ZOOLOGY
PAPER – I
1. Non-chordata and
Chordata:
(a) Classification and
relationship of various phyla up to subclasses: Acoelomate and Coelomate,
Protostomes and Deuterostomes, Bilateria and Radiata; Status of Protista,
Parazoa, Onychophora and Hemichordata; Symmetry.
(b) Protozoa:
Locomotion, nutrition, reproduction, sex; General features and life history of
Paramaecium, Monocystis, Plasmodium and Leishmania.
(c) Porifera: Skeleton,
canal system and reproduction.
(d) Cnidaria:
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 pathogenic symptoms.
(f) Nemathelminthes:
General features, life history, parasitic adaptation of Ascaris and Wuchereria.
(g) Annelida: Coelom and
metamerism; modes of life in polychaetes; general features and life history of Nereis, earthworm and leach.
(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 insect and its hormonal regulation, social behaviour of Apis
and termites.
(i) Mollusca: Feeding,
respiration, locomotion, 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
Herdmania.
(l) Pisces: Respiration,
locomotion and migration.
(m) Amphibia: Origin of
tetrapods, parental care, paedomorphosis.
(n) Reptilia: Origin of
reptiles, skull types, status of Sphenodon and crocodiles.
(o) Aves: Origin of
birds, flight adaptation, migration.
(p) Mammalia: Origin of
mammals, dentition, general features of egg laying mammals, pouched-mammals, aquatic
mammals and primates, endocrine glands (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).
2. Ecology:
(a) Biosphere: Concept
of biosphere; biomes, Biogeochemical cycles, Human induced changes in
atmosphere including green house effect, ecological succession, biomes and
ecotones, community ecology.
(b) Concept of
ecosystem; structure and function of ecosystem, types of ecosystem, ecological
succession, ecological adaptation.
(c) Population;
characteristics, population dynamics, population stabilization.
(d) Biodiversity and
diversity conservation of natural resources.
(e) Wildlife of India
(f) Remote sensing for
sustainable development.
(g) Environmental
biodegradation, pollution and its impact on biosphere and its prevention.
3. Ethology:
(a) Behaviour: Sensory
filtering, reponsive-ness, sign stimuli, learning and memory, instinct,
habituation, conditioning, imprinting.
(b) Role of hormones in
drive; role of pheromones in alarm spreading; crypsis, predator detection,
predator tactics, social hierarchies in primates, social organization in
insects.
(c) Orientation,
navigation, homing, biological rhythms, biological clock, tidal, seasonal and
circadian rhythms.
(d) Methods of studying
animal behaviour including sexual conflict, selfishness, kinship and altruism.
4. Economic Zoology:
(a) Apiculture,
sericulture, lac culture, carp culture, pearl culture, prawn culture,
vermiculture.
(b) Major infectious and
communicable diseases (malaria, filaria, tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS) their vectors,
pathogens and prevention.
(c) Cattle and livestock
diseases, their pathogen (helminthes) and vectors (ticks, mites, Tabanus,
Stomoxys).
(d) Pests of sugar cane
(Pyrilla perpusiella) oil seed (Achaea janata)
and rice (Sitophilus oryzae).
(e) Transgenic animals.
(f) Medical
biotechnology, human genetic disease and genetic counselling, gene therapy.
(g) Forensic
biotechnology.
5. Biostatistics:
Designing of
experiments; null hypothesis; correlation, regression, distribution and measure
of central tendency, chi square, student-test, F-test (one-way & two-way
Ftest).
6. Instrumentation
Methods:
(a) Spectrophotometer,
phase contrast and fluorescence microscopy, radioactive tracer, ultra
centrifuge, gel electrophoresis, PCR, ELISA, FISH and chromosome painting.
(b) Electron microscopy
(TEM, SEM).
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