Course Contents
Introduction to animal kingdom: features of protists, protozoa, annelids, arthropods, myriapods, echinoderms, chordates, amphibians, reptiles and birds. Plant biodiversity – history, importance, usefulness and evolution; importance of plants, their conservation and domestication; improvement of crops; impact of environment on loss of genetic diversity and speciation; in situ and ex situ conservation; evolution of microbes, plants and animals; origin of life; methods of studying evolution; construction of phylogenetic trees on basis of morphology and molecular markers; environmental ethics.
PRACTICALS
Shape and structure of different classes of microbes, plants and animals by light microscopy; study of euglena, amoeba, entamoeba, plasmodium and paramecium (from slides); sponges and their various body forms; cnindaria; platyhelminths; nematodes; molluscs; annelids; pisces; amphibians; reptilian; aves; mammalia; pond freshwater ecosystem; vegetation profile; grassland, rangeland and forest; biotic and abiotic factors of grassland, rangeland and aquatic ecosystem including methods of sampling; analysis of plant communities by different methods and decomposition of leaf litter by organisms.
Course Synopsis
This course is a continuation of Ecology, Biodiversity & Evolution – I and offers advanced concepts in these areas.
General Features of Protozoa
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Phylum Sarcomastigophora
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Phylum Arthropoda: General characteristics
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Phylum Arthropoda: Classification
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Myriapods
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Phylum Echinodermata
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Phylum Chordata General Character
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Class Amphibia
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Class Reptilia: General features
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Class Reptilia: classification
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Evolution of plants and plant biodiversity
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Importance of plant diversity
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Plant domestication and its importance
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Plant conservation and its importance
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Crop improvement
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Impact of environment on loss of genetic diversity and speciation
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in situ and ex situ conservation of biodiversity
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Origin of life and evolution of microbes
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Evolution of plants and plant biodiversity
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Evolution of animals
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Geological time scale and evolution of all living organism
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Methods of studying evolution
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Construction of phylogenetic tress on the basis of morphology and molecular markers
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Molecular Phylogeny
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Environmental ethics
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Book Title : Zoology
Author : Miller and Harley
Edition : 5th
Publisher : McGraw Hill
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Title : Apicomplexa
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Title : phylum ciliphora
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Title : Phylum Annelida
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