Animal Diversity III

Paper Code: 
ZOL 212
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course objectives:

 

This course will enable the students to –

 

  1. Differentiate the animals from Annelida to Echinodermata based on their characteristics and the common physical features of other animals belonging to the same phylum.
  2. Demonstrate social behavior and colony formation in termites and honey bees.
  3. Implement the knowledge about sericulture, lac culture, apiculture and pearl culture and their economic importance.
  4. Appraise the origin and evolutionary relationship of different larval forms from Annelida to Echinodermata.

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

 

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

ZOL 212

Animal Diversity III

The students will :

CO 28: Differentiate the animals from Annelida to Echinodermata based on their characteristics and the common physical features of other animals belonging to the same phylum.

CO 29: Investigate social behaviour and colony formation in termites and honey bees.

CO 30: Appraise knowledge about sericulture, Lac culture, apiculture and pearl culture and implement this to their economical importance.

CO 31: Interpret  the origin and evolutionary relationship of different larval forms from Annelida to Echinodermata.

The approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Chart or model preparation

 

Class test

Semester end examinations,

Quiz,

Assignments,

Presentation

Surprise test

Open book test

 

 

9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

Phylum Annelida

  • General characters and Classification of the Invertebrates upto Class level for each Phylum.
  • Salient feature of the Type Study i.e. Habit, Habitat and External morphology
  • Phylum Annelida
  • Type study:  Earthworm (Locomotion, Excretion  and Reproduction)
  • Metamerism
  • Vermiculture

 

12.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

Phylum Arthropoda   

  • General characters and Classification of the Invertebrates upto Class level for each Phylum.
  • Salient feature of the Type Study i.e. Habit, Habitat and External morphology
  • Phylum Arthropoda
  • Type study: Prawn (Appendages, Digestion)
  • Social life in Insects (termites, honey bees)
  • Metamorphosis
  • Sericultures
  • Lac culture
  • Apiculture

 

 

9.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III

Phylum Mollusca

  • General characters and Classification of the Invertebrates upto Class level for each Phylum.
  • Salient feature of the Type Study i.e. Habit, Habitat and External morphology
    1. Phylum Mollusca
  • Type study: Pila
  • Respiration
  • Digestion
  • Torsion
  • Pearl culture

 

6.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

Phylum Echinodermata         

  • General characters and Classification of the Invertebrates upto Class level for each Phylum.
  • Salient feature of the Type Study i.e. Habit, Habitat and External morphology

Phylum Echinodermata

  • Type study: Starfish (Locomotion, Reproduction)
  • Water vascular system

 

 

9.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

Larval forms of Invertebrates 

  • General characters and Classification of the Invertebrates upto Class level for each Phylum.
  • Salient feature of the Type Study i.e. Habit, Habitat and External morphology
  • Larval forms of Invertebrates
  • Planula, Miracidium, Sporocyst, Redia, Cercaria, Metacercaria, Cysticercous, Nauplius, Zoeae, Megalopa, Mysis, Trochophore, Glochidium, Brachiolaria, Bipinnaria

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Text book of Zoology. Parker, T.J., Haswell. W.A. Macmillan Co., London.
  • Textbook of Zoology; Shivpuri, Jacob, D. and Vyas. D.K.; Ramesh Book Depot.
  • Modern Textbook of Zoology Invertebrates; Kotpal; Rastogi Publications.
  • Dhami P.S. and Dhami J.K. Invertebrate Zoology, S Chand and Co.
  • Hickman, C.P., LS Roberts,and A. Larson.McGraw  Hill Company, New York. Integrated principles of zoology.
  • Ruppert and Barnes, R.D. (2006). Invertebrate Zoology, VIII Edition. Holt Saunders International Edition.
  • Barnes, R.S.K., Calow, P., Olive, P.j.W., Golding, D.W. and Spicer, J.I. (2002). The Invertebrate: A New Synthesis, III Edition, Blackwell Science.
  • Barrington.  E.J.W. Invertebrate form and function. PHI New Delhi.

 

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