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Biosystematics, Taxonomy &Evolution
Paper Code:
ZOL-121
Credits:
4
Contact Hours:
60.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
10.00
Definition and basic concepts of biosystematics and taxonomy
- Importance and applications of biosytematics in biology
- Material basis of biosystematics-different attributes
- Trends in biosystematics-
Chemotaxonomy
Cytotaxonomy
Molecular taxonomy
15.00
Dimensions of speciation and taxonomic characters
- Dimensions of speciation – types of lineage changes, production of additional lineage
- Mechanisms of speciation in panmictic and apomictic species
- Species concept- Species category, different species concept, subspecies and other infra specific categories
- Theories of Biological classification , Hierarchy of categories
Taxonomic characters – different kinds, origin of reproductive isolation
15.00
Procedure keys in taxonomy
- Taxonomy procedures-Taxonomic collections, preservations, curetting process of identification
- Taxonomic keys-Different kinds of Taxonomic keys, their merits and demerits
- Systematic publication-Different kinds of publications
- Process of typification and different zoological types
- International code of Zoological nomenclature (ICZN) – its operative principles, interpretation and application of important rules, Zoological nomenclature, formation of scientific names of various taxa.
- Evaluation of biodiversity indices:
- Shannon-Weinner index, dominance index
10.00
Concept of evolution and theories of organic evaluation with an emphasis on Darwinism.
- Micro and Macro-evolution
- Neo-Darwinism
- Hardy –Weinberg law of genetic equilibrium
- A detailed account of Destabilizing forces:
(i) Natural selection
(ii) Mutation
(iii) Genetic drift
(iv) Migration
(v) Meiotic drive
10.00
Genetics of quantitative traits in populations
- Analysis of quantitative traits
- Quantitative traits and natural selection
- Genotype-environment interactions
- Inbreeding depression and heterosis
- Molecular analysis of quantitative traits
- Phenotypic plasticity
- Molecular phylogenetics
- How to construct phylogenetic trees
- Phylogenetic inference-Distance methods, parsimony methods, maximum likelihood method
- Immunological techniques
Essential Readings:
- Evolutinary Biology, Futuyamma, D.J.Suinuauer Associates, INC Publishers, Sunderland.
- A Primer of Population Genetics. Hart,D.L.suinuaer Associates, Inc, Massachusetts.
- Genes and Evolution. Jha A.P.John Publication, New Delhi
- Species Evolution-The role of chromosomal change. King,M. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Evolution and Genetics Merral, D.J.Holt, Rinchart and Winston, Inc.
- Evolutinary Genetics. Smith,J.M. Oxford University Press, New York.
- Evolution. Strikberger, M.W.Jones and Barlett Publishers, Boston London
- Bastchelet-F-Introduction to mathematics for life scientists Springer
Verlag, Berling.
Skoal R.R. and F.J.Rohiff Biometry-Freeman, San-Francisco.
- Snecdor, G.W. and W.G. Cocharan Statisical Methods of affiliated-East-
West Press, New Delhi.
- Murry J.D. Mathematical Biology-Springer, Verlag, Berlin.
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