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CBSE Class 9 Science — Cell: The Building Block of Life

Chapter 2 of the CBSE Class 9 Science syllabus. About 81 minutes of teaching.

Unit: World of Living Unit weightage: 27 marks 6 topics

What is in this chapter

  1. 1Discovery of the Cell10 min
  2. 2Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells12 min
  3. 3Plant and Animal Cells12 min
  4. 4Cell Organelles and Their Functions foundation18 min
  5. 5Permeability of Cell Membranes — Diffusion and Osmosis14 min
  6. 6Cell Division — Mitosis and Meiosis15 min

What to know first

No other chapter in this subject is listed as a prerequisite for this one, so you can pick it up without finishing the ones before it.

Where the marks are

CBSE publishes marks by unit, not by chapter. The World of Living unit carries 27 of the 80 marks in the paper, across 4 chapters. Our estimate for this chapter alone is about 7 marks — useful for deciding what to study first, but it is our split of the unit, not an official CBSE per-chapter figure.

This chapter is not on the board yet.

We author chapters one at a time and only publish once the lesson has been checked end to end, so we would rather say "not yet" than ship a thin one. The syllabus above is accurate and free to use meanwhile.

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Other chapters in Class 9 Science

Tissues in ActionDescribing Motion Around UsExploring Mixtures and their SeparationHow Forces Affect MotionWork, Energy, and Simple MachinesJourney Inside the AtomAtomic Foundations of MatterSound Waves: Characteristics and ApplicationsReproduction: How Life ContinuesPatterns in Life: Diversity and ClassificationEarth as a System: Energy, Matter, and Life