Animal Diversity II

Paper Code: 
ZOL 201
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to

  1. Develop an understanding of animals from Annelida to Echinoderms and their general characteristics.
  2. Assemble knowledge about the different animal life cycles stages and forms of reproduction.
  3. Acquire basic skills and key concepts about the process and use of pearl culture.
  4. Relate the origin and evolutionary relationship of different larval forms from Annelida to Echinodermata.

Course Outcomes (COs):

 

Course

Learning outcomes (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

 

 

 

ZOL 201

 

 

 

Animal Diversity II

The students will -

 CO15: Explain the characteristics of animals from Annelida to Echinodermata.

CO16: Investigate stages of animal life cycles and their forms of reproduction.

CO17: Evaluate the process and use of pearl culture.

CO18: Examine the origin and evolutionary relationship of different larval forms from Annelida to Echinodermata.

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive class lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Open book test

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar

presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

 

Semester end Examination

Class test Quiz

Solving problems in tutorials

Assignmens Presentation

 

9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

General characters and Classification of the Invertebrates upto Class level for each Phylum, Salient feature of the Type Study i.e. Habit, Habitat and External morphology

Phylum Annelida

  • Type study: Earthworm (Locomotion, Excretion and Reproduction)
  • Metamerism
  • Vermiculture

 

12.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

 

Phylum Arthropoda

  • Type study: Prawn (Appendages, Digestion)
  • Social life in Insects (termites, honey bees)
  • Metamorphosis
  • Sericulture
  • Lac culture
  • Apiculture

 

9.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III

 

Phylum Mollusca

  • Type study: Pila
  • Respiration
  • Digestion
  • Torsion
  • Pearl culture

 

 

6.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

 

Phylum Echinodermata

  • Type study: Starfish (Locomotion, Reproduction)
  • Water vascular system

 

9.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

 

Larval forms of Invertebrates

  • Planula, Miracidium, Sporocyst, Redia, Cercaria, Metacercaria, Cysticercus, Nauplius, Zoeae, Megalopa, Mysis, Trochophore, Glochidium, Brachiolaria, Bipinnaria
Essential Readings: 

 

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:

● Text book of Zoology. Parker, T.J., Haswell. W.A. Macmillan Co., London.

●    Textbook of Zoology; Shivpuri, Jacob, D. and Vyas. D.K.; Ramesh Book Depot.

●    Modern Textbook of Zoology Invertebrates; Kotpal; Rastogi Publications.

●    Dhami P.S. and Dhami J.K. Invertebrate Zoology, S Chand and Co.

●    Hickman, C.P., LS Roberts,and A. Larson.McGraw Hill Company, New York. Integrated principles of zoology.

●    Ruppert and Barnes, R.D. (2006). Invertebrate Zoology, VIII Edition. Holt Saunders International Edition.

●    Barnes, R.S.K., Calow, P., Olive, P.j.W., Golding, D.W. and Spicer, J.I. (2002). The Invertebrate: A New Synthesis, III Edition, Blackwell Science.

●    Barrington. E.J.W. Invertebrate form and function. PHI New Delhi.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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