BSc.(H) Zoology

Part III (Third Year)

Paper V : Physiology and Physiological Chemistry Paper VI : Cell Biology Paper VII : Evolution and Genetics Paper VIII : Applied Zoology                   (a) Medical Zoology                   (b) Applied Entomology                   (c) Aquaculture                   (d) Reproductive Biology and Human Welfare Practical Exercises related to Papers V - VIII.

PAPER VII-EVOLUTIOH AND GENETICS

Part A : Evolution 

1.Origin of Life.History of evolutionary through upto Charles Darwin Sources and nature of Organic Variations in 
(a) Micro-organisms and
(b) Higher organisms. Natural selection; Directional, tabilising and disruptive type.Coluration and Mimicry. Selection in Micro-organisms. Hardy -Weinberg Law. Snwall-Wright effect lsolating mechanisms and their role in evolution. Concept of micro, macro-end megaevolution. Concept of species, sub-species and infrasubspecific categories.-
Fossils and fossil formation, age determination and significance Determination of evolutionary rato through fossils Phylogeny of Horse. Origin and Evolution of Man.

Part B : Genetics

History of Genetics. Mendelian inheritance patterns.Incomplete dominance and quantitative inheritance, Linkage and Linkage maps in Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes. Gene interactions (Epistasis; Position effect, Atavism; Lethal genes). Multiple alleles. Mutations, Point mutations, chromosomal aberrations, chromosomal number, fomi and rearrangement with reference to peciation in Drosophils polyploidy (Molecular basis of mutations). Non-chromsomal inheritance. Human Genetics; Diseases of single gene inheritance, Normal and abnormal keryotypes. Gertatic counselling. Somatic cell genetics. Cell fuaion in relation to gene mapping and differentiation. Elementary aspects of plasmids. DNA splicing and recombinant DNA.