In 2000-01 looking into the needs of the students an applied subject Genetics was introduced. The course is run by the Coordinator who is a teaching faculty of Botany department..

The department has four laboratories, two labs for B.Sc, one lab for Genetics and the other lab for PUC course (which is shifted in New PUC block). There is only one classroom which can accommodate 60 students hence classes are also taken in Biology hall (Z1). There is one HOD room and five staff rooms and one preparation room. The most attractive part of the department is the garden which has about 2000 different plants both potted and grounded. The garden has almost all the plants for day to day practical use also a small medicinal garden has been developed.

The department has a herbarium housing more than 10000 specimens including Algae; in the herbarium a type specimen Isoetes dixtii Shinde (Italics) is an extinct species (Ex. 11352, Panchghani, Maharashtra) and other is Fischer Herbarium specimens from Holland. The department has three permanent teaching staff; Dr.(Mrs.) Doris M Singh, Dr. K. Kotresh and Dr. K.P. Kolkar. All are well qualified and experts in their field like Microbiology, Taxonomy and Environmental Biology, Developmental Biology etc. Teachers are carrying out research work. All of them are Research guides. So far 16 students have been awarded Ph.D.; 18 students are perusing their Ph.D. and four major and four minor projects have been completed. There are 10 temporary teachers who are actively involved in teaching and Research.