Applied Biology

Paper Code: 
ZOL- 414
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

OBJECTIVES- The course objective is to provide students with a basic understanding of:

 

  1. Taxonomic position of various worms and insect pest.
  2. To understand the Morphology, life history, mode of infection and pathogenicity, Prevention and control of insect pests.
  3. To understand Arthropods as vectors of Human diseases and impact that have on human society.
  4. To understand Pisciculture, dairy farming,  Poultry Keeping, Leather industry and Wool industry
  5. To understand use of Pharmaceuticals from animals

Learning outcomes

  1. Students are able to understand ecologicaly important and harmful insects.
  2. Able to recognize ecology and morphology of insect pest.
  3. Able to understand the nature of damage done by insect pest.
  4. Able to know about the methods of control of various insect pests.
  1. Come to know how Arthropods work as vectors of Human diseases and affect human society.
  2. Students will have a  brief idea  about Pisciculture, dairy farming,  Poultry Keeping, Leather industry and Wool industry
  3. Students would be able to describe use of Pharmaceuticals from animals
9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

Brief accounts of Systematic position, Morphology, life history, mode of infection and pathogenicity, Prevention and control

  • Enterobisvermicularis (pin worm)
  • Trichuristrichiura (whip worm)
  • Paragonimuswestermani (lung fluke)

Schistosomamansoni (blood fluke)

9.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

Arthropods as vectors of Human diseases

  • Anopheles: Malaria
  • Aedes: Dengue

Household insects:Cockroach, Housefly, Pediculus, Bedbug, Ants, Termite, Spider

9.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
  • Insects pest of economically important crops and their control:Grain Pest: Rhizopertha, Sitophilus, Tribolium, Trogoderma, Callosobruchus
  • Brief idea of IPM

Rat menace and its control

9.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

Pisciculture

Fresh water cultivable fishes and their aquaculture profile: Indian Major Craps (IMC), Exotic Carps (EC), Cat-fishes, Tilapia, Channa etc.  Cultivable species of crustaceans and molluscs: Identification and aquaculture profile: Shrimps, freshwater prawn, crab, lobster, pearl oyster, edible oyster, mussel-clams etc.   

Brackish water aquaculture-Introduction, the tidal range, salinity and the biota.

 

Poultry Keeping

Poultry science: Maintenance and management

Dairy farming

Basic concepts in dairy science: Semen collection & preservation; artificial insemination; multiple ovulation and embryo transfer

Different breeds of Cattle

9.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

Leather industry

Wool industry

Pharmaceuticals from animals

Essential Readings: 
  • Shukla and Upadhyaya : Economic Zoology (Rastogi Publishers, 2009).
  • ChatterjeeK.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
    • Shrivastava: Test book of Applied Entomology, Vol. I &II (Kalyani Publishers, 1991)
References: 
  • Insects. M. S. Mani, NBT, India, 2006.
  • Text Book of Applied Zoology: Vermiculture, Apiculture, Sericulture, Lac-Culture, Agricultural Pests and their Control by Pradip V. Jabde, 2005 Publisher Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd. New Delhi
  • Absan and Sinha: A hand book of Economic Zoology (S. Chand and Company, 2009)
  • Kotpal : Modern Text Book of Zoology Vertebrates (Rastogi Publication, 2011)
Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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