APPLIED ZOOLOGY

Paper Code: 
DZOL511B
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

 

DZOL511B T

APPLIED ZOOLOGY

The students will be able to-

CO1: Recognize ecologically important and harmful insects. Understand the nature of the damage done by an insect pest.

CO2: Critique the methods of control of various insect pests.

CO3: Relate how arthropods work as vectors of Human diseases and affect human society.

CO4: Design the set up of Pisciculture, dairy farming, poultry keeping, leather industry and wool industry

 

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, Field practical

Class test

Semester end examinations,

Quiz

Assignments

Presentation

Individual and group projects

 

12.00

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 

 
12.00

Animal Husbandry

Dairy farming 

● Basic concepts in dairy science 

● Semen collection & preservation; artificial insemination; multiple ovulation and embryo  transfer 

● Different breeds of Cattle (Cow, Buffalo, Goat). 

Preservation and artificial insemination in cattle; Induction of early puberty and synchronization of estrus in cattle

 
12.00

 Sericulture

Mulberry sericulture: Cultivation of food plants, 

Bioecology of mulberry silkworms, Rearing of silkworm,

Harvesting and processing of cocoons, Reeling appliances, 

Disease of Bombyx mori, Predators and parasitoids of silkworm and their management.

 
12.00

Leather industry 

Wool industry 

Pharmaceuticals from animals 

 
12.00

Freshwater cultivable fishes and their aquaculture profile: Indian major carps,Exotic carps,Catfishes, Tilapia, achanna etc.

Types of culture in India.

Fishes diseases , Fin Rot, Whitespot, Dropsy, cloudy eye, ulcers

 
Essential Readings: 

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

 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

● 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 handbook 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

 

e-RESOURCES:

https://nptel.ac.in/courses/102106084

https://ncert.nic.in/vocational/pdf/kedf101.pdf

https://krishijagran.com/animal-husbandry/poultry-farming-which-is-more-...

layer-or-broiler/

http://www.agritech.tnau.ac.in/expert_system/cattlebuffalo/Breeds%20of%20cattle%20& %20baffalo.html

https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/animal_husbandry/ani_goat_breeds%20of%20goat.html

 

JOURNAL:

• Journal of Developmental Biology

• International Journal of Developmental Biology

 

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