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COURSE OUTLINE FOR ZOOLOGY MINOR COURSES FOR STUDENTS STUDYING CHEMISTRY, BOTANY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY AS MAJOR Year I SEMESTER-I MIN/ZOO-101: Invertebrate Diversity (3T + 1P = 4 CREDITS) TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES 1. Lectures: 45 - 48 2. Practicals: 10 – 15 3. Assignment/ Presentations: one per student 4. Class Test: once per semester COURSE CONTENTS THEORY Anima Classification, phylogeny and organization: Animal systematics, Molecular approaches to animal systematics, Evolutionary relationships and tree diagrams, Patterns of organization Animal like Protists: Life within a single plasma membrane, Phylum sarcomastigophora, phylum labyrinthomorpha, phylum apicomplexa, phylum microspore, phylum acetospora, phylum myxozoa, phylum ciliophora, Multicellular and tissue levels of organization: origin of multicellularity, Phylum porifera, phylum coelenterate, phylum ctenophore Triploblastic, acoelomate body plan: phylum Platyhelminthes (classification up to class level) Pseudocoelomate body plan: phylum nematoda Annelida: The metameric body form: metamerism and tagmatization, class polychaeta, class oligochaeta, class hirudinea Arthropods: metamerism and tagmatization, the exoskeleton, metamorphosis, subphylum chelicerata, class arachnida (general charcteristics), Subphylum Crustacea, class malacostraca, class branchiopoda, class copepod, class cirripeda, class diplopoda, class chilopoda Class hexapoda: External structure and locomotion, nutrition and digestive system, gas exchange, circulation and temperature regulation, nervous and sensory functions, excretion, reproduction and development Molluscan success: origin of coelom, molluscan characteristics, class gastropoda, class bivalvia, class cephalopoda, class polyplacophora, class scaphopoda, class monoplacophora, class caudofoveata, class aplacophora The Echinoderms: echinoderm characteristics, class asteroidea, class ophiuroidea, class echinoidea, class holothuroidea, class crinoidea PRACTICALS 1. Study of representatives of animal like Protest (prepared slides) 2. Study of representatives of phylum Porifera 3. Study of representatives of phylum Coelenterata 4. Study of representatives of phylum Platyhelminthes 5. Study of representatives of phylum Nematoda 6. Study of representatives of phylum Annelida 7. Study of representatives of phylum Mollusca 8. Study of representatives of phylum Echinodermata

Course Synopsis

TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES 1. Lectures: 45 - 48 2. Practicals: 10 – 15 3. Assignment/ Presentations: one per student 4. Class Test: once per semester

Course Learning Outcomes

Students come to know about Invertebrate diversity, classification of invertebrates and evolution.