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Syllabus:Zoology
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Paper-I
Section-A
1. Non-chordata and chordata :
(a) Classfication and relationship of varous phyla upto sub-classes;
Acoelomata and Coelomata; Protostomes and Deuterostomes, Bilateralia
and
Radiata; Status of Protista, Parazoa, Onychophora and Hemichordata;
Symmetry.
(b) Protozoa : Locomotion, nutrition, reproduction; evolution of
sex;
General features and life history of Paramaecium, Monocystis,
Plasmodium,
and Leishmania.
(c) Porifera : Skeleton, canal system and reproduction.
(d) Coelenterata : Polymorphism, defensive structures and their
mechanism;
coral reefs and their formation; metagenesis; general features and
life
history of Obelia and Aurelia.
(e) Platyhelminthes : Parasitic adaptation; general features and
life
history of Fasciola and Taenia and their relation to man.
(f) Nemathelminthes : General features, life history and parasitic
adaptation of Ascaris; nemathelminths in relation to man.
(g) Annelida : Coelom and metamerism; modes of life in polychaetes;
general
features and life history of nereis (Neanthes), earthworm (Pheretima)
and
leach (Hirudinaria).
(h) Arthropoda : Larval forms and parasitism in Crustacea; vision
and
respiration in arthropods (prawn, cockroach and scorpion);
modification of
mouth parts in insects (cockroach, mosquito, housefly, honey bee and
butterfly); metamorphosis in insects and its hormonal regulation;
social
organization in insects (termites and honey bees).
(i) Mollusca : Feeding, respiration, locomotion, shell diversiy;
general
features and life history of Lamellidens, Pila and Sepia, torsion
and
detorsion in gastropods.
(j) Echinodermata : Feeding, respiration, locomotion larval forms;
general
features and life history of Asterias.
(k) Protochordata : Origin of chordates; general features and life
history
of Branchiostoma and Herdamania.
(l) Pisces : Scales, respiration, locomotion, migration.
(m) Amphibia : Origin of tetrapods; parental care, paedomorphosis.
(n) Reptilia : Origin of reptiles; skull types; status of Sphenodon
and
crocidiles.
(o) Aves : Origin of birds; flight adaptation, migration.
(p) Mammalia : Origin of mammals; denitition; general features of
egg-laying
mammals, pouched-mammals, aquatic mammals and primates; endocrine
glands and
other hormone producing structures (pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid,
adrenal, pancreas, gonads) and their interrelationships.
(q) Comparative functional anatomy of various systems of vertebrates
(integument and its derivatives, endoskeleton, locomotory organs,
digestive
system, respiratory system, circulatory system including heart and
aortic
arches; urino-genital system, brain and sense organs (eye and ear).
Section- B
1. Ecology :
(a) Biosphere:Biogeochemical cycles, green-houses effect, ozone
layer and
its impact; ecological succession, biomes and ecotones.
(b) Population, characteristics, population dynamics, population
stabilization.
(c) Conservation of natural resources- mineral mining, fisheries,
aquaculture; forestry; grassland; wildlife (Project Tiger);
susainable
production in agriculture-integrated pest management.
(d) Environmental biodegradation; pollution and its impact on
biosphere and
its prevention.
II. Ethology :
(a) Behaviour : Sensory filtering, responsiveness, sign stimuli,
learning,
instinct, habituation, conditioning, imprinting.
(b) Role of hormones in drive; role of pheromones in alarm
spreading;
crypsis, predator detection, predator tactics, social behaviour in
insects
and primates; courtship (Drosophila, 3-spine stickleback and birds).
(c) Orientation, navigation, homing; biological rhythms; biological
clock,
tidal, seasonal and circadian rhythms.
(d) Methods of studying animal behaviour.
III. Economic Zoology :
(a) Apiculture, sericulture, lac culture, carp culture, pearl
culture, prawn
culture.
(b) Major infectious and communicable diseases (small pox, plague,
malaria,
tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS) their vectors, pathogens and
prevention.
(c) Cattle and livestock diseases, their pathogens (helminths) and
vectors
(ticks, mites,Tabanus, Stomoxys)
(d) Pests of sugar cane (Pyrilla perpusiella), oil seed (Achaea
janata) and
rice (Sitophilus oryzae).
IV. Biostatistics :
Designing of experiments; null hypothesis; correlation, regression,
distribution
and measure of central tendency, chi square, student t-test, F-test
(one-way &
two-way F-test).
V. Instrumental methods :
(a) Spectrophotometry, flame photometry, Geiger-Muller counter,
scintiliation counting.
(b) Electron microscopy (TEM, SEM).
Paper-II
Section-A
I. Cell Biology :
(a) Structure and function of cell andits organelles(nucleus, plasma
membrane, mitochondria, Golgi bodies, endoplasmic reticulum,
ribosomes and
Iysosomes), cell division (mitosis and meiosis), mitotic spindle and
mitotic
apparatus, chromosome movement.
(b) Watson-Crick model of DNA, replication of DNA, protein
synthesis,
transcription and transcription factors.
II. Genetics
a) Gene structure and functions; genetic code.
(b) Sex chromosomes and sex determination in Drosophilla, nematodes
and man.
(c) Mendel's laws of inheritance, recombination, linkage,
linkage-maps,
multiple alleles, cistron concept; genetics of blood groups.
(d) Mutations and mutagenesis : radiation and chemical.
(e) Cloning technology, plasmids and cosmids as vectors, transgenics,
transposons, DNA sequence cloning and whole animal cloning
(Principles and
methodology).
(f) Regulation and gene expression in pro-and eu-karyotes.
(g) Signal transduction; pedigree-analysis; congenital diseases in
man.
(h) Human genome mapping; DNA finger-printing.
III. Evolution
(a) Origin of life
(b) Natural selection, role of mutation in evolution, mimicry,
variation,
isolation, speciation.
(c) Fossils and fossilization; evolution of horse, elephant and man.
(d) Hardy-Weinberg Law, causes of change in gene frequency.
(e) Continental drift and distribution of animals.
IV. Systematics
(a) Zoological nomenclature; international code; cladistics.
Section-B
I. Biochemistry
(a) Structure and role of carbohydrates, fats, lipids, proteins,
aminoacids,
nucleic acids; saturated and unsaturated fattyacids, cholesterol.
(b) Glycolysis and Krebs cycle, oxidation and reduction, oxidative
phosphorylation; energy conservation and release, ATP, cyclic
AMP-its
structure and role.
(c) Hormone classification (steroid and peptide hormones),
biosynthesis and
function.
(d) Enzymes : types and mechanisms of action; immunoglobulin and
immunity;
vitamins and co-enzymes.
(e) Bioenergetics.
II Physiology (with special refernece ot mammals)
(a) Composition and constituents of blood; blood groups and Rh
factor in
man; coagulation, factors and mechanism of coagulation; acid-base
balance,
thermo regulation.
(b) Oxygen and carbon dioxide transport; hemoglobin : constituents
and
role in regulation.
(c) Nutritive requirements; role of salivary glands, liver, pancreas
and
intestinal glands in digestion and absorption.
(d) Excretory products; nephron and regulation of urine formation;
osmoregulation.
(e) Types of muscles, mechanism of contraction of skeletal muscles.
(f) Neuron, nerve impulse-its conduction and synaptic transmission;
neurotransmitters.
(g) Vision, hearing and olfaction in man.
(h) Mechanism of hormone action.
(i) Physiology of reproduction, role of hormones and pheromones.
III. Developmental Biology
(a) Differentiation from gamete to neurula stage; dedifferentiation;
metaplasia, induction, morphogenesis and morphogen; fate maps of
gastrulae
in frog and chick; organogenesis of eye and heart, placentation in
mammals.
(b) Role of cytoplasm in and genetic control of development; cell
lineage;
causation of metamorphosis in frog and insects; paedogenesia and
neoteny;
growth, degrowth and cell death; ageing; blastogenesis;
regeneration;
teratogenesis; neoplasia.
(c) Invasiveness of placenta; in vitro fertilization; embryo
transfer,
cloning.
(d) Baer's law; evo-devo concept. |
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