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SEMESTER 1, CORE COURSE ZOOLOGY I, ANIMAL DIVERSITY, THEORY, , (CREDITS 4), , Unit 1: Kingdom Protista, , 4, , General characters and classification up to classes; Locomotory Organelles and locomotion, in Protozoa, Unit 2: Phylum Porifera, , 3, , General characters and classification up to classes; Canal System in Sycon, Unit 3: Phylum Cnidaria, , 3, , General characters and classification up to classes; Polymorphism in Hydrozoa, Unit 4: Phylum Platyhelminthes, , 3, , General characters and classification up to classes; Life history of Taenia solium, Unit 5: Phylum Nemathelminthes, , 5, , General characters and classification up to classes; Life history of Ascaris lumbricoides and, its parasitic adaptations, Unit 6: Phylum Annelida, , 3, , General characters and classification up to classes; Metamerism in Annelida, Unit 7: Phylum Arthropoda, , 5, , General characters and classification up to classes; Vision in Arthropoda, Metamorphosis in, Insects, Unit 8: Phylum Mollusca, , 4, , General characters and classification up to classes; Torsion in gastropods, Unit 9: Phylum Echinodermata, , 4, , General characters and classification up to classes; Water-vascular system in Asteroidea, Unit 10: Protochordates, , 2, , General features and Phylogeny of Protochordata, Unit 11: Agnatha, , 2, , General features of Agnatha and classification of cyclostomes up to classes

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An “animal album” containing photographs, cut outs, with appropriate write up about the, above mentioned taxa. Different taxa/ topics may be given to different sets of students for, this purpose., , SUGGESTED READINGS, •Ruppert and Barnes, R.D. (2006). Invertebrate Zoology, VIII Edition. Holt Saunders, International Edition., •Barnes, R.S.K., Calow, P., Olive, P.J.W., Golding, D.W. and Spicer, J.I. (2002). The, Invertebrates: A New Synthesis, III Edition, Blackwell Science, •Young, J. Z. (2004). The Life of Vertebrates. III Edition. Oxford university press., •Pough H. Vertebrate life, VIII Edition, Pearson International., •Hall B.K. and Hallgrimsson B. (2008). Strickberger’s Evolution. IV Edition. Jones and Bartlett, Publishers Inc.