Diversity of Non Chordates

 General characteristics and basis of classification of Non Chordates 

General characteristics and Classification up to class: Protista 

Locomotion and Reproduction in Protista 

General characteristics and Classification up to class: Porifera 

Evolution of symmetry and segmentation of Metazoa Canal system and spicules in sponges 

General Characteristics of Phylum Cnidaria

The Formation of Coral and Coral Reefs

Ctenophora: General Characteristics and Classification up to Class 

· General characteristics and Classification up to classes: Platyhelminthes&Nemathelminthes

v Parasitic adaptations in helminths- Fasciola hepatica and Wuchereriabancrofti

 

· General characteristics and Classification up to class: Annelida

v Evolution of coelom and metamerism

v Excretion in Annelida

 

· General characteristics and Classification up to class: Arthropoda

v Vision and respiration in Arthropoda

v Evolutionary significance of Onychophora

General characteristics and Classification up to class: Mollusca

v Torsion and detorsion in Gastropoda

v Foot modification in molluscs.

 

· General characteristics and Classification up to class: Echinodermata

v Water vascular system of Echinodermata

v Different larval forms of Echinodermata

 

· General characteristics and Classification up to class: Hemichordata

v Affinities of Balanoglossus

PRACTICAL

Study of the whole mount of Euglena, Amoeba and Paramecium collected from different water sources.

Study of minimum of two representatives (specimen/slide/model) of each phylum of non-chordates.

Study of larval forms of Arthropoda / Echinodermata

Study of Permanent Slides: T.S. through pharynx, gizzard and typhlosolar intestine of earthworm.

Study of Permanent Slides: T.S. of  Miracidium, Sporocyst and Cercaria Larvae of Liver Fluke.

To submit a Project Report on life cycle of Honey Bee / Wasps / Butterfly / Moth/ Mosquito

Reference Book:

1. Kotpal, Agarwal and Khetrapal: Modern Textbook of Zoology: Invertebrate, (1976, Rastogi)

2. Marshall: Parker and Haswell Textbook of Zoology, Vol. I (7th ed. 1972, Macmillan)

3. Nigam: Biology of Non-chordates (1985, S. Chand)

4. Jordan and Verma: Invertebrate Zoology (1995, S. Chand)

5. V.K. Agarwal: Diversity of Non-Chordates (1^st Ed. 2024, S. Chand And Company Limited)

6. Ali, A. : Diversity of Non-Chordates with Practicals (2023, Kalyani Publishers)

7. Rita Mahanta& I.K. Bhattacharyya: College Zoology (1^st Ed. 2004, Reprint 2008), Kalyani Publication

8. Barnes: Invertebrate Zoology (4th ed. 1980, Holt-Saunders)

9. Barnes: The invertebrate (3rd ed. 2001, Blackwell)

10. Barrington: Invertebrate Structure and Function (1967, Nelson)

11. Moore: An introduction to the invertebrartes (2001,Cambridge)

12. EkambaranathAyar: A manual of Zoology, Part I – Invertebrata, (1973, S. Vishwanathan)

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