and test cross, epistaic interactions; probability and Chi-square test, study of linkage & chromosome mapping and the study of models on DNA and RNA. At the end of each exercise questions have been incorporated with the space of worksheet.

Prem Prakash Sharma, presently working as an Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur (Rajasthan), has 30 years of research with 15 years of teaching experience. He has attended 16 national trainings/conferences. He has published 3 books and 45 research papers in journals of national and international repute. He has 8 practical manuals at UG level and 2 practical manuals along with 3 teaching manuals at PG level as author/co-author to his credit. He has also published 7 abstracts and 6 popular articles. He has acted as Principal investigator/Co-Principal Investigator in 8 research projects. Abhay Dashora, working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Rajasthan college of Agriculture, Udaipur (Raj.) has 21 years of research experience. He has has tremendous contribution in the field of plant breeding by developing 3 varieties of groundnut, 1 variety of fenugreek and 1 variety of soyabean. He has 3 book and 2 practical manuals as co-author to his credit. He has published 30 research papers in journals of national and international repute. He has attended 25 national seminars/conferences.