Applied Biology

Paper Code: 
ZOL 414
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to –

  • Aware about economically important insects.
  • Appraise the morphology of insect pests and the nature of the damage done by an insect pest.
  • Acquaint with the methods of control of various insect pests.
  • Recognize  arthropods vectors of human diseases.
  • Gain knowledge about Pisciculture, dairy farming, Poultry Keeping, Leather industry and Wool industry.
  • To enlighten them about use of Pharmaceuticals from animals

 

Course Outcomes (COs): 

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment 

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

ZOL-414

Applied zoology

The students will

CO 74: Recognize ecologically important and harmful insects. Understand the nature of the damage done by an insect pest.

CO 75: Critique the methods of control of various insect pests.

CO 76: Relate how arthropods work as vectors of Human diseases and affect human society.

CO 77: Design the set up of Pisciculture, dairy farming,  poultry keeping, leather industry and wool industry

The approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration, 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test 

Semester end examinations,

Quiz, 

Assignments, 

Presentation

Surprise test

Open book test

 

9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I
  • Brief accounts of Systematic position, Morphology, life history, mode of infection and pathogenicity, Prevention and control
  • Enterobius Vermicularis (pin worm)
  • Trichuristrichiura (whip worm)
  • Paragonimuswestermani (lung fluke)
  • Schistosomamansoni (blood fluke)
 
9.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
 
  • Arthropods as vectors of Human diseases
  • Anopheles: Malaria
  • Aedes: Dengue
  • Household insects:Cockroach, Housefly, Pediculus, Bedbug, Ants, Termite, Spider

 

9.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
  • Insects pest of economically important crops and their control: Grain Pest: Rhizopertha, Sitophilus, Tribolium, Trogoderma, Callosobruchus
  • Brief idea of Integrated Pest Management (Types of Control strategies, Steps, Application, Necessity)
  • Rat menace and its control

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV
  • Pisciculture
  • Types of culturable fishes, Fish culture in India, Process of Pisciculture, methods of Fishing and preservation of Fishes.
  • Poultry Keeping
  • Maintenance and management, Breeding and rearing of Chickens, Diseases of Poultry, Indians breeds
  • Dairy farming
  • Basic concepts in dairy science
  • Semen collection & preservation; artificial insemination; multiple ovulation and embryo transfer
  • Different breeds of Cattle (Cow, Buffalo, Goat).

 

9.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
  • Leather industry
  • Wool industry
  • Pharmaceuticals from animals
Essential Readings: 
  • Shukla and Upadhyaya : Economic Zoology (Rastogi Publishers, 2009).
  • Chatterjee K.D. Parasitology (Protozoology and Helminthology) with two hundred fourteen illustrations. CBS Publishers & Distributors Private Limited, 2009.
  • Paniker, CKJ. Textbook of Medical Parasitology. 6th Edition Jaypee Brothers, 2007
  • Shrivastava: Test book of Applied Entomology, Vol. I &II (Kalyani Publishers, 1991)
  • Insects. M. S. Mani, NBT, India, 2006.
  • Text Book of Applied Zoology: Vermiculture, Apiculture, Sericulture, Lac-Culture, Agricultural Pests and their Control by Pradip V. Jabde, 2005 Publisher Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd. New Delhi
  • Absan and Sinha: A hand book of Economic Zoology (S. Chand and Company, 2009)
  • Kotpal : Modern Text Book of Zoology Vertebrates (Rastogi Publication, 2011)
  • Biological and Biotechnological control of insect pests, Racheigl and Racheigl, CRC Press, 1998.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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