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Animal Diversity III
Course objectives:
This course will enable the students to –
- Knowledge about the animals from Annelida to Echinodermata based on their characteristics and the common physical features of other animals belonging to the same phylum.
- Learn about social behavior and colony formation in termites and honey bees.
- To gain detailed theoretical knowledge about sericulture, lac culture, apiculture and pearl culture and their economic importance.
- To understand Origin and evolutionary relationship of different larval forms from Annelida to Echinodermata.
Course Outcomes (COs):
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ZOL 212 |
Animal Diversity III |
The students will be able to CO 28: Be acquainted with 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: Learn aboutsocial behaviour and colony formation in termites and honey bees. CO 30: Gain detailed theoretical knowledge about sericulture, Lac culture, apiculture and pearl culture and their economical importance. CO 31: Know 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
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Class test Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation Surprise test Open book test
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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
A) Phylum Annelida
● Type study: Earthworm (Locomotion, Excretion and Reproduction)
● Metamerism
Vermiculture
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
A) Phylum Arthropoda
Type study: Prawn (Appendages, Digestion)
Social life in Insects (termites, honey bees)
- Metamorphosis
- Sericultures
- Lac culture
- Apiculture
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
A)Phylum Mollusca
Type study: Pila
- Respiration
- Digestion
- Torsion
- Pearl culture
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
A) Phylum Echinodermata
Type study: Starfish (Locomotion, Reproduction)
Water vascular system
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
✔ 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.
Suggested Readings:
✔ 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
