ZOOLOGY SYLLABUS FOR I SEMESTER
ANIMAL DIVERSITY – BIOLOGY OF NON CHORDATES
UNIT- I
1.1 Principles of Taxonomy – Binomial nomenclature – Rules of nomenclature
1.2 Whittaker’s five kingdom concept and classification of Animal Kingdom.
Phylum Protozoa
1.3 General Characters and classification of protozoa up to classes with suitable
examples
1.4 Locomotion, nutrition and reproduction in Protozoans replaced with
1.4 Mode of infection, Pathogenesity, prophylaxis and treatment in the case of
Entamoeba histolytica, Plasmodium vivax, Trypanosoma gambience and Leishmania
donovani
1.5 Elphidium (type study)
UNIT –II
PhylumPorifera
2.1 General characters and classification up to classes with suitable examples
2.2 Skelton in Sponges Deleted
2.3 Canal system in sponges
PhylumCoelenterata
2.4 General characters and classification up to classes with suitable examples
2.5 Metagenesisin Obelia
2.6 Polymorphism in coelenterates
2.7 Corals and coral reefs
PhylumCtenophora :
2.8 General Characters and Evolutionary significance(affinities)
Unit – III
PhylumPlatyhelminthes
3.1 General characters and classification up to classes with suitable examples
3.2 Life cycle and pathogenecity of Fasciola hepatica
3.3 Parasitic Adaptations in helminthes
Phylum Nemathelminthes
3.4 General characters and classification up to classes with suitable examples
3.5. Life cycle and pathogenecity of Ascarislumbricoides
Mode of infection, Pathogenesity, prophylaxis and treatment in the case of
Schistosoma haematobium, taenia solium, Enterobius vermicularis and
Anchylostoma duodenale Added
Unit – IV
Phylum Annelida
4.1 General characters and classification up to classes with suitable examples
4.2 Evolution of Coelom and Coelomoducts Deleted
4.3 Vermiculture - Scope, significance, earthworm species, processing,
Vermicompost, economic importance of vermicompost
Phylum Arthropoda
4.4 General characters and classification up to classes with suitable examples
4.5 Vision and respiration in Arthropoda Deleted
4.6 Metamorphosis in Insects
4.7 Peripatus - Structure and affinities
4.8 Social Life in Bees and Termites Replaced with
Economic importance of useful insects and Harmful insects (Useful
insects - Honey bee, silk worm and Lac insect
Harmful insects- Mosquitoes, House fly and Termites)
Unit – V
Phylum Mollusca
5.1 General characters and classification up to classes with suitable examples
5.2 Pearl formation in Pelecypoda
5.3 Sense organs in Mollusca Replaced with
Economic importance of Molluscans
PhylumEchinodermata
5.4 General characters and classification up to classes with suitable examples
5.5 Water vascular system in star fish
5.6 Larval forms of Echinodermata
PhylumHemichordata
5.7 General characters and classification up to classes with suitable examples
5.8 Balanoglossus - Structure and affinities