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Paper-1
Section-A
1. Non-chordata and chordata :
Classfication and relationship of varous phyla upto sub-classes; Acoelomata
and Coelomata; Protostomes and Deuterostomes, Bilateralia and Radiata; Status
of Protista, Parazoa, Onychophora and Hemichordata; Symmetry.
Protozoa : Locomotion, nutrition, reproduction; evolution of sex; General features
and life history of Paramaecium, Monocystis, Plasmodium, and Leishmania.
Porifera : Skeleton, canal system and reproduction.
Coelenterata : Polymorphism, defensive structures and their mechanism; coral
reefs and their formation; metagenesis; general features and life history of
Obelia and Aurelia.
Platyhelminthes : Parasitic adaptation; general features and life history of
Fasciola and Taenia and their relation to man.
Nemathelminthes : General features, life history and parasitic adaptation of
Ascaris; nemathelminths in relation to man.
Annelida : Coelom and metamerism; modes of life in polychaetes; general features
and life history of nereis (Neanthes), earthworm (Pheretima) and leach (Hirudinaria).
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 insects and its hormonal regulation; social organization in insects (termites
and honey bees).
Mollusca : Feeding, respiration, locomotion, shell diversiy; general features
and life history of Lamellidens, Pila and Sepia, torsion and detorsion in gastropods.
Echinodermata : Feeding, respiration, locomotion larval forms; general features
and life history of Asterias.
Protochordata : Origin of chordates; general features and life history of Branchiostoma
and Herdamania.
Pisces : Scales, respiration, locomotion, migration.
Amphibia : Origin of tetrapods; parental care, paedomorphosis.
Reptilia : Origin of reptiles; skull types; status of Sphenodon and crocidiles.
Aves : Origin of birds; flight adaptation, migration.
Mammalia : Origin of mammals; denitition; general features of egg-laying mammals,
pouched-mammals, aquatic mammals and primates; endocrine glands and other hormone
producing structures (pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas, gonads)
and their interrelationships.
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).
Section- B
1. Ecology :
Biosphere: Biogeochemical cycles, green-houses effect, ozone layer and its impact;
ecological succession, biomes and ecotones.
Population, characteristics, population dynamics, population stabilization.
Conservation of natural resources- mineral mining, fisheries, aquaculture; forestry;
grassland; wildlife (Project Tiger); susainable production in agriculture-integrated
pest management.
Environmental biodegradation; pollution and its impact on biosphere and its
prevention.
II. Ethology :
Behaviour : Sensory filtering, responsiveness, sign stimuli, learning, instinct,
habituation, conditioning, imprinting.
Role of hormones in drive; role of pheromones in alarm spreading; crypsis, predator
detection, predator tactics, social behaviour in insects and primates; courtship
(Drosophila, 3-spine stickleback and birds).
Orientation, navigation, homing; biological rhythms; biological clock, tidal,
seasonal and circadian rhythms.
Methods of studying animal behaviour.
III. Economic Zoology :
Apiculture, sericulture, lac culture, carp culture, pearl culture, prawn culture.
Major infectious and communicable diseases (small pox, plague, malaria, tuberculosis,
cholera and AIDS) their vectors, pathogens and prevention.
Cattle and livestock diseases, their pathogens (helminths) and vectors (ticks,
mites,Tabanus, Stomoxys)
Pests of sugar cane (Pyrilla perpusiella), oil seed (Achaea janata) and rice
(Sitophilus oryzae).
IV. Biostatistics :
Designing of experiments; null hypothesis; correlation, regression, distribution
and measure of central tendency, chi square, student t-test, F-test (one-way
& two-way F-test).
V. Instrumental methods :
Spectrophotometry, flame photometry, Geiger-Muller counter, scintiliation counting.
Electron microscopy (TEM, SEM).
Paper-II
Section-A
I. Cell Biology :
Structure and function of cell andits organelles(nucleus, plasma membrane, mitochondria,
Golgi bodies, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes and Iysosomes), cell division
(mitosis and meiosis), mitotic spindle and mitotic apparatus, chromosome movement.
Watson-Crick model of DNA, replication of DNA, protein synthesis, transcription
and transcription factors.
II. Genetics
Gene structure and functions; genetic code.
Sex chromosomes and sex determination in Drosophilla, nematodes and man.
Mendel's laws of inheritance, recombination, linkage, linkage-maps, multiple
alleles, cistron concept; genetics of blood groups.
Mutations and mutagenesis : radiation and chemical.
Cloning technology, plasmids and cosmids as vectors, transgenics, transposons,
DNA sequence cloning and whole animal cloning (Principles and methodology).
Regulation and gene expression in pro-and eu-karyotes.
Signal transduction; pedigree-analysis; congenital diseases in man.
Human genome mapping; DNA finger-printing.
III. Evolution
Origin of life
Natural selection, role of mutation in evolution, mimicry, variation, isolation,
speciation.
Fossils and fossilization; evolution of horse, elephant and man.
Hardy-Weinberg Law, causes of change in gene frequency.
Continental drift and distribution of animals.
IV. Systematics
Zoological nomenclature; international code; cladistics.
Section-B
I. Biochemistry
Structure and role of carbohydrates, fats, lipids, proteins, aminoacids, nucleic
acids; saturated and unsaturated fattyacids, cholesterol.
Glycolysis and Krebs cycle, oxidation and reduction, oxidative phosphorylation;
energy conservation and release, ATP, cyclic AMP-its structure and role.
Hormone classification (steroid and peptide hormones), biosynthesis and function.
Enzymes : types and mechanisms of action; immunoglobulin and immunity; vitamins
and co-enzymes.
Bioenergetics.
II Physiology (with special refernece ot mammals)
Composition and constitutents of blood; blood groups and Rh factor in man; coagulation,
factors and mechanism of coagulation; acid-base balance, thermo regulation.
Oxygen and carbon dioxide transport; haemoglobin : constitutents and role in
regulation.
Nutritive requirements; role of salivary glands, liver, pancreas and intestinal
glands in digestion and absorption.
Excretory products; nephron and regulation of urine formation; osmoregulation.
Types of muscles, mechanism of contraction of skeletal muscles.
Neuron, nerve impulse-its conduction and synaptic transmission; neurotransmitters.
Vision, hearing and olfaction in man.
Mechanism of hormone action.
Physiology of reproduction, role of hormones and phermones.
III. Developmental Biology
Differentiation from gamete to neurula stage; dedifferentiation; metaplasia,
induction, morphogenesis and morphogen; fate maps of gastrulae in frog and chick;
organogenesis of eye and heart, placenation in mammals.
Role of cytoplasm in and genetic control of development; cell lineage; causation
of metamorphosis in frog and insects; paedogenesia and neoteny; growth, degrowth
and cell death; ageing; blastogenesis; regeneration; teratogenesis; neoplasia.
Invasiveness of placenta; in vitro fertilization; embryo transfer, cloning.
Baer's law; evo-devo concept.
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