Tuesday, December 10, 2013

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.

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