Course Content
Grade 12 Biology

Chapter-7: Human Health and Diseases

Pathogens; parasites causing human diseases (malaria, dengue, chikungunya, filariasis, ascariasis, typhoid, pneumonia, common cold, amoebiasis, ringworm) and their control.  

Basic concepts of immunology: vaccines; cancer, HIV, and AIDS.  

Adolescence, drug, and alcohol abuse.  

Chapter-8: Microbes in Human Welfare

Microbes in food processing, industrial production, sewage treatment, and energy generation.  

Microbes as bio-control agents and bio-fertilizers; Antibiotics: production and judicious use. Â