Animal Diversity I

Paper Code: 
ZOL-111
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
8.00

General principles of taxonomy

  • Binomial nomenclature
  • Trinomial nomenclature
  • Rules of nomenclature

Concept of Five kingdom

Basis of Classification

12.00

*Salient features and classification of  Invertebrates upto Class level

(Type study –Habit, Habitat & Salient features)

Phylum Protozoa:

  • Type study – Paramecium

 (Locomotion, Nutrition and   Reproduction)

Economic Importance

7.00

Phylum Porifera:

  • Type study- Sycon
  • Canal system of Sponges
  • Skeletal system

Economic Importance

9.00

Phylum Coelenterata

  • Type study – Obelia
  • Polymorphism

Coral reefs

9.00

Phylum Platyhelminthes

  • Type study- Taenia

Phylum Nemathelminthes

  •  Ascaris (External features and life cycle)

Parasitic adaptations of Helminthes

Essential Readings: 
  • Invertebrate Zoology; Barns, R. D; W. B. Saunders Co.
  • Textbook of Zoology; Shivpuri, Jacob, D. and Vyas. D.K.; Ramesh Book Depot.
  • Text book of Invertebrate Zoology I; Sandhu, G.S; Campus Books.
  • Text book of Invertebrate Zoology II; Sandhu, G.S ; Campus Books.
     Modern Textbook of Zoology Invertebrates; Kotpal; Rastogi Publications.
  • Text book of Zoology. Parker, T.J., Haswell. W.A.Macmillan Co., London.

 

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