SYLLABUS & PROGRAMME STRUCTURE. Zoology. (Honours) (Choice Based Credit System) (Effective from the Academic Session ) First Semester

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1 SYLLABUS & PROGRAMME STRUCTURE Zoology (Honours) (Choice Based Credit System) (Effective from the Academic Session ) First Semester MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM UNIVERSITY AGARTALA, TRIPURA:

2 PROGRAMME STRUCTURE Structure of Proposed CBCS Syllabus B.A/B.Sc/B.Com Honours. Semester Core Course (14) Honours Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course (AECC) (2) Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) (2) Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) (4) Generic Elective (GE) (4) 1 C1 C2 2 C3 C4 3 C5 C6 C7 4 C8 C9 C10 5 C11 C12 6 C13 C14 AECC1: Environmental Science AECC2 : (English/MIL (Communication) SEC1 SEC2 DSE1 DSE2 DSE3 DSE4 GE1 (Paper-I of selected subject other than Hons subject) GE2 (Paper-II of selected subject other than Hons subject) GE3 (Paper-III of selected subject other than Hons subject) GE4 (Paper-IV of selected subject other than Hons subject) 1

3 Semester-I Core Course - Paper I NON-CHORDATES I: PROTISTS TO PSEUDOCOELOMATES(THEORY) TOTAL MARKS 100 (Theory 70, Practical-30) UNIT-1: PROTOZOA No. of Classes Protozoa General characteristics and major classification of Sub-kingdom Protozoa up to Phyla. 2. Life cycle and pathogenicity of Plasmodium vivaxand Entamoebahistolytica. 3. Locomotion of Protozoa: amoeboid (Amoeba proteus), ciliary(paramoeciumcaudatum), flagellar (Euglena viridis)movements. 4. Reproduction in Paramoeciumcaudatum. UNIT-2: PARAZOA Porifera 2. Histology of body wall of Sycongelatinosum. 3. Types and formation of skeletal substances in Sponges. 4. Canal system of Sponges. 7 UNIT-3: METAZOA-I Cnidaria 2. Trimorphism and Metagenesis in Obeliageniculata. 3. Polymorphism in Siphonophora. Ctenophora 1. General characteristics and Evolutionary significance

4 UNIT-4: METAZOA-II Platyhelminthes 2. Life cycle and pathogenicity of Fasciola hepatica and Taeniasolium. Nemathelminthes 2. Life cycle and pathogenicity: Ascarislumbricoidesand Wuchereriabancrofti. 3. Parasitic adaptations in helminthes 10 8 PRACTICAL NON-CHORDATES I: PROTISTS TO PSEUDOCOELOMATES 1. Study of whole mount of Euglena, Amoeba and Paramecium. 2. Examination of pond water collected from different places todemonstrate diversity of variousprotists. 3. Study of Sycon(T.S. and L.S.), Hyalonema, Euplectella, Spongilla. 4. Study of Obelia, Physalia, Millepora, Aurelia, Tubipora, Corallium, Alcyonium, Gorgonia, Metridium, Pennatula, Fungia, Meandrina, Madrepora 5. One specimen or slide of any ctenophore animal. 6. Study of adaptive features in Fasciola hepatica, Taeniasolium and Ascarislumbricoides(Preserved/slides/microphotographs). SUGGESTED READINGS: 1. Ruppert and Barnes, R.D. (2006).Invertebrate Zoology, VIII Edition. Holt Saunders International Edition. 2. Barnes, R.S.K., Calow, P., Olive, P.J.W., Golding, D.W. and Spicer, J.I. (2002). The Invertebrates: A New Synthesis, III Edition, Blackwell Science 3. Barrington, E.J.W. (1979).Invertebrate Structure and Functions. II Edition, E.L.B.S.and Nelson 3

5 Semester-I Core Course - Paper II PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY(THEORY) TOTAL MARKS 100 (Theory 70, Practical-30) Unit-1: Population Ecology Autecology and synecology. 2. Levels of organization, Laws oflimiting factors, Study of physical factors. 3. Unique and group attributes of population: Density, natality, mortality, life tables,fecundity tables, survivorship curves, age ratio, sex ratio, dispersal and dispersion. 4. Exponential and logistic growth, equation and patterns, r and K strategies. 5. Population regulation - density-dependent and independent factors. 6. Population interactions, Gause s Principle with laboratory and field examples. Unit-2: Community Community characteristics: species richness, dominance, diversity, abundance,vertical stratification. 2. Ecotone and edge effect. 3. Ecological succession with oneexample. 4. Concept of Habitat & Niche Unit-3: Ecosystem Types of ecosystems with one example in detail, Food chain: Detritus and grazingfood chains, Linear and Y-shaped food chains, Food web. 2. Energy flow through theecosystem, Ecological pyramids. 3. Nutrient and biogeochemical cycle with one example of Nitrogen cycle. 4. Human modified ecosystem. Unit- 4: Applied Ecology 6 1. Conservation of threatened wild life : National and International Initiative (a) Indian Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (b) WWF (c) IUCN (d) Indian Biodiversity Act Concept of biodiversity. 3. Strategies of biodiversity conservation- exsitu and insitu methods. 4. Conservation of Tiger and Rhino in India. 4

6 PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY 1. Study of life tables and plotting of survivorship curves of different types from the hypothetical/real data provided. 2. Determination of population density in a natural/hypothetical community by quadrate method and calculation of Shannon-Weiner diversity index for the same community. 3. Study of an aquatic ecosystem: Phytoplankton and zooplankton, Measurement of area, temperature, turbidity/penetration of light, determination of ph, and Dissolved Oxygen content (Winkler s method). 4. Report on a visit to National Park/Biodiversity Park/Wild life Sanctuary. SUGGESTED READINGS 1. Colinvaux, P. A. (1993). Ecology. II Edition. Wiley, John and Sons, Inc. 2. Krebs, C. J. (2001). Ecology. VI Edition. Benjamin Cummings. 3. Odum, E.P., (2008). Fundamentals of Ecology. Indian Edition. Brooks/Cole 4. Robert Leo Smith Ecology and field biology Harper and Row publisher 5. Ricklefs, R.E., (2000). Ecology. V Edition. Chiron Pres