Course name: Basic Genetics

Course BT-106                              Full Marks: 100                                          Unit 1                   Credit 3.5   

1. Mendel’s Law of Inheritance:

Mendelian principles, experiments and achievements, monohybrid and dihybrid inheritance, mendelian genetics in humans.

2. Deviation of Mendel’s Law of Inheritance:

a).  i). Dominant (12:3:1) and recessive (9:3:4) epistasis, ii). Duplicate dominant (9:7) and duplicate recessive(15:1) genes,  iii) dominant and recessive interaction (13:3), iv). Duplicate gene with cumulative effect (9:6:1), b). Pleiotropism and phenocopy.

3. Multiple allele and pseudoallele:

Definition, characteristics, example and importance.

4. Linkage and Recombination:

Discovery of linkage: autosomal & sex, linkage map, two and three point  test cross for linkage detection, genetic interference and coincidence.

5. Sex determination:

a). Mechanism of  sex determination in man, grasshopper, Drosophila and fowl, Balance theory of sex determination. b). Sex linked inheritance, Sex influence and sex limited characters.

6. Cytoplasmic inheritance:

a). Variegation in leaves of higher plants. b). Inheritance of extranuclear genes. c). Maternal inheritance.

7. Chromosomal  abnormalities :

Variation in the number and structure of chromosomes: Haploids, Missing or extra-chromosomes ( Euploids, Aneuploids), Deletion, Duplication, Abberations, Translocation and other structural rearrangements. Chromosomal studies- Fish, Karyotyping.

8.Gene linkage and Choromosome mapping:

Genetic linkage and gene mapping, detection and estimation of genetic linkage in humans, genetic mapping of human chromosome.

9. Human Genetics:

Pedigree analysis, Aminocentesis,  Twins, Human traits, disorders due to mutant genes.

Books Recommended:

1.  Monooe W. Strikberger: Genetics.

2. Adrian M. SRB: General Genetics.

3. Enmund W. Sinnott: Principle of Genetics.

4. Gupta: Genetics.

Course name: Basic Zoology and Developmental Biology

Course BT-105                              Full Marks: 100                                       Unit 1                            Credit 3.5

1. Invertibrates:

Definition, diversity of invertebrates, major and minor phyla, lower and higher invertebrates, contrast between lower and higher invertebrates, invertebrates versus vertebrates, phylogeny of invertebrates, major characteristics of invertebrates, outline classification of animals.

2. Chordata:

Definition, diversity of chordates, three fundamental chordate characters, origin and ancestry of chordata, major suvdivision of chordata, general characters of chordata, brief classification of chordata with characters.

3. Vertibrate Embryology:

Introduction, fertilization, pathogenesis, egg types, cleavage, blastulation, gastulation, gametogenesis, developmental of chick, placentation in mammals.

4. Wildlife Biology:

Defination , introduction to the wildlife and broad classification of wildlife in Bangladesh, wildlife preservation and its importance in Bangladesh, wildlife order of 1973.

5. Fundamental of Animal Life:

Origin of living system, Lamarckism and Darwinism, neo- Darwinism, modern synthetic theory.

6. Paleontology:

Geological time scale, process of fossilization.

7. Cytoskeleton and sub cellular organization of eukaryotic cells.

8. General principles and concepts of development. Basic types of animal development, Developmental potential, determination and differentiation, Cell interactions and induction, mesoderm induction in Xenopus.

9. Introduction to the development in Dictoyostelium and Drosophila.

10. Common developmental proteins from Drosophila to Man, use of these proteins for production of developmentally specific protein.

Books Recommended:

1.  Kotpal: Modern Textbooks of Zoology (Invertibrates).

2. Kotpal: Modern Textbooks of Zoology (Vertibrates).

3. E. L. Jordan and P.S. Verma: Invertibrate Zoology

4. Ganguly and Shinha: Biology of Animals (Vol. 1, 2 & 3)

5. Parker and Haswall: Textbook of Zoology (Vol. 1 & 2)

6. K. Z. Hossian : Wild life of Bangladesh.