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GENERAL PRACTICAL
Course objectives:
This course will enable the students to -
- Design and conduct experiments, using a broad variety of experimental techniques, and interpret the data obtained to draw conclusions about whether the results do or do not support a hypothesis being tested and whether the experimental design was appropriate.
- Work collaboratively with other students and with faculty, understanding that most scientific knowledge/conclusions draw(s) on multiple sources of data and multiple experimental approaches.
- Learn “best approaches” for conducting experiments including laboratory safety, data replication and quality control, record keeping, and other aspects of “responsible conduct of research”.
- Gain familiarity with an area of science such that the students can present their work to a professional audience and also discuss their work with a general audience.
- Develop problem solving skills and analytical thinking skills.
Course Outcomes (COs):
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ZOL 424 |
Practical |
CO110: Design and conduct experiments, using a broad variety of experimental techniques, and interpret the data obtained to conclude whether the results do or do not support a hypothesis being tested and whether the experimental design was appropriate. CO111: Work collaboratively with other students and with faculty, understanding that most scientific knowledge/conclusions draw(s) on multiple sources of data and multiple experimental approaches. CO112: Learn “best approaches” for conducting experiments including laboratory safety, data replication and quality control, record keeping, and other aspects of “responsible conduct of research”. CO113: Gain familiarity with an area of science such that the students can present their work to a professional audience and also discuss their work with a general audience. CO114: Develop problem solving skills and analytical thinking skills. |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching
Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Conduction of experiments, Giving tasks, Field practical
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Class test Semester end examinations, Viva voce Evaluation by the performance of students
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Genes & Differentiation
Study of development of Frog
Preserved Material available:
Egg, Cleavage, Blastula, Gastrula, Neurula, Tail bud, Hatching, Mature tadpole larva, Metamorphic stages, Froglet
Histological slides: Cleavage, Blastula, Gastrula, Neurula, Tail bud stage
Study of development of Chick
Whole mounts: 18, 21, 24, 33, 72 & 96 hrs of incubation period embryos
Study of the embryo at various stages of incubation in vivo by making a window in the egg shell
Exercise to demonstrate developmental stages of living embryo after removal of blastoderm from the egg
Study of various Foetal envelopes in a 10-12 day old chick embryo(Amnion, Chorion, Allantois,Yolk sac)
Ethology
- To study the food preference and feeding behaviour of Tribolium.
- To study the light response of Tribolium.
- To study the process of learning in rats with the help of animal maze and analyze the result of the experiment.
- To study general behavior of mice using open field maze, hole board maze, social interaction
- To study anxiety behavior of mice using elevated maze and light dark test.
- To study the communication in Earthworm by chemical stimuli i.e. extruding a substance called “Pheromone” that can transmit message.
- To study imprinting during critical period.
- Study of social organization of Rhesus (Macacamulata) and Langurs (Presbytis entellus).
A visit to Zoo: To study the behaviour
Applied Zoology
A visit to:
Poultry farm
Dairy Industry/Distillery plant
A manual of Zoology Part I and II Ekambarnath Ayyar and Ananthakrishnan. Viswanathan Pvt. Ltd, Madras.
Carlson, R. F. Patten's Foundations of Embryology.
Biology of Animals. C.P. Hickmann, L.S. Roberts and A. Larson. McGraw Hill Company, New York.
A manual of practical zoology: chordates.P.S.Verma. S Chand publishers.
Animal behaviour- ReenaMathur, Rastogi Publications MeerutAn introduction to behaviour; Manning, A & Dawkins, M. S.; Cambridge Low Price Edition. UK.
