Biology Investigatory Project

Investigatory projects are part of obligatory assignment involving purely experimental

procedures so that you report on, duplicate, or adapt something that someone else has already
discovered. It may involve some other form of investigation also. For example, you may
undertake to investigate the richness and patterns of biodiversity (flora and fauna) in your
school campus and prepare a mural of it or to investigate the effects of physical fitness on
your pulse rate.
Writing of Project
A format, such as given below, can be followed.
(i) Title of the investigatory project: Write the title of the project, for example, ‘Inheritance
pattern of eye colour’.
(ii) Introduction and Objective: Express as clearly as possible the effect of one variable that
the experiment is designed to investigate.
(iii) Materials needed: This might be just a list, or a diagram if a particular piece of
apparatus was used.
(iv) Method: Describe the procedure stepwise including the precautions taken, if any.
(v) Result: A suitable chart or table for recording and organising your readings or
measurements should be made out before you start the experiment.
(vi) Analysis and interpretation: Observation data are factual, and may not be as expected
by you.
(vii) Discussion: Discuss briefly the implication of your results and suggest extensions of any
kind that can be undertaken.
(viii) Conclusion: In view of the results obtained and related work done on the topic of the
project, write conclusion briefly.
(ix) References: Any work related to the project which you have come across through
books/articles or any other source should be written as reference, for example: Michael
Michalco (2001), Cracking Creativity, Berkeley, Ten Speed Press
SUGGESTED TOPICS
1. Disappearing Act: How Fast Do Different Biodegradable & Compostable Materials
Decompose?
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/EnvSci_p058/environmental-
science/how-fast-do-different-biodegradable-compostable-materials-decompose

2. Plant tissue culture: Seed culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfQXpzi8qno
3. Hydroponics: Gardening Without Soil.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/PlantBio_p045/plant-
biology/hydroponics-gardening-without-soil
4. Exploring the Chemistry of Red Flower Pigments.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/PlantBio_p035/plant-
biology/red-flower-pigments
5. Aquaponics.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-
ideas/EnvEng_p032/environmental-engineering/aquaponics
6. Aroma Therapy.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348148849_A_REVIEW_ON_AROMATHERAPY
7. Nature Therapy.
8. Natural mosquito repellent.
https://www.slideshare.net/konathamtejakumarred/a-review-on-natural-insect-repellent
9. Eco-friendly pesticides or Bio-pesticides.
10. Mushroom cultivation – Oyster mushroom.
https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/farm_enterprises/Farm%20enterprises_%20Mushroom_Oyster.htm
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11. Aloe vera as an antifungal agent.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-
ideas/MicroBio_p033/microbiology/can-aloe-juice-save-your-berries-from-mold
12. Usage of natural products.
13. Preparation of natural dye.
14. Study of pollen viability in different flowers.
15. Isolation of DNA from animal tissue (chicken liver).
16. Study of pollen grain structure in different flowers.
17. Natural antimicrobial agents.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-
ideas/MicroBio_p022/microbiology/natural-antimicrobial-agents
18. Gel electrophoresis.
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-
ideas/BioChem_p028/biotechnology-techniques/forensic-science-building-your-own-tool-
for-identifying-dna
19. Ideas for developing low-cost nutritious food.
20. Agrochemicals and their effects.
21. The ecological role of some animals observed in a local area.
22. Cultivation of microgreens and their nutritional composition.
https://www.manage.gov.in/publications/knowledgeseries/microgreens.pdf
23. Mushroom cultivation – Button mushroom.
https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/farm_enterprises/Farm%20enterprises_%20Mushroom_button_mu
shroom.html
24. Antibiotic resistance.
25. Biodiversity in Amazon rainforest.
26. Biodiesel.
27. Fossils as an evidence for evolution - Fossilized dinosaur egg - Oviraptorosaur.
28. Drug addiction
29. IVF technologies to treat infertility.
30. Ramsar convention and ramsar sites in Tamil Nadu.
31. Rice genome project.
32. Sacred groves of Tamil Nadu and their role in conservation of biodiversity.
33. Technologies used in ex-situ conservation.