ANIMAL
TAXONOMY, SYSTEMATICS & BIOSTATISTICS
Unit 1: Animal Systematics
Introduction to Systematics -Taxonomy vs Systematics
Contribution of Systematics to biology
Systematics as a profession
Concepts of species – typological, nominalistic, biological
and evolutionary
Taxonomic
Key – various types
Dichotomous nature of keys
Taxonomic characters –
morphological, behavioural, ecological, and geographical
Trends in Taxonomy: Chemotaxonomy, Cytotaxonomy, and Molecular Taxonomy
Zoological
Nomenclature – ICZN: Principles, Functions, and Importance
Importance of The Code of nomenclature
Principle of priority
Homonymy and synonymy
Principle
of Typification and Use of Types for Specimens
Basics of phylogeny – Characters (ancestral vs. derived)
Homology and analogy
Parallelism and convergence
Monophyly, polyphyly, paraphyly
Representing phylogenies – Rooted and unrooted phylogenetic
trees
Clades, Cladograms and Phenograms
Unit 2:
Collection and Classification of Statistical Data
Types of Presentation of Statistical Data
Measures of Central Tendency -
Mathematical Average – Average of Position & Partition Values
Measures of Dispersion – Range
Quartile deviation
Mean deviation
Standard deviation
Co-efficient of Variation
Standard errors Testing of Hypothesis
Confidence Intervals
Chi-square test
Tudent’s t-test
Analysis of variance
Correlation and Regression
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