Course objectives:
This course will enable the students to –
1. Gain knowledge about insect vectors
2. Identify feature and economic importance of pests
Course |
Learning outcomes (at course level) |
Learning and teaching strategies |
Assessment Strategies |
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Course Code |
Course Title |
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25DZOL502(B) |
APPLIED ZOOLOGY PRACTICAL |
CO67: Recognize Ecologically important and harmful insects. Understand the nature of the damage done by an insect pest. CO68: Relate how arthropods work as vectors of Human diseases and affect human society. CO69: Design the setup of Pisciculture, dairy farming, poultry keeping, leather industry and wool industry CO70: Create a report on necessary requirements of animal breeding and aquarium keeping CO71: Demonstrate skills and record the concepts in the form of practical file and reflect on personal learning experiences and experimental outcomes during viva voce. CO72: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction |
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 preparation |
Assessment Strategies Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation. |
1. Study of Plasmodium vivax, Entamoeba histolytica, Trypanosoma gambiense, Ancylo stoma duodenale and Wuchereria bancrofti and their life stages through permanent slides/photomicrographs or specimens.
2. Study of arthropod vectors associated with human diseases: Pediculus, Culex, Anopheles, Aedes and Xenopsylla.
3. Study of insect damage to different plant parts/stored grains through damaged
products/photographs.
4. Identifying feature and economic importance of Helicoverpa (Heliothis) armigera, Papilio demoleus, Pyrilla perpusilla, Callosobruchus chinensis, Sitophilus oryzae and Tribolium castaneum
5. Visit to poultry farms or animal breeding centres. Submission of visit report
6. Report on freshwater aquarium
Scheme for CA End Practical Examination
Exercise 1 |
Exercise II |
File |
Viva |
Attendance |
Total |
5 |
5 |
10 |
5 |
5 |
30 |
Scheme for Semester End Practical Examination
Exercise I |
Exercise II |
Exercise III |
Exercise IV |
Spotting |
File |
Viva |
Total |
8 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
6x3=18 |
10 |
10 |
70 |
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
● Park, K. (2007). Preventive and Social Medicine. XVI Edition. B.B Publishers.
● Arora, D. R and Arora, B. (2001). Medical Parasitology. II Edition. CBS Publications and Distributors.
● Kumar and Corton. Pathological Basis of Diseases.
● Atwal, A.S. (1986). Agricultural Pests of India and South East Asia, Kalyani Publishers.
● Dennis, H. (2009). Agricultural Entomology. Timber Press (OR).
● Hafez, E. S. E. (1962). Reproduction in Farm Animals. Lea & Fabiger Publisher
● Dunham R.A. (2004). Aquaculture and Fisheries Biotechnology Genetic Approaches. CABI publications, U.K.
● Pedigo, L.P. (2002). Entomology and Pest Management, Prentice HalL
e-CONTENT:
● https://nptel.ac.in/courses/102106084
● https://ncert.nic.in/vocational/pdf/kedf101.pdf
● https://krishijagran.com/animal-husba ndry/poultr y-farming-which-is-more-profitable-layer-or- broiler/
● http://www.agritech.tnau.ac.in/e xpert_system/cattlebuffalo/Breeds %20of%20cattle %20&%20baffalo.html
● https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/a nimal_husbandry/ani_goat_breeds%20of%20goat.html