PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Paper Code: 
CZOL512P
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

CZOL512P

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

PRACTICAL

 

The students will be able to

CO1: Analyse haematological parameters

CO2: Correlate the endocrine glands and their disorders.

CO3:   Critique   the   histology   of various mammalian tissues

CO4: Examine development of frog and chick

CO 5: Analyse developmental stages and life cycle of Drosophila

 

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.

Class test,  Semester end  examinations,  Quiz, 

Presentati

 

1. Study of whole mounts and sections of developmental stages of frog through permanent slides: Cleavage stages, blastula, gastrula, neurula, tail-bud stage , tadpole (external and internal gill stages)

2. Study of whole mounts of developmental stages of chick through permanent slides: Primitive streak (13 and 18 hours), 21, 24, 28, 33, 36, 48, 72, and 96

hours of incubation (Hamilton and Hamburger stages)

3. Study of the developmental stages and life cycle of Drosophila from stock culture

4. Study of different sections of placenta (photomicrograph/ slides)

5. Project report on Drosophila culture/chick embryo development

 
Essential Readings: 

ESSENTIAL READINGS:

 

● A manual of Zoology Part I and II Ekambarnath Ayyar and Ananthakrishnan. Viswanathan

Pvt. Ltd, Madras.

● Practical Zoology, Vertebrates, Lal, S.S. Rastogi Publications, Merrut.

● Carlson, R. F. Patten's Foundations of Embryology.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

● Biology of Animals. C.P. Hickmann, L.S. Roberts and A. Larson. McGraw Hill Company,

New York.

● Practical Zoology, Jacob, D., Bhatia,A.L., Kohli,K.S., Vyas,D.K. Ramesh Book Depot,

New Delhi.

● A manual of practical zoology: chordates.P.S.Verma. S Chand publishers.

 

e-RESOURCES:

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

 

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

or-broiler/

 

http://www.agritech.tnau.ac.in/expert_system/cattlebuffalo/Breeds%20of%2...

0baffalo.html

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

 

JOURNAL:

● Journal of Developmental Biology

● International Journal of Developmental Biology

 

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