PRACTICAL

Animal Diversity I

Study of museum specimens and slides:

• Protozoa :Paramecium(WM), Binary fission, Conjugation, Entamoeba, Trypanosoma, Plasmodium, Monocystis, Opalina, Vorticella, Balantidium, Nyctotherus, Euglena

• Porifera: Sycon L.S & T.S, Sponge spicules, Spongin fibres

     Leucosolenia, Euplectella, Spongilla.

• Coelentrata: Hydra, Obelia(polyp), Aurelia, Sea anemone, Gorgonia, Physalia, Vellela, Alcyonium, Millepora, Pennatula

• Platyhelminthes: Planaria, Fasciola,Taenia-- Scolex, Gravid proglottid

• Aschelminthes: Ascaris(Male & Female), Dracunculus

Cell Biology

Principle & working of

• Dissecting microscope
• Compound microscope   

Fixation and staining

• Fixatives:- Carnoys, Bouins, formalin
• Stains:- Acetocarmine, Acetorcein, Eosin,        Haematoxylin
• Double & Single staining
• Staining of Euglena,Hydra,Obelia,Foraminiferous shell,Sponge spicules,Sponge gemmules,Spongin fibres

                 Principle & working of Centrifuge (Only Demonstration)

                 Mitosis- Onion root tip

                 Meiosis- Grasshopper testis