CELL BIOLOGY PRACTICAL

Paper Code: 
CZOL 414P
Credits: 
2
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

CZOL 414P

 

PRACTICAL

The students will be able to-

 

CO: Analyse the different stages of mitosis and meiosis.

 

CO: Investigate the significance of Barr body

 

CO: Perceive detailed knowledge about the process of cell division and its regulatory checkpoints.

 

CO: Examine the three primary components of the cell’s cytoskeleton and how they affect cell shape, function, and movement.

 

The approach in  teaching: 

Interactive Lectures,  Discussion, Tutorials,  Guest lectures,  PowerPoint  

presentations,  

Demonstration of  working of various  instruments 

Learning activities for  the students: 

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

● Class test 

● Semester  end  

examinatio 

ns, 

● Quiz,  

● Assignment s,  

● Presentatio n 

● Surprise  

test 

● Open book  test

 

1. Preparation of temporary stained squash of onion root tip to study various stages of mitosis

2. Study of various stages of meiosis.

3. Preparation of permanent slide to show the presence of Barr body in human female blood cells/cheek cells.

4.  Fixation and staining:

        Fixatives:- Carnoys, Bouins, formalin

        Stains:- Acetocarmine,Acetorcein, Eosin, Haematoxylin

5.  Double & Single staining

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS:

• Practical Zoology, Vertebrates, Lal, S.S. Rastogi Publications, Meerut

• Practical Zoology, Vertebrates,Kohli,K.S.,Ansari, A.S. Ramesh Book Depot, Jaipur.

• Laboratory manual in Invertebrate & Experimental Zoology, Jacob VyasRamesh Book Depot, New Delhi.

SUGGESTED READINGS:

● Thimmaiah, S.R. Kalyani Publishers, Noida

e-RESOURCES:

https://vlab.amrita.edu/?sub=3&brch=64&sim=1090&cnt=2

• Amrita Virtual Labs- http://biotech01.vlabs.ac.in/List%20of%20experiments.html:

 

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