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COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY OF VERTEBRATE PRACTICAL
Course objectives:
This course will enable the students to -
- Correlate and conduct experiments, using a broad variety of experimental techniques.
- 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 various vertebrate groups and to their developmental pattern.
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25CZOL202 |
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND DEVELOPMENT AL BIOLOGY OF VERTEBRATE PRACTICAL |
CO19: Build and understanding of carapace, plastron and mammalian skull. CO20: Outline the structure of feather and Hen’s egg CO21: Gain knowledge about various developmental patterns through slides and materials of the embryo of Vertebrates. CO22: Enhance their writing and creative skills by creating practical records and an album based on the syllabi. CO23: Equip with analytical and evaluation abilities to respond to impromptu questions by the panel members during the viva voce exam. CO24: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction |
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, Field practical |
Class test Semester end examinations, Quiz Assignments, Presentations Surprise test Open book test |
1. Osteology
a) Carapace and plastron of turtle /tortoise
b) Mammalian skulls
c) Mammalian appendicular skeleton
2. Study of structure of feather
3. Placoid, Ganoid, Ctenoid, Cycloid Scales
4. Scolidon: Internal ear
5. Frog - Study of developmental stages - whole mounts and sections through permanent slides – cleavage stages, blastula, gastrula, neurula, tail bud stage, tadpole external and internal gill stages.
6. Structure of Hens egg
7. Study of the different types of placenta- histological sections through permanent slides or photomicrographs.
8. Examination of gametes - frog/rat - sperm and ova through permanent slides or photomicrographs.
9. An album of different integumentary derivatives.
SCHEME FOR PRACTICAL EXAMINATION:
Scheme for CA End Practical Examination
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Exercise 1 |
Exercise II |
File |
Viva |
Attendance |
Total |
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5 |
5 |
10 |
5 |
5 |
30 |
Scheme for Semester End Practical Examination
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Exercise I |
Exercise II |
Exercise III |
Exercise IV |
Spotting |
File |
Viva |
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8 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
6x3=18 |
10 |
10 |
70 |
ESSENTIAL READINGS:
● Young, J.Z.: The Life of Vertebrates. III Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
● Text book of Chordate Zoology vol. II ;Sandhu, G.S. and Sandhu, G.S; Campus Books.
● Modern text book of Zoology-Vertebrates; Kotpal, Rastogi Publication.
● Liem, K. F., Bemis,W. E., Walker, W.F. & Grande, L. 2001. Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates: An Evolutionary Perspective.Brooks Cole.
● Kardong, Kenneth V. 2012.Vertebrates Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution. McGraw Hill Higher Education. 6th edition. COURSEback
• P S Verma and V K Agarwal Chordate Embryology S. Chand Publishing, 2006 ISBN 8121902614
● K.V. Sastry & Vineeta Shukla Developmental Biology 2nd Revised Edition: 2018-2019 ISBN 978-93- 5078-128-9.
SUGGESTED READINGS:
● Kent, George C. & Carr,Robert K. 2009. Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates.McGraw -Hill Science.
● M. Hildebrand, 1995. Analysis of vertebrate structure. (John Wiley & Sons).
● J.S. Kingsley, 1974. Outline of comparative anatomy of vertebrates. (Central Book Depot, Allahabad).
● K.V. Kardong, 2005. Vertebrates: Comparative anatomy, function, evolution (Tata McGraw Hill Co.).
● Gilbert, S. F. (2010). Developmental Biology, IX Edition, Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.
e-RESOURCES:
● https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?ca tid=2rAs1Puvga4LW93zMe83... https://nptel.ac.in/courses/104103121
● https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/index.php/program/archive/9
